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It may seem like a stupid question, but did you remember to plug the aerial back in?

Don't make posts like this, you're not making it obvious enough to the n00bs that you're not being serious. And if you are being serious, you have major problems.

Exactly. The only reason for the TRD Aurion is because Toyota needed to stamp some extra credibility on their "new" car (I know it's still just a Camry, if you change a name you change a car. Look at the Laser/Focus, or Pulsar/Tiida). The Aurion is supposed to be going up against the Commodore and Falcon, both of which have hugely successful performance models. The Corolla is a tried and true formula, in a segment where the real performance cars (Focus XR5, Renaultsport Clio, Golf GTi, Astra Turbo/VXR) are very low volume sellers and/or really expensive, and the volume sellers are nothing more than tarted-up base models with little to no extra performance.

The scaling didn't bother me when I did it......then again I did get 92.95, and went to a selective high school. My g/f's school got owned hard by the scaling, I think over half the year got under 50. 92.95!?!?! Mofo! less than 8% of people your age where more studious than you. you must feel so alone. hehehe That was with a pretty crappy Geography and Chemistry finals, should have done better. At my school, probably half the year got in the 90s, and 100s are not unknown (you get one every couple of years)

The scaling didn't bother me when I did it......then again I did get 92.95, and went to a selective high school. My g/f's school got owned hard by the scaling, I think over half the year got under 50.

It's called the Blade Master G (nothing like Willies, no idea where you got that from), and it has already been mentioned in this thread at least twice. How do you know this? Sounds like rumours and heresay and bull**** to me, any evidence to back it up? And to be a TRD product they just need to brand it as such - there have been only two TRD models so far, both of which use the same supercharger on the engine family, so of course the gains are similar and both around 40-50kw

Care to enlighten us on what you found?

Please tell me you're going to get decent wheels in the very very very near future........14" hubcaps do NOT suit lowered AE101/102s, you need at least 16s or even 17s to even go close to filling the front guards.

Ps make Degrees.

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I see your 260k and raise you 295,000km, and an un-opened original engine :P

1U-FZE has been done, quite successfully from what I've heard. Both the engines you're talking about are quite heavy, so will upset the balance of the car a bit. 1UZ is lighter than you think....all-alloy does have it's advantages

From memory that starts a chain reaction which gets you the girls as well, har har har. The 2000 models have the facelift fronts yes? Yeah mate, facelift came on the 2000 models... My car is now a facelift as I hated the bug eyes... lol... Sedans never came with the bug-eyes though, fortunately (they do suit the Seca sometimes though, depends on the car)

If you don't want to fork out for a DSLR (and have to carry lenses around as well as the camera itself), but want the picture size, zoom levels and manual adjustability, it's hard to go past a bridge super-zoom camera. And once you start looking at bridge cameras, it's VERY hard to go past a Lumix FZ28. Just bought one myself, 10MP + 18x optical zoom + RAW capability, image stabilisation, manual focus and full PSAM settings, Li-ion battery, SD/SDHC cards (best for cost and availability, plus fairly universal outside of Sony), can take 720p HD video, output 1080 to a TV via component cables. RRP is around $650 (only just on the market), I got mine off eBay for $550 including case, 4gig SDHC card, spare battery, screen protector and a 1m tripod. Excellent value, and very good reviews.

Heh, I can barely remember my HSC.....I still laugh every year when suddenly all the news stories come on about students cram studying and going to all sorts of measures to get good marks, basically the whole period is just one big sleep deprivation experiment. Just to make it more stressful for all those little year 12ers out there: If you think the HSC is hard, once you get to uni you essentially have one every 6 months....for 4 years.

Neither. The unstoppable force will enter the orbit of the immovable object, forever caught in a logical loop. Just like strapping a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropping it from a height. Since cats always land on their feet, and toast always lands butterside down, the two will drop until about 10cm off the ground, at which point the cat will hover in mid-air and rotate slowly like a spit-roast.

GIIIs are no longer sold in most sizes, they have been replaced by the RE001 Adrenalin, which is a different design.

It's not an airflow sensor, but an intake air temperature sensor. AE112s are MAP, not AFM. And just get a hole cut into the new piping and stick the sensor + bung into that, it's what I did. You can just see the sensor on the alloy intake piping about 20cm from the flex-pipe connected to the throttle body (pod filter is in the cavity left by the resonator, behind the front bumper and under the guard)

Engine-bay shots show the 5SFE, which is 4-cyl. Would hate to drive one of those with auto (manual was bad enough)

You say tomayto, I say tomarto. Both are perfectly appropriate and acceptable pronunciations. And I think the "1/4 mile" was figurative, not literal. Would have been the "400m-or-so-of-tarmac-next-to-the-junkyard-but-we-could-only-use-300m-because-we-had-to-leave-room-for-braking"

If it did, do you think they'd still put it in the car? Or not put a warning about it in the manual? When you use the L>2 etc shift points you aren't actually changing gears, just limiting which gears the gearbox can select. L means the box stays in first, 2 allows first and second gear etc etc. It's the same as overdrive, which just locks out/allows top gear to be selected.

Mine's going to hurt the instant that magic 3 rolls over...definitely going to be photo time, no matter where I am. The hurt will come from the fact that the only cars I've seen with more than 300k on the clock have either been taxis, Telstra Hiaces, Volvos or had numerous engine conversions - mine is none of those. Proud, but still cringe-worthy

For a while mine was doing 50,000km a year when my dad drove it to work up in Mudgee - 300km on a Monday + Friday, 50km to and from the mine each day. Plus it has seen numerous trips to Sydney, a couple to Bathurst, one up the coast to Lismore, and lots of running around in between.......oh, and nothing has broken on it (bar normal wear and tear). Got to love Toyota reliability.

Only way to get more confident is to drive it....I managed to teach my g/f how to drive manual (at a bearable level) in only a couple of weeks. After that, it comes down more to the individual car than the driver, some people who only drive one manual car their entire life can hope into another one and be completely hopeless, nothing beats practice and varied experience. The clutch + gearbox feel in my 102 is completely different to my AE82 (even though it's the same gearbox), and both are again completely different to my parent's SXV20 Camry and Mazda2.

220k isn't high for a '91 model car, especially in Australia (big distances between major centres mean kilometres get racked up very easily). My Dec '97 AE102 is on about 294,000km at the moment, getting ready to take it off the road for a few days to do timing belt, water pump etc before I go on a cruise at the end of the year. Problem is finding the time, and alternate transport to work in case it takes longer than a weekend.