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Mainline dyno in 4th gear, doesn't surprise me at all. Both times I've run my car on a Mainline, the results have been way worse than what should have been expected, the last time almost 40% down.

No point bothering with a SRI, all it does is sound good but sucks in hot engine-bay air - I've got a proper CAI feed with a pod filter underneath the front guard behind the bumper, using the splashguard as a scoop. And the strut-brace is straight out of an AE101 Levin (AE111s fit as well), just find someone parting out a half-cut or whatever and grab it.

Which is why cars have intake air-temperature sensors to compensate for the density change. And cold air should give you slightly more power, which means you can use slightly less throttle to get the same results, thus keeping fuel consumption roughly the same. Of more impact would be the lack of AC being used, which sucks a substantial amount of power. Using the heater uses no power (apart from driving the fan), so keeping the car warm in winter uses less fuel than keeping it cool in summer.

eBay is your best bet, they come up every now and then, both in the traditional reflector style and projector/halo style too (like mine) If you do buy ones off eBay though make sure you have the matching grille and parkers, since most of them come from the US and they have a slightly different shape to ours, meaning JDM/ADM grille/parkers won't fit with USDM lights and vice versa. Generally the seller has them all bundled together though.

Seen the clear-lights on the sedan, they look crap, especially the ones that replace the centre garnish (what I call the reflector panel) too. Best bet if you're going clear/Altezza tail-lights is to paint the centre garnish the same colour as the body, or get a hatch without the garnish (ie Series 1). I am yet to see an AE10x Seca without that centre garnish faded to all hell, either - they do it without fail. For some reason the sedan garnishes don't seem to do it at all though, no idea why

I'd have been extremely surprised if it didn't. All EFI cars should have rev-limiters, it's an extremely easy thing to implement with computerised ignition and injection.

Nothing special about the car itself (old granny car, as they usually are), but parked next to a white '97 Conquest sedan at Waratah Village last night, essentially the exact same as mine except stock (even same colour and original hubcaps), number plate was URL-141 compared to my UTZ-141....spooky. From a distance they looked like twins until you see my wheels and exhaust and headlights

no way!! way

okay i get it...just buy another car What do you mean? That's my 102 :P

Agreed, the internet is a wonderful medium for completely missing the point/emphasis/sarcasm Standard practice on Toymods these days is that everything sarcastic or not to be taken seriously is in italics.

I opened the door, closed the door, clutch-started it in reverse down the driveway, drove my g/f to work, came home, parked it, and hoped that it would start in the afternoon when I need it again Distinct lack of money prevents me from getting the increasing number of problems on it fixed (exhaust, headlining, battery, CVs/bushes/suspension, badly needs a wash too), unfortunately, hoping group certificates will come through soon so I can finally give it the attention it needs.

Last time I checked he had an Aurion (which are all autos), that third pedal is the handbrake (well, obviously not a "hand" brake anymore)

And you clutch-start an auto...how? As an aside, you can clutch-start a manual in reverse too, I've had to do it to my 102 on numerous occasions

The Camry Prominent was a Japanese model on the V30 chassis (which Australia never got, we had the widebody XV10 Scepter which was rebadged as a Camry), and being a Japanese import it is probably loaded to the gills with electric features like TVs, fridge, 4 wheel steering, and most likely a much better stereo than we got in Aus.

I missed where it said "custom" And yes, the sedan tail-lights are 100% different to the Seca tail-lights.

[cough] [/cough]

Gee, who would have thought a 2-tonne commercial van with a 4-cylinder petrol engine driven around town would use a lot of petrol.....

Of course it's marketing. For a long time targa/convertible versions of cars have been seen as inferior to the hardtop version (911 is a perfect example). More recently, car manufacturers have been building convertible models on dedicated platforms/chassis or not offering coupe/hard-top equivalents (Eos for example), using metal-roof convertibles (basically anything Merc, and others) or simply designing the convertible first and then basing the hard-top off that (Boxster/Cayman, BMW Z3/Z4) to try and make convertibles no longer the poor cousin. With the Veyron, maybe it wasn't designed as a convertible/targa and then made into a hard-top, more likely it was designed with the intent down the road to release a targa version which did not compromise on performance etc. You could say that since they are the same weight, maybe the hard-top is actually heavier than it needs to be, but because it has a quad-turbo W16 it wouldn't matter.

I do the same thing with a sliced-open Mt Franklin bottle and a crapload of duct-tape...

Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (next person to call it In The Garden Of Eden gets a punch in the face)

Funnily enough, the Grand Sport is lighter than the normal Veyron. The curb weight of the normal Veyron comes in at 2034.8kg, while the Grand Sport comes in at 1968kg. It's probably like the Ferrari F50 and a bunch of other cars (or the Boxster/Cayman), in that it was designed from the start to be a targa and thus hard-top versions are no lighter or stronger.

Being a carby car, it wouldn't have had a rev-limiter....just valve bounce.

Not quite. :) No synchro just means it needs a bit of coercing to go into gear if the gears aren't spinning at the right speed Reverse is straight-cut too (unlike the helical-cut forward gears), which makes it even harder to line up if the revs aren't exactly matched (and why sometimes even when stationary reverse won't engage, you have to put it in first or second to rotate the shaft slightly (as helical gears automatically align themselves) and then try reverse again.

Big open-air wreckers up at Doyalson usually has a few AE10x models, mostly Seca models too.

Well you managed to bring back a topic from over 12 months ago....