1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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hemilove
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1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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ok story starts like this I bought her back in high school for $400.00 it was my first street legal car I will show pics of all that has happened in the years but I owe it to all yall bc this forum 3tcgarage the first one and toyota3tc and a bunch of members on the forum opened my eyes to a lot of little things ok here you go

this is when I started to work on her
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no engine just hopes and dreams
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the engine parts
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did some polishing on the ports gasket matched
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that's the way I roll build an engine in the living room at my moms house hahaha
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built the ecu at the old job I used to have its a megasquirt 2 v3.0 for fuel spark and that's about all
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yup yup got this aluminum radiator off craigs list real cheap its a griffin all aluminum then my man carlos from tpr motorsports hooked me up with a bell housing for my w50 transmission thanks bro
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changed out the head lights from a Mercedes bens on my car from the older model ones
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got tired of all the clutter so I did a wire tuck but think I screwed myself in the making lol but here you go
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a whole lot better
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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ok more pics of the relay board and wiring
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all the premade wiring I bought from some guy on ebay
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cleaned to get the race seats ready to go in
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suspension engine parts and stuff that came in
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hey look its me hahaha
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nice hammer hay I had my other tools at work hahaha had to make it work
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dropped the rear end and got to work
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the ford rear end lsd
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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suspension shortening 1 on 1 for all you guys that need visuals
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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so I got a different turbo its an hx35 off a cummins
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my welds when I first had started to weld o well it will work
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a video man I was fat click it
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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Wow bro nice progressing keep it up

One question

Where did you got those 5 lug hub ??

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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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carlos from tpr motorsports made them for me
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hemilove wrote:carlos from tpr motorsports made them for me
Oh okay i think he wrote on the old board he doesn't made them anymore
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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Do you think it would be possible to make them from another 4 stud
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hemilove wrote:Do you think it would be possible to make them from another 4 stud
What do you mean covert them back to 4 studs ??

Or you can have the oem 4 studs drilled to 5 stud yes they do it fe racing example.
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Re: 1980 corolla 2dr turbo 3tc efi aka "banana boat"

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Yes exactly its the same thing right I would say
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