LittleRedSpirit

Sounds awesome and expensive, but it will be great to drive!

There are two colours of Toyota Coolant, the red long life lasts up to 40000ks and is fine on older stuff, the pink super long life is for the newer stuff and in that application it lasts double the red mileage. You can also use the red on the newer motors as long as you change it twice as often. I have heaps of the red if you want some cheap and you are around Brisbane.

Hows it steer under power? Vague? I've heard of drag racers setting their cars up for max acceleration handling with the back squatted down, IE, having way incorrect toe for normal cruising, but setting it so it hangs straight under full power with the front unloaded so feels better when you are on it 100 percent and has less drag from a better alignment. Have you considered anything like that?

I reckon if you paint the centres and barrels white to match the body you will have that 80s rally look that I love so much. So much progress since my last click on the thread, and so much progress in your life too with buying a house and baby on the way. I couldn't be happier for you. Have you considered fitting e30 m3 gaurds to fit the wheels? I assume thats a replicated thing in the aftermarket. Matt

BC kind of annoying to talk to, non committal on answering even basic questions. Wanting to sell performance parts but give very minimal ideas about the performance seems disconnected to me. Claiming, we would put up the dyno charts but we had a hard drive die. Seems dubious to me and I lost a little confidence with them through the low quality of the interaction. Wouldn't answer a basic question like if set up ideally with ideal cr, how different would the 280/272 cams be to the 272/272 set. How much extra rpm to pull, etc. Trying to work out if I can run thew rpm required to make best use of them. Its like pulling teeth getting them to back their items with even any data. Only way I got a response to anything was actually to write him off and say, "You know what, you aren't interested in this at all, sorry for boring you, I wont darken your door again." Then i got a mildly decent answer top one question. I received the aluminium bend I wanted, its about right. I need to find someone with a 2 inch od tapered die and alloy welding facilities so I can make the trumpet slide into the tube and weld it on. Could do almost 300mm trumpets if required and have a 630mm inlet.

Hey that's a great outcome. I think droop is one of the most under rated suspension concepts especially among the people in the jap scene. I love my coilovers with helper springs, quite a few situations where a wheel should have popped up I have avoided it and kept my traction, and my old short as possible coilovers would top out sometimes on a ramped up bump like a railway level crossing or a surface change, and that's never happened with this car. I saw a beautiful girl rolling in a super low ke70 at the fruit shop the other day. It was a ke70 on its nuts on ssr meshies, assumed boyfriends car. I happened to see the car later on as I was cruising home and it shook and pitched like a banshee just doing 50klms an hour on pretty decent streets for qld. Time for a parachute?

Shed is way better!

Thing is sick and that new rolla totally lost the duel.

So moving on. My headlights now point in the appropriate direction. Thought all my adjusters were bung. Pulled em off, lubed em, and then noticed that someone had would them all the way off the adjusting threads. Once I wound 2 of them back on, and I replaced the one stripped adjuster, I was able to get things correct. Makes such a difference, they were kinda high and left before. Ill fit the headlight rewire kit I purchased a few weeks back soon, and then I might have decent headlights once and for all. I also have some hellas to go on if required, and I do like the look of the rally spots. Will be replacing front rotors, pads, and re greasing bearings soonish. Have had them sitting on the shelf for a while, the plan was always to see what a fresh set of Celica brakes was like before doing an upgrade. Been emailing BC about the possibility of some cams, springs and mild headwork while I'm installing the pistons to get the most out of it. You can retain vvti with even the stage 3 280/272 cams. Blew a shit tonne of dust out of the drums, they definitely do their job turning gasoline into heat and dust quite effectively. Must be some hella dusty shoes. Added another 8mm to the inlet length, and seems better again. Seems like longer is best with this motor. I've also ordered an aluminium bend so that I might be able to design some curved trumpets to fit inside my space for an airbox and give me an inlet length another 50mm longer again.

Hey that's a nice car. Swaybars are the worst thing you can add to an E chassis rwd car, unless you want to understeer, then snap oversteer and crash. That wombat did you a big favour and even got involved tuning your car. Wombats rule.

Will look amazing when its all one colour. We just dont have any mark 1 golfs around here in Australia. Probably under 100 of them still on the road and never to be found at junkyards.

I get the same thing, except in kitchens. They say, I need a new rangehood, reading between the lines, you never cleaned it, it eventually died, now its been sitting there inactive for a decade accumulating grease and trapping vermin into an oily paste above your dinner, and now Im the guy who gets to clean it for you while installing a 150 dollar junk rangehood that its clear you will never clean.

Its this weekend. Whos in?

There are a lot of news articles about the backlash.

I tried 3 nights in a row to download entire album. I dare say its been disabled as further leverage to leave people with only one option, to pay 400 a year. I'm doing without. I might be able to find close to everything if I catalogue and organise all the old phone backups and photos on my desktop computer. I seem to be missing about a years worth of images but they might just be in a stupid directory some place. problem is I used to make posts that were just a very explanatory image, and now I have to decode which image was where forensically from what was said before and after. Only saving grace is how I explain my thoughts on most things.

Was able to resurrect a few pages got up to about 35 but cant find photos till about page 50 to resume.

Have a look at Brendens car, member name, mechanical sympathy, in rides and projects, he just put webers on a 30/55 bodied car.

Looks cool mate. Great to se another one getting used. Not sure about the golf flares. We generally cut steel fronts off and weld to rear, off of any car with same rolling diameter and a good shaped flare.

The only way to let photobucket know what a pack of cunts they are is to msg them and let them know as you close your account. Otherwise they care not if they are offending anyone, its only after you leave that you get to call them out. Pretty frustrating overall unless they have a facebook or insta account.

Photobucket account deleted. Fuck those assholes.

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Brakes are great but it has now a slight miss at low tps. Gonna do a diagnostic session tomorrow and see whats up. I have 4 new coils, spare plugs and a spare tps so a bit of trial and error is in order.

Waking up this morning the last day of a 3 month job and having a message that the grout is too light. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Just be happy Reed, life is too short to waste worrying about people that drag you down. I've got a few mates that need the same realisation but they just keep having more ruggies.

Photobucket has stabbed me in the anus. I just bought some koni yellows for this. Soon it will have them and some kyb rally shocks in the back since they are better off there than on the shelf.

I test drove just up to the hardware and back for a work errand. Brakes seemed epic and win. Must have been the shit hoses that didn't stand up to the task. I even held throttle on in neutral and then stabbed the pedal about 6 times and it had boost each time, so seems like its win again.