1988 corolla wagon.. 4-age transplant

[Pulsin_KE]

Hey, just wondering if anyone has put a 4-age into the fwd g-touring corolla wagon?
Is this a fairly straighfoward conversion? We are planning on getting a dereged fxgt of the same era and swapping everything over from that, I have been told by a few people that this is an easy conversion but my stepdad who is a mechanic doesnt seem to think it will be too easy..

I thought id come to the place where people know thier stuff about toyotas

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

[Alex B]

Been covered before, not to hard, if its carb ya need the fueling system in place too, as well as loom ecu etc.
Dont forget you need certs etc too.

[KinLoud]

Presuming the Corolla wagon has an A series motor 4afe, 5afe etc. - all the mechanical parts will bolt straight in.
You will have to use the 4age flywheel.
You should be able to use the 4age clutch as it should fit onto your existing gearbox input shaft.
All the mounts should bolt across.

Electrics - presuming the corolla wagon is fuel injected the 4age loom will probably plug straight in and the computer will fit into the existing cradle.

Fuel - you might have to swap the fuel pumps over (in the fuel tank), I'm not sure. The pumps could well be the same specification. Once again presuming that the wagon is fuel injected.

Brakes - The brakes (and hubs if you need to) will bolt straight across unless the wagon has a leaf spring rear in which case the rear brakes might be a problem. If you do swap brakes try to swap front and rear... also swap brake master and rear proportioning valve (on the firewall near the brake master).
Your wagon might have the rear proportioning valve that is bolted to the rear suspension, this adjusts rear braking depending on the weight in the back of the wagon. In this case I'm not quite sure what you should do... probably leave the rear brakes standard and just swap front brake setup only.

Good luck
Text me on sunday re car

Ken
Ham
021 408 863

[Pulsin_KE]

the corolla currently has a 5-e 1500cc carby engine, wiring and fuel etc shouldnt be a problem just more it bolting in, i.e placment of engine mounts etc..

Cheers for the help

[Punter]

the corolla currently has a 5-e 1500cc carby engine, wiring and fuel etc shouldnt be a problem just more it bolting in, i.e placment of engine mounts etc..

Cheers for the help

By 5- e I hope you mean 5afe, because if it is an e series motor you'll have to find a new crossmember and a bunch of other stuff.

[KinLoud]

You will have trouble with the engine mounts.
The E motored corolla has the engine mounts in different positions
compared to the A series corolla. You would have to fabricate or obtain A series mounts and weld them onto the car.

Ken
Ham
021 408 863

[Punter]

Also if it is carb'd you will need an EFI fuel pump and lines, its normally easiest to swap the entire tank and lines over.

[Caveman]

I would suggest a 4efte as this will have the same engine mounts as the 5e-c. 4efte would have similar gains of a 4age but cheaper and easier to get more power later on.