The rear subframe is nearly ready to put aside but the last task was to mount a fuel filter. I rummaged through a few boxes at my auto parts store and chose a filter that had the mount bracket integrated into the assembly so that I didn't have to make a custom bracket or buy one to mount it. The filter is a Ryco Z354, suitable for a various model EFI Toyota Corollas including the 100kW version and I see no reason why it wouldn't be suitable for the 100kW+ 4E-FTE also.
I simply installed two M6 rivnuts (nutserts, blind rivets - whatever you want to call them) in the side of the subframe (underneath where the fuel tank is mounted) and bolted the filter on. The actual fuel lines will be made at a later time, probably once the subframe is actually installed in the shell.
The shell still had some bitumen-based body deadener/sealer on the underside of the boot from when the body work done many years ago and had a replacement boot floor welded in. While I had the shell upside down on the rotisserie, I spent an hour or so with a heat gun, paint scraper and wire wheel on my drill, scraping and cleaning it all off. I found a few pin holes in the boot floor but after spending 20 minutes chasing a few of the pinholes around, burning bigger and bigger holes with the MIG turned down to it's minimum setting for 0.8mm sheet steel, I gave up and cut several small pieces out to weld in new sections. I also spent some time with a flap disk grinding back some "bird-poo" welds from the previous repair. Even though these welds would probably rarely be seen, they just look terrible and I wanted to clean them up.
While the sway bar was bolted in, I offered up the muffler in it's approximate position and I wasn't happy with the proxmity of the muffler to the brake line so I remade it. The line now runs from the bias valve and runs directly under the valve to the instead of the original route which went around the side of the valve and past the adjustment wing nut.
I simply installed two M6 rivnuts (nutserts, blind rivets - whatever you want to call them) in the side of the subframe (underneath where the fuel tank is mounted) and bolted the filter on. The actual fuel lines will be made at a later time, probably once the subframe is actually installed in the shell.
The shell still had some bitumen-based body deadener/sealer on the underside of the boot from when the body work done many years ago and had a replacement boot floor welded in. While I had the shell upside down on the rotisserie, I spent an hour or so with a heat gun, paint scraper and wire wheel on my drill, scraping and cleaning it all off. I found a few pin holes in the boot floor but after spending 20 minutes chasing a few of the pinholes around, burning bigger and bigger holes with the MIG turned down to it's minimum setting for 0.8mm sheet steel, I gave up and cut several small pieces out to weld in new sections. I also spent some time with a flap disk grinding back some "bird-poo" welds from the previous repair. Even though these welds would probably rarely be seen, they just look terrible and I wanted to clean them up.
While the sway bar was bolted in, I offered up the muffler in it's approximate position and I wasn't happy with the proxmity of the muffler to the brake line so I remade it. The line now runs from the bias valve and runs directly under the valve to the instead of the original route which went around the side of the valve and past the adjustment wing nut.
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