AE92 sedan Project...

So i just recently bought a 1991 Toyota Corolla DLX its white with blue interior and its a 4afe efi 5spd.



the day i bought it:

















its a little dirty.... but i cleaned it from head to toe with a power pressure washer...



Before:





After:

Reply 1 : AE92 sedan Project...

Looks good man. The paint appears to be in good shape judging by the pics. Nice job with cleaning the engine bay, certainly looks a lot better than it did before. I bet the sunroof is a handy feature to have . Would be keen to see some interior shots sometime too

Reply 2 : AE92 sedan Project...

So first thing first need to lower the car, the sedan was resting on some KyB grey shocks with stock springs. looking for springs and strut for this car is a easy task if your looking for replacement, but me i want to upgrade lower the car so it wasnt a simple task at all...



I went and did alot of reading and found out thanks to SuperRa, Pancho_Vanilla and Kiwi-Corolla that you could use ae101 struts+springs in the ae92 models. since it was easier to find and obtain ae101(93-97 corolla) on ebay or etc. i went ahead and purchased the DropZone spring+strut for $300 including shipping it has a nice limited-life time warranty on the struts and springs.



Bought the combo Strut+Spring i then went to a local junkyard to get some front AE101 tophats.











they bolted into the car just fine once i got them, in the front i used ae101 tophats on the strut+springs and the rear i used ae101 strut+spring with ae92 stock tophats.



and here is the end product:











here are some pics of the springs+strut took them while they were on the car.



FR



RR



FL



RL

Reply 3 : AE92 sedan Project...

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Originally Posted by Kiwi-Corolla Looks good man. The paint appears to be in good shape judging by the pics. Nice job with cleaning the engine bay, certainly looks a lot better than it did before. I bet the sunroof is a handy feature to have . Would be keen to see some interior shots sometime too

thanks kiwi, and the interior was a nightmare... it smelt like TJ if anyone knows what that means... but yeah it was missing all sort of things like panels door handles and still missing a roof liner, still looking for the right material to redo the interior with, im thinking about black cloth and red stitching(miss my 01 corolla s).



here are some interior shots:





















overall the interior was like a 7/10 due to alot of minor things around the interior was missing, it smelled like burned cat turd and some cigarette holes in rear seats.



but almost all the interior parts i replaced tho, still need a steering rack cover(its broken and all i have was the top piece) and a head liner.

Reply 4 : AE92 sedan Project...

^ Good to hear that the AE101 suspension upgrade went without a hitch! Looks like it was worth the extra bit of effort . Thanks for the interior shots by the way. I'm assuming TJ stands for toe jams?

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ATM im still working on the rear disc brake conversion, but once im done ill take some pics and do a write up on it, im still trying to get some questions answered atm, but it all seems ok, ima have to go tomorrow and buy some stuff to drill/dremo strut to make disc hubs fit with both bolts and not just one.



here is a little picture i drew up about the not fitting bolt on hub:







and here is the links ive stated in the ToyotaNation Forums about the AE92 and hopefully these links might be of help to some of you other guys or ladies out there that want some answers too about hte ae92 sedan.



http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=354792

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=355066

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh...=1#post3314850



oh yeah one more thing, about the speedo cable... it was never broken, it just seemed that it fell off in the middle where the silver knuckle is at, i just but it back together and retightened it and it works, again thank you TN specialist.

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Originally Posted by Kiwi-Corolla ^ Good to hear that the AE101 suspension upgrade went without a hitch! Looks like it was worth the extra bit of effort . Thanks for the interior shots by the way. I'm assuming TJ stands for toe jams?

haha yeas... the car was running like junk too... i had to seafoam it 2xs and redo all the fluids, i am currently running Mobil 1 in the engine, and lucas in the transmission. flushed and put in new coolant, blead all the clutch and brake lines and bleed and put in new PS fluid as well.



also replaced the battery, front trans mount(the old one didnt appear to exist in the car when i bought it) new axles new brakes(ceramic pads) and all the vaccum hoses oh yeah fuel filter and pcv valve. hrm.. i also put in new injector o-rings and a new clutch. its funny because my dad had all thses parts still warranty under the corolla back when we had one back in 95 so i got them all for free basically except mount i had to go to the junk yard buy one for $10 and exchange it for a new one at autozone. also resurfaced the flywheel as well.



im planning on building a 7age or 7agze i dont want to go the 20v route, had a AE86 with it once, didnt like how i always had to readjust the itbs on cold/hot weather and getting replacement parts like waterpump its a hassele unless i want to drill some extra holes in a mr2's... im not hating just wanted a motor that has parts accessable to where im located at in SoCal. who knows maybe turbo too... wells one step at a time, its disc brake modding time, also im a broke person too...

Reply 7 : AE92 sedan Project...

nothing to report today.

Reply 8 : AE92 sedan Project...

Much love for the hatch bro.



Do the dropzone struts have the mounting for the rear sway? Could you post a pic with the car on level ground?

Reply 9 : AE92 sedan Project...

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Originally Posted by kwint Much love for the hatch bro. Do the dropzone struts have the mounting for the rear sway? Could you post a pic with the car on level ground?

sorry it took so long, was kinda busy today, but i got some pics.

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ok so for those people that is interested in seeing the rear brake hub and strut not fitting i have some pics of it now. sorry for the lame drawings, ill redirect everyone that is looking at my other posts to this thread, so ill be condensing.













so in this pic you can see that the orginal holes for a ae92/ae101 is about 4' apart and the ae82 disc hub is about 3' apart so id like to say they are missing about 3/4' then.







i looked at the rear again today, and seeing that im looking at it, i heard that it will start to camber without having a second hole drilled, and etc. while i looked at it, and tryed my hardest to pull and hit it with a rubber mallot, i notice that it wont move... i guess i just didnt realighned the rear rite(tighten bolts while the car was still lifted, needed to tightened when the car is sitting on ground) and so i was wondering do i need that extra hole? the guy at goodyear told me that it doesnt really matter as long as there is no play in there, and there isnt... he just told me to realighned it, thats it not too bad... since it doesnt rock or anything, and the two bottom crossmember bars hold it so it wont ever tuck under since its designed to hold the car steady.

Reply 11 : AE92 sedan Project...

on the write up on the rear disc brake installation the parts you need:



R+L disc hubs

R+L rotors

R+L calipers

Brake soft lines

E-Brake cables



all the bolts are the same as the stock ones on the ae92 i just reused them in the same places.



step one:



jack up the car etc etc. then lets move onto the removal of the exhaust, now on the exhaust removal parts isnt too bad, all you have to do is unbolt the resenator behind the catalytic converter i think it was a 14mm socket and 2 bolts, then unbolt the two bolts from resenator pipe to muffler those were 12mm bolts.











after you do that, you just take out the pipe and set it one the side, then once its removed you have the heat sheild, now rite at the catalytic converter there is a 10mm bolt you unbolt that, then there is 2 more in the middle and so one.



- sorry didnt take any pics of it while i took them off... but ill try my best to visually explain it.



now that after the heat sheild is taken off, there will be 2 bolts holding the e-brake lines in, just unbolt it with a 10mm socket as well, then once you get to where the cables are hooked up to the e-brake there is 2 bolts 10mm pinching in the cables so they dont move, just unbolt it and the cables will come off once you twist and turn it offa the T like mount.



` again sorry no pics here too....



now once all that is offa your going to go to your rear drum hubs, i just cut the hard brake cable since they wouldnt break loose when i was trying to unbolt them outta the hub in the top. once i did that, i drained the fluids into a bucket. there is a top soft brake line, unbolt the hard line out and the new disc brakes will have the soft lines and they will bolt in together.









then now i got onto the unbolting, i left the two that was on the strut on since i didnt want it to fall once i unbolted the subframe bars off, so i got a 17mm socket to unbolt all the 5 bolts on the hub. i started with the three subframe then the 2 on the hub.









once i dropped it out, i just reinstalled it the same way the drums came off, but i decided to mount the bolt on the bottom hole instead of the top hole(since the ae82 and ae92 rear struts are different.) so there isnt any play in the hub rocking back and forth. once you rebolt up the subframe remeber to rebolt it while the car is resting on the ground if not itll look like ur car is major cambering and itll rub major rub ur rear struts and as you drive itll be loud and itll look like ur drifting hard since lots and lots of white smoke will come outta ur rear tires.



once all that is done, its just a simple job of bleeding the brake lines.

Reply 12 : AE92 sedan Project...

Is the rear lower than the front? Nice write up.



I see that the shocks do have the mounting for the stock sway.

Reply 13 : AE92 sedan Project...

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Originally Posted by kwint Is the rear lower than the front? Nice write up. I see that the shocks do have the mounting for the stock sway.

i believe that the rear only looks lower because it has a bigger wheel well but even at stock height the rear always looks lower, the dropzone ae101 springs+struts lowered the car about 2' in total.



also thanks for the complement, i hope this will at lease help some ppl out in the future, i mean i couldnt find any write up that had pics or anything... i tihnk that the ae92 rear hubs will fit better than the ae82's then, maybe somewhere down the line ill get some ae92 laters atm ima rock these ae82.



one more note, i put in some 5mm wheel spacers in today and the rear doesnt scrap the struts anymore, its just that the lugs dont go to far in now... oh wells ill ride them for awhile and see, wait until i have money for real rims, those are just temporary anyways.

Reply 14 : AE92 sedan Project...

lol you should pop over to New Zealand and give us a hand with this on my sedan lol a box of beers should do it lol. the work experience at toyota hasn't made me good enough to do that to my car yet. professional lowering for me is my only way. nice right up though man