2zz corolla

thanks very much

Quick question guys Are the normal corolla and the sportivo's sway bars both hollow. If so is the metal the same thickness in each sway bar. Thanks for your help dave

Thanks for the post yea there a good rear sway those whitelines , Sorry for not updating my status in regards to getting a zze122 sway bar in so long i have been having a massive problem trying to find one. Capalaba they have corollas there but someone has already taken the rear sway bars :P. Found one today though fresh stock but was unable to get the bolts undone , broke 2 socket wrenches and bent a shifter trying to get the bolt undone, after that i gave up. the guys at the wreckers wouldnt even let me borrow one of their rattle guns or give me any poles to help use as leverage ........ Might go back and have another go with a meaty wrench and a very long pole but its about an hour drive so I might just bite the bullet and get a whiteline ...... Ill have an update in a week or two p.s they also wanted $77 for the sway, sounds a little pricey to me (they were absolotly non negotiable in regards to the price to ) Thanks dave

Something interesting I found in the brochure is that they say the car weighs 1185 kg to 1200kg, how can the weight vary when from what I can see you cant add any options onto the car. Cant even add a sunroof according to this brochure which I swear I have seen face lift corollas with sunroofs.......... How heavy are the facelift corollas any way I thought they were 1224kg ... I am not saying your brochure is crap by the way just confused by it hehe.

Welcome to TOCAU You could give carmate.com.au a go they have alot of car products. Best of luck Dave

Just the rear , havent looked into the front acturly. From vague memory the front sway wont work on the sportivos but not 100% sure on that.

Ok so I have spent about a week calling up places with only Capalaba wreckers having zze122s available. As i live on the north side, driving down to Capalaba is pretty inconvenient. I was just wondering for a last ditch attempt if any forum members have a normal sway bar they are willing to sell me (p.s should probs put this in the wanted/ for sale category ;)) btw jstchln thanks for your comment about the sway bar let’s hope with normal suspension there’s a bit of a noticeable difference ;P Super Dave that’s a fair comment but i thought aftermarket suspension manufactures would spend allot more time manufacturing a product perfect for the car with no cost cutting. My opinion is that car companies like Toyota just do cheap jobs good enough for the job to make so the car is more affordable where as aftermarket shops go all out. Just my humble opinion :) .

Just a quick question sorry its a little off topic but I was just wondering, was the Levin allot more easy as a daily driver due to the lower down torque or was it not really noticeable. and did the car still feel relatively quick (according to mags there quicker than you think) I was thinking you would be able to best answer this as you have owned both a Levin and a Sportivo ;)

True well i double checked it today and it is 19mm so ill give those 2 wreckers that you guys said a call and see if they have any. By the looks of it im the gunnie pig as not many people have done it by the looks :P by the way cme-lift that is a bloody good point about the aftermarket swaybars being welded at each end where as standard ones are on a coupling thing .... that could play a big factor... maybe i might just coff up and by a white line one ...

Agreed. 5w 40 shouldnt be any problem at all from my understanding as its still as thin as 5w30 meaning it copes with the same cold tempreature range. The difference is as kenshin X said, that 5w40 can cope with higher tempreatures then 5w 30 .Theres plenty of members that are running 5 and 10w 40 in there cars and they seem to be more then happy with it. please correct me if im wrong though , fairly new to all this stuff

Give autobarn a go .... they usualy have royal purple products

Update: Had the oils in my car for about 2 weeks now and I am impressed with royal purple. Noticed the car was quieter then the original oil even though it’s a thin 5w 30 oil. Also the engine revs more freely now compared to the old Toyota oil. Castrol syntrax 75w90 with nulon g70 has definitely improved gear changes. They feel smoother and it’s not crunching gears any more. The reason for the crunching was probably due to the original factory oil still being in my car ;). As for who I got the car serviced with, I got a friend who is in the industry to service my car in the end. Very happy with the result he’s one hell of a perfectionist :). I did notice that the handbrake adjustment is in one very annoying and tight spot though: angry: Overall all went well and may get a fuel injector service done later in the piece Thanks very much for all your help Dave

Hi everyone I have recently been looking at handling mods to my sportivo 05 as some of you may know. I was talking to superdave at a recent track meet and he advised me that I should get the normal corolla sway bar if I’m on a budget as its 21mm instead of 19. I am having trouble to find much discussion about this mod on the forum so I decided to make a dedicated thread to allow for some discussion/opinion on the mod and to allow for it to be easily found when using the search function in the future. The main questions I have to ask is 1: has anyone else done this other then super dave. 2: If so how are you finding the mod, did it help reduce body roll or mainly just improve turn in. 3: Is there an easy way to know if my car currently has a normal corolla sway bar ( I know it’s highly unlikely but just want to make sure). I sadly do not have a decent measuring tool to measure my sway bar so I am hoping there’s some code on the sway bar that gives it a way ;). 4: Are sway bars as easy to remove as they look. To me it just looks like I don’t even have to raise the car and then just remove 2 bolts. then again I have never removed a sway bar before) 5: Anyone know of any good wreckers where i could find a 03 to 06 hatch? Places I have called so far just have old bombs :(. If there is any other information i need to know regarding this mod then please let me know. Thanks O and thanks super dave for letting me know about the mod Dave

O true thanks for the info. Penrite HPR5 is that a 5w 40 from memory. Yea i agree with the tune up, can u even adjust anything on the standard computer or is it 100% self learning. I thought fuel injector servicing was mainly used back in the old days of lead fuel. Thought today’s fuels like BP ultimate would be allot cleaner (supposedly its meant to "clean" your engine) well according to the video below :P ...might not be as good as it seems though as i guess the video was created by BP :P. Heres the vid I was talking about if anyone is interested (scroll to bottom of page for video) ( http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9015027&contentId=7028155 )

Impressive find ! Ive always wondered what the brochure looked like cheers:) dave

Wait a secound so are you guys saying that some cais acturly sound different i thought they all sounded the same as its just a metal pipe :S Dave

Ok then cheers mate. Got to admit i did find it werid how the 1zz can use 5w30 over 30c but 2zz can only go to 10c. Was thinking it might be some kind of a typo or some thing in the manual :P but o well thanks alot Dave

Update: Just purchased all my oils I decided to buy royal purple 5w 30 instead of 10w 40 as I thought its winter and won’t need the thicker oil. Just before I put it in i decided to look in the manual and it says you shouldn’t use it when temperature is over 10c What are peoples thoughts on this. should i go back to autobahn and replace it with a 10w 40 ? p.s they can’t get 10w 30 in and i live in Queensland slightly north of Brisbane. Thanks dave

whats the thickness of the standard sway bar on the stivo any way , starting to look at this pretty seriously probs get one in a couple of months. cant wait to drive my car and not feel sea sick when i get out of it. ;) jokes. got to love the corollas boat like handling ;)

Welcome to the forum , and may i just say that sportivo of yours is a beauty !

So there really that good hey, would you guys recommend getting a front strut bar with a white line rear sway or is there no need..... just don’t want my car over steering as I quite like the feeling of understeer (so easy to correct ;P)

What the hell pads wear into the rotors ...... as in they wear the rotors away faster then normal ? is this on the sportivos as well , should i be getting my spanner and replacing my pads asap ;)

Ive heard of people lowering and softening the front for better traction on the front wheels but i have never heard of any one lowering just the rear ........ maybe he set it up like that so the car looked like it was lifting the front up heaps on launch :P;)

i would buy asimol but as i live in qld it just makes it to much effort as i have to get it posted and i wonder if its realy worth it..... postage would probably cost a decent amount to How you finding smooth shift 75-90 ? smooth shifts on start up? (e.g when engine is cold)

Sorry to be a little off topic but where do you even find red top 3sges i remember when i was thinking about doing the same thing last year i just couldnt find any. aw11 red top would be a great p plate car :P shame its not legal.