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steve139: tell how you go with the problem. if it get's fixed or not...or any hassles and that.

:D

i'm hoping today will be my last day at work....

thus, i'll be able to meet up with you, BlackRolla, on wednesday or thurs or fri.

job still on?

Nah..don't put..."Leave me alone, running in"....

instead put...

"Running in...i'll kick your ***** later!" :D

Is there anyone out there that HAS NOT had ANY troubles with their stivo?

Nothing what so ever?

or is everyone single one problematic?

i've got this feeling that....maybe...toyota didn't put enough R&D into the car...and just slapped it all together..and hoped for the best?

$650!!!!!!!!!!!!! FARK ME!

that's really expensive.

How much did it lower the car? You're not scraping or anything over speed humps?

Where are these springs from? Japan? Europe? Australian?

Always use SYNTHETIC...

i always do the 5,000km services...and always use synthetic...

sure it's a little costly..but it's peace of mind for me :D

Yep. K&N have a panel filter for the celica and stivo and the normal corolla.

arount $120-$130.

i bought one before..but then asked for a refund...

why?

coz it do much in terms of increasing performance.

made the car run smoother and a bit of induction noise...

BUT....BUT....

Because they're an OIL based filter...the residual oil ends up forming around the HOT WIRE....(it's the wire that detects air flow...blah blah..)

and just before you turn off your car..the wire goes RED hot to burn off any dirt/muk on it. but....OIL??? when you heat up oil...things get hotter and hotter...right?

Well...that means that it will eventually BURN out the HOT WIRE..thus....one day..you may be driving along...and then you're car LEANS out or something....

BANG!!! BYE BYE ENGINE!

That's why i've just stuck with the stock filter..and it does the BEST filtration job..as well as still providing sufficient air flow..

I've even got the dyno charts to prove that the filter didn't do much at all.

not even 1 kw.... <_<

-tj

yep! a bloody rip off!

i called up before and they're asking for like....$120+ just for the eyelids.

i think i'll just make them myself. :P

Was heading from blacktown towards kellyille...going through Norwest Business Park....

you all know that it's hilly and a little curvy...and a poo load of round abouts.

Here i am following a 89-92 corolla (not sure what it had under the bonnet...had exhaust and that..).....

right lane...i move to the right and get up close....he's up close to the person in front. i can see he's gonna give me a run for my money. :)

he changes to the left...coz the guy in front was like...going REALLY slow....so was the guy in the left lane..but seems a little faster than the guy on the right....Anyways...as soon as he changed..the slow right finally got some speed going down hill.

There's my chance. i downshift and get behind the slow guy..and change lanes to get infront of the slow left guy. the old corolla follows suit.

we approach a round about...and i downshift and manuvour around the round about with enough speed to make him have to give it some to keep up.

i'm lookin my rear view..he guns it...and to my shock...as he exits the round about....his back end steps out...and for a second there i thought he was going to spin..but he ended up facing the kerb..and then straightened up.

i was like.......WTF?!?! they aren't rear wheel drive?!?!? are they?

all over.....after that..he didn't even try to catch up...i think he was doing 50km after that.

Guess he doesn't know his car very well....or just can't drive. :D

sure takin long to upload a 7mb movie.

my 56.6k modem would've done it by now... :P

220km/hr in 5th?!?!??!?!?!?

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what ya think you'll get in 6th? :o

if you open ur bonnet and check under the hood...you'll see a sticker with the engine model on it. eg: 2zz or 1zz.

read that and it should tell you what the car is suppose to idle at when it's WARM.

my car when cold sits pretty high and gradually drops to the manufacture's 700rpm idle spec.

what does it say for the 2zz? (i don't have one yet, so i don't know..yet )

second that!

*breathe in* phew....

*breathe out* ahhh....

*brethe in* phew....

*breathe out* ahhh....

rattles in dash? gear selector cable? noise whilst reversing....

what else is going wrong with the stivo's??????

Are all the stivo's having these problems?

I'm really concerned as to whether or not i get a lemon when my car is delivered now... :(

Did putting an exhaust on the stivo make a difference?

i looked under the stivo before..and it looks fairly big actually.

i've got a 2 1/4" system..and the stivo one looks just as big, if not bigger.

so...make any difference in performance?

i ain't got nothing on right now.

wanna meet for at least an hour or so?

count me in! :D

if i don't have my stivo, i'll be there with the levin.

Just a thought...where do you guys access this forum from?

Home? Office? Work? Mobile?

No offence taken. :)

I'm a good loser! but i never give up...i'll keep trying and get spanked everytime. but i don't care, coz i know i'm learning and getting better each time...well...as much as physically possible.

Anyone care to have a race? I wanna see how a stivo goes against my car.

i'm in the kellyville area.

pm me if you want.

"job's on!"

Great story! =)

Although, i too own a Levin..well....soon i won't be as i will have a stivo soon.

is there really a big difference in terms of performance?

coz the levin is over 100kg lighter...and the powerband is more wider.

like...how much did you get infront of him?

(RACE ME! i don't care if i loose, just as long as i know how much better the stivo is to my levin!!)

'bring it on!'

okay!

i GIVE IN!!! :o

"show me the movie!!!!" :P

he's being slack! hehehee...

he's waiting to see how long it'll take for us to crack before we start begging.. aye? :P

where is it?