Super Jamie

my telly got a rollaclub.com sticker today :D

ooh neat and tidy :D i would try get ke30 chrome tail lights and bumpers, they suit the old cars so much better. and lose the hubcaps, paint your steelies gloss black or matte silver and get some chrome dress rims :(

ke30/50 to ke70 extension housings are different in the shifter linkages, so in a word, no it doesn't fit. unless you cut a hole in the floor

was talking to ol' nik today actually, her mr2 drives and handles like shit cos the suspension is old :( she said she found an animal porn site the other day/week/month and thought of me, how heartwarming :D

but that's like, crimped metal sheet with holes in it, not something you would use for an inlet-manifold-to-head spacer. it needs to seal against outside air i have heard of people making their own spacers before to reduce inlet temps, apparently it's something that does work, but the material used escapes me. some googling may turn up results?

of nikki'a ke30. with the white tri-spokes

i think you could find some "space age" material with a bit of research and cut it out yourself for cheaper than 50 dollars :D

out of interest, what are you actually trying to achieve here? a corolla that has a wrx bar and wing on it, or an actual replica car that people will look at and think "hey an sti!" until they look closer? i think the first option will just look silly. the body of a ke70 and the body of a wrx are very different in their curves and flows, or lines and flows as it would be on a ke70, it would be difficult/impossible to match up the different styles of boxy/round body parts so that it actually looks like it naturally fits. if you just want an sti but can't afford one, i would buy a cheap old rex or liberty and put sti bar and kit on it. it will look much more convincing and fitting, and probably pretty good in the end the replica option is interesting, if not alot of work. much customisation and one-off parts will be required. here is something to inspire you: at first look you think "oh yeah just another ferarri 308gt". but no, look closer, follow the roof lines and look at the rear quarter window. yes, inded it's just an old ta22 celica! i have also seen similar kits which turn a mazda mx5 into an aston martin good luck with it ps: as for your wheels, i would get some custom bolt-on wheel spacers made up, or find some you can buy through wheel shops, to change from 4x114.3 rwd offset to 5x100 fwd offset like a rex. then you could actually run real wrx/sti wheels to complete the look something like this but different stud pattern these are legal for street use with an engineering certificate, not like a floating non-bolt-on spacer which is illegal no matter what and you gotta paint it 555 blue with gold wheels :D

it's like a stage from colin mcrae, in a car from gran turismo, on fast forward

i don't know either, but i see them on 4x4s all the time. a quick google for "4x4 suspension" shows that they are called a steering damper so i guess they act as a absorber of shocks deliverered into the steering system my rough terrain, as you want to be able to steer and keep the vehicle's direction stable, not have the wheel wrenched out of your hand and your fourby go out of control the first big rock you hit. it looks like they do this by placing a compressible brace (in the form of a shock absorber and coil spring) between the steering components, which is a moving part, and the chassis of the vehicle, which is a non-moving part that you're trying to control seems to make sense to me? also quote ironic for that ford up there. i'll bet the biggest shock it gets to its steering system is speed humps in carparks. if it even fits in a carpark, disgusting thing

so we can play parky-underneathy like minitruckers do :D

yeah i know what you mean. i have no idea what my next serious car will even be, i just want to have a comfy cool rolling stereo for a while :D we have so gone off topic lol, ahh its all good

it's all good :D but i'm serious

i have. and i won't be doing it again

i have since learnt there is a public fund (called the non-something-something :)) set aside for people who get hurt like that and there's nobody around to give them compensation, so at least it's not all bad for THEM still, YOUR life would be pretty much over, so yeah

haikal is my hero :)

no, the heads are nothing like each other

he lives in bumf@$k nowhere. there ARE no other shells he could always import one, but it's alot of bother and he IS in the philipines, the panelbeater is probably working for 5 bucks an hour so why not fix it? :)

er, have any of you read the actual thread lately? have you seen the repair work he's had done? the entire floor and sills have been rebuilt out of 1.6mm sheet, and it is tidy work. he's floored just about everyone on toymods with his persistance and this call WILL be saved, and probably become very tidy in quite a short amount of time we're whingeing about carbs and windscreen plenums, this guy has to rebuild from the floor up. we go to the local wreckers, osix is travelling between COUNTRIES to find parts. give him some credit here's some of his pics if you're too lazy to mosey on over to toyfags

i find it interesting that a photo i took is on someone else's photobucket

jonny from oldrollas tried using wagon slapper leaves when he had a wagon, years and years ago. he thought they came on too hard too fast for good handling. like a progressive rate spring that suddenly gets REALLY hard compared to the rest of the spring travel, which is essentially what they are again i'm talking about a performance/handing point of view tho. this modifying cars *just* for looks is wierd stuff :)

yeah been there done that too, just stinging it with this one, it's only a pano :) i think we've gone off topic. sorry miller, thread is all yours from here on :)

so in effect, you have the two/three leaves working in your spring pack, the bottom two are just there as spacers so the u-bolts can do up (cos if you take the leaves out, you run out of thread when you tighten them up) i personally think that's ok, as long as the springs aren't not working against each other, that's what you want to avoid in all honesty, that's exactly what i was thinking of doing to my panelvan, because it's not a racecar either, and i'm too stingy to spring for resets. except i was going make up some little rectangles out of 8mm steel strap and use them instead of the leaves so it's not so obvious to the feds

flipping leaves is not the proper way to lower a car either leaves work together to make a progressive spring rate, if you flip a leaf then you both ruin that progressive rate so the rear end doesn't handle in a linear predictable fashion, and it ruins the total spring rate so you end up with soft springs which sucks i know for a fact if you just flip the top leaf on a KE corolla you'll be on the bump stops. people often flip the second smallest leaf and get a good ride height. then complain that their car handles like shit there are two ways to lower leaves properly: reset, inverting eyes. end of story