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Tasmania
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Corolla rally car questions
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Fri, 04 July 2003 12:26
 
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In Japan, all the good corollas (Levin, Truneo) had 2 doors only. The AE82 came as a 2 door hatch, sold as FX16 in America. The AE92 came as a good looking coupe, nothing like we had in Australia. Sold as Corolla GT-S in America, with 100kw 4A-GE. Also the AE101, AE111 came as a coupe with either Trueno or Levin front styling. I think the AE101 was avaliable with the 4A-GZE, called Levin BGZ in Japan? Latter models, AE111, came with the 20valve. And there maybe some swapping of engines and models, don't know exact dates.
That is all irrelivent for Australia I guess. I don't know rally rules, but it would be very easy to use a "100kw" engine in a older AE82 car. Few officials would know the difference, expecialy if you swap the cam covers or something. The 20v throttles don't "bolt on" to the older engines, but they can be made to fit with alot of work or expencive adapter manifold.
For the model you choose, it comes down to what you like the look of. Mechanicaly they are all very similar. Its easier to start off with a EFI car unless you are going to modify it heaps.
Also remember there was the Corolla cup in Australia, they used AE102 AUstralian spec cars with 7A-FE engine, Avgas and aftermarket computer. Look into the 7A-FE engine, it may go as well as a 4A-GE, not sure.
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