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Yes, but I don't drive a Sportivo

You also have to understand that different journalistic bodies (ie newspapers, car company press releases, magazines) use different testing procedures. 0-100km/h times vary significantly based on number of passengers, tyres used, how much fuel is in the tank, is it done in both directions, whats the ambient and track temperature etc etc. I know for a fact that both Motor and Wheels do ALL their time testing with two people in the car and a full tank of fuel (a hark back to the old days where they needed one person to drive the car and the other to run the computer logging the data. This way they can compare data over the years)

Spotted all the guys that were on the Megacruise on Sunday, on the Megacruise on Sunday

4A is 1.6L, 7A is 1.8L In depth: 4A-FE 1,587cc inline 4 81mm bore, 77mm stroke 16 valves, narrow angle OHC scissor-gear configuration (aka 2 camshafts but only one cam pulley) Electronic fuel injection Approx 77kw 7A-FE 1,762cc inline 4 81mm bore, 85.5mm stroke 16 valves, narrow angle OHC scissor-gear configuration Electronic fuel injection Approx 86kw In essence, the 7AFE is a stroked 4AFE

I'm just a little bit pink on the back of my neck and my driving arm (aka right)

My *** the amount of bull**** flying around here is enormous. The offense was committed whilst the driver was on his red Ps, therefore getting greens won't make a single squat of difference. The penalty applies then and there, not when the letter arrives in the mail or when you can be bothered paying the fine, if it is even possible to get a new license without clearing fines and penalties from the old one (which I highly doubt) Example: You have had one speeding offense on your red P's before the new laws came into effect. It was only 15km/h over the limit, thus it was just 3 points and you still keep your license, but have no points left. Then, 2 days before you go to sit your green Ps test, you get pulled over again (once again ignoring new laws). Once again, only a small offense, 10km/h over the limit but the 3 points will put you over the limit. Cunningly, you think you just won't pay the fine etc until you get your green Ps, which gives you another 3 points to play with and thus you'll keep your license. Like an idiot, you go and get your green Ps, but then get the letter in the mail saying that your license has been suspended for 3 months for exceeding the number of points on your red Ps. Stupidly, you go to court to fight it thinking that you'll win, because you didn't pay the fine until you got your green Ps. The judge then proceeds to bend you over the dock, and lets the entire prosecution team take turns cornholing you.

Parent's 1997 CSi, purchased at 000,000 Currently done somewhere in the vicinity of 260,000km

Why bother? The 2TG head is pretty good to begin with, the main thing that the 3TGTE has over it is twin-spark. Plus, 3TGTE stuff is getting rare (all high-end T-series stuff is), so the better thing to do is to get a 3TC block (T18-SE/TE72 is the place to look for them) and put the 2TG head on that (with some other mods) to create the 3TG hybrid 1.8L stroker.

It's called Devon in NSW, and you can get it everywhere

Actually, it drops according to the INERTIA of the rotating components from the flywheel through to the engine. A heavy flywheel will retain its speed longer than a light one will, which is the whole point of a flywheel in the first place. Race cars use very light flywheels to improve acceleration (inertia is the enemy of acceleration, but the friend of retaining speed up hills) and because they don't have to travel at constant speeds or up hills much. Anyway, as soon as the clutch is released the engine will spin up to whatever speed the drivetrain is doing, which is directly related to the road speed through the gearing ratios. Now big heavy high inertia chrome wheels will keep spinning longer than small superlight racing wheels, so you'd actually expect a car with high inertia drivetrain to lose less rpm and speed in a gearchange. I guess thats how trucks can go through 15 billion gearchanges just crossing an interchange without stalling the engine or coming to a halt - lots of inertia (huge torque and extremely short gear ratios help too)

Weight affects acceleration, nothing to do with speed of gear changes etc. The car could weigh 100kg and (assuming the gearing was still the same), the car will still take the same time to shift gears, and you'd still land at the same rpm as if the car weighed 5 tonnes. This whole thread is about the spacing of the gears meaning that you don't stay in lift when changing from first to second, not how fast the car is.

I can't believe this, but as a devoted Knights supporter I'm actually gunning for Manly in the NRL final.........better them than the bunch of Knights rejects* *for those who don't know, the Melbourne Storm were created mostly from ex-Hunter Mariners players after Super League collapsed in 1998 **The only thing Newcastle hates more than Manly is traitors

EVERY car (and I mean every) will develop it's own little quirks over it's operating life. Most will get some kind of rattle or squeak somewhere. Just accept it, it's part of the game. Ever since the Koreans introduced the $13,990 drive away no more to pay deal, build quality in cars (bar the odd Lexus and BMW) has gone down the toilet. If you want to live with it, call it character. My 26 year old KE55 has a whole heap of creaks and squeaks coming from the dash, but thats part of what makes it so fun to drive. The AE102 has fortunately escaped the squeak demon, but I have no reservations as to whether one will develop in the near future.

..................... Ooops* *Not that I follow AFL much apart from St Kilda (don't ask me why, I just like them), I watched the last half hour of the AFL grand final and it reminded me of the A-league grand final last year: 6 - 0 in the most one-sided grand final I've ever seen. Sometimes I wonder how much some teams prepare for the grand final, and whether or not they actually deserve to be there. The last two AFL grand finals have been one by only 1 point, and whilst I hate the Swans the result obviously goes to show that the two teams were very evenly matched, and either would have been deserving of the trophy if they had won it

When I was over in Adelaide for the Uni games back in 2002, the public transport system kicked major ***** compared to Sydney's inefficient crowded mess. Buses on major routes every 15 minutes, combined bus/tram/rail network ticketing system, bus routes covering major arterial roads (more a result of the design of the city, but still good) Hell, even Sydney's public transport system is better than Newcastle's. We have 2 train lines - one southwest, one northwest. Only on a few bus routes do the buses run more frequently than once an hour. The buses are ALWAYS late. There aren't enough buses on the major routes around school times, so you end up sharing the bus with 50 loud and sweaty school kids. Bus prices have risen more than 50% in the last 5 years. Thank *** I don't catch the bus to uni any more, I'd be forced to shoot myself

You'll also notice they do their tests with 2 people in the car, plus a full tank of fuel. That adds an extra 100kg or so to the mass of the car, which equals about 10%. So seeing an increase of roughly half a second isn't at all surprising

It comes up as new posts even when there aren't any, because people will have voted in the poll without posting.

Unless it was a wagon, EAs had coil-sprung rear ends. It was still a live axle, but without the cart springs

I'd be guessing because the internal structure of the word is similar to normal, which is the opposite to problem and thus throws your brain out

Yes, the AE82 has IRS. In fact, all FWD Corollas up until the AE112 had IRS, then they switched to the torsion beam.

I know, it's been a whole 2 days...

The pipe is be a breather hose for the cam-cover. Part of the emissions control package on many cars since the early 80s. It can be removed (and blocked off), but a better option is to re-route the pipe to a oil catch can, which will filter out the oil in the mist and return relatively clean air back to the intake.

Oh trust me I know that, Merewether High students have some of the highest rates of depression in the state. Fortunately, I managed to avoid that. I also stopped being naive in year 8 (one of my best moves, in hindsight), which greatly altered my outlook on things If you're implying that i'm naive, then you're right. It must be a public school-boy trait =) From the sounds of things, you have a personal story attached to the passage in question. why don't you share so as others will not be suckered into believing that which you are so strongly against? (Instead of just patronising all those that comment on this thread) No, I'm not implying that you're naive. Whether you are or aren't is to be decided by yourself (kinda like sexuality, but without the gay-ness). And no, I don't have a personal story attached to the OP's passage. I just am annoyed at his numerous posting of things which have debatable contribution towards a forum based on car ownership and modification, and is mostly just re-posts of other websites, spam emails or long-busted urban legends, with little or no personal opinion attached to it. This has been raised recently in another thread. In addition, he starts a thread and then rarely returns to post in it. According to his profile, he's made 51 topics and only 77 posts. Since each of those topics counts as a post, that is a grand total of 16 posts that aren't topics, and a good portion of those were in the 9/11 conspiracy thread This is no disrespect to Alberto as a person. For all I know, he's a great guy, but he's a lousy forum-er

Oh trust me I know that, Merewether High students have some of the highest rates of depression in the state. Fortunately, I managed to avoid that. I also stopped being naive in year 8 (one of my best moves, in hindsight), which greatly altered my outlook on things

Your such a negative person, did you get bullied in school? I'm not negative, just a realist. I've been around the world a few times (both physically and metaphorically) so I've seen and heard a lot of things, and I've done a lot of reading. Things like this (and in fact a lot of what Alberto posts) irritate me because they seem oblivious to the fact that it's incredibly old news (or not even news, such as an urban legend that has long been proven false), that probably everyone with a Hotmail address has had forwarded to them sometime in the last 5-10 years. And no, I didn't get bullied. One of the advantages of going to an academically selective high school.