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you have titled this topic with "corolla" but here inside you have written "sportivo". just to be clear is this open to corollas or restricted to sportivos?

skitzo what you have seen are cars with no end mufflers. these cars had their mufflers replaced with canons. these cars may or may not have middle mufflers.

mufflers are quiet whereas canons are loud because they are straight through. but some canons are not so loud because they have resonators in them.

if you just want a large tip cut off your original tip and weld on a new large tip. if you also want a tone then you need a canon. canons often exceed epa loudness.

to reduce loudness but keep the tone you need a canon with resonator or add a middle muffler.

all canons are stainless steel and you might want to inspect the weld lines before purchasing. some brands are messy (manually welded) while others are neat (computer).

a canon like xforce, magnaflow, genie is $280 fitted. dual tips could be more.

you need to hear for yourself an exhaust to know if you like it or not. some exhausts are loud all the time (driving easy and steady) whereas others are only loud when you accelerate hard.

you should make it to the royal childrens hospital car cruise on good friday. with over 1,000 cars most modified street cars you will see for yourself many different exhausts.

you will find that most if not all offset for fwd 7" width will be 40.

xtigerx you should say to your friend front as sedan but rear as audi a3. please do not kick me off for mentioning a car not corolla!

different cars for different markets.

altis is taiwan and i understand there are no hatches there only sedans. nze121 is hatch from hong kong. usa is just corolla and they have no special extra names.

you said altis nze121 but to me this is messed up. be careful of parts for corollas from other countries. corollas might look the same but they are different.

What about the other corolla models ? Same place ?

either japan or south africa and there are small differences in finish and raw materials used. now and then not all body colours are available from japan.

e-gene if you want to find out if they really changed your oil look under your car for the oil filter. if there is a painted dab (most likely yellow) on the oil filter then it was not changed.

1,000 km was free of charge for me. my invoice was $0.00

of course if you change your oil early then you will be up for those parts.

1,000 km is free of charge! you go to the dealer this time because it is free.

there are pros and cons with dealers and other mechanics. i see more cons with dealers that is why i have never booked my car with them.

dealers only see my car for warranty work. dealers are good for warranty because everything is free of charge.

it is not hard to service a car therefore i see very little advantage with using a hi-performance mechanic. a good mechanic knows how to change oil, test brakes, inspect shockers etc.

a hi-performance mechanic is good for engine conversions and powering up cars.

you take the width of your wheel. add 2 inches. convert this to metric. this is the largest size you should have.

look in your glove box for a sticker. this is your tyre placard. if it is not a sticker in your glove box check your doors for a metal card or your fuel door.

the tyre placard tells you what wheels/tyres you have from factory.

e-gene you might have the DIY bug!

celica-engined corolla? makes you think a celica is better than a corolla.

the corolla stands on its own. you could say corolla-engined celica. the engine is identical 2zz.

3 days to go. anybody interested?

I think, to provide extra assurance in time of warranty claims, you should always use genuine Toyota parts and filters, and get the mechanic to staple the toyota purchase receipt to the back of his invoice.

extra assurance? sorry there is no such thing. you MUST use genuine parts. no genuine parts means no warranty for those parts and related components.

Even after all this, and being realistic, dont expect to be treated as sympathetically by Toyota or it's dealers, if you dont use them for servicing.

i do expect fair customer service from toyota. i choose not to use dealers for regular service and this is not wrong. i am not binded to regular service only by toyota. everyone can choose.

my log book has NEVER been stamped. only genuine parts are used but i do not keep the receipts. i have had over to $1,500 warranty service and parts in 8 months.

zeerolla thanks and i will keep you in mind.

e-gene did you find your headrest is fabric or fake leather?

e-gene thanks but i will try to swap it first but if i cannot do this then i will buy from you. also trying to buy cascade blue before going to white to stay colour coded.

i am looking for a stock sportivo grill.

ascent and conquest are the same. ultima has its own. i cannot remember levin but sportivo should be different.

i have a genuine sports grill brand new from factory cascade blue never fitted. wanting to sell or swap for levin or sportivo grill must be in excellent condition to match my brand new perfect factory item.

Where ya all cruising to??

various points in melbourne. maps will be sold at stud park and part of this will go to the good friday appeal.

4 days to go.

members in melbourne have talked about a meet and car cruise for a long time. members have also talked about letting more corolla people know about this forum.

there was 4 weeks notice for melbourne auto salon but only myself and sport1vo went. there is 5 days notice for rch car cruise. who will go?

we should meet before going to stud park shopping centre so corollas are together.

corollas and their friends meet on good friday 5:30 pm at freedom furniture 579 springvale road in glen waverley.

freedom furniture is next to a holden/vw dealership and the south eastern (monash) freeway. the freeway off ramp is ferntree gully rd and the on ramp is springvale rd.

if you have two-way bring it and remember to use handsfree.

if you are late go straight to stud park shopping centre and try to find us there.

melbourne royal childrens hospital (rch) car cruise.

presented by rch, the herald sun and a few car teams.

bring $ for donation to rch good friday appeal.

good friday 9th of april

arrive 6 pm stud park shopping centre in rowville

departure 7 pm to various points in melbourne

called a car cruise but more a traffic jam. last year 1,300 cars!

please see my new topic.

Everything I needed to know in life I learned from The Fast And The Furious

1. You need NAWS. Two bottles. The big ones.

2. It ain’t how you stand by your car, it's how big the wing is.

3. You can have beer, as long as it’s Corona.

4. If the road suddenly narrows, drive under a truck.

5. Practice pre-race skills with GT 3 A-Spec.

6. Even the cops in L.A. are Hollywood.

7. No one likes the tuna.

8. Big wing=big speed.

9. Amateurs don’t use NAWS.

10. Never narc anyone

11. Stickers, stickers, stickers.

12. Winning’s winning.

13. Stand-alone fuel management system.

14. Break her heart, get neck broke.

15. Leopard-skin parts make you badass.

16. Live life a quarter mile at a time (~17 seconds).

17. L.A. cops respond to one emergency at a time with the whole police force.

18. You can never have enough foglights.

19. Only asians, latinos, and blacks street-race; everyone else is an undercover cop.

20. Win race, get a threesome.

21. Shooting a MAC-11 from a motorcycle isn’t easy.

22. Ramming a Charger with a motorcycle hurts.

23. Oil tastes bad.

24. Pizza boys don’t like street racers.

25. Stay out of asian turf or don’t sleep with their sisters.

26. The Fed with the loudest voice can pin it on anyone he wants.

27. Stealing Apex DVD players is lucrative.

28. The proper display of affection with a bald man is kissing his head.

29. Cuban restaurants are called ‘Cha-Cha-Cha’.

30. Truckers never carry guns (almost).

31. Truckers don’t know how to use brakes.

32. It’s not a color unless it begins with ‘neon’.

33. Car part stores give Lightnings to delivery boys.

34. Fire bursting from tail pipe indicates speed.

35. High-pitched buzzing exhaust indicates speed.

36. Single windshield wiper? Ditto.

37. Hoods and body kits do not need paint.

38. It’s not the train that gets you, it’s the truck.

39. Ugly paint is not a bad way to spend $10,000.

40. Overuse of nitrous makes the floorboard fall off.

41. Dual tailpipes are good, quad tailpipes are better.

42. CAI adds 50 HP.

43. Exhaust adds 150 HP.

44. If you scream ‘NAWS’ it will explode.

45. Ferraris are more than you can afford, pal.

46. You can beat any car if you say ‘smoke um’ before you run.

47. Any scrap-heap can be made race-ready in under a week if the parts are ordered from Japan.

48. Computer-controlled nitrous kits require a laptop.

49. Owning a ‘suppressed MAC-11’ is a ‘minor weapons violation’.

50. And whatever you do, DON’T BLOW THE WELDS on the intake manifold.

firstly how much are you costs?

secondly how big are the vinal stickers?

and can u do any deisgn with mulitple colours?

costs are for purchasing vinyl (like contact paper) from sign gear and backing tape (like masking tape) plus a little for my time and set up.

vinyl is expensive. there are different grades and finishes (like metallic, candy, sparkly). if you go to auto salon you will probably see a lot of vinyl stickers on windows. to save cost people purchase off cuts.

the maximum size is 1 metre x how ever long the roll of vinyl is.

vinyl is single colour (like contact paper) so multiple colours require multiple sheets of vinyl. shapes cannot have gradients. if you are after many colours and gradients then full colour bumper stickers would be more economical.

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