Super Jamie

bored? lost interest in your project? super jamie keep-my-car-running at your service! i will drive to your house and make sure your car is kept healthy by taking it for drives and giving it lots of shit for you, and here's the best part, i won't even charge you for it! :)

poppers make it legal, that's a mechanical means of entry. some dudes route the door linkages down into the inner guard or something, and no ambulance driver is going to think to check the wheel arches to open the door, they'll likely just smash the window or windscreen to get you out if need be

you know you love the droopy man that last one was taken 2 years ago, i remember it like it was yesterday

we're slow learners :)

not always, our 32 gtr got more power than the japanese one. no 206kw limit over here :)

smackdown! :)

yeah, buy a good set of goggles. i have walked around for 4 days with a shard of metal stuck in my eye because i was too stupid to use them with the angle grinder. i also then had to endure the pain of my girlfriend taking the piece out the top of my eyeball with tweezers and a toothpick goggles :)

excellent searching work there rolla_boy, very helpful :)

that's the worst part. last year's "street machine of the year" was that orange torana with the turbos sticking out the bonnet, which is one of the VERY FEW elite hall cars that actually gets driven, and driven alot, and driven to and in and around every event it enters. the guy even does burnouts in it! in the smoty article they asked him "do you think the fact you drive the car has anything to do with your win?" to which he replied "hell yes". i personally think the ex-hilliers' xp or that silver mustang with the twin blowers are more elite and better built cars, some people think the red magna is the most extreme and different car ever to hit australian shows, but the torana gets driven so people have voted for it as the best car of the year so through peoples actions, it has been proven that i am right and seddo is wrong. magazines should work towards making the scene better like that, they're a force who could influence "elite cars should be USED not just SHOWED" and then everyone wins. but instead, they'd rather just promote trailer queens and make easy money off cars that don't even get STARTED, never mind move under their own power the elite scene shits me

HAHAHA! i got the paintbrush out like you said but now i just have messy doors, wiping my hand over the bumps doesnt make them go away, where did i go wrong? :) and a "kit" isn't really in the true spirit of the whole "customs" scene. that's what makes it custom! everything is hand made for the specific car, everything is unique and different. and seriously, for someone who can weld, it's not like it's hard to stick a popper tube into a door and extend the handle mechanism up another 6 inches. down with kits, custom all the way :(

i have never postwhored in this thread then. maybe.

i know, i know, i have gone to the dark side, i suck! :) lol, nah the ae92 is just a comfy drive car while i have nothing else, kinda having a break from cars for a while so i can sort out some other stuff. long story i actually have a ke36 panelvan down at a panelbeaters, but he's a lazy old bloke and i don't want to spend the money so it's just sitting there :( i'd like to do that up like a lowered shaved custom rat-rod, and i'd also like a nice well-handling corolla as well, with decent bloody brakes for a change! maybe i can come up with an idea that incorporates both. i'd also really like a minitruck, they look SO cool but they handle like absolute crap. maybe i'll do the corolla first, then work towards a truck. i dunno, see what happens after i've paid the ae92 off :D agreed. and when i want to see unrealistically built cars which are totally impractical to drive on even a monthly basis, i will buy autosalon magazine when it want to read about cars that people like me have built to drive on the STREET, i will buy magazines like that, i thought the title STREET MACHINE was the embodiment of that, but it appears i was wrong. they should call it poser money machine

not necessarily. if your engine was way out in front of the car, it would be very hard to drift. if the engine was way out the back of the car, it would also be hard to drift. having the engine in the middle is actually a good idea, it helps keep the center of gravity, well, centralised. this allows for more neutral and predictable handling building a well-handling car for ANYTHING (drift, track, drag, rally, etc) is about finding a balance. there is no concrete right or wrong way to do anything, or there would be a book "how to build the best driftcar in the world and everything else is shit" but there isn't a book like that, nor will there ever be it also depends very much on the driver and their own personal experiences and skills and preferences. what works for one driver may not work for another, tho generally a highly-skilled and -experienced driver can adapt to different cars. watch some hot version videos with tsuchiya and how he drives all sorts of cars (FR, FF, MR) on touge courses and comments on them. he's the "drift king" now, but he's raced and done well in all sorts of grip-driving events (such as JGTP) throughout his career. now he's just a rich old man and drifting is his retirement hobby, cos he likes it :) i am a firm believer that if the weight is sprung, you can manage it. i have seen a ke20 with a big old 327 chev which turned better than my ke25, which only had a 4k. iron-block v8 corolla handling better than something with a light engine? wtf?! sure, it might cost alot and take alot of development if you're doing a more extreme car (such as the ones we are discussing here), but with enough time and money, nearly anything is do-able with suspension

i can so imagine you, all dressed up commando-style in camos and warpaint, squatting with your high-powered scope, laying in ambush for the perfect shot :)

you take the handle out, and there is then a depression and a hole in the panel. you cut this out, and weld in a plate, the same shape as the doorskin. you smooth it and paint it so it looks like the handle was never there tricky to do, because you usually warp the thin doorskin when you weld it. it's also illegal to have no obvious mechanical method of getting into a car door from the outside, in case of an accident most minitruckers shave their doorhandles, and run poppers, similar to having just another vertical door lock, but on the outside, and it opens the door instead of locking it

i actually had a cool ke25, it became one with a tree, now i have parts in a garage. ah well, i'll build something else again one day interior is important to me, for a car i drive every day. i now have a bog stock ae92 with nice seats and aircon and quietness and tints and all that stuff, because i am soft :S if i built a race corolla again now, it would have no interior at all

i would like everyone to try very hard to keep this discussion friendly and not insulting. remember it's just cars on a forum, don't get your knickers in a twist and start writing each other off i suggest you revise your drifting theory. the car does not pivot around the engine, it pivots around the center of gravity, a point which moves depending on the way the car is setup, and how you're driving it at that exact point in time. drifting is about shifting weight to a point where the car more or less settles on the center of gravity and maintains a slide under power following your engine pivot theory, it would be practically impossible to drift cars like MR2s and NSXs, but these things are indeed do-able, because i have seen them done. sure, they take alot of skill because the extra weight in the back acts like a pendulum (so the center of gravity moves quicker than in an FR car) but it's certainly possible with enough practice and skill

hahaha! my iq is 135 if you're curious. stewart is a cluey guy, sometimes he goes on about things that amaze me. he knows heaps about things other than cars too. we have been good close mates for a few years now the bits i used were solid. to buy a good die grinder and compressor is going to be more expensive than paying someone else to port the head for you. there is no economy in it if you're only doing one head. i'd give a tool hire place a ring and see what they charge i have msn but i hate talking about car crap on there. that's what the forum is for, then everyone can contribute and come up with new fresh ideas, which is what rollaclub is all about. as long as you are willing to think for yourself and research before jumping blindly to the New Topic button, all of us are happy to answer any "noob" questions you have

dudes in the philipines have been shaving corollas for many years. it's wierd when you don't know, you look at them and you're like "i know it's a ke30, but there's something just... different :S" that's a nice little eleven, not sure if i'm a fan of the big gauge thing on the dash (they already have bad enough visibility) but the rest is nice and tidy. it's complete and it's got a cool engine and, yeah i like it ;)

how about old corollas? there's absolutely f@$kall side impact protection in a ke10, ke20 or ke30. i reckon if you put the drivers' side door of one into a tree/pole/wall much over 60km/h, you sure wouldn't be around to talk about it on forums. old corollas are ALOT more unsafer than 4x4s. you should need a special license to drive a 1077cc two-speed auto ke10 which puts out probably 20hp at the treads but you're right, the world is a crap place and we just have to deal with it. if enough people feel strongly about enough things, they hassle politicians and things get done. it's a slow process, but the world is becoming aware of it. in the next 10 years, i think govt-endorsed, if not compulsory, driver training will become commonplace

meh, don't be jealous, just enjoy everyone else's experiences and listen and learn and you can get there if you have the dedication. once i was a silly little teenager who couldn't even change sparkplugs, so we all have to start somewhere, and there are people who know alot more than me, and probably even people who know more than all of us put together you really need to use a die grinder, i don't think a drill goes fast enough. you could always hire one from bennett or something, it would be cheaper than buying. i'm lucky enough to have access to an engine builder mate's workshop, so i can go bead blast or chop up heads or whatever to my heart's content. i used two or three different bits, i had a fine oval and a coarse ball. i then used sandpaper around a piece of metal with a slot in it, to polish the chambers afterwards

lol, we are head porting nerds :S i am far from it, i've done one head which did work out alright, because i did enough research beforehand and didn't go overboard, but i also made some mistakes to learn from next time it's REALLY hard to translate mental pictures and theories into actual metal with a die grinder, i guess that's why good headwork is so expensive

i quite like the retrotech look as well. really, any look is good as long as it's pulled off well and as a complete package. i would do flat silver grille and bumpers and handles on a corolla, i think it would be quite nice. to complete the look you'd shave the gutter channels and maybe the bonnet vents and quarter grilles too, maybe not them cos they kinda define the rear end. perhaps even shave the doorhandles and use harley-style billet mirrors attached to the pillars. smooth the whole car off, but don't ruin the bodylines. frenching the bumpers would look awesome in this style. i have been hanging out with minitruckers too long :S i've scored two peoples' collections of old hot 4s and fast fours and street machines and stuff like that. back in the day when a weber and cam, hotwires, and a pastel paintjob made your gemini a "showcar" ;) don't forget the white-writing bridgestone eager tyres or monster tacho! hahaha good times, good times i love reading about cars back then, everything was old skool and full of innovative new ideas, not just "body kit from here, engine from here, intercooler from here, bolt together. turbo optional" a few cars that stick out in my mind are: - eric bana's XB (?) coupe, with the cobra stripes, which still gets driven and competes in targa tas i think! - a neat green (or yellow?) escort with a mild efi pinto engine. it only made 120-odd horsepower, but it was just a nice clean well-presented car - lots of corollas, like a dude here in alstonville's ke55 with 5k, the maroon ke20 with the really dark windows, and michelle's old scarlet

i have never postwhored. my post count is all genuine good stuff. two of these three sentences are bullshit :S

lucky you then :S australia usually gets the sharp end of the stick with all international car distribution, we only get very limited numbers of GTRs and EVOs as well, for example