Toyota Sera Gullwing

[Serag15]

Any views on tis car.....I'm quite interested in getting it

1 available at sgcarmart for about $35k...nice car but dont tink tat its worth at that price..

Edited September 1, 2005 by Serag15

[Achtung]

I went to see this car. The tappet has something wrong. They dont allow u to rev. Also, the customised job is not done nicely. U can see the moulding like cement plaster at the front. Rear is leaking H2O. If u can do it up esp the wiring etc, meaning spend some $$, it will be fine. Else, I think go for a Paseo.

 

Cheers.

[Serag15]

thanks for the reply, saves me the trouble of goin down.....guess i skip it...

any paseo avail tat u know of ?

[Achtung]

No idea bro. Look in the papers I guess. Pai say.

[Turbonetics]

i would definitely prefer this to the PAseo...

nice gull wing...

its very rare in sg...

[Godfinger]

Very nice.

Also, the car is so beautifully done up.

Sure to make heads turn...

 

Headlamps and taillamps are so nice

I am falling in love with this Babe.

 

I felt that any mechanical problems

can be repaired..

It is a Toyota.

[Kurarensu]

yeah.. gullwing rare in sg.. esp normal car... hehe.. what's a Paseo sia? enlighten me

[Turbonetics]

its toyota Paseo...

coupe body....also quite rare....1.5litre...

[Kurarensu]

woo.. rare car in sg? den maintain sure hard ma.. wana mod.. the parts hard find

[Genie47]

Its actually a Toyota Tercel powered by a 5E-FHE engine and has gullwing doors. Great looker but not great on performance. The 5E-FHE engine is a high compression version of the 5E-FE. Performance wise, it is not great.

 

Most UK owners chucked the engine for a 4E-FTE found in the EP82 and EP91 Starlet/Glanza. Adventurous ones mated the top block of the 4E-FTE with the bottom end of the 5E-FHE engine. What seperates the two engines is just stroke length. Yes that is how Toyota cheats in the displacement game. Both engines have the same bore length but the 5E has a longer stroke length.

 

Similarly, that is how the local 1.6L 4A-FE Corollas are seperated from the US muscular brothers with a 1.8L 7A-FE engine. This also explains why some seemingly more powerful EFI 1.6L cars get smoked by miniscule Starlets equipped with a dirty carbureted engine. Savvy Starlet owners know how to perform voodoo.

 

There are pros and cons to longer stroke length but we will leave that to the Performance folder.

[Elfenstar]

To answer your question properly... its (the paseo) a 2 door corolla.

 

If the sera has tappets problem, it means that air has gotten into the engine hydralics. If it was me, i would just get a reconditioned head from a corolla and swap them around.

 

Edit:

Genie is pretty much right. Btw, genie, are u going to start talking abt bore to stroke ratios and how they work soon? I think most ppl here would faint halfway...

 

With the Sera, the rolla head would be better as the intake cams are slightly more aggressive than the tercel cams.

Edited September 1, 2005 by Elfenstar

[Kurarensu]

WAH!!!!! i don't know what you're talking.. TOO CHIM FOR ME.. what bore length thingy..

[Genie47]

Not Corolla lah! The designation is not AE. Neither does it qualify for Starlet because it is not EP. But it is Tercel with EL. But it is known that Toyota tries to market their cars by initially tying the name to the Corolla like Corolla Tercel when it first came out and later they dropped the Corolla. The are doing the same thing with the Altis.

[Genie47]

Then you better read up more since a dream car of yours is an AE86. Do you know how you get the designation AE?

[Kurarensu]

haha. i know nothing about cars.. just a stupid kid hanging in the wrong forum =)

[Genie47]

Toyota has always been easy to figure out. First letter basically denotes the engine. If start with "A" means has A engine like your Trueno 4A-GE.

 

"E" is the designation belonging to Corollas. So if you see EE90. Quite obvious it is the E engine Corolla and most likely the Corolla XL with the carburetted 2E engine which still hangs around on our roads.

 

The number is just the model number. So AE100 is later than AE92. That's it!

[Elfenstar]

oops, my mistake. you're right... E series engine (same as the starlet) with L series chassis. Exactly the same designation as the tercel.

[Kurarensu]

ok loh.. thx.. although dun quite understand about the theory stuffs.. sigh..