1974 Toyota Corona MarkII

pertano · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:55 pm

Are you talking abotu B-Werks? It's Beto bro. But same thing. LOL!!

Hey for your bags give Jesse "LORD OF KUSTOMS" a call. He's a good guy and does great work.

Oracles · **Posted:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:45 pm

This R&P is from IS300

looks like Guages will have to be replaced...

puregroove · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:09 pm

Subscribed... That's gonna be one nasty corona. :tu:

gianttomato · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:39 pm

Hi, great project.

Interesting you used the IS300 rack. We tried a range of racks and all were a bit too long and induced bump steer. This ended up with us aborting a 1UZ conversion. May need to source one of these and have a play again.

Oracles · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:15 pm

Thanks guys for kind words.

I am not happy with the radiator and it will be replaced with much bigger one before the car hits the road.

One of my requirments were to have power steering as well as R&P on this car because driving without one would not be pretty.

What I am hating right now is the need to replace the whole dash in order to have everything work for this new ECU and engine meaning all the guages would have to be from the same car which will not fit my original dash face :td:

Oracles · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:23 pm

gypsy wrote:

A friend in Sydney had one of these as a family car from new years ago. Cant say Ive every seen one again since he sold it. Im surprised that you managed to fit everything in the engine bay !

Thank you and I am very impressed with all the work you are doing on RX3 :tu:

, Yeah all the stuff is in there and we didn't even have to cut firewall at all. I wish somehow they could also fit AC in there too.

gianttomato · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:10 am

Oracles wrote:

What I am hating right now is the need to replace the whole dash in order to have everything work for this new ECU and engine meaning all the guages would have to be from the same car which will not fit my original dash face :td:

Don't have to do that at all. One of the speed sensor outputs on your auto can be converted to a cable speedo drive (using bits from an earlier A340 auto) and then use an aftermarket pulse generator to generate pulses as required for the ECU, not dissimilar to this sort of thing.

The water temp sensor and oil pressure switch from the original engine should screw into the 2JZ. You'll need to extend the water temp wire and you'll need to reroute the oil pressure switch wire to the other side. In my Mk2, I ditched the clock and mounted a TA22 tachometer. This has a variable resistor in it and is easily calibrated to a 6 cylinder rather than a 4.

Oracles · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:39 pm

Thanks gianttomato,

I'll talk to the shop and show them your write up and hope they can save my original dash :tu:

Oracles · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:33 pm

Some more updates.

Had these original seats covered up when I first got the car
(waste of time and money) will have the whole interior redone at some point.

Drive shaft is in and it moved on its own power.
This was today.

Few little burn outs

Oracles · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:04 pm

Getting the paint done while waiting for some dash parts.

I am debating if I should put the side markers on fenders or not... what do you guys think?

robakun · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:09 pm

Ｙｅｓ　ｏｎ　ｓｉｄｅ　ｍａｒｋｅｒｓ！keep it USDM spec!

KurumaOtaku · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:32 pm

so shiny....

So the engine is up and running! Yeeeha!
Can't wait for more updates

Oracles · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:55 am

Yeah, Its moving on its own now but I am not happy with the radiator and
like to get something bigger in there.
opening is 20 inch wide by 24 inches
but I can't find something to fit in there

2000gtx · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:49 am

cool build i love that color green i am a nissan guy ..but i love the look of that old toyota reminds little bit of the nissan ken mery ...keep up the good work cant wait to see it finished...

Oracles · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:03 am

OK found the right radiator for it :tu:

Will update with pictures when its installed.

Than you :mrgreen:

Oracles · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:06 pm

Ok I got a better Radiator then whats in there right now.

will have electric fan with it.

This is the biggest thing I could fit in there.
What do you guys think?

theunstated · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:05 am

Looks good man. Where did you find that? I might need to get one a little ways down the road. Do you have it installed yet?

Oracles · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:31 am

PMed you on the Radiator :tu:

Thanks

KurumaOtaku · **Posted:** Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:10 am

It's been two months too long! I'm bringing this back up from the grave... any updates?

Oracles · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:36 pm

KurumaOtaku wrote:

It's been two months too long! I'm bringing this back up from the grave... any updates?

Nothing new besides the big radiator is in place now... waiting waiting.... and more waitinggg :cry:

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