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I have seen 20V EP82 and EP91s, yes.

I prefer the Doomsday Clock myself, much more fun At the moment, it's at 5 minutes to midnight. Closest it ever got was 2 minutes to midnight back in the 60s when the US and Russia did atomic tests within 9 months of each other

Some things I think that need to be cleared up: The Starlet gearbox quite likely to be a C-series, most likely a C50 or C52. These boxes are also attached to Corollas, except the bellhousing is different and kinda not interchangeable without pulling the box apart. However, a Corolla C52 should fit into the same spot that a Starlet C52 does (mounts-wise), but would need to be attached to an A-series engine (eg 4AGE) as opposed to the E-series (eg 5EFE) in the Starlet. This has been done in Starlets before, and is by no way unheard of The S-series on the other hand is a completely different matter. The 3S is a much bigger engine than a 4A, both capacity-wise and dimensions-wise. The gearbox is also different. Most S-series engines have an S-series gearbox attached to them, such as an S54. Starlets never had this box installed in them, thus it is highly unlikely that the mounts will line up, and things like starter-motor etc are very likely to be different to a C-series box.

The funny thing is Rasmussen WASN'T KICKED OUT FOR USING DRUGS. He was kicked out by his team because he wasn't honest about where he was training in the weeks up to the tour. All entrants are supposed to give their whereabouts 3-weeks prior so that drug testing can be organised if necessary. I'm not ruling out that Rasmussen wasn't using drugs, but there has been no claim or charge whatsoever about that. Vinakurov was kicked out by race officials for failing a drug test, Rat was kicked out by HIS TEAM because he lied to them. Very different story

I'll just scan all the pages to do with the engine and ECU anyway, if it's a 95 model then it should be an early model one, 3 pages worth I'll get onto it right away, should be done in around 30 minutes

I've got the ADM AE101-102 Gregory's manual, it's got pretty much the full body wiring diagrams in it, which parts exactly do you need? And is it an early- or late-model AE101? (and is it ADM too, obviously) The engine i'm wiring in is originally from a 95 Holden Nova so it's ADM as far as i can tell. I'm mainly after the engine/ignition page/s. It's all going in an AE80 Hatch which had a 2A-C so the original wiring is there i need to know what to cut and paste into the loom. And i was wondering if the manual has detailed specs for the injectors. I have to setup the megasquirt to run them optimally. The fuel and ignition page is common for both early and late model ones, and the book covers the Nova too (it's the same car, just different badges), so is it just the injectors/spark stuff that you need? I've got the whole book so I might as well do everything in one go. I'll scan the pages up later this morning and send them to you And according to the manual, the injectors are 13.8 ohm resistance, 160-200cc/minute flow rate, hope thats what you need

I've got the ADM AE101-102 Gregory's manual, it's got pretty much the full body wiring diagrams in it, which parts exactly do you need? And is it an early- or late-model AE101? (and is it ADM too, obviously)

Gee, not leaving anything out, are you :P

Thats a conspiracy in the sense that people conspired to kill Caesar, NOT that there was a conspricacy covering up the incident or trying to blame it on other people. Basically every rebellion, coup, uprising, mutiny and takeover in history is classed as a conspiracy. 9/11 did involve some conspiring by the bombers (whoever they are), but what the conspiracy theorists claim is the real conspiracy is the government trying to cover it up and blame it on the Arabs

corolla under $5000... that should be an immaculate condition AE92 or a fair condition AE102... i dont know about the AE102 but i do know that the AE92 actually came with 13" wheels... AE101 CSi models came with 13" wheels and rear drums, all AE102s had 14" wheels and rear discs, easy way to tell them apart without looking under the bonnet

Filter? We're talking about gearbox oil here dude, not engine oil......also, note that this topic didn't have any new posts in it for almost 2 years until you dug it out of its grave

I thought the same thing. http://www.ozeparts.com.au/shopping_r1.asp If that doesn't work go to ozeparts and click some stuff to get the list. Yep, thought it looked familiar...

Went for a drive-past on Friday, place itself doesn't look that flash but then again it's hard to tell unless you go inside, my favourite Jap wreckers in town looks just like a shed on the outside What strikes me as weird though is that I'm sure I've seen the exact list of parts, and the same prices, on another site, which makes me think that they both source their stuff from a common manufacturer/importer

They're not fake rims, just copies. And there's usually nothing wrong with them anyway. I've got a set of 16" Au229s (ie Volk TE37 copies) and they've been fine, weigh the same (with tyres) as my stock 14" steelies, and look the bomb. Plus, they didn't come with the crappy VORK RAVS stickers on them, which I've heard are removable anyway

Damn, forgot there was a Hooker St in Islington, that place is brothel-central. I'll take a drive past it on the way out to uni this arvo, see what it looks like from the outside. Haven't got time to go inside and scope it out though

Coming out of Junction Fair underground car park on the Friday of the QBIII storms/floods, I had water up to the lip of my bonnet (which is also the height of the intake snorkel, fortunately it didn't drown itself, however if I'd had a CAI down in the front guard it would have been completely immersed in water. Later on, I was with my g/f seeing if we could get to her friend's house in Swansea North, by which time was mostly flooded: going down the middle of the road, I could get about 2 streets away before the water got above sill level and I backed out. In both situations if I'd had a pod in the guard, it would have been completey surrounded by water. In this sort of situation, the car won't hydro-lock but it WILL stall, as the engine can't suck in any air through the water. Since manifold vacuum can only reach ~-100kPa gauge (ie -1bar), it's highly unlikely that the engine can "suck" in standing water, but if you plow into it the water CAN flood the inlet and thus flow into the manifold, causing BIG dramas As to whether it can be used again or not, think of it this way: An engine essentially takes a volume of air/fuel, and compresses it to roughly one tenth of it's original volume (N/A cars). Gas is resonably compressible - water isn't. If a piston suddenly swallows a gulp of water at 3000rpm, it stops VERY VERY quickly. This is when things break, such as valves and cranks.

I've had a goatee for about 5 1/2 years now, but every time I grow sideburns they come out really scraggy and crap, and they're a bitch to shave off too. Fortunately I have to not shave for over a week for them to get really bad - just had a shave the other day for the first time since before the storms/floods, and it felt more like cutting grass than shaving.

and how is that a bad thing?? ****s me that we send all our good stuff to the UK and we get nothing in return..... It's not a bad thing, just the original poster was claiming that the creation of the car was due to Opel/Vauxhall etc, where the real credit to most of the car goes to Lotus. And as for sending the good stuff to the UK, we've sent a grand total of some LPG Falcons, and the last of the Monaros. Nothing flash there.

Pity it's basically a re-bodied Lotus Elise, with a GM engine. In fact, it's actually built by Lotus.

AW11 4AGZEs were dogs anyway, they were all AFM and make barely more power than a smallport. Go to a MAP-sensored one out of an AE101, and you get something like 20kw extra at the fly, and a much better engine

Thats what I can remember off the top of my head, pretty sure the other points can and have been rebutted too.

Don't they (maybe RTA/VicRoads) ask you to switch off your car if you are stuck in a jam?? There's even signpost that says that... I think I saw one on the M2... 6mths ago~ Thats to save you petrol, not to prevent damage to your car. As for starting your car without oil in it, most new oil filters have a valve in them to stop the oil draining out when the car is stopped. This way the engine will retain at least some oil to lubricate on startup

Ditto, for every consipracy theory out there there's a counterarguement. It's like the fake moon landing theories, everything they brought up have been demonstably proven as false, yet some fools still believe in it. Then again, there are some people out there that still believe the world is flat And as for Maddox being pro-Bush because he wrote those articles, that has to be the funniest thing I have ever read. Maddox is about as anti-establishment as you can get.

All modern engines bump the revs up when cold. Just let the car warm up a bit before you drive, and you should notice the idle revs drop back down to a normal number, around 800rpm is a decent guide

Black wheels with polished rim FTW