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workshop labour is usually $80 an hour, it's a 4 hour job if you work slow in a properly equipped workshop with trans jack, engine brace etc, so that's $320 labour. exedy HD kits are under $200 trade price and up to $500 "joe off the street" price, $20 to machine flywheel, $30 for gearbox oil. so that's under $600 for the work. Toyota had a special clutch deal on years ago where I had a standard clutch replaced in my corolla for $316 all up at Southside Toyota in Brisbane, so that's an indication of the price it's possible to get it done for.

you should be able to get the Exedy HD fitted for $550. The LUK brand would cost the shop less than $150... PBR clutch kits for corolla's can be purchased from repco for $195 full retail, so you can imaging what the trade price is...

celica uses 5-stud discs.

it takes about 45 minutes to swap the front swaybar in the home garage with a decent set of tools, jack and stands. 1. jack the car up, support the car with stands under the chassis rails 2. take wheels off, use allen key and ring spanner to undo the links on the end of the stock swaybar. 3. use a ring spanner or socket to remove the D-shackles that hold the stock swaybar in place. 4. remove the through-bolt in the rear engine mount with a couple of 1/2" drive LONG extensions and a breaker bar 5. loosen the bolts that hold the suspension subframe to the chassis at the rear. Loosen them about 15-20mm, but dont totally remove them 6. pry down the rear of the subframe and chock it with a small block of wood or something to hold it off the rear of the chassis. 7. persuade the stock bar out of the car, re-assemble in the reverse procedure. 8. when it comes to putting the bolt back in the rear engine mount, use the trolley jack under the flat edge of the bottom of the gearbox to help line the hole in the mount up with the holes in the bracket edit: ps, check the holes in the new swaybar before removing everything to ensure the holes are the correct size to accept your swaybar end links. I've had a whiteline bar turn up with 10mm holes in it instead of 12mm holes, and it's a complete bitch to drill through spring steel.

...how is it possible to stuff up a crank pulley installation?

you will probably find that your stock pulley is balanced to your crankshaft, and also has the advantage of the rubber harmonic dampener built in. The balancing marks are on the rear of the pulley. The aftermarket item is a good way to void your engine warranty though ;)

leaving the toyota LLC in for two years is fine. I flush my cooling systems with a few bottles of demineralised water from autobarn (comes in 5L bottles). If you have a newish toyota which has only had the red toyota coolant in it, the system should be perfectly clean and doesn't need much to flush it out. It's when you mix coolant types or use tap water etc that the cooling system starts to build up scale etc in the passages. I've purchased a lot of frontcuts now, and the difference in the condition of the water passages between the engines that run toyota red V's the others that use green crap etc, is like night and day. The motors that use the toyota red coolant always look brand new when you remove the waterpipes/waterpump etc to service them.

Tap water is not something I'd put in any of my car's cooling systems. I use the post-mix toyota long life coolant, and mix it with distilled water, with a little less than 50% Toyota LLC. If you mix it too strong you will have a leaking waterpump within 10,000km.

speaking of car video's, here's one of my POS corolla cleaning up chaser's, skylines and integra type R's at a recent track day :P http://www.rollamods.com/videos/johnrun1_small.avi (divx6 codec)

do not use tap water in a toyota motor. The last thing you want is corrosion inside your motor.

you should be able to get the plugs from toyota for between $15-17ea if you shop around. They had a price drop on their plugs about 6 months ago.

only use the toyota coolant. It's brilliant stuff, expensive though.

same, but it now has full 3" exhaust, custom ARE cooler and cooler pipes. I've also pulled some fuel out of the map with an emanage at Crossley's dyno where it did 195kw, so I know it's consistent ;) The whole motor's being ripped out in a couple of months to be replaced by a JZX100 VVTI 1jzgte setup, so I'll see what can be squeezed from that.

quite a lot of different cars went, mine put put 194kw at 10psi

toyota already make a 4wd turbo mid-size car: http://toyota.jp/caldina/grade/gt_four/

do you have falken 326's by any chance? They're a ***** tyre in the wet, no grip at all.

no. Car parts still attract tax.

my 2001 rex I purchased new and sold early this year.

I flogged the crap out of my modded 5-speed rex for four years straight and it never had a problem with the box. I used a stock clutch though. I've seen a lot of C series toyota boxes fail (same family as the sportivo 6-speed) For a box that will take all the abuse you can throw at it, mod the bellhousing on an E58 from a GZE and use a custom clutch to mount it to the ZZ motor, then you get a box and shafts that can take a decent amount of abuse (400hp ATW is fine)

I'll have to disagree with you there. The 6-speed will break if you're putting out enough power to beat a stock rex, especially if you install a LSD and decent clutch (which are required if you even hope to get near a well-driven stock rex.)

if you wanted a reliable turbo sportivo, you will need a lot more than the contents of that kit. Especially when the boost bug bites. The turbo ZZE corolla we'll be doing shortly will have more power than that kit delivers, and will cost under the price of that kit. It will also be very thrashable. It wont have a pretty sticker to go with it though :P

Hasselgren Atlantic motor in an AE86:

formula atlantic motors are a true race spec motor which require rebuilding at short intervals. Their powerband is also not suitable for a street driven car. Quads are stock on all 20V 4age's. You wont get much change out of $30K US for a hasselgren atlantic 4age. They use the bigport 16V head as their base.

they've had problems a few times with their oxygen sensors, the KW readings seem ok though. I wouldn't get my car tuned there due to past wideband sensor issues. I go to Crossley Racing to use their dyno when I tune my cars.

Hi Guys, Short notice but there's a dyno day at Mercury motorsport this weekend, quite a few spots left if your interested. Details here: http://www.twincam.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16956