hello, someone near me is selling a rusted out 91 gts corolla, I was wondering what parts would transfer over to my car (89 4door) also if it was possible to change the nose over to have the pop up headlights?
Almost no exterior panel will work. The front clips are different shapes and the coupe fenders won't match the sedan doors, but engine and suspension should swap relatively easily. I would hop on that if it's a deal, the 90-91 GTS has bigger front brakes which would be nice on the sedan. This is basically what I plan to do.
In some parts of the world the GT-S was offered on Corolla sedans. Back in 1997 when I arrived in Bali, Indonesia we were ferried to our hotel by an AE92 Corolla GT-S sedan. At the time I owned a 1989 Corolla GT-S coupe and was quite familiar with them. The sedan was a RHD model with smallish bumpers. It had the same 14” alloy wheels that my car had from the factory, a 4AGE engine, Twin Cam 16 decals on the doors and Corolla GT-S trunk lid decals, rear spoiler, twin exhaust tips, plus it didn't have head rests for that particular market.
Agreed, body panels would not be shared between the coupe & sedan body styles. Even if you could add pop-up headlights to a sedan, having paid to replace one of those headlight motors I could advise you that they are expensive.
Grab all the stabilizer bars and related hardware from the GT-S, plus the shock tower to firewall braces. The gauge cluster is another nice item is the sedan doesn't already have full gauges. Make sure you grab all the sending units for them. I think you might also want the whole front engine cradle complete, since if I’m not mistake the front track was slightly wider on the GT-S with the 4AGE engine. Watch very closely for rust though. You want full structural integrity on the cradle.
The sedan (at least the USDM ones) have a different dashboard shape than the coupes. Unless there is some serious dash swapping, the gauge cluster from a coupe wont fit in a sedan.
What he can do is find a cluster from an LE sedan or a sedan with a tachometer. That will fit.
Woohoo, now get to making that 4 door GTS. I'll race you to completion! (You'll probably win.. )
BTW, that was the kind of car I was looking for back when I wanted to do this conversion. I ended up collecting all the parts instead because the coupe that I bought was too nice to part out.
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