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All sportivo's were built in SA. Only Runx's were built in Japan from what i understand. All 1ZZ's were also built in Japan as well. Anybody clarify this?? Are you comparing a Sportivo to a 1ZZ??

Certainly nowhere near the neatest welds I've seen...

Lets say that I have mentioned it to some people in the know who are investigatiing the idea..... If it goes ahead the Brissy peeps may have a new meet up place undercover all the time....................................

Front bar, front guards,mirrors and bonnet are the difference on the front. the rear is simply tail lights.

The first thing you really need is qualified staff. Qualified mechanic with reasonable experience not an engine reconditioner as well as qualified fitter/turner for fabrication these days is a must. Not picking on your ability but have seen soo many businesses with good intentions fail simply cause people these days want a guarantee that what you do to their car is done by someone qualified and is done by someone with considerable experience. I hear the whinges from people all the time about the prices some businesses charge for their products/services. Those businesses in particular have the staff with qualifications and vast experience as well as have built up a quality reputation for their products/services. You cannot put a price on someone's experience in a trade and all the knowledge you gather along the way. You don't give that sort of info away for free!!!! This doesn't happen overnight so you cannot say that you will charge more for you services in the beginning because you have worked on toyota's and own them. You have to start off with competitive prices and be realistic and take whatever work comes past your door. I've run my own business in the past and built something from absolutely nothing in a short space of time. Once I had a good reputation(took me about 12 months) I started to get the continual return business from clients who in turn got me business through referrals of the good work I did for them. I cut no corners and basically took on everything I could for the first 1.5 to 2 odd years. By the time I had been going for 4 years I scaled back my advertising as I no longer needed it. Then I could begin to pick and choose what work i wanted to do. My prices were adjusted accordingly and I set myself to work on doing work for a niche of the market place but still kept my mainstream clients. they were the bread and butter and the niche clients are the cream plain and simple. this is where you can begin to make money and improved profits cause you offer something nobody else can. I did all this with only employing the odd casual every now and then so I didn't have the hassle of multiple staff and all the associated costs. Prolly the biggest thing you need to have is a realistic business model and timeframe to do it in. Look at all angles of running a business. I thought it would be fairly easy but I had to learn a hell of a lot as well as there was a lot of things I never even thought about. Also don't forget running your own business doesn't end when your trading hours do. Lots of late nights doing paperwork and business admin certainly changed my mind of running my own business as the freedom to do whatever you want when you can isn't all it is cracked up to be....

Inactive mods mate who aren't on here much anymore or at all who have sold their toyota's and moved onto something else or are now too busy with work or personal life to devote some time to the forum.

Thanks goes to Pete How did your date go with those 7 girls the other night? My vote for best pic yet!! Not to mention the amount of people watching SD do it who also got a good laugh out of it!!

WA guys here is your chance to have a representative on the moderator team of TOCAU. Don't miss the boat cause it mighten be offered again....

Prolly was cold LOL

PM Whitestivo as he has a stock cat back system he is selling from memory.

Got home nice and safely despite the lack of leg room which kinda sucked. Had a great time time in Melbourne despite your infamous weather keeping most of us Qld'ers with multiple layers of clothing on to stay warm and keep the swine flu away LOL Big shout out to Andy for being my guided tour for most of the weekend and answering all of my questions like "what is that building or where are we now"!! Also thanks to Tats for the ride in the Chaser luxobarge for a rather comfortable and non eventfull drive on sunday. Thanks to whitestivo and superdave for a great weekend also. Plenty of stories and funny stuff we got up to over the weekend as well!! Bring on the pics and videos......

Got k sports installed in my 123 if you want pics. Very happy with them too. Post some pics up of your car mate. I'm sure others would be keen to have a look at them as well!! Q - K Sport are an American company, why would they be manufactured here instead of China or somewhere? My bad on the typo. I meant to put they are made for Aus spec cars and produced in Taiwan. Fingers have a mind of their own LOL. If someone wants some for a ZRE152 then If you give me the measurements they require they will make them for you through my supplier. Newbies sheesh!!

Won't be out this week due to packing for national meet and organising a heap of stuff. Will be out next week with stories to tell about the goings on of the national meet weekend in Melbourne!!!

Turkish GP Team: Brawn Drivers: Button, Barrichello Pole: Button Fastest: Button

Tats sounds like a deal I can't knock back. I'm there. Jaderd sorry mate I forgot about this offer from a while ago. i am bringing some warm clothes after looking at the weather forecast for the weekend. monday min 7 max 14 and stiff breeze!! Whats this *******??? :o :o I'm detailing cars at 7:30am in the morning with the temps around 15deg and getting to about 24deg during the day and getting sunburnt last saturday. Guess there is no chance of that happening this weekend LOL Qld'ers we ain't in paradise no more lol but nonetheless we are going to be in Melbounre for a good time not a long time :P

BKS you right to pick me and superdave up from the airport friday night 9:20pm?? SD arrives 20 mins laterish. BKs you want to pick me up for saturday show and shine? that way we can sort some stuff out re show if you wish. Jared front seat available?? I'll take it. I unfortunately find it very hard to sit in the rear of cars with my crappy back and dud knee for any length of time net alone a whole dayish.

guys lets tone it down before I have to step in and hand out some free non posting holidays........

will be out this week tiddly winks

IMO save ur money and get coilovers... theres a crap load in japan if u no where to look i found some very good coilovers for the zre152 :) A lot of cheap crap so be wary as well....

OOHHHH YEAH I FINALLY WON A ROUND AND BEAT THE DAVE'S LOL( IN CAPS FOR THE EXCITEMENT FACTOR LOL)

Cheers boys and easy on the old codger young buck. Plenty of fight left in me yet LOL

Somebody is having a birthday today........

Not a bad idea. Will persue it with the mod team.

I'm not suggesting that someone drive from sydney to Brissy to do it but if everyone who is intereested emailed CES with an expression interest then it wouldn't take too long for Trevor to find a car to finsh them off. But if nobody wants one then his isn't going to waste his time and resources producing something that isn't going to sell.

nice job on getting the dealership BKS. Much nicer to have shelter in case of rain plus amenities for everyone as well.