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nice 2see youre in the NSW thread now RME1 :P anyhoo... spotted on top of blacktown westpoint carpark tonight. blacked out corolla levin with blacked out tail lights levin sticker transfered to where it normally says SECA on the hatch door. I KNOW THIS GUY IS A MEMBER coz of the au.toyotaownersclub.com sticker plastered on the side. took a pic of it but unfortunately cant transfer it to the comptuer.. i 4got how bluetooth works?! NUMBER PLATE : AWS***

I guess you kinda give us 10th Gen rolla's a chance ay. For some of us it would be the first time modding and well I guess there can be no stupid questions but only stupid answers. are you saying i said something stupid when i replied to that post? i dont see anyone else replying to the first post!

out of curiousity, has anyone sprayed the 6 spoke conquest rims on their corolla yet?

is there a write up on this?

what type of paint did you use?

you wouldnt be the 1st 1.3L to get a turbo. theres lots of engine mods you could do to improve your cars performance! doesnt matter what engine your car has. you could try 2 get a celica engine upgrade maybe? what other toyotas do they sell in egypt...? /me going to toyota egypt website now... *EDIT* DAMN I FORGOT EGYPT STILL SELL MY LANDCRUISER BUNDERA UP THERE! (70 SERIES - SHORT WHEELBASE) BRING ME 1 OF THESE FROM EGYPT ILL GET YOUR SPORTIVO LOL

welcome to the club. yes this has been done DIY style... was covered earlier with full instructions too. either check the wheels n tyres section or use the SEARCH button.

i guess you can do that... lol!

get that checked up at the mechanics. ive experienced that on my old work van... i think it was either transmission or something else.

yea SBS has been good 2 me as well over the years :P

gday, welcome to the club... i guess the best thing you can do is add a turbo or supercharger to your existing engine, coz upgrading to a sportivo engine would be so much more expensive coz of the work involved. also, no1 up there would be familiar with the sportivo engine. you might have a better chance at getting a compressor engine from the UK? much closer than australia.

oh yea of course you of all people would say that.. just so i buy some of your stuff lol!

why are the old corollas called TWINKYS? EDIT. i just realised while typing this..... it was derived from the term "twin cam" right?

gday pooh, well first of all the LEDs and circuit board (i cut 1 board into 2) and other bits came from Jaycar. the amber LEDs are clear when switched off. i actually discussed this with fellow TOCAU member D_ice before i moved forward with what ive been doing. they have 3 types of LEDs at Jaycar, the prices are based on how bright you want the LEDs to be. if you buy 10 or more the price is cheaper. from memory, the LEDs i bought were around 90c each? but yea not 100% sure about that, but what i am sure of is the guy who served me showed me what all 3 types looked like when lit. i chose the second brightest, mostly because i didnt want the mirror indicators to be heaps brighter than my existing indicators. theres no sure way of knowing that until i wired the thing up and once i wired it up to the car, i saw it was close enough match. the most expensive LED they had was REALLY bright. the 2nd most expensive was sufficiant. the reason i chose to DIY the LEDS instead of using LED strips is because i bought the chrome covers to begin with and i wasnt happy with how they would look if i had installed them. it would have been stuck on with double sided tape and it looked like anyone can just pull it off! although hilux's and landcruisers have chrome mirror covers as stock, im sure it would bring attention to my corolla since chrome covers are not common for corollas.. the original LEDs that came with the chrome covers were flat and were laid on a flexable circuit board which i could not find in any local or online electronics stores. I would have used the originals except half of the lights were BLUE. i could have used jsut the yellow leds and left the blue ones off, but it seemed like a waste and im a bit of a perfectionist so if i want something done a certain way, i HAVE to figure out a way to make it. taking off the blue LEDS off the original circuit board would have been a good idea except i could not find clear + flat amber LEDs to replace them. so i had no choice but to go for the regular looking LEDs and they just would not fit within the space of the indicator lense. heres the original LEDs and circuit board. making the LEDs DIY style also made sure i can space the LEDs exactly where i want them. it would have been nice to fit 6 more LEDS on the circuit board but the mirror covers start to bend... the circuit board doesnt flex so i did what i could with the flat space that i had.

matrix looks like caldinas lil half sister

driving my old landcruiser bundera, i had a habit of always grabbing the stick. now with the corolla and my isotta gearknob, the shaft is so short that all you can grab is the oversized knob.

the general feeling i get from people on this forum is not to get the things installed by them. i wouldnt say no to buying parts from them though.

you could probebly get by just twisting the wires and using electrical tape, but i chose to solder. it takes longer to expose the wires and tape up than it does to solder.

you mean guys always having their hand on their stick?

it was my understanding that toyota australia chose to stay with the corolla name simply because of the success of the corolla in australia over the past few decades. more to do with brand loyalty than anything else. i kinda agree with that.. if it aint broke, why fix it? names like "runx" or "allex" or "auris" or "blade" are pretty cool, but in the end their designs evolved from the corollas that preceeded them. the new names are pretty cool if you wanna be all JDM about your car, but in the end a corolla by any other name is still a corolla. btw good number plate!

theres nothing like driving manual.. but its also fun every once in a while to drive my parents corolla/landcruiser which are both autos... kinda like driving a go-cart! but yea driving manual keeps me awake while driving. ive had some serious situations falling asleep behind the wheel while i was on my Ps and early into my blacks.

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MUAHAHAHAHA! whether you like em or not, they are still an option if you want to buy fb kits! i also said that any parts you get would probebly need extra modification to make it fit.. just being fair and explaining options. (btw: is that pic from happy gilmore?)

as far as ive been in on TOCAU, i havent heard or seen anyone complaining about aftermarket sideskirts not fitting. sideskirts and rears are the same size whether you have a facelift or preface... yea that about says it.. i havent seen bad fitting sideskirts for our generation of corollas. i cant really speak further on this, since i dont have sideskirts (yet)! but there are others on this forum who have aftermarket sideskirts that should be able to know about it for sure.

a certain someone is selling side skirts in the buy n sell section!