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Old 11-Mar-2010, 03:58 PM
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My economical (well not so much anymore) 1997 Toyota Corolla Sleeper...lol

So this is what happened to my dad's car...when I got my first well paying full-time job at the age of 18..... lol.. even worse.. car is an automatic.. whatever.. I am just happy I didn't completely mess it up lol... it is pretty simple.. and is now going to become my winter beater since I have just purchased an EG... =)

hate it or love it all comments welcome.... lol

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btw.. things done to this car are..
*upper strut bar
*tein s-techs
*tokico blues
*ingalls camber bolts
*short ram intake
*jvt headers
*apex'i ws2 universal muffler w/custom cat back
*16" rota subzero

and thats about it lol..
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Old 12-Mar-2010, 08:57 AM
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It looks nice...instead you could pull the motor and swap in a blacktop/silvertop 20v and be reving with the b16/b18 boys..oh and with more torque too... before i picked up my EK i was gonna grab one of these...
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not a civic but still clean
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I second the Blacktop 20V 4AGE motor swap. It can be done, and it's the equivalent of doing a GSR swap to a D15B7 powered Civic.
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Originally Posted by purposebuilt
It looks nice...instead you could pull the motor and swap in a blacktop/silvertop 20v and be reving with the b16/b18 boys..oh and with more torque too... before i picked up my EK i was gonna grab one of these...
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I second the Blacktop 20V 4AGE motor swap. It can be done, and it's the equivalent of doing a GSR swap to a D15B7 powered Civic.


--- Thanks for the compliments guys... I would love to do the blacktop silvertop swap... however I don't really know much people in the toyota community to do a "good" swap for me... there's a few trustworthy guys for honda swaps... but I don't know about toyota... any suggestions?
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there was also a corollacustomz.ca forum at one point.. it was alive in 08.. slowed in 09.. and basically died in 2010.. i mean it's still there but like it's just not the same anymore... and half the guys on that forum are in the states and phillipines so i really wouldn't know where to go for this lol...
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The wiring is the hardest part... the silvertop came in the chassis you have so bolting it up would be easy. check www.Phoenixtuning.com in regards to the wiring...they do great work i have a close friend that has dealth with them on a few occassions...

and come one you don't need anyone to do a swap for you god gave you 2 hands...use them... get dirty... enjoy it and learn what you can... thats what being a car guy is about...
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Originally Posted by purposebuilt
The wiring is the hardest part... the silvertop came in the chassis you have so bolting it up would be easy. check www.Phoenixtuning.com in regards to the wiring...they do great work i have a close friend that has dealth with them on a few occassions...

and come one you don't need anyone to do a swap for you god gave you 2 hands...use them... get dirty... enjoy it and learn what you can... thats what being a car guy is about...

lol... i have a loooong way to go for the whole swapping thing... only things i can even come close to doing myself are basic bolt ons lol ... i need to start doing **** myself eh lol... btw thanks for the suggestion i am gonna look into that!
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I used to think the same but now i'm on my 5th swap and still learning things as they come along...It takes guts to pull a driving car of the road for uncertainty of a swap so i understand what you mean...who knows if you are around this time next year i might be doing my own blacktop swap....cause once you start it's hard to stop...

cheers my friend...
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Originally Posted by Climax_R
lol... i have a loooong way to go for the whole swapping thing... only things i can even come close to doing myself are basic bolt ons lol ... i need to start doing **** myself eh lol... btw thanks for the suggestion i am gonna look into that!

samehere. I m slowly starting to do some maintanance in my civic. But you gotta start somewhere and you are going to make mistakes , its all part of the learning experience.

I m trying to read a lot online ( so much info) so i can reduce my mistakes
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Nice ride! I actually want one of these pretty bad. Build quality is superior to Honda in many ways IMO. Very practical and fun car, though.
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cool.
My cars are on cardomain too... cardomain is the original car pics host... hehe
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