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thats a good draw for the english clubs

Rallying an MR2 spyder?

Just add a little auto transmission fluid to your gearbox oil, does the same sort of thing. Much cheaper too

^^that will be an epic battle even this close to the begining of the season, thing that worries me about man u is how many ageing players they have, it will be intresting to see what happens with there squad in the next 2-3 seasons regarding the replaceing of these players.......

Macheda, Gibson, Welbeck, Tozzi, Rafael, Fabio, Obertan...

No young players???

Yep, offset will be fine, but definately go with the 205/45 not the 215/40 profile

oh it fits, i'm sure of that, all I meant was that having the torsion beam in the rear made no difference.

Oh look the Kop scumbags lost 2-1!

And I've been a United supporter since before the class of '92 emerged. So none of that 'Oh look another fella jumping on the red devil band wagon'

The scousers must be really disappointed right now...

Me too.

Those dirty scousers deserve to lose every game.

Rear is totally different. Corolla torsion beam vs Celica A arm with strut.

Pretty sure you can still put the zzt-231 celica hubs on the corolla without much problem.

we broke a TRD LSD in our powerful rally car, and it has since been replaced with the KAAZ type and it is much better. Matched with the short ratio box and final drive its a magical car to drive now.

We managed to fix the TRD one and are now using it in our less powerful rally car. Its holding up ok.

Corolla ZZE-12x have a timing chain, so no need for it to be replaced.

Nice idea. We normally just jack up the car somewhere, then get another jack under it, and then one on the other side and wheel it around like that. But it wouldnt help you get it off the trailer like I assume you did. Nice work.

Not a future classic sorry to say. No newly released cars will become a classic anymore IMO.

Also, off topic, but the girls of Benfica look like men.

mine are out... and i love it.

The first thing I notice and love after getting out of the race car and into my road car is the lack of vibration. Closely followed by how easy it is to depress the clutch.

But the lack of vibration puts a bigger smile on my face. There is no way in hell I could cope with that everyday.

BTW ours are solid filled mounts as well not inserts.

Good to see a Queanbeyan local and ex-member of my car club winning such a high profile event.

So is Webber the aussie stig? B)

Nope, there's several Aussie stig's cos the size of the driver changes dramatically.

1 of them is Molly Taylor ;)

If you watch the whole episode, the car they do the power lap in is a Ferrari FXX. But its a black one.

From what I've read, Ferrari owns all the FXXs - eg. does not let the 'owner' garage them at home. Furthermore, FXXs are in Ferrari's signature red colour... the only known black one in existence is customised for Schumacher.

- my theory - its unlikely that Ferrari would let Top Gear loose in one of these babys, so who better to drive it than its owner? B)

PS - even if Schumacher has been the Stig at some point, Lewis Hamilton still technically has the fastest lap in the Liana (4 secs extra in the wet and all that...)

Whilst I believe the black Stig was indeed only ever one guy (Perry McCarthy), the white Stig is known to be several people, at least one "normal" one and then the specialty ones (like Kovalainen when they did the Renault F1 lap, the stunt dude for the snowmobile ski-jump etc)

My thoughts are along these lines too, but we know that Schumacher is a Ferrari test driver, so its probably possible that all big car companies send their test driver along for the show and just jump into the Stig costume. And those companies that dont care, Top gear provides a driver who is probably an ex-F1 test driver anyway.

This fits with my other theory that all the big car companies are nuts to lend cars to the TG hosts :P

32-36psi is usually what you need.

141kw at the flywheel.

At the wheels, its a fair bit less. Some cars only crack 100-110kw at the wheels.

As SuperDave said, just a few small mods and the car can get close to 125kw at the wheels, but some cars are different and wont respond to the mods as well. My road car pulled 120.4kw at the wheels with just an intake and exhaust.

Spend more money on real mods, and the results start to come, and they are fantastic

so who got the ar5e?

Clearly me, with a few others, from memory CAP, BigBum, and Saiya

Early 03 models had larger headers / extractors

you sure about that?

i reckon i've seen every 2zz header around for the stivo...and they all look pretty similar... except for the blankign plate on the POST mar 2003 headers for the air injection system for the Northern American model 2zz's

100% sure.

I doubt it makes a squat of difference, but they asked for differences

Early 03 models had larger headers / extractors

Sounds like there is an air leak somewhere, possibly a gasket, so try starting the car and when it starts running erratically, stick your head under the bonnet, look around the top of the block and have a listen for any sucking noises. If so, take it to any mechanic they should be able to pinpoint the problem and fix it for you.

Neil Trama builds a good engine doesnt he ;)

Mobil in NSW has been selling caltex fuel for years, so not big change.

Also, the fuel tank is designed to hold 60 litres, but in reality it holds more. Its called ullage, look it up.

Just like if you buy a 20 litre jerry can, it holds almost 25 litres really

Back off oversteer... shouldnt have got off the throttle. Thats the most common way FWD cars crash.

Once you get to that limit, you are pretty much gone, only the very lucky survive that. Best way to counter it is left foot braking while keeping the power on.

Yep, it's something I had in the back of my mind but wasn't thinking at the time. 200k kms old suspension just means it's worse as the front end goes down.

Panic reaction was to do what everybody has said (apart from the kiddies still fantasizing about Fast and Furious), but I realised that I would probably end up hitting one of the poles. I ended up stabbing the brakes and going to full lock the way I was already turning, which lead to the car pivoting around on the front wheels and stopping in the middle of the road, facing the wrong way. Not as graceful as I would have liked, but did the job.

Yep, its all well and good for me to say thats how you fix it, but in the real situation, what you did was probably one of the better options.

I guess the best option is what all the fast drivers tell me, slow in, fast out :P