Please Help, , Need To Perform Engine Swap 96 Rolla!!!!

[jpucar]

also , do you guys know where i can find some reverse glo gauges...i've been looking everywhere but i cant seem to find it for my 96...it doesnt have the rpm gauge

[jawberger]

hey jpucar i got some reverse gauges with no tach for the corolla i'll sell them to you for like $20 including shipping but i'm at college right now i'll be goin home veterans day weekend so if you want em i can ship them out then...try to put them on my prizm but the little leds didn't line up with the prizms cluster

[jpucar]

is there anyway i can hook up a tach gauge on my corolla? would i need all new gagues or how would that work? but yeah sure, i'll take those for 20$, lemme know when you get back jawberger. also you know where i can get a engine dress up kit for the corolla?

[mi89325]

A tuner magazine that I picked up the other day replaced (well this was an 86 and im sure there is a huge diff. between that and a 96) the original engine with a Lexus ls400 engine (1UZFE). The total swap I think was around 8k but im not sure if the included the axles(sp?) and transmission that you would need to change to handle the power increase.

BTW im new not to the forum... well yes, I posted a few years back in the skyline forum lost interest and my password and came back to see what the huff was about with the 86' corolla being a nice drift car since my friends are now begging me to buy one. But the introduction is still waiting my name is Ross im 17 I am currently in high school graduating this year. (woo hoo) I have a 4.5 GPA and wish to be a physics major at a nice university, but anywho I just wanted to add my =D have fun.

[jpucar]

yo ross, so do you know if i can get a tach guage on my 96 ?? or where i can get an engine dress-up kit?

[jawberger]

do you have the 1.8l or 1.6l because the 1.8l had the connection right in the dash for the tach cluster the 1.6l you can do you just have to wire up the tach on the gauge yourself... dressup kits I haven't seen any just be like everyone else and buy the engine paint and do it yourself... I think duplicolor makes a nice engine painting kit

[mi89325]

You can always get custom wire mesh hoses made and the like for dressing your engine buy new headers and before you start the engine rub a bit of alcohol on them it will burn off (evaporate kids don't freak) and that will leave it shiny. You can also make your own chrome piping I did it with my ram air intake with my ls400 because it's a show car. As parts go I would check vivid here is a list of corolla parts (I just searched it, it won't nothing special har har) http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/a...ywords=corolla

As for you tach I am pretty sure the the manual version of your car (don't bet me on this because 1. I am not sure there is one for your car, 2. You would probably have to find a junkyard or something to find it which im still unsure of) has a tach cluster (The speedodmeter and other parts oil etc. etc.) that will fit your car as well.

~Ross

[mi89325]

Hey, http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/p...ducts_id/23161
These are for the 85-97 Greddy Oil Filter Relocation Kit, it's hoses and custers (oil) I wouldn't buy it from vivid its just showing you some options.

[jawberger]

hey mi89325 that oil relocation kit is pretty cool except for the part where you can only use greddy oil filters probally charge and arm and a leg for those but who knows...

[jawberger]

yep $12.99 + shipping

[jpucar]

hmm
i'm really new to do this engine dress-up game, can someone tell me all the parts that i can paint/dress up so that i can find everything i need?? that would help out alot, thanks in advance

[mi89325]

Yeah greddy is pretty raping with there filters
I was just trying to offer soome options though ^_^

[jpucar]

yeah, im gonna paint everything myself, and things i cant paint, i'll just buy them in blue

[jawberger]

i'm sure i'll get people complaining but it still needs to be said:

on your painting adventure please don't over do it and make it look like "rice" no huge aluminum wings and lots of paint done slopply, people say that muscle car people are rude when talking trash about ricers but as I see it ricers bring it on themselves... pretty much all I'm saying is don't go overboard on the engine repainting and interior, I say just keep it clean looking with some rims and a lowering kit, and tint....

[jpucar]

yup. i completley agree...mine is gonna look very clean. i was just wondering can you paint the heat shield or is that not recommended? also, the wiring and hoses, can i paint those or should i just get them painted?