Super Jamie

ah shaddup, 2 months ago you were going on and on about how much you loved the damn things :hmm:

it really depends what you want i mean, you're going from a FOUR KAY to a modern twincam crossflow efi thing. regardless of wether it's a naturally aspirated CA18DE or a full house SR20DET with boost, it's going to shit all over the stock car personally, i don't like turbos. i also think that much power in a corolla would make it crap, you'd have to baby the thing almost everywhere, it would be strenuous and no fun to just get in and bury your foot i agree with the idea of buying something that's already fast, but there's also about 500+ bucks difference in a CA and SR frontcut. if it was me, i'd just get a naturally aspirated CA and be done with it

what is that called? like a medical term? i'd like to research it

my best mate wants 17" jellybeans for his black VU SS ute. we called dragway to get a quote on some custom billets, but he's got better things to spend $990 a corner on :hmm:

i run a graphite head gasket too. you install them with no sealant, the idea of the graphite is to allow the different metals (iron block, alloy head) to move around as they expand at different rates graphite is a lubricant. you use graphite grease when you assemble an engine, on everything except the piston rings. you use graphite grease on things like brake caliper sliders and wheel studs as well. "running in oil" is just a fairly thin mineral oil with bits of graphite in it i think it's a good idea. my sortof-high compression 10.1:1 4k got hot fairly quickly (metal wise) so i can only imagine the sort of dynamic ratios a supercharged engine is getting subjected to, a well stuck down standard head gasket would have a tendancy to cause problems. a graphite gasket is also a bit thicker, 080 uncompressed and 050 compressed, as opposed to around half that for a normal hg

i think you're going to end up with a 1G-GTE KE70 that needs a new engine offer him a low price that factors in the cost of you buying another 1G, or keep looking elsewhere for your ideal car

as if that ever stopped anyone before *pets and strokes his 4k*

if the original primer hasn't fallen off in 20 years, it's not going to fall off now, leave it on. this also has the added advantage that you can take your time prepping it and getting it smooth for a couple of coats of new primer, as opposed to having bare metal which is going to surface rust in a few weeks

:D i could buy a whole heap of old driven plates and start a production line!

damn, you've already done most of the things i said :jamie: put giggle gas on it :D

it will be fine, common conversion. just get the welding done by a proper fabricator. speak to your engineer before you spend dollars

it's a good day huh oh, by the way everyone, AFI have pulled out. i'll bet there's a flood of sydney tickets on ebay now :D i know at least two people who have just gone "f@$k that" and sold their tix already

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http://www.off-road.com/toyota/tech/codes/ five and two are listed here as general toyota codes 5 being oxygen sensor 2 being map/afm sensor you'll notice these are also called code 21 and code 31, which are in 4age book as the same thing yes?

takumi is the kid from initial d if your clutch is worn flat and you can't afford a new one, just get out the hacksaw and cut some fresh grooves in it. here's one i prepared earlier :jamie: this clutch used to shudder up my driveway, it was so cool :D

damn. even i knew who he was!

TWELVE GALLONS!!?!?!?!?! that is like, 50kg of putty (we call it "bog" here in australia), that's insane! you'd be surprised how many "show cars" are actually totally dodgy like that, i never believe anything i see at shows or in magazines anymore and hey, no problem on the invite, i'm glad you joined :D check out the puerto rico piston team. they have old corollas like ke70s with full tubeframes and 3T-C motors with efi, turbos and nos running eight and SEVEN second quarter miles! from what you've said, i think you've already made the body light enough, it certainly is going to weigh no more than 750kg in that form. get it on a weighbridge and see for yourself :jamie: you could spend a heap of money on an alloy floor, but if you want to go quicker down the quarter, let's look at what else you could do, which would cost less but achieve the same result: tyres: i notice you're still running treaded street tyres. how about getting some slicks for the back? you can fit an 8" slick under the back of a ke25, maybe even a 9" tyre if you bash the inner guard in a bit (this is called mini-tubbing) and space the leaves in a bit. you could also get skinny front runner rims (such as 13x4.5" mazda 808 steelies) and run very skinny tyres on them to reduce rolling resistance at the front of the car suspension: what suspension do you have in the thing? alot of drag cars run specialised shocks that have high rebound + low bound in the front, and low rebound + high bound in the back, this enables the weight to shift to the rear better, giving you more traction at the back wheels engine: what exactly has been done to your motor? if it's just a fresh motor with big pistons, you have a WORLD of potential to unlock. camshafts would be a good idea. what carbs are you running? are they tuned properly? if you change the camshafts, have the distributor regraphed to suit the changed ignition requirements of the engine. you could get the head ported, put bigger valves in the head. one thing i think will be of advantage to you is lightening the flywheel, this way the engine has less drivetrain mass to spin up, and more power goes through the driveline as the car accelerates, it will also rev quicker as you go through the gears you could fit a nitrous oxide system. any engine in any car should be able to take a 50 shot of NO2, and that will make a huge difference down the quarter! you could also turbocharge or supercharge the engine, you'd certainly have the potential to run 11s and even 9s then you could also go to efi, which will give you a larger torque band and make perfect tuning alot easier, though for a dedicated drag car, i don't really think that is worth the expense. a decent set of twin sidedrafts (weber dcoe or dellorto dhla) will perform just as well for your application there's just a few ideas for you, all of which will make your car quicker over the quarter, and are probably alot easier and cheaper than an alloy floorpan out of interest, what does the car run down the quarter now? what else has been done to it? if you're going to get REALLY serious about it, then get a rollcage. if any car runs faster than 9.99 (or is it 10.99?) in australia, they're not allowed back on a dragstrip until they have a rollcage which is approved by either our drag racing or motorsport regulatory body

i'm serious. it's all good and well seeing it happen half a world away on dv, but when two guys on bikes actually really do come out of nowhere, splitting traffic and zoom past your door window as a truck's going past you, it's about the uncoolest thing i can ever think of happening and i can't say i have ever seen anyone driving or walking around with a construction worker hat or pushbike "stackhat". except mike meyers in that saturday night live sketch with nicole kidman where he's playing the kid who goes hypo when he eats sugar

nah they don't. i believe they have the same chassis, just different front end panels. i expect ke30 bonnet/guards/apron/grille/headlights would bolt onto a ke50 with minimal dramas

i wonder what final capacity that engine would have? cbf looking it up

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not that he really remembers much, after about 20-odd cans of jim beam on the particular day in question :D

*salutes* wax off

helmets do not belong on public roads. you need your peripheral vision to see dangers around you such as idiotic pedestrians, taxi drivers in your blind spot, motorcyclists who think they are ghostrider, and people who can't give way at side streets helmets do belong on a racetrack, where you are in a controlled environment with none of that, and may require extra protection due to the increased danger factor

helmets do not belong on public roads :D