jordan101

so nobody really knows someone who could do it?

Philbey: I'm in coburg but I'd be happy to drive out to ringwood if he can do it. If possible can you PM me his number or would you be able to ask him if it's not too much trouble. In the meantime I'll be looking for welding engineers I may already know of one fingers crossed! Jono.C: I don't have the equipment to do something like that and I'm a fair distance from tasmania haha

Ok, before you guy's start flaming me I'd like to explain myself. I'd like to take my car to a few track days and learn how really drive a car sideways in a safe environment. I'm from the northern suburbs of melbourne and the car ( RT142 corona) will be pulled off rego in a few weeks. I know welded diff's are dodgy and break easily but I'm not about to go and spend big bucks on 2 ways etc at this stage on a first year apprentice wage. I've researched the internet and asked around for people who can actually weld a diff and no luck so would any of you guys know of somebody that can weld my diff in melbourne?

the car revs pretty well it just idles pretty low. It's probably something else but I thought I'd give them injectors a clean and get some new leads before i try anything else. The motor has quite a few K's so I thought i may aswell clean them anyway to get rid of 27 years of gunk in the injectors

My car's got 300+ km's on it, so I'd like to clean the injectors. I don't want to remove them and risk damaging them. I've read a lot about people putting different additives in the tank to help clean them. Just wondering what people on here have tried and results. Pro's and con's of going this route instead of pulling them out. thanks guys Jordan

you guys were right, straight through! Porsche 997 infront of me got knocked back and I passed, he wasn't happy haha

carlton on tuesday morning, but going for my P's the friday before so no car for the weekend

i stood there arguing with the girl behind the counter for 5 mins about my vin number she thought it was wrong and that my mechanic, old rego papers, and my engine bay placards were all wrong! stood there telling her that the chassis number is the vin number for earlier cars. took 2 managers to clear it all up too lol!

RWC is valid for 30 days, my appointment is on march 13 at vicroads where i will need to bring my car in to be inspected, my question is what can i expect them to look at in regards to my car. the car is completely stock except for a sony headunit

I've been told i need togo through the Pits at Vicroads to get rego on my corona as i bought it unregistered. Just wondering if anyone who's been through this before could give me some hints at what they may look at just to help my chances of getting through. Passed RWC less than 2 weeks ago and already fixed all the rust (properly not just bog)

progress has been slow between work and tafe but finally got the RWC done! Replaced bushes, discs, passenger inner rack end and few other little bits and pieces to make the mechanic happy. The front end is still knocking so that's next on my list. I'm going to make a little JDM style lower front lip at tafe from sheet metal and either matte black it or stone guard it just to see how it looks, if it looks shit I just won't use it. I'd like to to get a new head unit and some speakers in it too just need to sus out what i need and where i can put it. Just want run the speakers straight from my head unit don't want an amp. I've also included a picture of some piping i found at bunnings that I may use for a pipe from the airbox to an open air source, comes in 50, 65 and 100mm may just use the 65mm with some sort of filter.

I've got 3 x 5Litre bottles of 20W50 sitting in my garage, you reckon just use that?

@ForzaAE92 i've only owned the car for about 2 weeks and only driven it a few times so don't know how much oil it burns. @Philbey It's a 22R it's got no leaks. the front end is on jack stands at the moment doing the discs and few other things for RWC so i thought that i may aswell change the oil while it's jacked up

I've done some research on the internet but would just like some clarification. My car has 310,000 km's i've read that the thicker the oil the better it is to make up for "play" in worn parts in the motor. I've read of people 10w30 but i've also rad about full synthetic 5w30 being better, what would you blokes recomend?

@KE70dave: haha thats exactly what i was going to do, just couldn't decide on what diameter pipe to go for? 50mm, 65mm or 100... thought about just going with the 100mm pipe, cutting a hole on the bottom of the factory airbox, then cutting another hole into the metal into the wheel tub and routing it to the front of the car with some find mesh over the open (will keep the panel filter in the airbox tho - just get a 'high performance' one) does that sound good? would anybody know if 100mm is too big? and also if my efi will cope with the extra air?

i want to compress my springs but i'd rather keep my factory ones also, would anybody know if springs from any other car work in a corona? i was thinking of just going to pick-a-part and getting some springs from another car and compressing those.

i bought bushes from from pedders (they were the cheapest) they're the wrong ones. just ordered NOS ones from toyota

i've got a corona RT142 that i need bushes and front disks for, just wanted to know if there are any corolla that share the same part number? I'm currently searching the internet about it, just thought i'd ask here aswell

for my RWC i need rear control arm bushes and rear trailing arm bushes, phoned around they're hard to come by would i be able to buy the bushes from a different model Toyota and fit those? same goes for the front disks. thanks guys

so if were to make a pipe straight from the AFM to the front of the car (shielding it from any water and other contaminants ofcourse) i'd create turbulence in the intake? what if i were to go into the wheel well/tub instead? i'm also trying to figure out if the general rule of thumb for intake pipe sizing is whether it's 'the bigger the better' or whether there's some type of mathematic stuff where i need to calculate the volume of air needed/too much air

i'm currently in tafe doing plumbing so i work a lot with pipe work, i've had a look around i've found a route to take but it requires cutting into the radiator support panel so i've got to find out if that's safe. I may just just cut the hole in it and reinforce the cut with some sort of brace

sorry guys i know it's not a corolla but it's still a toyota haha! the car is a 2.4 EFI corona, just wondering about idea's for custom home-made intakes some of you blokes have done or seen. Looking at building one my self as i find doing crafty stuff like that fun. i'm basically asking about what's been used, what size piping, how it was routed, gain or loss of power etc (yeah i know it's an intake and i won't gain 100 hp but it's just a little extra). if i go too big of an intake will i need to retune my motor to put more fuel in to cope with the extra air coming in? sorry about all the questions google just hates me! i've included 2 photo's to show my current stock air intake, maybe that'll help answer my question. The first photo is of the standard intake, the second is of the little silver metal piece coming into the box (my finger pointing to it) can anybody tell me what it's for?

took it for a quick spin just before, felt a little knocking feel/sound around the front passenger side tyre. pulled it off took the wheel off had a look around couldn't find anything so i tightened it all back up and took it for another drive, any ideas? i'm think ball joints, going for RWC tomorrow i'll see what the mechanic tells me

yeah just doing bolt on's, nothing that can't be changed. hanging to get this RWC done so i can hurry up and start modifying it haha

my plan is too keep it simple and clean, just with some deep dish rims and lowered but the more i look and work on the car the more i realise how good it actually is, it's almost a shame to change anything about it as it's so clean and original :S