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I have Bridgestone Potenza GIII 215/45/17 & on Enkei RP03 Light weight forged rims. I think these tyres are excellent. On top of giving good grip wet & dry they wear very well. They may be twice as much as cheaper tyres but they last twice as long & give better grip. Also, if you are serious about performance then your wheel choice is just as important as your tyre choice. My suggestion is you find the lightest wheel you can in the style you like & if you can afford it I would buy forged rims over cast. I also think that a race style rim looks far better on the Corolla than any type of Bling Bling rim. Chromies only really suit expensive Euro's done in Pimp Style. Rims are very personnal choice for your vehicle & everyone has there own idea of what looks cool.

Are you serious, I didn't realise that your car had to do the quarter mile in a certain time before I could put light weight race rims on my car. Here I was thinking that if I lightened my car than maybe I would get a bit better performance, maybe the secret to better performance is putting a 6" canon out the back of my car & then weighing it down with a whole bunch of doof doof gear. Or maybe I should spend $100 dollars on spark plugs, now that's the way to increase performance Can you tell me how fast I have to be before I can use race style rims. If I'm not fast enough I will have to sell my rims.

dat was me grahame, as we where waiting to turn right at the traffic lights, i realized i ddint have my license with me and when i saw the cops coming i got out of the convoy and just turned right into villawood and the cops were also dooing the breath test , every single time i get pulled over i get asked for my license, didnt wanna get fined and ****.... :( Cool, maybe next time. The weather turned ordinary anyway. By the way your exhuast sounds pretty dam cool, what kind is it? I want to try & get a thread going that is just soundbites of different brands of exhausts to help people with their decision when they are making a purchase.

dammit .. ok .. working on the links now .. I was following pete ...but some of the lead guys went way too fast ahead .. obviously red lights split the group .. and then the RBT which we all slowed down for .. then there were no other rollas to be seen ... We saw KT HAHA for a bit and we lost him too .. I think some ppl got a got too eager and took off without thinkin of the others who didnt know how to get there .. but glad you guys had a good drive .. and was great to put some face to the names ! Bill - We should have followed you .. rather than the lead group .. we might have made it there So bill thats the story! everyone took off i could see bill doing like 120 in a 80 zone lol! cops everywhere the last thing we wanted was to be pulled over on a sat night. You guys must wait up for the 93kw! :) no but seriously if you can see some guys getting trapped at a traffic light slow down. Im not familiar with the area and so i dont know what to type into the sat. LOL! yeah you meant to wait! :) not but everyone just took off! we got stuck at traffic lights and no one waited! cops all over ! Sorry Corzza, we did wait for about 10 minutes just on the other side of the mecano set. Me, Bill, Dennis & Sunny. I guess this just shows why we need radio's cause it's quite difficult to lead a convoy of 15+ cars. I thought everyone was behind me as I was leading & I was going pretty slow. I did take of from the lights at Bunning quickly but only so as many cars as possible would make it through the lights & then I slowed right down in the left hand lane. One Black Corolla went flying past me, not sure who it was but they turned right just after the bridge & didn't stay with the cruise. Other than this mishap the meet was great. It was good to see some new faces. Would anyone be interested in a daytime meet for a photo session at the Toyota head office. If people show enough interest I may be able to arrange this. Maybe we should meet up before going to the TOYMOD meet so we all can ROLL in together, what do you think

The Sportivo was the first factory performance Corolla available in Australia since the demise of the AE92 GTi which was 13 years ago. I wonder if we will have to wait another 13 years for another performace Corolla, I sure hope not.

If you are confident that it is not the Disc than I would just take it back to Toyota. I hope someone has some good advice for you. :D :D

How many KM's has the car done? Is it still under ner car warranty? You may need to get you disc machined.

Hey Corzza, I think the new model is actually imported out of South Africa just like the Sportivo.

My mate at work drove that car and was pretty disappointed with the lack of low-end power. He owns an Astra Turbo incidently. So Darren's driven the Supercharged T Sport ? Yes at Higashi-Fuji, as well as the Echo Turbo. [/quote Just wondering how your friend was able to drive a Supercharged T-Sport Corolla in Japan if they were only availbale in Europe???? Also I believe but could be wrong but the Compressor T-Sport has 230NM of Torque compared to the Astra's 250NM, not a huge difference. Many people including Journo's have said the Sportivo lacks bottom end, yet no one says this about the 1zz motors & they have less torque than the Stivo. I also think this comment is blown out or proportion because when you a driving your car hard the Rev's will be high not low & this is were the 2zz comes into its own.

And it also handles like a corolla could only ever dream about. How was it on Top Gear when the bloody thing had so much grip and chasis rigidity that it was lifting wheels as he through it around. Have to wait to see the price though! Replacing the family car SP23 with it has crossed my mind a couple of times! Approximately $37k + onroad as quoted in Motor Magazine and Melbourne City Ford when I asked them. Confirmed pricing at 9Feb Melbourne Motor Show when its officially launched. I have a friend who is a Fleet Manager for Ford & he told me that there have been reliablity issue with the Focus in general & he also said that they aren't selling very well. Maybe this might change with the introduction of the XR5. Ford are hoping for alot from this vehicle as the last performance Focus was a flop even though Motor Journo's raved about it. Top Gear is a great show but very biased. Remember that the Focus is the biggest selling small car in the U.K. If you alrrady have an SP23 than maybe you should consider the new Turbo AWD version. This would be a great car if Mazda end up bring it to Australia.

Hey SyxXPaC, I got rid of my Astra SRI to buy my Sportivo. I had my Astra for 3 years from new & did 60 000km's in it so I feel I've had good experience to form an opinion on these cars. Nice to look at. I hope your mate shows up at the meet, it would be good to talk to him about his experience with car

SCION is a range of Toyota vehicles distributed currenlty in the USA only, they are marketed towards the 18-30 yr old age group. Try logging on to Toyota USA website They are hugely popular with TUNER's over there with whole cars shows dedicated to just SCION. There is 2 door coupe in the range that runs the 2.4 litre from the Camry. WARNING - They are strange looking cars in standard form but the Americans love em & I have seen many modded examples that are pretty cool.

Hey Sunny In my experience Extractors don't do much Years ago myself & a friend both owned 92 Corolla GTi's. Both Cars had tha same exhaust but my friend had TRD extractors. Many times we would line up at the lights and 90% of the time my car would pull away even though my friend was a far better driver than me (weekend club racer - AE86 with heavliy worked 20V motor, car absolutly flew, but thats a story for another day). This has lead me to believe the amount of money it cost to buy them is not worth the gain. Another thing I didn't like was that it changed the sound of the exhaust. It went from a nice bass full tone to a real tinny sound. I suppose a polised set does "LOOK" good in the engine bay. It would be interesting to know if anyone out there can prove this wrong by a dyno comparison

That's right, soon there will be no more Celica or MR-S either. As well as this there will be no more V6 Camry when the new model arrive's shortly, only the 2.4 Litre 4 Cylinder that is currenlty availble. The V6 will be used in the Avalon & RAV4 only when the new models arrive later in the year. This means that Toyota will have nothing even remotely sporty for some time. I have heard rumor that the 2.4 will fit in the new model but this is only a rumor. If you drive past the Toyota Australia Office in Sydney you can see in the showroom that they have some "SCION" models on display. Maybe, just maybe they might start producing these in right hand drive for our market but I doubt it. Once again this is probably to expensive. So much for shedding their "CARDIGAN" image. If I could only afford the IS250, now that's a sexy looking machine. B) B)

This is not true, I work at TMCA and the news is that the other rollas wern't selling as expected due to the high sales of the Sportivo over the last 3 yrs. There will be a new Sportivo released in Aus but theres no word on when, I'll keep yas informed. I have been told that this is TRUE by my Dad who also works for TMCA. The Sportivo will not be available in any market except for Japan as it does not meet EURO III emision standards which come into effect this year. Toyota are not willing to spend the money on the re-devlopment of the 2zz motor to meet the new standards as the Celica will be scratched also & therefore demand does not justify the expense. To say that the other Rolla's haven't met sales expectations is incorrect. Perhaps you should take a look at the figures for the last year of car sales & you will see that the Corolla is the NUMBER ONE selling Toyota in the country, Sportivo's are only a very small portion of these sales. How can being NUMBER ONE not meet their expectation considering Toyota had their biggest year ever in this country. TOYOTA SALES FOR 2005 - 202817 NEW CARS, with the Corolla being the number one selling vehicle for Toyota, 46415 for the year. Thats an average of 3868 Corolla's a month. I don't have the figures in front of me but less than 100 of these a month would be Sportivo's. Also, there are no plans for a new Sportivo at present, If the decision is made to introduce a new sports Corolla & give it a Sportivo nameplate it will not have a 2zz powerplant. Also, for anyone that thinks we will get the Compressor, they are wrong. 250 were made in total for the European market only & I'd say they would have sold by now. Even if there were more available, which there isn't I doubt Toyota would bring them in as historically speaking Toyota in Australia have had very little sucess with Supercharged/Turbo vehicles.

I agree with you RUNX, every person I know who has purchased rims through TEMPE has done so because they are trying to save money but they have ended up with trouble. All their rims are copies made in China out of melted down frying pans & they will fit anything to anything without concern for legality issues.

Toyota Australia hold parts for 10 years which is Australian law, so ther will be no problem getting parts for a while yet. Also I have owned 2 Japanese Levins & 2 Sportivo's & as far as build quality is concerned the Levin wins hands down. Having said that a standard Levin does not compare with a Sportivo for drivabilty & I'm sorry but I dont care how much work has been done to any Levin without a Turbo it will not keep up with a Sportivo. It's like comparing a RX Impreza with a WRX. As far as the booster body kit goes, dont bother it looks like a K-MART kit, don't mean to offend but seriously. Try looking at the GIALLA kit or C-ONE, so much more stylish. Also a limited number of Sportivo's does not increase the value of the car, this vehicle is not a collector's item & will be forgotten by most people with the next couple of years.

There was a story in Autosalon car mag with dyno figures after fitting. I can scan it for you if want to read it. that would be great man if it is all possibe :) Come to one of our monthly meets. There you will meet "RUNX" who owns the car you are talking about. I'm sure he'll tell you all about it.

Flash them the bird instead, dum S$%T's should be looking at the raod in front of them not your headlights

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Thanks CORZZA, its not a very loud system but it has a nice note which is exactly what I was looking for. I was impressed the system you have put on your Rolla. I think it sounds awesome. It would be great to get a permanent thread going that was just sundbites or videos of various different exhaust. This would help anyone who was looking at buying one.

those 250 units were sold only the in the UK I'm mean't to say the U.K. only, my bad. But what I said about the 300 units of normal Sportivo's is true. Corolla's in general are selling very well at the moment but I'm sure that there would still be some Sportivo's left & I'm sure Dealers would not want to hang onto them as they are plated 05 not 06. One funny thing about it is that everyone of them had there gear knob stolen while they were on the wharf. What kind of stupid person steals a gear knob that probably only fits on a handful of cars anyway. Goodluck trying to sell them. 250 Compressor Units to the U.K. and..... :D Compressor also sold in Germany. http://de.toyota.ch/about/news/about_news_...ssor_050114.asp :D and in the Neatherlands. http://www.toyota.nl/nieuws/nieuws_09.asp ; http://www.toyota.nl/showroom/corolla/comp...essor/index.asp ..............and other parts of Europe. I appreciate the information Either way we will never see it here & that's the point I was trying to make as some people thnk that we will.

All Remus Muffler's come complete with a flange that is designed to suit the standard piping for each specific car. CES use custom mandrel bent piping with a larger diameter than standard. having said that the pipe on the Sportivo models is 2.25" which is very large for a standard car with 1.8L engine hence why most of the pwer gain comes from using a free flow muffler. CES use 2.5" as far as know so it is only a tine bit larger than standard, I'm sure someone will let me know if I'm wrong. Remus Muffler expect to pay upwards of $850 fitted. CES expect to pay $1100 for cat back system fitted.

Thats right, we meet at McDonalds at Villawood, usually on the last Saturday night of each month but keep an eye on that particuar thread for any changes. Hopefully you can come along & meet the fella's. :D :D

CES stands for Custom Exhaust Systems which is the name of a campany that has it head office here in the state of Queensland. They have been proven many times to give some gain in HP. If you wanted one you would have to ship it over. If you do a search onb CES I'm sure you will find were someone has posted a link to there site along with many user comments. Also, I don't think headers are available through them as yet but I think they are working on a design. There are many different types of Coilover units available that will fit the Corolla. I believe some people have TEIN's but they are very expensive. Another good brand that several people are using is CUSCO. Spend some time looking in the Garage if you want a better idea of different brands that are available. There is a member on the Forum, goes by the title "DANZ". I think he has just had some coilovers fittted. Try sending him a PM as he seems to have a lot of knowledge on Suspension Tuning as well as other topics. Also, there are no projector headlights available for the Corolla, except for the American Version. You can get the JDM style headlights that have a black tint in the lense. Try looking on the C-ONE website, they have some decent pictures. Sorry to hear about the problems you have had with your Remus. My Father has had a system fitted to his GEN3 V8 for almost 4 years without any kinds of problems. He lives across the road from the beach but has had no problems with rust. Mind you his car spends a lot of time in the Garage.