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He means the Euros get electic-assisted power-steering rather than hydraulic, thus no need for a power-steering pump

Doesn't direct injection get around a lot of the problems of high compression turbo motors?

With a hammer?

I'm more worried about One Direction playing on the stereo....

My guess is that the 5W30/0W30 is for colder climates like Japan (where it would have been manufactured), and Toyota Australia bumped the rating up to 10W30 for our warmer environs. Definitely not uncommon for world-wide cars to have different oil specs in different countries

That's a nice bit of ammo to use against the people who constantly whinged that it would never be $30k...

I want that !! You're mistaking km/L for L/100km

They're rare because they weren't sold here...closest we got was the 75 'cruiser and the SWB Bundera (that Prado is the LWB version of the Bundera)

Isn't the frame number normally recorded on the build plate anyway? I know on the Soarer it is.

Well that's bull****, I've seen plenty of alloy heads (which is just about every engine for the last 30 years when you talk about Japanese cars) running green coolant. As long as you change the coolant regularly (like every 2 years or so) you won't have a problem with corrosion with green coolant. Red coolants are generally longer-life, but it's not like you can only use one of them in alloy engines.

Thursday night, it's a good 10 hour drive with stops so doing a midnight run makes sense, gets us down to Melbourne Friday morning with little traffic and time to rest-up before the Friday night meet.

What you're probably seeing is the cheap crappy fog/driving light mounts you can buy from Supercheap that mount to your number plate, look like a nudge-bar but provide no protection whatsoever. Nothing Toyota-specific there.

I should be down for another midnight special, probably get down to Sydney earlier and crash for a couple of hours

First car you own or first car you've driven? I hope you're not still on your Ps or the like, otherwise this entire topic is most likely useless.

TRD Hilux isn't a turbo-diesel though...so have priorities changed then?

GOR cruise does sound good, although it would mean finding accommodation for another night, plus would make 3 solid days of driving (including the 12 hour trip home) in a row...

Oh the irony that F1 cars don't actually have brake lights....

I don't

Don't use a particular engine just because you can get one for cheap/got one lying out the back of the shed/mate sold me one for a case of beer. The money you might save in buying the engine will be mere pocket change in comparison to the costs of trying to marry up an engine, gearbox and drivetrain from a completely different MAKE of car, let alone model. As everyone else has said, something like a 1GGTE would be a much wiser swap, plenty of people have done them successfully in the past and they put out good enough numbers to keep you satisfied (and if you're not satisfied with that kind of power, then chances are you wouldn't be doing a conversion on a Corona in the first place).

GTi AE92 doesn't sound right. AE93 perhaps? Very early SXs were AE92 but later ones and all GTis were 93

Mmmm, Supertouring Caltex Seca....

Probably went well up top, but like a dog down low. Restrictions in the intake tend to improve low-down torque at the expense of top-end power and breathing. And technically there is no such thing as too much flow in an intake - the engine draws in as much air as it needs, unless you are physically forcing extra air in (either via a turbo, supercharger or a proper ram-air setup) you can't "saturate" the engine. A big-enough restriction can prevent the engine from drawing enough air in, however.