7shades

Fluffy deserves a mention :P

oi... get out of the qld thread you dirty dirty canberran.... you're not even from a REAL state :P

I'm not keen on a slagging match either dude. And I'm aware of how little impact ranting on a corolla forum can achieve. But I choose not to simply accept the "facts of life" as it were. If everyone just blindly accepts everything we're told, and does everything we're instructed to do, without question, we accept the fact that we are nothing more than sheep. Eventually we'll be left with no civil liberties or freedom whatsoever. I choose to look a bit deeper into things so I make a more educated decision about the way I live my life and who I vote for rather than fluffing my way through life pretending everything's peachy. Its not, I'm not happy about it, and if more people opened their eyes and voiced an opinion we could actually influence some of the decisions that are made on our behalf. A few people have viewed this thread... If I make one person think about things a bit more I'll consider my time not wasted.

ok dude let me just plug you back into the matrix and we'll pretend nothing ever happened. You completely missed my point. I'm well aware of what is illegal and what isn't. I know we have laws for a reason, its those very reasons I am drawing into question.

hehe... I didn't take the photo... found it on the intahweb here comes the rant. make a cuppa. I'm not so much talking about the induviduals... more the system really. Although the induvidual officers should hold themselves at least partially responsible. Metaphor: Parking Officers. I take time out of my day every time I see one just to berate them. Why? Because these people at the bottom echelons of society are indicative of the bigger problem. The standard response from a parking nazi, (and police, generally speaking) when confronted, is "oh I'm just doing my job" f@$k off. What... someone held a gun to your head this morning and forced you to go to work? I don't think so. You CHOSE to do this job. If you BELIEVE that what you do is beneficial to society, then stick up for yourself. Don't be so f@$king weak and tell me you're just doing your job because thats just passing the responsibility to someone else. Believe in what you do, or don't do it. This metaphor applies very aptly to police. A traffic cop who truly believes he is benefitting society by doing what he does each day is either ignorant or stupid or varying measures of both. He is in fact nothing more than a glorified parking officer, serving someone elses interests under the guise of providing a service. Its a very well produced pantomine, being played out in many aspects of daily life and most people fall for it, as the propaganda they use strikes at the heart of human nature... we are made to feel guilty, ashamed and afraid before we even get behind the wheel. If we somehow manage to muster up the courage to actually venture out on to the blacktop, we are intimidated, harrassed and monitored the whole time. No wonder we blindly accept whatever punishment we are given... we've been morally weakened and made to feel completely useless. I really do not believe the system we have truly serves the needs of the general populace as it should. People don't need "protection" from themselves. Assuming an induvidual does not have the intellegence to make his own decisions is insulting and fundamentally wrong. If old mate in his S13 wants to play takumi in an industrial estate at 3am and he wraps his car around a pole at writes himself off, that was his decision to do so and he suffers the consequences of it. Its called darwinian selection and I have no sympathy for those who make stupid decisions. These are the people that make life more difficult for everyone else because we all get tarred with the same brush. If you want to be a dickhead, go right ahead. Just don't kill anyone else in the process. And if you die, I won't mourn you. Scrape away the thin veneer and look a bit closer. You will find more solace in a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. End rant.

ok... I'll rephrase. TRAFFIC police, and the drug squad. Instead, inject the phenomenal amount of funding these two pointless departments receive into the regular service, and we would have significantly less of the aforementioned unsavoury characters. I don't desire to live in an anarchic society but nor do I want to live in a bubble wrapped over-legislated lockdown of a country where the option of making decisions pertaining to the risks you take with your own life is taken out of your control and placed in the hands of some self-serving shiny arsed beauracrat. I've never been defected. My cars are safe and legal and I only test the extent of their capabilities when and where I am sure I will not endanger the lives of others.

I despise police. All of them. Every single last one should be euthanised.

Dude thats awesome.... whats the total parts cost thus far?

just keep your window down just a tiny bit when you're driving around... that way you'll be able to smell the filthy subhuman pigf@$kers a long time before you see them.

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Bah He was looking at ALL the cars passing by... wishing he was on ANY of them, as opposed to the bus he was about to catch.

After extensive testing and "field" research (pun intended) the A12 rates a very close second to the 4k... volvo 244's are not far behind, evenly matched with late 70's coronas (without the 18rc) sigmas are poo.

Yeah they're rare as rocking horse shit over here... but parts are easy to get. Well... mechanical anyway. if you need panels you're screwed

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Oh go count some cards rain man :)

do it do it do it c'mon.... sell some organs.... you got plenty.... you can get around fine on one kidney and half a liver... just can't drink as much. At least you'll be able to rocket between piss stops at a rapid rate of knots... :)

Its a Lexus IS200. The lexus nameplate wasn't used in Japan until 2006 although all the lexus models were available, as Toyotas. Aristo = GS300 Celsior = LS400 Soarer = SC400 etc etc

This is a beams engine. Click Having driven one in an altezza I can confirm they are one of the most smooth, tractable fantastic most wonderfullest engines ever made. Also.... It is RWD It has a 6 speed gearbox It comes with half a car... ie: loom, ecu, dash, seats, tailshaft, and big brakes It will fit in your corolla and make it go astonishingly fast Someone please buy it, and keep it out of the hands of some dirty knuckle dragging toymods carf@$ker... sell a kidney or something. 5k may seem a lot of money, but bear in mind the ease of conversion and very low k's on the engine, plus all the bonus bits you get with the half cut... If I hadn't just spent all my money on plane tickets, this would be bought and paid for and on its way to me right now. *sigh*

BAH! Sorry dude... old mate over there doesn't do the yahoo auction thing. Also he informs me that he really can't be bothered... which is jolly unsporting form if you ask me, but hey, he's a big fat gaijin earning lots of money in Tokyo so he doesn't care. My only other suggestion is this 'ere mob clicky webster They appear to possess the proverbial skillz to pay da billz J

Yeah i know.... picking up a T18 next week for bits :) check this bad mofo out granny spec indicative of the potential of rotor in corolla

Awesome. Glad you rocked up dude :) I keep getting hisses and boos when mention rotary here at the moment :) I'm pretty sure the floor is even.... (just had a look under and it seems so) As far as diffs go I think the only thing that will handle rotor ponies is the hilux... quite a common swap there's plenty of tech info floating around. Drifter guys use them a lot in 86's too... and LSD's to suit are comparitively cheap (if the diff you get doesn't have one already) or you can use an ARB airlocker or similar offroad gear Stocko welded diff will hold up for a while...like AE70 said the gb will munch itself first. They're not the most sturdy unit when frequently hammered but they're cheap as chips to replace.

Just waiting to hear back from him dude... see how we go :) I've asked him to snap em straight up if he has a yahoo account etc. J

I'll send em over.... if you really want em I may be able to arrange for him to buy them and ship them over....

There better be coffee and DVD's waiting when I get there

Hehehe.... there will be a project thread... just nipping (no pun) over to japan to purchase an engine or two first. But as a teaser, its a 70, its wrx prodrive blue, and it will wheelstand its way to an 11sec 1/4 without breaking a sweat. It will also have air conditioning and be quite pleasant to drive to the shop for tim tams.