SuperDave

There is no difference between the brakes on the pre and post facelift sportivos. There were different size brakes on the Europe corolla t-sports. There is also a different pad shape on the front between the 1zz and 2zz powered corollas. What part number was on the box or on the pad itself? I've had the wrong parts in boxes before.

The extra octane over what the car is tuned for is wasted money. Don't believe the marketing hype. Octane doesn't mean more power or more economy unless the ECU is retuned to suit. Modern cars already run close to stoichiometric to get good fuel consumption figures. The extra octane is only needed if your engine is pinging/knocking. If the car is recommended to run on 95 octane, then putting higher octane fuel in, and paying 20c/L more, isn't going to change a thing.

With the torque spread of the turbo, and the power, the longer gears in the E153 would be better suited than the stock box anyway I would have thought. I don't think the E153 was an option when Bill started building his box.

Do it, you know you want to ;)

Old man silva would know the most about the car. Last I heard it was returned to stock and flogged off. Not sure what happened to the turbo gear; plenty of Brisbane people would have been keen on it and it would have got a good price A shame CES didn't make it into kit for the RHD market, probably would have shifted a couple.

Also note, that the VVT and VVL solenoids are a tight fit, and that they can break easily, so be sure to pull them out square in relation to their home in the head, not the ground. They aren't interchangable either, so don't mix them up. Torque settings from memory are about 10Nm on the 10mm bolts/nuts. It's only aluminium the bolts go into, so be careful not to over tighten and strip the thread.

Just realised future national meets, from 2013 onwards, will most likely have to occur over the Labour Day weekend. Queensland has moved the Queens birthday to the same day as NSW's Labour Day.

I'm now in 100%

Good list of parts. Not going into a Honda is it? :P With the MWR oil pump I strongly recommend pulling it apart and checking the measurements. The last of the circutiworx pumps had dodgy tolerances (I've been told by a reliable source). Since circuitworx doesn't exist any more I'm not sure who is making them for MWR these days, but their website still says circuitworx, so it is confusing.

The USA Corolla has different suspension to ours/Japanese Corollas. You can always get Whiteline/Selbys to custom make the antiroll bar to your specs. Just need to provide them with the bar for a couple of weeks (while driving carefully as the car will become a boat). Would be about the same price once shipping is included. Got our last custom antiroll bar from Selbys, just organised it through Pedders.

If it is raining the event won't be on. Drag events don't run when the track is wet. Real men race in the rain ;)

Drive around the water if you can, ripping a skid on street tyres won't make a difference unless your tyres are dirty. Driving through the water will just put water on the track to slow you and the next couple of cars down. Let air out of the tyres, trial and error will help with how much air you need. But a good starting point would be 25PSI in the front, keep the rears high at about 40PSI to reduce rolling resistance. Beign a test and tune it should matter what your reaction tiems is, so leave the line when you are ready, not straight away, but not 10s later. You can try for reaction times, but the clock doesn't start untill you move anyway. Strip as much weight as you can. Even if that means removing your windscreen wipers and AC (the older Brisbane members will get that joke :P). Drags (at road car power levels) are all about launching and getting into second gear, after that there isn't much to it. So focus on those areas to improve upon.

We'll need some more information. In a straight line, turning left or right? What sort of noise, a squeel, a clunk, a tick, etc. Does the frequency change with speed? Does the steering wheel vibrate, or does the car vibrate?

I just realise I don't own any Ralph Lauren polos. All brand name polos I have are Lacoste and Tommy, but that 'all' is only 4.

Shamelessly stolen from ft86club.com (and rehosted so not to waste their bandwidth). And based on those gear ratios and wheel sizes I calculated the following speeds in each gear and rpm. One dodgy thing I see is; how does a 16" brake rotor fit udner a 17" rim, and likewise for 15" rotor and 16" rim

As yours is a 2zz, based on that year of production, the only proven exhaust manifold mods are porting the stock manifold, or buyign the PPE manifold link"]http://www.ppeengine...egoryId=11]link. All other extractors have been shown to loose power.

Not sure, but I'd guess $300 would be a fair price from a wrecker.

Looks like I'll have to dust off the ps3

Just hold the thought RE Brighton - we are looking into some places that are a bit more north for this year but that's to be confirmed. As soon as we have the venues locked in (hopefully very soon) we'll investigate the accommodation so the interstaters can work out their arrangements/staying together. Missus has been busy looking around (I told her not to and it'll be fine and she insisted I share these). She has come up with the following (I suspect she focused on the st. kilda area). Chevron Green (6 people) $58.35pp/night special till 15th Jan (in 2 days) or normally $77pp/night http://www.stayz.com.au/66804 Langdon of St Kilda (6 people) $67pp/night http://www.stayz.com.au/23923 Rejuvenate on Carlisle (4 people) $45pp/night http://www.stayz.com.au/94326 Warehouse Apartment (4 people) $40pp/night http://www.stayz.com.au/68265 Warwick Apartments (4 people) $30.50pp/night (but 2 sleep in sofa bed) http://www.stayz.com.au/57970

Assuming the tyres are the same, it would still be worse.

A bunch of pictures I took in 2009

I don't mind it so far. It would be nice to be able to hide the righthand side bar thingy, as it takes up 1/3 of the screen. The top menu bar is nifty and would have some good code in it, but again it would be nice to have the option to not have it auto pin to the top on scrolling. I just like simple clean layouts; and other than those two minor gripes, I like it more than the previous layout. Good stuff Steve.

The only vacuum pipe that needs to be blocked is the small nipple above the throttle body. It will be obstructed by two larger hoses. Not sure what you have doen with the charcol canister, but it doesn't need to be touched. 87mph isn't down by much, most would be seeing 91-93mph. Try an ECU reset as it can develop strange fuel trims over time. Also put it on a dyno and see what the curve looks like. Don't forget to check the spark plugs, compression, et cetera. Post a pic/scan of your time slip too.

Paying someone to rebuild the box with new synchros would be around the $2k mark with labour. MWR sell new boxes for about $2200, then with shipping and tax makes it about $2900, but no labour in the swap (about $600 at a guess). What oil are you using?

Any plans for on the Monday? Last time I was stuck in town for 8 hours waiting for my flight with nothing open and nothing to do. I'd probably be arriving at 1pm on the Friday. Any takers for a airport pickup :P It's not that hard to get to southern cross station if that makes thigns easier though. I didn't mind that place at Elwood to be honest. Pretty quiet (until TOCA turned up) and some relaxing shops around for breakfast. Might not be a convienient place for the others to meet us though I guess?