Toy-Yoda

Apologies to anyone who likes that thing, but MY GOD IT'S UGLY....... :thumbsup: They took a 350Z that had been driven into a wall and got Shrek to shag it from the looks of things........ I will give Nissan some credit, they finally did something to make that V6 seem like one of theirs, I'll be interested to see how long they hold together under some abusive driving conditions.........Go the French van engine! I noticed on the spec sheets that it has tyres nearly as wide as a Dodge Viper....... I'm not all that surprised, with all that weight from all those useless electronic gizmo's in it, it should understeer like a bastard entering corners.......... (unless they've done a Mitsubishi and used the electronic gizmo's to make the car go quicker than it ever should) FFS, why not RWD with half the gizmo's? They're just saying "we can build a bigger, more powerful EVO, it can't corner, but it GOES FASTER!) The modern revival of old school muscle. What's the bet on a power pole wraparound by a P plater 3 months after official Australian release? "I just wanted to take dads car around the block"

Simon: Ta, I've been trying to put together a run like that for ages, but none of my mates think toyotas are *that* good........ (they don't know real class when I show it to them) BTW, can we call it the "How-far-will-your-old-rolla-make-it" cruise? It has a nice ring to it....... :D Top work on the paddocks! :thumbsup: Very impressed you came up with something that quick....... I'm all for it, I just need a car i care less about now....... (gotta stop belting the hatch, seeing as I bought it for the wife, she never drives it so I'm going to fix the bumper and sell it) 7shades: The AE9x is a good car, can't fault it, but as I said before, I only bought that one for the handbrake, gimme a KE70 any day. billyrock: You should tell your mate to see what we do to cars we don't like/care about.......... And also where we get some of the 4WD's............ Although I'm still laughing about the time I decided to follow some "hardcore" four wheel drivers one day to see where they were heading, I asked if I could come along with them and they said "yeah, sure, we have a few spare seats".......... They gave me blank looks when I said I wanted to follow them in the KE70, not ride with them, "won't make it", "no way" and "get f***ed that thing will go anywhere off road" were the initial responses I got, but one of them told me he'd back me if I got stuck, so it was on, 10 minutes into the trip and I overtook 3 bogged four wheel drives, got to some solid ground and asked them if they wanted me to tow them out too.......... I think they nearly cried........ Afterthought: If anyone has a KE70 (or similar) just lying around that runs and drives ok, I want it, it doesnt have to have working lights, or rego, or straight panels, or matching paint, as long as the chassis is straight and it moves well under it's own power. I don't want to pay too much due to the fact the car will be turned into a test rig for some new ideas, and never used on the road........... Let me know.

Handy to know, the poor old AE92 is beginning to find the limit of it's off-road traction, so I need to make a move on project offroader......... Although the hatch is pretty bloody unbreakable........ Mud confuses it.......

The Tercel will take a thrashing, but I've heard the transfer case thing that allows you to engage 4WD is just plain weak, and it saps heaps of the cars power....... It should be capable off road, but I look at that picture and think "Wheelbase too long?" "not enough ride height?" Meh, I'm probably wrong......... I'd be happy to arrange a "Corolla 4WDing day" for those that are up for it, I have recovery gear and can arrange "real" 4WDs as backups........ Great fun in beater cars you don't care about......... Or your wifes hatchback......... Doo de doo...........

Went out for a drive today, to do a bit of filming for a little project I'm working on........ Part of it involved me seeing if the humble hatch could go where the old taliwagon went, so we armed ourselves with copious amounts of junk food, and a carton of chilled coke, and set off, aiming for the northern fire tower outside of Beakonsfield........... Just for fun, a story in pictures....... Setting off, old and busted and the taliwagon-ute-thing :2thumbs: On our way to the top........ These trails feel twice or maybe three times more brutal in a hatch compared to my Hilux......... Finally, after much wheel-spinning (The front passenger tyre copped it on a rock, car stopped, wheel kept on spinning......... "it all happened so fast!" lol ) and back-up-and-try-agains, we made it to the top, and it was worth it for the view, these pictures just can't even begin to describe how far you can see, and how clear and crisp it is up there.......... Posing shot #1 Posing shot #2 Posing shot #3 The view from the top of the fire tower looking North East.......... (it really does come in handy knowing the local fireys) View from the top of the fire tower looking looking North West View Down We had lunch (4pm), then started to make our way back down, stopping for pose opportunities on the way......... You never realize just how steep something is until you go to drive down it......... Left the trails and started heading home, the long way, and of course, I found puddles........ Ever seen a kid wearing gumboots in the rain? Thats me, just a car instead of a pair of gumboots............ And as per normal, I have so much fun that I forget to check the depth of the big ones........... The word here was "Bollocks" This was cause for much laughter......... 25 minutes and a snapped tow rope later, the hatch was back on asphalt, cruising happily home, couple more scratches, a little less tread (particularly the passenger front), and a little dirtier than when it left home, but still running like a dream.......... I love corollas......... :hmm:

That woman in the light blue camry who overtook me on a single lane road, (Henry St.) tonight like she was in some kind of a hurry, It's the fifth time I've been overtaken on that road, (I do about the speed limit {60} about 60ish normally) Where are the cops when you need them?

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Hello all, new question that I didn't feel warranted the opening of a new thread......... The wagon has crappy chrome bumpers on it, are they paintable? if so, how? I was looking at it today and decided that the bumpers need to be the same colour as the body (after it gets it's respray), new bumpers or not.

That's a fair/reasonable price, I'd pay that, no hesitation........ You go, I'll get the ISF, then we can meet at a track day and "drift barges", epic. Or just roll large in the pimpmobiles........ :D

Dude, I must know, what is it costing you to get that thing? I could justify buying one of those to my wife: it's a toyota, so it'll be reliable, it's a 4 door, so it's sensible, it's comfortable, it's sexy, I just want one. Unless I hear more about the Lexus ISF "M3 eater".......... Lexus IS F Just epic..........

Thankyou kindly, No real skills involved, just boredom, spare cash, and too many Red Bulls. (gives you wiiiiiiings, you know?) :D The first part you need to understand is that the seat in that car was stuffed, the springs in the middle of the cusion bit you sit on had mostly collapsed, leaving a dip, fine for belting through corners, because it kinda held me in better, but the landing(s) were positively brutal, landing it was agony after about 5 jumps, mostly in the upper thigh, but my back copped a lot of pressure too, (not to mention the whiplash from the jumps that went bad) never flipped it, I was lucky, but next time there will be a better seat, and a LOT more padding. 2-3 foot isn't bad, what were you launching off? my launch speed was only about 60, but like I said, steep ass hill. The next car I take out that way will get higher again. I can't wait....... I like cake. Thanks, glad you enjoyed my pics....... Oh, here's one for parting, this was the landing from jump photo #1, this will give you an idea of how hard the car was landing. Yup, suspension compressed, tyres compressed, chassis was still what stopped me, parts of the floorpan actually flexed enough to hit the deck too! Excuse the shitty quality of the pic, screen capture from vid again.

Well said! I learnt to drive in a paddock, driving, well ok, thrashing a 180B wagon........ My dad threw me the keys and said "drive it" first time in the drivers seat, no idea that you had to use a clutch to change gears when the engine is running, he points at a tree 150-odd meters away and says "drive around it, come back, stop" that was a very quick lesson in understeer, but I learned how to get reverse! :D took days to fix the fence up properly tho....... Learning to drive in a field is the best way to learn oversteer, understeer, and emergency braking/evasion in adverse conditions too........ and the safest. On topic, what grinds my gears, soccer moms in their over padded-child killing-gas guzzling-ugly bastard-fake-4X4's, before anyone takes a shot at me about 4X4's being halfway safe, I'll say this, I am by no means a big person (I weigh in at about 80 kilo's), I'll never claim to be a perfect driver, (but I try) I own a 4X4, I drive it regularly, I know first hand that they are big, heavy, and have the turning circle of an ocean liner, they don't like to stop quickly, and they are made of real metal (I refer to "real 4X4's here, the ones capable of driving offroad, not just the nature strip out the front of the house) the end result being, you hit someone/something, it will likely be maimed or quite dead by the time you stop. Add to that, my 4X4 doesn't have ABS, airbags, traction control, stability management, or any other silly little electronic gizmo's to make a car "safer". Does that make my 4X4 dangerous? No, but it could be, I'll explain, the modern "fake" 4X4 with all the addons, can be absolutely lethal, same as a car built in 1964, reason being, is the driver........ If I look in my rear view mirror and see a big 4X4 with one or maybe two guys in it, staying a safe and reasonable distance from my rear bumper, I don't think twice of it, if I see a a big 4X4 driven by a female, with her 2 kids, and her neighbors kids in the back, I get off the road as soon as possible, I've been run off the road twice by females in 4X4's, and four times by women in cars, every time, the woman was so involved in screaming at the kids that she was completely and utterly oblivious to what was happening around her, once the said woman had successfully managed to put me into a kerb/ditch with me laying into the horn while yelling the "obcenity dictionary" at her, she would wake up to what was happening, stop, apologize profusely, and go on her merry way........ Except the one time that the woman kept on driving like nothing ever happened. <-- That shat me. Ultimately, my point is, concentration, without it, a car, 4X4, truck, motorbike, anything on the road can be a lethal weapon, waiting to strike. Best thing I've ever seen was a dad, taking his kids to school in the roughest looking Landcruiser I've seen in a long time, 3 kids, all dead silent, all barely moving........ (no tv's, nothing) That bloke had total control of the kids behaviour, why can't the women seem to do that?

Thanks, and I'm happy to share my experiences with like minded people......... But I really wasn't going that fast....... 60-65 tops I'm sure......... It's just a really steep little ramp.......... (I was concentrating on keeping it straight for the launch due to a iffy landing on one of the previous jumps, plus the engine was | | <---That close to dying by the time I got that last jump in) Hit about 9-10 feet clear air on the first jump picture and about 15 feet on the second pic........ I want to go back there one of these days, with a better prepped car, (rollcage, harness, medical crew) and hit it really hard, I want to be able to land, hit the brakes, and still hit the dirt bank in front of me......... I'm thinking 60 feet length, maybe more, so aiming for 20-25, maybe 30 feet under the car straight down. Should look good, but need more power, better traction, and much better safety.......... This is the bad landing. (captured off film so please excuse the sheer awfulness of the pic) Note the angle of the front passenger wheel......... The impact of the landing threw my head into the B pillar, hitting the bolt that holds the top part of the seatbelt to the body.......... Thank God for the helmet I was wearing, put a dent in the helmet and all........Whiplash for a week after though........

Oh score! I can see it now, dozens of Toyota models flying sideways around a paddock trying to hit/avoid each other while a farmer looks on in both dismay and amazement at how quickly and efficiently his paddock gets plowed......... Only problem then would be retreiving all the leftover parts that fell off......... Be epic fun tho.......

Hey, thanks, and trust me, it looks a lot better in the photo than it does when you walk up to it....... That's why I love it! Plus it was free, and it gives me something to do....... :jamie:

And the topic is random pictures, so here a few totally random shots from the last few months...... The worlds first ninja cow! The worlds happiest P-plater......... Had licence 3 weeks to the day + $14000 loan to get a car the parents approve of + acting like a tool (read: too fast around a roundabout) saw a mate of mine modify the front of his falcon with a power pole, justice, cruel, but justice nontheless...... He knocked out the power to Ravenswood and Waverly for a few minutes, got a nasty welt from his seat belt tensioning thing, and air bag burn aross the face, not to mention whiplash......... 50ish-0 in SFA will do that. For some reason the rozzers didn't believe he was going "about 35"....... lol 8/ Toy-Yoda, out!

Ok, as the newbie, I figured I would inroduce everyone to my little collection........ This is the AE92 I bought for my wife, she is yet to drive it due to a lack of desire to get her licence, so I'll eventually sell it to fund the wagon.... I accidently bumped a roo early one morning out the back of nowhere in the hatch...... This is my old hilux, 2.4 petrol beater that I learned to 4WD in, yes, it's stuck in a dam, and yes, I eventually managed to drive it out....... This is my new Hilux, 2.8 Deisel, much more potent, much better on the hills, and it has an LSD! score! traction! Yes, I drive my 4X4 off road. This is my freebie wagon, 7K, 5 speed, project car. More to come on this one as it gets done....... Balloons and all. This is my old '85 beater, bought it when I blew the clutch in the hatch (couldn't find a sports clutch to replace it), so I just got another car......... Logic plus. Belting the '85, I bumped a tree......... backwards. Then I bumped a tree......... Sideways. Note the leftover tree stuck inbetween the wheel and tyre. It eventually ran out of rego, right about the time I found a clutch for the hatch, so I stripped it and made a dedicated beater out of it. Uber lightweight high tech dash Then we took it to a secret location in the back of somewhere-or-other to belt it relentlessly. Then I found a 4WDers hill commonly used to test undercarriage clearance and traction on sharp angles. So I drove up it faster........ And then faster again......... Eventually the engine gave up (not without a struggle), so I parked it at a mates place and left it there for a while to decide what to do with it next....... Then I took the diff center out, thinking I could weld it up and use it as a temporary diff in the wagon for drifting or something, then I noticed this on both sides....... I'm still going to weld it up for the next beater car anyway........ That's my little story in pictures, there were many cars before all this, there will be many more to come yet, I hope you all enjoyed....... 8/

Wow, thanks for the quick replys guys! Ok, first, bugger, I thought those wheels would fit. (didn't get out a tape measure) and yeah, I'd considered the guards. I'm reasonably certain the diff is the borg warner aussie classic, so I guess I need to bin that. T series diff is out of the rt 132 corona and ta22 celica isn't it? (all I could find) Ra 40 struts could be a good idea, hadn't considered it, I was going to get some to fit from a catalouge...... Money saved! I like the idea of scavenging parts off other cars...... For some crazy reason it appeals to me....... Evo disks with VT (commodore?)calipers, clever mix and match...... About the quick rack, ok, forgotten. Thanks again guys, hopefully this build won't take forever, as I look forward to track days and cruises....... (I'm not allowed to use the hatch, dammit) P.S. I'll post a few pics of the build as it gets underway and as it goes through (funds allowing), I'll also post a few of what ended up happening to my old beater '85 Rolla when I bought a new(er) car........ *Edit* Flat out, thankyou for your offer to help out with the rear leaves, I may just take you up on it when I get around to doing them........

Ok, I'm new to the idea of modifying cars with intent to keep/put them on the road, I'm also new to this site, so please bear with me...... I have a '79 Corolla wagon (see avatar) sporting awful seats, awful alloy wheels, a whining diff (to be replaced ASAP), awful wheel alignment, shot shocks, shot springs, the worlds dodgeyest "sport" steering wheel, 2 out of 5 doors won't open, very little rust (front quarters), and very proudly being motivated by a 7K engine and 5 speed 'box. Perfect project car then........ I've picked out a theme that I'm aiming for with this car, that part is the secret to be revealed at the end of the build, I will tell you all it's going to be a street/track oriented car, but I've picked out a set of gorgeous 15X7 wheels, 4X100, +40 offset, and will pick them up soon(ish)....... That is where the problems start, I know I can't make the wheels fit too easily with out bringing the guards out a bit, no problem there, but I want to do a brake upgrade, does anyone know what's possible as far as that goes? I know nothing about brakes, so I have no idea what size Disks I can shove behind those wheels allowing for the callipers....... Or whether I should aim for 2 potor 4 pot calipers....... I'm replacing the (very tired) open diff center with a 2 way item from Cusco, so that bits easy, but is there a possibility of a Disk brake upgrade for the original diff or will I have to commandeer one from another car and engineer it to fit? Or is it adviseable/safe to leave the drum brakes in and go for air ducting to keep them cool and upgrade to Street/race pads? The 7K will get binned (eventually) as will the gearbox in favour of a higher revving unit with better output (no details yet, I'm keeping that one close to my chest). Are quick racks availiable for a car like this? Is there anything resembling sport leaves for the rear end available on the market? Any help/suggestions welcome and appreciated, I know Ive been long winded, but I genuinely have run out of ideas and people to ask........ Thanks in advance.......