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No, it is not illegal to lower your car in NSW (there are limits however). Until there is an official document on the RTA website stating as such (VSI 50 will cover that kind of thing but is still in the draft stage I believe), anything you hear is internet rumour, media exaggeration and general paranoia.

I think the question the OP needs to answer is what is the purpose? Weight saving? Bling factor? Obviously if it is just for looks than a vinyl wrap/sticker is much cheaper and most people won't know the difference (unless you pop the bonnet that is).

I'm sad to see the BBSs go too, LMs are close to my favourite wheels of all time, and the size/offset was just perfect for the ZRE.

TRD logos on non-sport seats make baby Jesus cry...

Doubt it, considering the headers are on the firewall side of a 2ZZGE :P Methinks you mean the intake runners...

400km for some of us :P. Got my work Xmas dinner the night before and a farewell so might be a bit seedy but will aim to be there as usual

ABS is designed for emergency stopping situations when you just slam the brakes on. It is not something you should encounter in normal driving or even on the racetrack, because it means you aren't braking properly. It does not improve your braking. As had been said, threshold braking (where you brake with 99% of available traction so you don't lose grip) will always pull you up faster than ABS which is actually pulsing the brakes on and off to prevent lockups

Word of warning - 91 RON E10 isn't normal 91 RON petrol with 10% ethanol added, it's petrol with 10% ethanol added which bumps it UP to 91 RON. When they first released E10 it was 94-95 RON (based off regular 91, because the ethanol bumps up the octane rating), so if 10% ethanol bumps the RON rating up by 3-4 points then I shudder to think at what crappy brew they use which requires 10% just to get it TO 91 RON. Personally, I avoid the stuff like the plague. You get next to no savings from it (even though it's cheaper, you use more), and on a high-compression engine like a 2ZZ in a Sportivo I'd be using 95 minimum, if not 98 (EDIT - realised too late that the OP means a Camry Sportivo, not a Corolla...). I'd even hazard a guess that the E10-compatible sticker is referring to the old 95 E10, not the new 91 E10 (the system can handle the 10% ethanol content, but not the low RON rating)

Rays Volk TE37s (or copies) by the look of it. Every wheel manufacturer and their dog make an equivalent, it's a very popular knock-off design and originals are worth a fair bit more (but would have stickers etc on the back IDing them).

Fairly sure Toyota didn't start badgind Caldinas as GT4/GT-FOUR until the ST246 in 2002-ish, so I'm guessing it's a GT-T (which is essentially the same running gear as a GT4 Celica) that someone has put badges on. For all I know it could be a TRD version, but the GT4 badge at least is out of place.

Except from 1968 to 1999, when they were built here :P

You need to swap everything over (not just the struts) but it is do-able. I know of a few people who have converted from SS to MacPherson and vice versa

RE002 is simply the replacement for the RE001. If the price difference is just $10 per tyre then definitely go with the RE002, newer tyre both in design and manufacture - a lot of RE001s are going to be run-out stock and could have sat on the shelf for a while, reducing their useful life.

Wish I could have made it down for this, had too much to do and not enough monies (pay day today)

Why do I modify my Corolla? Simple - it was free. Now that I've owned it for long enough I'll probably never sell it, because I've grown attached to it. It won't be big enough for a family car, it's not fast or comfy enough for a tourer or weekend escape, it doesn't have enough aftermarket support to be a full-on track car, but nevertheless I still have grand plans for it. Being my first car as well, there is an emotional attachment to it. However, if my parents had decided to give me their Camry instead, I'd probably still be driving and modding it instead. Context is a wonderful thing...

I bought an OBD2 scanner :( Vehicles manufactured in 1996 or after have OBD2 right? Whereabouts can I find the port? There's one under the hood which says Diagnosis? Paperclip? Thanks for your help! The post-96 ODBII rule is in America - Australia and other parts of the world didn't adopt it until later. The Diagnostics port in the engine bay is exactly that - the diagnostics port. Inside are a bunch of terminals which connect back to certain ports on the ECU. You use a paperclip to bridge specific terminals to set the car into particular diagnostics modes ie to set timing, check error codes, prime the fuel pump etc. It is a basic system which gives you no feed-back (apart from error codes flashing the CEL). You don't get any of the real-time data that you can get from an OBDII system.

The 7A runs OBD 1, all you need is a paperclip

Always fill up when it is cheapest. In saying that, if a full tank lasts you three weeks of normal driving, don't keep topping it up every week as you're just carrying around extra weight that way.

http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/index.php/topic/34840-diy-changing-gearbox-oil/ Note that while that walkthrough is specifically for the ZZE Corollas, the process is essentially the same for any Corolla with a C-series box (which your AE92 will have). Socket sizes and oil quantities may vary slightly, but it'll still help. Also, you should ALWAYS undo the filler plug before draining the oil, this is to prevent you draining the oil first and then finding that the filler plug is jammed and you're left with an empty gearbox and no easy way to fill it. There is no dipstick for the manual transmissions, you simply fill up the oil until it gets to the lip of the filler plug.

wonder how mine will be as a 25 year old car :s Chances are you don't have one, it's really only a late 90s onwards thing...

Me too...but it weighs the same as a Celica and has the same engine and transmission as a Celica(in stock form) so does that mean I drive a 4 door Celica? Once upon a time there even was a Celica Camry....

Anyone else find it ironic that the culture in which cows are sacred is also the primary producer of leather?

You will need the ECU and engine wiring etc from the 4AGE donor car, along with the fuel tank, pump and lines (as EFI tanks are different to carby ones). The rear brakes can stay as drums if you want, but obviously discs are better. In saying all that, the cost of getting a whole 4AGE conversion + brakes + fuel stuff etc isn't that much less than just buying a whole AE92 SX (or buying a whole parts car and just swapping all the good bits over). Complete running registered SXs are only about 2-3 grand these days, and still fairly common.

No-one replied on twincam.org because it is dead - all the main members and contributors have moved to twincam.org.au after the original site got bought out by an American who was only interested in the ad revenue.

Bzzt wrong, being an AE92 it will be a 4AFC, not a 4AC. 4ACs are single-cam, not twincam.