Top Speed

[influx]

220 5th gear valves popped 8000rpm with another gear to go

motor way west of sydney (not saying which)

i would kill to get on to an airstrip and test it from 1st all the way through

[xTiGeRx]

220km/hr in 5th?!?!??!?!?!?

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what ya think you'll get in 6th? :o

[influx]

don't know not game

[xTiGeRx]

i'm game!

i'll do it!

but...i don't have my stivo...

it's still on a bloody canoe heading this way...with only 1 guy and 1 paddle.

damn it! hurry up!

[Ilivfor6]

i'm game!

i'll do it!

but...i don't have my stivo...

it's still on a bloody canoe heading this way...with only 1 guy and 1 paddle.

damn it! hurry up!

Your dreaming!!!

It would double the cost of shipping if they gave him a paddle.

The poor prick has to use his hands.

That's how they have kept the cost of the stivo so low

[xTiGeRx]

ah! Yes...i forgot about last months 'cost cutting' methods toyota was using.

:P

[sharmz]

then once ur stivo is here u have to run it in so its still gonna be a while before u are game enough to get through 6 :D

[xTiGeRx]

yeah...i know....i usually wait for about 15,000km before doing any hard thrashing....

MORE WAITING!!! <_<

[Toohey]

15,000 km :o

That's a lot of breaking in for any car. There is not an engine in modern production that needs to be seated for that long, and besides the Stivo is far too tempting to let it wait that long.

[BlackRolla]

I didn't wait at all...as soon as I got out of the dealer i ripped it...lol

That's because the dealer told me to. Said it will run better later on coz during the 1000k service they tighten stuff and tune it again...so I don;t know what the go is.

Anyway....it's running OK.

[xTiGeRx]

i run it in according to the book for the first 1,000km.

from then till 15,000km i don't redline or anything.

that's what i've done with my levin..and it's working great.

plus..i do every 5,000km service.

change oil everytime with synthetic...

rotate, balance and align all 4 wheels each time.

it cost me a fair bit per service..but it's peace of mind for me.

Yes, i admit, i'm padantic....but i don't care...i feel better! :P :P :P :P

[lucio_libre]

i run it in according to the book for the first 1,000km.

from then till 15,000km i don't redline or anything.

that's what i've done with my levin..and it's working great.

plus..i do every 5,000km service.

change oil everytime with synthetic...

rotate, balance and align all 4 wheels each time.

it cost me a fair bit per service..but it's peace of mind for me.

Yes, i admit, i'm padantic....but i don't care...i feel better! :P :P :P :P

You must bring a smile to any mechanics face. 15,000 is far too long for these cars mate, you'll wanna wait till 2000 then open her up a bit otherwise youre wasting time, you should enjoy the car untill you can, it wont last forever, nothing does :( .

[xTiGeRx]

2,000km....really? :(

yeah, drive the car a little harder..but....i wouldn't race it till the 10,000km service.. :(

[Kevsta]

Yep, the manual that comes with the sportivo says 2000 kilometres for running in.

My dealer says 5000 kilometres but hey I can't wait that long...

[sharmz]

2,000km....really? :(

yeah, drive the car a little harder..but....i wouldn't race it till the 10,000km service.. :(

ok fellas where gettin a little confused.

I think xtiger is gonna wait till 1000/2000 before opening her up, but once he does he will use lift and such yeah ???

which is on for 6-7.5Krpm anyways, what hes sayin is he wont redline the biatch till after atleast 10000kms, i presuming here u mean u wont hit revlimited till then yeah?

coz if ur not using lift till 10000kms, return ur damn stivo.

and blackrolla, damn first i heard of a dealer doing that, or atleast that bein recommended

[illuminati]

im not gonna use the second cam till 2500kms, then use it abit for 2500kms, then it should b ready to do wot ever i demand of it(which will b alot!!!!!!!)

[Ilivfor6]

You cannot help yourself!!!!

Classic example this morning... What do you do!

Pull up at a set of lights next to a clio sport. I start salivating the instant I see he's up for a little run. This car is a previous MOTOR bang for your bucks winner so I was eager to say the least to see how the stivo would go.

Then to the left a mini cooper S pulls up and he wants in too. It's like an adolescent wet dream!

Lights change and neither of the 2 jump away as quick as I thought they would with the mini pulling about a bonnet lenght and the clio's rear just by my front. Then I hit lift and pull past the mini with his front now by my door and my front by the clio's door. Slam 2nd revs dropping to 6000 the mini staying where he is, the clio inching out for the instant it takes to hit lift again. The nose of the stivo bucks as lift kicks in again and I pull alongside and then past the clio. with 2nd maxed out the clio's front is by my rear bumper. That's where I backed off, 30 over the limlit was fast approaching and I tend to not go over that.

The clio sport driver pulls up alongside with a huge :D and gives me a thumbs up before going ahead. Felt real good, made up for just getting done by the Astra Turbo yesterday... that prick got me by a lousy bonnet!

You cannot wait untill you've done thousands & thousands of km. You get a rush of blood, pop your cars cherry and then there is no going back!!!

[xTiGeRx]

sharmz: :D now you got it!

that's what i meant

as if i'm NOT going to use lift till 10,000km? if so, i won't get a stivo then. heheh

course i'm going to use lift...just not the redline =)

[Kevsta]

I'd like to say that all this info is very encouraging. Nice to know that the sportivo can beat a mini cooper s and clio sport !

I would have thought the cooper s would have won (is this rear wheel drive) ? Usually front wheel drives suffer too much understeer on quick launches.

Well done Ilivefor6.

[illuminati]

i dont know about you but i have never felt under steer when driving in a straight line......mainly cos it dosnt happen!

i think u ment torque steer son.

and no the cooper s is not rwd.

[lucio_libre]

I had my baby running at 200 clicks in 5th revving at 7200rpm :D.

[NIKICH]

When? Where? Details!!! u cant tell us that with all the juicy bits!!!

[lucio_libre]

When? Where? Details!!! u cant tell us that with all the juicy bits!!!

Not much to say dude, here i am in the middle of nowhere, straight road ahead of me, so i dropped it to 4th, hit lift, and before you know it im doing 160. I thought what the hell so I kept going :D . had to back off coz the ride was getting way too bumpy from the road surface. First time i ever been that fast , feels good :). The car can easily do 220.

[sharmz]

celica tacho/cluster says max is 260kmph is the stivo the same?

[xTiGeRx]

sharmz: have you been in a stivo before? if so, does it feel the same as the celica?

or does the celica just poo all over the stivo?