Super Jamie

mmm stagea would also be phat. i was trying to talk my mum into buying one of them when she was shopping for a new car recently, but she decided they were too big and got an SP23 instead series 9 rx7 should be out soon, according to an aquaintance of mine who runs lismore's mazda dealer

http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~spdeater/fc3s.htm http://www.re-amemiya.co.jp/retuden/greddy/d_gre3_side.html ohhhhh dear i think i just did my load :P

everyone here likes to think about cars, besides what we're all going to do to our current cars, no doubt everyone's got some wild idea that is never going to happen, but you like to think of it and talk about it anyway. what sort of wild dreams do you guys have? here's a few of mine feral 3k motor i've got some 040 pistons, a spare bigport head, several sets of 4k valve gear, a 3k bottom end with a bill of sale, some second hand bearings that are pretty fresh. i'd love to just get a gasket set and some 040 rings, and slap it together with a cam. to keep it truly budget, a set of standard pistons would be better (none of this fancy boring business) and a quick hone, who cares about bore clearance. $300 engine, put cheap oil in it and thrash the f@$k out of it until it died. i think i'd be thrashing it for a surprisingly long time as an aside, i'd like to go all out on that spare head. full professional big valve race port, probably worth $800 or so. the 3k would be quite an amusing bottom end to stick such a head on. another other k motor goody i'd like would be a jun 3.2kg alloy flywheel (only $1110 from speedworks in WA). yes, jun do make a part for a 4k! (actually 2 parts, the 3.7kg flywheel is $990). my lightened stock flywheel is 7kg series 5 rx7 turbo i love these things, they just look so good, you can get them to drift like a motherf@$ker, and turbo rotaries are so easy to get big power out of. buy a decent japanese one for about $15k, throw another $6k into the engine bay (dyson rebuild, cooler, hiflow) plus exhaust, stiff suspension, nice wheels and you'd be set. if i worked hard and paid all my shit off i could probably do this in reality next year, but you have money to have a life beyond your car (don't you? come on, talk me out of it, quick) mitsubishi lancer evolution iv even a stock one would be enough to keep me happy. just a simply beautiful car. however i don't have $40k-$50k and you can't register them here yet anyway. looks like i'll have to stick to gran turismo 2 toyota hilux minitruck candy apple red paint job. big chrome bar, huge wheels, dumped on its arse on airbags - the kind of airbags how you can drive down the street and make the car jump, like in bling bling rap film clips. high quality stereo, a stock motor would be good enough, and just a quiet chrome cannon out the back, this ute is all about looks and cruising mmm escapism :P

you'll need an engineer's certificate for it, however that happens in your applicable state. talk to an engineer before you spend anything, you might have to upgrade the brakes or something else too. all the KE rotary conversions i've seen use the castor rod plates at the front of the engine bay to mount the engine, the original crossmember just remains to support the struts and chassis rails

gunmetal grey steelies with chrome dress rims and 165 tires, stock height suspension, quiet exhaust :) i need new back tires, i'm thinking about putting 165s all round on mine hey. yay for cheap skinnies that light up quick

i know i know :) i really don't have the money for a cams license and club membership at the moment (here's another tip teddy, when you turn 18, don't get a credit card), nor the cash for constant trips to grafton or southeast qld for race days. i mentioned to nick tonight if he wanted to start getting into the grafton hillclimbs again with his mini. he just chucked a heap of money at the rex again (new valves - he broke one! - and custom wiseco pistons), but he's interested too so we'll get into it hopefully later in the year or next year when the season starts again. trust me, if we had racing within an hours drive, i would already be there country nsw, great place to live, just NOTHING FRIGGIN HAPPENS HERE!!!

haha i was talking to some v8 bogans at gym today, they called a rotary a "chook cooker". rotary, rotisserie. i cracked up :) pros and cons are typical to any 12a. big power potential, limited reliability and logevity unless you spend big dollars having all the wrong shit changed over for the right shit, even moreso if you get anything more than a mildport. you'll have to modify the transmission tunnet to fit the mazda gearbox in, but it will bolt up in the right spot. custom tailshaft. if you drive like a cock you'll shred the stock diff pretty quick and yeah, about the only engines that work in corollas without upsetting the weight balance too much are K motors, A motors and rotaries. still, they came out with T motors so they can't be THAT bad. i think if you setup your suspension and steering to compensate, the rest would just be getting used to driving it

no teddy, fwd is bad :) how about this quick 5 minute photoshop job it could be done better too

ok went hunting myself... THIS CAR LOOKS PHAT AS A MOTHERf@$kER!!! http://www.members.optushome.com.au/ben690/car.JPG http://www.members.optushome.com.au/ben690/rolla/rolla11.jpg http://www.members.optushome.com.au/ben690/rolla/rolla13.jpg the rear bar's a bit chunky, twin exhausts are rice, but the whole thing as a package looks REALLY GOOD, very well matched, even the wheels which i didn't originally like set it off well. seriously dude, change your picture, it doesn't do the car any justice at ALL

straight up, i like ae92 hatches, theyre one of the few nice fwd corolla shapes. this particular car may well have looked neat with the kit, i'm not a fan of the wheels but thats cool each to their own, however i'm sorry to say the above photography of the car is totally shithouse. any pics of it during the day maybe? and not with a numberplate blinding you like the sun? or some background to give definition to the roofline and show how low it is? that up there is definately not the best example for someone to judge the look of the car by

DO IT! the earlier the better, amateur racing is one of the best ways to improve your driving skill in a controlled safe environment, and get to learn about your car and how to handle it and improve it most effectively. much better you stuff up on a motorkhana track (almost zero chance of doing any serious damage) than on the street (real chance of hurting yourself, other people and their property) even a bodyrolling stock engined car can be fun. fook and doug reckon half-shagged suspension is good to start out with, as it's much more forgiving. all you pretty much need to do is make sure your car is roadworthy at the time of the event, as you'll get inspected. fire extinguisher and first aid kit are a must it also has the tendancy to teach people respect for the road, so while all your schoolmates are all obsessed with burnouts in dad's v6 commodore, you'll probably drive around sensibly, be perfectly happy with yourself, and can't stop thinking about the next track day

are you guys swapping the drums or the whole diff? diff means tailshaft too remember

english hiphop, mostly beats goin on in the background while a pom talk-rhymes about trivial crap - girls, drugs, smsing, mates, etc. the streets is a dude named mike skinner, you could probably find some samples here http://www.the-streets.co.uk/ or on the net

mm i know what u mean, i usually get obsessive over a cd, listen to it for about 6 weeks straight and then only touch it a few times a year haha

yay the closest thing to another mike skinner fan i've ever found! the music on the second album is wierder, but the lyrics are better. its actually quite a nice album, tells a good little story, you can really feel what's going on in some of the songs

anyone listen to triple J a couple of weeks ago? the feature album was 'a grand don't come for free' by The Streets. now i liked his first album, so i got this one too. does anyone else like this guy? all my friends who i play the album for it hate it :S ps: this is the coolest thing i've ever seen :)

here's some articles on pinion angle for you: http://www.carcraft.com/howto/91758/ http://www.2quicknovas.com/happypinions.html http://buickperformance.com/Pinion.htm http://www.baselinesuspensions.com/info/pinionangle.htm http://www.drivetrain.com/driveline_angle_problem.html http://www.4x4wire.com/tech/pinionangle/ if you want to play around with the angle for traction purposes, there are angled shims available for popular 4x4 diffs, maybe you could find ones that fit a corolla spring mount. make sure you get billet ones, cast aluminium is bad in suspension components

down here, all the tyre shops except kmart just leave their old tires around the side or out the back in a designated area and get them picked up once a fortnight/month/whatever. it's quite common for people to go at night and get some burnout tires (or hell, street tires if yours are worse!) for free. saves the shops having to pay to dump them *shrug*

you want them to be exactly the same on each side, hence the need for a jig. no use having one at 5 degrees and one at 7 degrees, etc. the jig is to correct for human error. but what you explained is perfectly acceptable if welding yourself and you get it right, that's how jonny put whatever diff he's using in his "te37"

pinion angles are generally universal across live axles. i have corolla spec ones in a chassis manual at home i can scan for you, email me and remind me. i also recall a small inset article in street machine about this, i'll see what i can dig up

valve guides? stem seals? i tend to look at the top end for oil usage first. if you hammered it really hard really fast, or did something like put assembly lube on the rings, maybe even put them in upside down, or lined up the ring gaps, you might be having piston problems let us know what happens

barum brilliants from kmart $37 each :) all my friends who have dunlop fm901s think they are the best tyres in the world, i'll probably get a set of them when it comes time to spend money on rubber

apparently the new honda jazz auto box has something similar, two cones rotating inside each other to provide quick sequential shifts (and they are quick, just as quick as a manual) your design makes me think of a complex version of a manually controlled centrifugal clutch you'd also need to worry about how much power it could take, and how you're going to spring the two drive wheels out against that power

i find self-adjusting drums like these will adjust themselves out to a certain point through normal use, usually a couple of ticks past that gives a nice tight handbrake, two clicks and you can park on a wall :)

hey i said the motors were acceptable, not that i wanted to drive around in, or even be seen in the passenger seat of, some silly datsun thing. VIVA LA COROLLA!!! fook's car rocks :S how funny were those kids at harry's on friday night, they were lovin your work! i liked how they found it so amusing that doug and i had done up 4Ks, "is yours slow too?" hahaha! i'll come back up when i get decent carburetion going, and set my tappets properly and take u for another strap :) WHEE!