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Hey man, Ive seen you driving around the western 'burbs a while ago. Your car looks awesome!! never seen a camry like it... let alone any other car like it... and you have got serious balls to roll that low lol how do you manage over speed bumps, driveways/gutters, scraping and unwanted attention?

1. Sell 2wd hilux 2. Buy 4wd hilux 3. Buy lift kit and said tyres 4. ?????????? 5. Profit!!

Awesome!! Love the car mate, especially the panda paint job :D

Neat looking car man, the 'zorst sounds mad! Looking forward to updates

That's probably because i wasnt on these forums at the time.. :P

Engine is in. Tomorrows plans: - Radiator - Put P/S back in just so i can drive it around as i need this car back on the road asap - Begin tedious process of failing with wiring, then get an auto electrician to finish my mess Friday: Skids. :P (hopefully)

4AGE is the powerful performance engine, and it has EFi. It revs to about 7600rpm and on the cam covers it says "Toyota Twin Cam 1600" or something 4A-C is the 1.6 Carby version, with the granny spec head and a fair bit of less power. << This is the one you have

ahh dw ben we here in melbourne are used to our hot days, it may be hot, but not as humid :D even i dont use the AC :P ^ THIS. And anyways, if it gets too hot ill steal my mums car :P

Degreased everything from the PS fluid an removed the A/C completely :)

Dont be scared of revving these engines. For some reason the A series engines need a bit of a rev and thrash every so often to keep them clean on the inside. Could be the issue of your fuel, carbon build up is causing your car to be restricted or something? You can use injector cleaners and what not, but give it a little thrash and it may be ok. Ive seen it done before :) (But if you blow your engine... dont come complaining to me! :P ) Mine happily revved to the limiter whenever i wished and never had one problem! actually it had one problem but it fixed itself. Most reliable car evar!

Hey, I used to have an AE102 Corolla RV with the 7AFE and a manual transmission. I had mixed results in fuel consumption depending on 3 different things: - Where i got my fuel from - How much tyre pressure - How i drove the car Best i had ever achieved was 6.2L/100km, with 195/65/14 tyres and 45PSi, with some granny driving to suit. I averaged between 7-8's. HTH :)

3 door ZRE? Awesome!! never even knew these existed. awesome car man :)

rFactor!!! :D love it!! used to play that so much, but i moved on to a mac :( Its amazing how that game really does improve your driving

Thanks mate :) I actually dont have a video sadly, i had a bit of a stupid moment and forgot to turn the camera on during the excitement building up to the last session. Posted my times and then turned the camera on just to catch my head gasket blowing :/ The cause was because of two reasons. The first being the heat and stress getting to the motor, and the second was the dodgy engine builder who "reco'd" the engine 2 owners ago was a bit silly and put a shim in between the gasket and the block so the driver could run the car on 91ron fuel. When the 4 materials of the block, shim, gasket and head are all flexing in different directions all it takes is a little of the shim or gasket to go into the combustion chamber to blow that gasket to bits. After assessing and working on the car the last few days the engine builder was a butcher! missing bolts and mismatching bolts on the head and everywhere in the engine bay! not happy with the head of that engine one bit! Guess I was just stuck behind the wrong people :( LOL thats my favorite photo, its an awesome shot! :) Theyre an awesome tyre! probably the best street/track compromise tyre you can get, I daily drive on them aswell and theyve lasted easily over 6000km including the previous owner using them as just a track wheel as i had bought them second hand. I saw in your thread a picture of you driving along kings road here in delahey, so youre local to me. When my car is back on the road ill be taking my wheels off and you can take them for a spin if you would like to try them out :) My car in current spec is about 915 kilos give or take a few... but it will weigh roughly 875 by the end of next week... ( youll see some pics below) Remove your seats Phil! get rid of that extra weight! With my new setup and a wheel alignment done im hoping there is a sub 1:48 on these tyres. Rece you to 1:45? :P once again thanks for the shots Jeff! :) So today? Frustrated and fed up from working on this stupid FWD Bigport, which has a few stupid design flaws and the fact that a butcher had rebuilt the engine in the past, I cracked it with the engine and decided to rip it out. All is good now, Im happy :) So what are the plans? - Ditch the power steering! Why you ask? Well having heaps of issues with it with exploding PS lines and on the track leaks everywhere, the mess and clutter was not worth its benefits. And I will be installing a stock manual steering rack from another AE82 (random pic of stains under wheel well is from the PS, stained my wheel too :( ) - Ditch the AC. Wasnt gassed, therefore it is useless weight and more clutter. - Place a smallport 4AGE in the gap that is hopefully a bit more healthy and is a whole lot easier to work on... and 17KW more power!!! :D Hopefully this will leave the car with 103KW and weighing in at about 870KG which is pretty much ideal for this car :) Bring on the sub 1:48's!! (hopefully lol) PICS:

Heres the full version ^_^

Hopefully shes back on the road by the end of this week... Im having withdrawal symptoms! :( In other news, Ive got a few things coming in over the next few days and as soon as its moving again ill start tidying the thing up :)

Not sure if its ugly or pretty... but i still want one :)

Really neat little corolla you have. Nice and clean, and all the little touches finish it off well :)

Tyre pressures make an amazing difference! Dropped my tyres down another 5 psi and i got an extra half a second :) Just be careful with going stiffer in the suspension, build your suspension around the tyres you're gonna track your car on.

Aside from the fact that he is possibly the worst racing driver i have ever seen, racing is a totally different beast to just tracking your car, rubbin' is racin'... but this guy shouldnt be out there, he is hopeless!! go back to playing video games!

Ripping the head off and assessing the damage...

Vids of skidz... http://imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/692/nixy.mp4/

Got some photos from Jeffy (thanks again!)

Thanks guys And yeah, thats the one! :)