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That first option sounds like something within my budget to do lol, I'll try that. Thanks a lot for your help by the way!

Damn, what must I do then to fix that?

Only just bought it a few weeks ago :P was hoping to keep it a bit longer... I did see a hose like thing earlier at the bottom left-hand side of the panel area, it was taped up a bit but there was no water on it, nor was it loose, that must have been the drain pipe. Based on what you say, it must be the rainwater, not only is the carpet quite wet, there was 1 inch of water in the passenger's side today in the morning and it annoyed the hell out of me. However where the slope and panel area is on the passenger side was dry...that entire area had no dampness. What is wet are the flat bits of the footwell, so I'm confused as to how water is getting in, it's obviously not running down the slope. Could water entering from the A pillar side be routed somewhere else and be seeping in from the where the shifter is? I tried removing the cowl earlier because some people seemed to have had similar problems with water leaking through the windshield area there and getting into the A/C lines or something and I ended up snapping something in the windscreen wiper trying to remove it on the passenger side, and that's not working now <_< I think I may just try and seal up that cowl area with something, the water can go drip from the side and get the hell out from wherever it pleases, but not through the inside Thanks a lot for your suggestions and insight though...

There has been some significant water leakage into the passenger side of the car, and has completely drenched most of the carpeting on that side, the rest of the car is dry. I removed some of the inside trim and pulled aside some of the carpeting and started to get rid of the water. I initially thought it was because of the rain in the last few days, but I couldn't find a leak anywhere (no water dripping from anywhere that I could see), upon googling I see that it could be some A/C drain hose leaking, I can't really find where it is. Do I have to remove the front seat to access this? Apparently it leads into the passenger side of the car. My car is a '90 Toyota Corolla SECA. Though I did find some kind of black rubber stopper looking thing under the carpet in the front passenger side, but I haven't fiddled with it as I don't know what it is, but it looks like a drain stop of some sort. Please help, as this is causing some major problems and I'm afraid to drive around and park the car outside as I'm not sure if it's from the rain or from the A/C, and I did notice that my A/C has stopped cooling in the last day or two it only heats, perhaps some refrigeration fluid has leaked? There's no weird smell yet, and I assume it's just water. Everytime I fix one problem with my car, another one starts!

Here are the pictures, sorry I couldn't get them more detailed because the camera just blurs the picture if I try to take too close a picture. The incorrect spark plug is on the right of the first image, and also has the part no. written in blue, as you can see it's significantly smaller than the other one. How exactly do I carry out a compression test, what tools are needed, and is it easy enough for an average person with little mechanical know-how to do?

Situation: I have a '90 Corolla CS Limited SECA, with a 4A-FC engine. I only bought it recently and noticed that when I was driving there was far too much vibration at idle and going uphill, also the car would just surge forward sometimes and lose power simultaneously at random moments. My friends just suggested that it was normal for old manual transmissions to have nasty vibrations because the idle speed is lower, so I didn't think much of it, there was a significant loss of power that I noticed as well and just wrote it off as being an old engine. When I went to get my clutch height adjusted, the mechanic there told me that one of the cylinders in the engine was misfiring and that the car was running on 3 cylinders not 4. I decided to take a look at the spark plugs and saw that the spark plug in cylinder 3 was a different model to the rest, the recommended part for my car is BCRE527Y with a gap of 1.1mm, but cylinder 3 had a BPR6EFS part with a gap of 1.5mm which appears to be common in Commodores, all the others looked a decent tannish/greyish colour, but this other part looked exactly like a plug with wet fouling as per: http://www.spark-plugs.co.uk/pages/technical/diagnosis.htm Question: I remember before I removed the plug I blew air in to the top, and noticed some oil splashing out of the sides of cylinder 3 only, I checked the oil level immediately and noticed that it was noticeably lower than a few weeks ago, so I suspect there was oil being burnt. Is this only because the spark plug was incorrect, or is a symptom of further possible problems? What should I check for, and investigate? I changed all the plugs to the recommended parts and set the gap as best as I could to the recommended length, and the car immediately had a significant improvement in power, it no longer decided to do little bunny-hops between shifts, and almost seemed like a new engine was put in, with much better acceleration. Any help and information would be great. Thanks!

Hey mate, thanks for your response. Sorry, I don't know why I said 4A-FE, it's a 4A-FC, so you're right it's a carby. I take it though from what you said there that it's still possible albeit with some more modifications. Lots of stuff there for me to research and look into, so thanks for that!

Hey guys, I have a '90 CS Limited SECA Liftback, with a 4A-FE 1.6L engine at the moment with a manual transmission, it's got around 240,000 on it. It's running fine at the moment, but I was thinking of doing an engine swap for either a 4A-GE or 4A-GZE, is this a fairly straight forward swap in terms of not having to modify anything within the car, such as the engine mount? I'm guessing the ECU would be different, and I'd have to sort out the wiring conversion to get things up and running, I'd be changing the gearbox, clutch etc. along with it because I might as well do it all at once. Would there be anything else I should be changing whilst that's being done? I don't plan to do it in the coming months as I'm still trying to get information and learn, I don't have much experience with car modifications and my experience only goes as far as changing tyres, changing oil and filter, that's it, lol. Any info would be greatly appreciated, even if you think it's basic, 'cause it might be new for me! Thanks.