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Rollaclub as well would be a good place, there's a bunch of T18 owners there and heaps of xE7xs too.

Exactly. Besides, believe it or not there are actually benefits to having FWD in a modern family hack - space, fuel economy, and price. 3 of THE biggest factors that most people would consider when buying a car.

And why do you say that?

Ironically, considering how much time I spend on the forums at work, the one post that I make that is actually relevant to my work comes at 10pm at night when I'm at home :P I should add however, that the main exception to the above rule is for shoulder bolts - they can generally be run down to clearances of 0.1-0.5mm as they are designed for shear loadings.

^This. Try and find one that the dealerships use too, since you can often organise to catch them on the way back from another job (as they're always out and about fixing up f*ckups from apprentices) and thus avoid the call-out fee... We get thread repair guys to my dealership all the time, unfortunately u will still have to pay call out fee.. Getting bolts out and repairing threads puts food on his table for his kids ! I must have jagged a good one then. Snapped a bolt on the water outlet on the end of the head on a 4AGE, thread doctor who works for the dealerships in the area came by on the way home from a run, drilled out the old bolt (with a wonderful 90-degree drill, which was awesome considering it'd be next to impossible to get a standard cordless into the area), bored and heli-coiled the bottom hole and re-tapped the top hole, all for a measly $70 including labour, which would have been about 1/2-3/4hr.

Obviously April has only just begun, but any plans for this month's EOMM? Toymods Dyno Day is on the 29th, so maybe join in with that? Or if it's just a normal Saturday night then I might make an appearance and crash at my brother's place

The whole "hole is 2-3mm bigger than the bolt, the world is going to end" malarkey is a right laugh. Standard industry-wide (I'm talking all industry here, from cars to mining to construction) clearance hole for a bolt is generally ~2mm larger in diameter, so an M10 bolt goes into a 12mm hole, M16 into an 18mm hole, M24 into a 26mm hole etc and so on. Bolts generate clamping force and are strong in tensile loading, they are not designed to have shear loads placed on them (especially not on the threads), thus the holes have to be oversize, and why torque values are important (because the torque value is what generates the clamping force, which in turn generates the frictional force which resists shear loadings.

^This. Try and find one that the dealerships use too, since you can often organise to catch them on the way back from another job (as they're always out and about fixing up f*ckups from apprentices) and thus avoid the call-out fee...

Still got this guys, really keen to get rid of this in the next couple of weeks otherwise it's going to the wreckers

Considering it isn't always the last 3 numbers of the VIN (and it is user-changeable, too), they generally have to do more than just "type in the code"

Actually, if you look at the last photo you'll see it's auto anyway.... Wouldn't be the first time that a dealership has stuffed up a Carsales ad, I see them all the time where they are listed as the wrong model or even the rego doesn't correspond with the photos (ie it's a different car.....)

Any interstaters booked accommodation yet? Or are we all waiting for the big update?

Trolls and/or n00bs

If you want a bit of a boost you can keep the standard airbox but remove the snorkel and resonator and run a bit of flexible pipe through the hole in the guard to the airbox

I certainly hope that's a typo, 7As need 2" minimum, if not 2 1/4". As for the intake, either drop a K&N panel filter into the stock airbox, or get a pipe made up to house a pod filter behind the front bumper (there's a hole just behind and underneath the battery). Since you've got a Levin you've probably got the foglights, in which case you might be able to remove the cover next to the light to act as a duct. Here's what the setup would look like (note it's an AE102, but they share essentially the same chassis as the 112s) The pod is circled in red.

Rubbish! There is an Australian company that makes one of, if not the most powerful ECU's on the market...Much better customer service and support too. However that is not the discussion... Not sure if this was a trolling/sarcastic line, but both Haltech and MoTec _are_ Australian.....

And for the young-uns amongst us, that road is actually the old Pacific Highway, traditionally called the Buladelah Bends (they've bypassed it now fortunately, used to be one of the major bottle-necks heading north for holidays).

You do realise that ~2/3rds of the Camrys and Aurions made at Altona are LHD and exported overseas, mostly to the Middle East...... So maybe my mechanic was right after all haha. Possibly, but Toyota always brag on about how the cars sold here are tuned for Australian conditions, so I'd be very surprised if they went to that extent but forgot to set the car up for RHD from the factory....

You do realise that ~2/3rds of the Camrys and Aurions made at Altona are LHD and exported overseas, mostly to the Middle East......

Oooh, shiny... Beginning of bonus-money spending, will be doing the dumps in the next few weeks, hopefully in time for dyno day (if not, then drag night in August)

No, NSW P-platers run on a different system.

This is one of the times when ToyoDIY falls down. 04125-YZZA1 is indeed a genuine Toyota part number and is the replacement for the 04152-31090. ToyoDIY isn't always up to date with superceded numbers, nor does it always list every single regional option/difference. A quick google search will come up with tonnes of references to YZZA1s (and other Toyota filters with similar part numbers).

Buy a genuine Toyota oil filter removal tool, and never have to worry about stuck oil filters or bruised knuckles again. Heaps better than any strap, ratchet or claw-type tool you can get from Supercrap/Repco etc.

China drive on the right hand side of the road (and thus have LHD cars). Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau are all Chinese territories, although Hong Kong is former British Empire and drives on the left (RHD) (same with Macau, except it was Portuguese) thus has a mixture of LHD and RHD cars on the road since they only became part of China in the late '90s. Even though Taiwan is a former Japanese colony, they became a Chinese territory back in the 40s and swapped sides then, so the cars are completely LHD now.

He already has those :P