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Nice, we'll get to see how much potential there is with the cams now! Maybe you'll match me without upping the boost

I am a maybe as I dont know exactly when my car is going into the shop

It is normal to hold gears until 4k when cold. This only last like a few minutes though. You will find that if you go fast enough, it will hold itself in 3rd and not let you into 4th too when cold. The other thing it does when cold is even if you floor it, it will shift waaaay before redline.

And hope that a CEL doesnt pop up.

Did they pick up the caliper from the otherside after the accident and throw it in the car? I'm still up for the rears and maybe the single front side as well

If the front and rear brakes are still ok, SHOTGUN!

PS Awesome someone actually taking that first step :)

Trent and I (mostly Trent) installed a wideband. And the car was given the tick of approval from Trent in regards to the transformed handling!!! Now we can mash the pedal mid corner and not need to worry about understeer.

What is uncommon today might be far more common in 6 months it the hose does in fact fail for others after 90,000km. As for routine maintenance, the dealership had just done the 90,000km service 48 hourse earlier which is a major service. Nothing was detected then so it is difficult to identify a potential line failure in what appears to be a reasonable hose. The dealership actually showed me the hose and it did not look perished at all. It just had the pinhole in it. Perhaps I was just unlucky and Toyota was just being generous fixing it out of warranty or perhaps they realised that it should not have happened in the first place. The replacement hose is far more robust looking suggesting that Toyota has identified it as a potential problem and addressed the issue.

They would have done it to avoid a disgruntled customer. Compared to some out of warranty claims it wasn't that costly.

Exactly they didnt do it because it was a definitely "lack of quality". $275 isn't much in the great scheme of things for them. If it would have been more they would be trying to find every possible reason why it failed and point it straight to "wear and tear". When I tried to get a $3500 out of warranty (by 2 months / only done 65,000km) claim when my auto box broke the first time. The torque converter, and a main seal fail spewing oil everywhere which in turn killed the pump inside as well, they pointed at every single thing that "could have" caused the problem through wear and tear and refused it. Maybe I should have posted threads on tocau about it then come to think about it and get a recall going.

Should meet up! That drive is fun :P 10hours of straight driving ahhaah. Hope you didnt do the trip in your freshly painted car. The amount of stone chips I got from the trip was amazing.

Whats wrong with next week?!

Looks nice! Mine's going the deepest, glossiest black (non metallic). Apparently he has one in mind already and its an off the shelf can of paint so it doesn't correlate to a colour code.

Nice I'm not the only person getting a full respray for the car, out of curiousity why not change colour while you are at it?

I wont be out tonight, work xmas party is on.

Your loss, I'm bringing muffins.

-5 man points. If you said you're bringing bacon then it's +5. :P

May or maynot be there. Would have taken my car there if it was ready...

Rear needs a raised wing. Not sure I like the look of the rear as is. The front and side profile shots look nice

Makes it easy to clean!

Lol if your tank last you 2 weeks, run it down and fill up enough for 1 week. Eg fill it up half way.. Realistically running the car so that it is nearly empty is most efficient as you won't be dragging that fuel around. However you will need to think ahead as to where you will be driving to till next fill day. I fill $50 every week so that I will have enough to last till the next cheap day which at the moment is Thursday for us.

Personally speaking, i think you need to add another 10k to that if you want the job finished Jeffy. 10k will get you the parts sitting in your driveway and thats it...

To the OP: I would also say that to do it, you'll need at least 6k. A good rule of thumb for value for money is $100/hp increase. Now I'll let you do the maths. :P And for that money you could as well sell the camry and buy an aurion lol or maybe even a trd aurion.

[edit] Actually you'll need more as you'll need to do the whole exhaust which from a proper exhaust shop will cost you like 2-3k just for that bit alone.

Wheel weight fallen off?

Lol I'll probably get the gt apex if it comes here. But I'd also wait for a turbo kit which will come as this will be a tuner's car. The only thing I would be worried about is the reputation it is going to have with the cops. It will be picked on like the wrx'es when every man and his dog goes sideways around corners.

I believe The Viking will be making an appearance this evening as well.

I believe I have heard this before.

And I'll be there but not for too long.

For your car it isn't a problem as it is still pretty new. But I wouldn't recommend a full synthetic to an older car with high km that haven't been using synthetic oils. They usually have cleaning agents added to it. And sometimes with old cars the gunk can be the thing that is stopping the leaks. So if you suddenly put full syn in it, you may find that the cleaning agents un-gunks everything and then you find leaks everywhere.

Just something I have been told.

Plus hubs would be cheap as chips as you can use the gen3 onwards hubs and we all know how many camry's are out there :P

Hey mate!

I think the v6 hub idea would be the best. I remember you saying you were going to change your wheels so this might be the best time to covert to the 5 studs. Then depending on the size of the wheels you are going for you could use something like the Gen6 camry brakes, the kluger fronts. Both of which are pretty much bolt on and they are a lot bigger!

I may head straight to hoppies it's still raining!!

What about a meet at hoppies if it is wet, there is enough room to park and the undercover area when we normally wax can be our hangout.