Super Jamie

fark, 411s and 12s, i'm impressed! whats it like to drive with that turbo on it? is the engine stock besides the snail, fmic and exhaust? is there anything you would have done differently? name some things you've raced and proudly flogged the arse out of in your 12 second car :doublebird:

phantom grip diff is crap. apparently they work really well in a straight line, but once you start getting sideways or going around a corner, they greatly lose their effectiveness. they're a product made for fwd drag hondas

those kybs are gas by the way. i'd go pedders if i was buying dampers again, just listen to rob talk about them if you have a look in a shock absorber catalog (i know the monroe cat has it) all the different part numbers and series mean something (such a top and bottom mountings), and you can get measurements for stroke and stuff if you need a different geometry damper. you could find out which commodore shocks fit that way, but from memory they just have a shorter stroke for lowered springs HQ holden use exactly the same rear shocks as ke3x corolla. you can get spax coilovers for HQs... go on :doublebird:

aligning molecules for fuel or oil efficiency is bullshit but oil filter magnets are a good idea. stewart once stuck a pair of hard drive magnets on his oil filter, and we cut the filter up when he changed it. there was a heap of small metal filings on the filter housing where the magnets were. now, i reckon if you can stop those bits from going around in your oil and prematurely wearing your lubrication surfaces, then it's a good thing oil filter magnets, yes please fuel line hi-clone bullshit, no way

this has laughingly been referred to as the cheap way to transplant a fwd 4age into a rwd corolla, the throttle body faces back towards the firewall so you just use the plenum (that's the bit where the wiper arms are on a ke3x) to stick your air filter into, even better on a ke2x which has little raised grilles and probably sucks air in there anyway

sometimes guys just make a U shaped piece of metal and bolt that to the floor, an upper just stops the floorpan getting chopped up if the front uni lets go. i got mine from sydney speed supplies 02 9607 2299 it was $40

corolla drums adjust themselves when in reverse only. perhaps having the handbrake on and having the car parked on a downhill angle doesn't help? i usually prefer to park nose down anyway if i can't park flat, it seems to make starting easier if the car's been sitting for a while or it's cold, no idea why

*raised eyebrows* i always thought something else bled around that time of month, then again i spose it depends on where you stick your nose :thumbsup: bottoms up lads!

from what i've heard, anything above the factory dashline is considered a defect? restricting driver view and/or able to cause injury. you might want to call an engineer or registration tech enquiries and find out

isn't that tacho a defect now?

do either of those pads need to heat up much before they start working? i'm using ferodo zeroes at the moment, because doing hillclimbs at grafton i need decent stopping power about 25 seconds after my wheels start turning. i've heard some people say for quick braking without heating time, use the cheapest shittiest pad you can find (whilst they do sell ferodos at supercheap, they just happened to be in the ke70 calipers i have), especially if you have slotted rotors (which is on the list at some point)

suncorp gave me 5 grand full comp for my corolla. $219 a year :thumbsup:

is that single point throttle body injection? after seing how that went on pre-xc barinas, i think i'd rather the carby :thumbsup:

all that effort and he just puts a 5k in it. i know of a morris minor with a 4agze in it that runs 12s, now that's a worthwhile conversion. stock 1954 suspension gets a bit shaky above 160mph tho :thumbsup: perhaps this guy should have just bought a corolla and turned that into a ute

you can get efi throttle bodies in the shape of dcoe webers, they usually come with variable tps output that you calibrate an aftermarket computer to. they're shorter than real webers too. there are several ways of mounting injectors in a throttle setup like this, usually they get put in the manifold as close to the head as possible, pointing towards the inlet valve so the heat of the valve atomises the fuel and the fuel cools the valve. in a racecar, you mount the injectors at the bellmouth of the intake, and box the lot. this is best for max power but not so good for idling or legality as much as it's a nice idea, if you were going to go to all that trouble and effort and still use some shitty downdraft weber or something, you may as well get sidedrafts or SUs and do it better, cheaper

you're obviously not that scared to drive the century round, because you do, and that's cool :thumbsup: but if i owned a te27 i may as well have a suitcase of money sitting in a garage that i trailered everywhere, because that's where the car would stay as well

it was my first first corolla

smackdown

69 ke10 75 ke35 74 ke30 72 ke25 81 ke70 two still exist, the others went to the crusher

*ejaculate* seriously te27s are nice but would you want to pay 10 grand for something you'd be scared to drive on the road because it's so rare? thought not i like the catch can on that 27, i wonder if the battery was over there stock? mine's on the drivers' side. you can make your own leaf shackles, just make sure they're strong and weld a nut onto the other side so they stay straight. aaron willis on oldcorollas mentioned something about the ones he had on his te51 within the last 7 days

three runs is pretty shitty, i don't think you could even be comfortable enough with the track on the day to start trying things in three runs. let me know when entries are open for bwcp next year. i'll check the gctmc website for khanacrosses too woodenbong is a god awful drive, my car would shake to pieces before i got there. apparently alot of responsible local figureheads have tried to get motorsport happening in lismore but the council always cans it. i'm going to try writing some letters got contact info for the northern rivers club? i couldn't even find a po box on google

ps: photos from this weekend's gscc hillclimbs - rainy as Fark :thumbsup: http://public.fotki.com/superjamie/cars/hillclimbs/2004_04/

thanks for that :thumbsup: they have a calendar on their website - http://www.gctmc.org.au/ - but most of the events they hold seem to be at willowbank. that's too far for us down here to drive, as is warwick (morgan park), for just one day of racing trying to find a map of where mount cotton is, i found this phrase: Mount Cotton was named by surveyor Robert Dixon... coincidence? i found a description that says it's just off the freeway near the beenleigh exit, that sound about right? how long's it take to get there from the gold coast? website for mt cotton hillclimbs - http://www.mgccq.org.au/ basically us down here are looking for some sort of 2S level cams racing we can do, in addition to our grafton hillclimbs, without driving for like 3 hours each way, a-la willowbank and beyond. ideas?

earlier this year someone hosted a few motorkhanas at the broadwater car park. i was wondering if anyone knows who i can talk to about getting an entry form for these if they're still on next year?