1985 Toyota Corolla

TRD show car. TRD catalog car. GRM feature article. RD and SCCA executive personal ride. and my long time race car. This car was first in class at the inaugural SCCA “IT Fest” at Heartland park in Kansas. The car is in the early 90's TRD catalog on pages 7. 37 & 40 and was featured in Grassroots Motorsports in the early 90's. Toyota also did a brief story last year on this and my other uncommon Toyotas here “ toyotadriverseat. com/associates ”. I have the original ad and bill of sale from when I bought the car — then maintained by Rallye Sport outside Denver. and owned by Nick Craw who is currently the FIA (F 1/WRC) Senate President. I also have the original log book with races from West coast to the Mid-West and driven by SCCA leadership including Doug Reid and Bob Anderson. I've had it more than 20 years. and its fresh and ready to race at minimum weight (original IT/A class weight was set with this car). Car is now in classed SCCA ITB at a weight where it should do very well. Recently refreshed with cage updates (only a track day on it since). fresh paint throughout and a new Sparco Evo 2 seat. Some items are not listed below - probably forgot some. but the full configuration and setup will be provided to the new owner. My new home doesn't have room for all the toys. so I'm reluctantly going to part with the the Corolla.

Buy it to race it. drift it. because you always wanted one. or for its history. but it won't disappoint -

I've been building and racing Toyotas for 25+ years and you could never recreate this anywhere near the price - A classic you can enjoy today.

Chassis

Chassis is straight and damage free. I originally bought the car with crash damage. I fully repaired it. and successfully campaigned it. winning my first race entry and many thereafter. I subsequently had another “incident” and replaced the main tub in 1993 with a straight chassis and swapped over all the race parts and much of the sheet metal. instantly dropping my average lap times 2 seconds and keeping me in the lead pack for more than 15 years at Mid-west SCCA events.

Fully disassembled and re-furbed chassis some years back including roll cage updates and a repaint with Catalyzed PPG Urethane

Almost all new Toyota fasteners throughout (done in the latest refresh)

Custom strut bar with welded mounts (removable aluminum bar)

Custom battery hold down

Fuel Safe Fuel cell with chassis sheet metal trimmed and reinforced where the cell mounts

Supra fuel pump in spare tire well.

New Sparco EVO 2 seat with custom mounts

Gutted doors. Includes factory door glass that mounts with one bolt for transport/security (can easily take out at the track)

EGT and o 2 gauges

SCCA legal cage with double cage bars on both sides with foot well braces

TRD steering wheel

TRD shift knob

Fire system New Sparco Evo 2 seat with hard mounts Manual Steering Rack Custom Delrin Steering rack bushings

Custom graphics and License plate :)

Suspension

Larger front sway bar. TRD and Poly front mounts

Adjustable rear bar with custom Delrin mounts and rod ends

TRD rear springs

TRD adjustable rear race shocks

TRD control arm bushings

TRD Panhard rod with (giant!) rod ends

Long wheel studs “Safety studs”

Short front struts

Tockico Illumina adjustable front shocks (BZ 3099. same as MR 2 rear fitment)

Front Coilovers. Eibach front springs

Custom camber plates

Fresh control arms and ball joints

Negative roll blocks

TRD strut rod bushings

Two sets of wheels. Revolution and Panasport Ultralights - Panasports have only had two sets of tires on them since new with mounted Hoosiers

Brakes

New brake master with new spare

Removed backing plates

Stainless brake lines

Tilton Proportioning valve

Spare rotors

Replaced hardlines

Engine

Engine has been flawless throughout my ownership. with the latest build as follows:

7 rib block

. 040 over

Total Seal rings

Match ported

Balanced

NEVO hard anodized under drive crank pulley

Cams timed

TRD plug wires

Jacobs Coil

TVIS and non-TVIS intake “spacers”

SCCA fuel sample port

New O 2 sensor

Custom Phenolic intake spacer

Custom insulated “cold air intake”

R/C Engineering blueprinted injectors

TRD header. partial spare TRD header. and handmade 4-1 coated header

Stainless steel exhaust and muffler with passenger side exit

ECU with 8000+ RPM limit

Custom 4 puck solid disc ceramic clutch

New Toyota factory radiator water/water wetter for coolant

Factory air to air oil cooler with stainless lines

TRD motor mounts Modified MAF (reduced spring tension) Only synthetics lubricants used throughout

Driveline

TRD Close Ratio Transmission (over $6. 00 new)

TRD Short Shifter Spare stock transmission (apart) Two fully set up TRD 3 rd members - 4. 56 and 5. 13

TRD HD Axles with spare set

Spares

Brake discs

Brake Master cyl

Wiring harness

Headers and parts

TRD 3 rd member LSD (4. 56 installed. TRD 5. 13 LSD 3 rd member included)

ECUs

MAFs

Taillights

Front bearing seals

Modified stock front pulleys (removed A/C pulley)

Motor mounts

TRD Rear Axles

Spare Hawk blue pads (I think)

Washer bottle )

Various other spares

Needs:

Kill switch wiring needs update

Temp (dash) gauge flaky

Needs a couple underbody rods to support the splitter (dam/splitter moves back at speed) Fresh brake pads and fluid bleed.

NOTE

Car was built to hit the class minimum weight. As part of that. the seat mounts are custom fabricated and welded in (very light. and very strong). If you are short. you might need to cut these out and put in other mounts.

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