ok first off my subie went through 2 motors and i just called it quits for now. it seems if i dont i will keep eating up n/a motors with just a cold air intake and a high flow exaust. it only had 130000 and was CLEAN. it still smelled like a new car but i ran out of money and time to work on it. more than anything i ran out of interest for the n/a motors and its a little to pricey to put a turbo motor in my old one.
ok the deal with this corolla i got is a long story, my friend holly, (havn't seen her in 4 years) calls me up and askes what i am up to in a week or 2 and if i want to come to her 21st birthday party so i said sure i would try to make it there and its a 2 hour drive to holly's house so i never made it. family emergency. i finally get to go to holly's house 2 weeks later to see her and i pull up and we stand on her front porch and talk for about 15 min. now her boyfriend has all kinds of cars and such, he works at the junkyard my subie went to! and i asked her if her man randy has a car that runs and drives for cheap even a fixer upper. so she says a friend of hers has a toyota corolla and as she put it, "its got back wheel drive, i think" so i start to get weak in the knees thinking AE86??? so we go out back of her house and sure enough in all its rust free glory fresh from the southern states is a 84' (my age

) SR5 corolla!!! so i start getting all these evil thoughts and she says its got "clutch problems", now i thought ok that costs money but who cares so i get the phone number for the owner and called her up she has no idea what she has on her hands and i offer her $50 for it, she had no way to get it out of hollys yard and her and holly had a fight so the car was stuck unless i bought it so after a but of haggling and discussion i set up a meeting place and go buy the title and keys and start heading back to hollys, now i bought the car without even hearing it run!! i wanted an AE86 that bad! i got back to hollys and started it up, the carburated 1.6 fired on the first crank!! rumbling to life with out even a puff or chug and best of all no smoke at all, even revving it to 6300rpm still no smoke! but i hit the clutch pedal and it falls to the floor without hesitating, uh oh, pop the hood and it looks fine, open the hydraulic master cylinder cap and there is no dot3 brake fluid in it. so i get some dot 3 and filled it up and started pumping the clutch and it is spraying all over the floor boards on the driver side! so i talk to a toyota nut i know and he has an old 92 yota pickup in his barn and lets me rip the master cylinder out of it and bring it down to hollys with me and hollys boyfriend randy had a high pressure brake line with flared ends and fittings the exact size i need but its 2 feet longer than what i needed (i cut the factory line, stupid me

) so i hand bent all the curves i needed and fitted it to the truck cylinder and re routed the extra line and added fluid, pumped the clutch for 15 min and away we go! fixed it all for free!! this thing is so light weight already but in the last 24 hours i have stripped everything out of it and removed the AC belt and it has much more responsive "turn in" and much worse "in-lift" in laymens terms for the few that dont understand what those are turn in is when you first turn into a corner the rolla understeered a little bit now it doesnt even hesitate with the lighter rear end, and the in-lift is from the open type differential pushing the inside rear harder than the outside wheel, it lifts the inside rear under throttle cornering.
now comes ground control coil-overs, adjustable shocks, wider wheels and tires and a L.S.D. from a GTS and maybie a KAAZ L.S.D. instead. but its my meal ticked to a 2.5RS with the drifting craze its gonna be worth a little more to the average teen if its tricked out for drifting.
hope i didnt bore anyone to death with this long ass post
ben