Put 3.5 litres of oil in a friends car today.

"TA4K" (ta4k30)
08/17/2015 at 05:06 • Filed to: None

As I recall most 1.3L Toyota Starlets only take about 5-6L for a full change. It sounded a lot better afterwards. After pouring about a litre in, oil appeared on the dipstick. In other news, my Corona is burning oil bad, and leaking it even faster. Half the dipstick in about 2 weeks. Might have to do that GT-Four swap sooner than later...

DISCUSSION (10)

AndyG_UK > TA4K
08/17/2015 at 06:05

Years ago I worked with a woman that had an old Starlet and she used to go on how she had it for 5 years and had been faultlessly reliable. I said that most cars are if well serviced and looked after, “oh I’ve never serviced it, never even checked the oil, it’s when you mess with them that they go wrong” I replied that’s not how it goes and she should service it or at least check the oil but she went all smug and told me I was wrong. Well 2 weeks later it started rattling on the way to work but got her there, when it was going home time it wouldn't turn over, you guess it, it had seized up, she got it towed, no oil, just some tar like substance in and was scrap. I actually laughed at her, the smug cow!

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TA4K
08/17/2015 at 06:23

What gen of Corona do you have?
I had an old ST141 Corona that I miss some days. It did the same thing, I sold it to a guy for a case of beer which is roughly two six packs more than I paid for it. Last I heard it was still getting around with more than 500,000km’s on the clock.

TA4K > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
08/17/2015 at 17:41

I have a JDM imported ST202 Corona Exiv, 1994. Essentially a ST200 series Celica platform with a 4 door body. The real draw card is that it shares common suspension, drivetrain and interior parts with the Celica meaning I can bolt a lot of celcia parts straight in. I want to do a 4WD manual swap so much..

TA4K > AndyG_UK
08/17/2015 at 17:44

Awesome story haha, my mate is just too poor to buy any oil so we lent him some.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TA4K
08/17/2015 at 18:25

That’s pretty cool, I’ve seen them when I’ve visited Japan or NZ but I don’t think any were imported to Aus.

It’d be a pretty sweet sleeper, you know if would Caldina stuff would fit too?

Im contemplating either a gen4 3sgte swap or 2grfe swap into my jdm MR2 Turbo next year.

TA4K > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
08/17/2015 at 21:26

I thought it might fit caldina stuff, but I never really looked into it since Celica parts are more plentiful here.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TA4K
08/17/2015 at 22:16

Fair enough. Last time I was there I swear every second car was a Caldina or an R33. Or one of those weird corolla Marinas

TA4K > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
08/17/2015 at 22:25

Yup, pretty much the deal. Lots of imports, lots of japanese cars and Euros but the US market is pretty much non-existant here.

TA4K > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
08/17/2015 at 22:27

Actually you might have gotten it as the Carina ED, since that’s what we got it as. All the Corona Exivs are JDM imports here.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TA4K
08/18/2015 at 08:11

nah we didn’t get the Carina at all, and the ST/RT140 Coronas were the last to be built in Port Melbourne. I see later models about though, but they’d be JDM or NZDM imports.