Super Jamie

what breeze? ;)

it might be worth giving them a call or email to see if they can do a denso electronic dizzy, if you have one. if not, i honestly don't see what's so bad about points. i just had stock bosch points in mine and it never bounced even winding it off my 8000rpm tacho i'll put it this way, i'd rather a proper advance curve on a bosch dizzy, than a stock advance curve on an electric dizzy last time i checked, VPW were selling MSD 6A and Blaster 2 coils for $440 a set. that's about the best spark you can get on a points engine, and a pretty good price for it! a set of large ignition leads would also benefit, i got Top Gun to custom make my 10mm custom ones, via their reseller in town here, they cost $80 inc freight fook and i went to a place in brisbane northern suburbs to get leads made up for his 4age one day, they did it onsite and it cost $120 or $140 or something. i don't remember where it was, but he might?

now here in australia, we got three distributors: the denso points dizzy, the bosch points dizzy, and the denso electronic dizzy the elec dizzy will give you the biggest sparks, about 30kV, as opposed to 25kV out of a points dizzy with jaycar HEI. however, you can get ALOT of different advance weights and springs and performance heavy duty points for the bosch dizzy (as they were in lots of holdens and the like) and they're more common, so having work done on them is likely to be cheaper i got Performance Ignition Services in victoria to re-bush and re-curve my bosch distributor ($165 plus post), and it made a massive difference to my engine. that's what teddy's engine needs the most i think, and is a generally good idea for any motor with a non-original cam profile they want to know the cam grind and the compression you're running and the fuel you'll be using. i wrote a small couple of paragraphs about my engine, including what car it was in and what carbs i had and what i was doing with it, i figured the more info the better, but my invoice just read "rebush, recurve 25-65 10:1" so i dunno

;) see if this helps: to make the MOST power an engine can, the spark event (ignition) must occur at the point where the burning fuel will push the piston down the bore WITH THE MOST FORCE all the fuel in the chamber doesn't explode all at once, rather it burns progressively, starting from the spark plug, with the flame front spreading out. THIS is why you need to set the BASE TIMING to slightly BEFORE TOP DEAD CENTER, so when the piston is JUST starting on its way down, there's this massive burst of flame there to help it down, and work against the compression of the other cylinders moving up at the same time if the spark event is occurring too soon, then the flame front will be trying to push the rising piston back down the bore. if the spark event occurs too late, the flame will be chasing the piston back down the bore, not pushing it with as much force as it otherwise could be. either way, the engine will "run" but you're wasting power fuel burns at the same rate regardless of engine speed, but as engine speed changes, the piston will be travelling at a different rate, so it becomes necessary to light the fuel at a different time, this is why you have an IGNITION CURVE the ignition curve changes the timing (ie: when the spark event occurs) based on engine speed (mechanical advance) and what conditions the engine is being placed under by the accelerator pedal (vacuum advance) generally, a modified engine needs slightly more INITIAL ADVANCE, a QUICKER ADVANCE CURVE, but LESS TOTAL ADVANCE. it's said that a K motor benefits most from 38 degrees max advance, and no more. i'm of the belief that anything bast 10 degrees base advance is a waste, so if you're making your own advance curve (such as with programmable ignition) then there's some figures to start from. the yellow books have the stock advance curve in them as well, and it's actually slightly different from engine to engine

magnetic boots? or is that too star-trekky to be actually in existance yet? and you'd call it "under" if the shuttle was on ground. much like the "underneath" of a car is still the underneath when you roll it on its side to change the clutch ;)

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i challenge anyone with a street legal and registered corolla to get their car to do 300km/h. impossible!

know how you enter a double lane roundabout, and you just KNOW the person next to you is going to cut across in front of you, so you hang back and toot your horn when it happens? i SO want to just have a $50 piece of shit car i don't care about and drive around staying in my own lane waiting for the inevitable to happen

in a town here called ballina, something happened a couple of months ago. a truck was turning at an intersection, and somebody in a car shot out in front of them, causing the truck to swerve and jack-knife and go into someone's front yard and clean the porch straight off their house. at like 7 in the morning. interesting way to start the day the next day, the newspaper is all like "CALL TO BAN TRUCKS IN BALLINA". and i'm thinking hold on, they said a car caused the accident. if the car wasn't there, the truck would never have caused the accident, how about a more appropriate headline would be "CALL TO BAN SHITTY DRIVING IN BALLINA"

but i want the speedo accurate so the odometer is accurate as well ;) naked girl stickers i can get also, hmm, good idea :y:

thank you all for your helpful and/or colorful responses :y: i've also found geoff wright at richmond tweed instruments in machinery drive, tweed heads does it too ;)

i have a mate from high school who is a crooked cop in sydney ;)

he's got a hacksaw and pliers and cable ties and race tape. what more of a toolkit do you need? good call about the drifting hahaha

it was reported at the time darren's right, paperwork and lack of interest, and that's just pathetic they'll happily hand out speeding fines and defects to people who aren't causing any harm, but someone actually causes an accident and damages someone else's properly and they just lie back and do f@$k all

it's the wrong way round tho ;)

even though it's only like 4.5% ;)

honestly, what's the go with the cops? a friend of mine was in an accident yesterday, she was on a roundabout and some idiot lady was speeding and didn't give way and ran into my friend's car and pushed it up onto said roundabout. my friend's fine and both cars could be driven away but still the way i see it, there are at least three fines here. exceeding the speed limit, not giving way on a roudabout, and changing lanes on a roundabout. you could probably even throw in a not indicating on roundabout in there too my mate called the cops and they didn't even want to hear about it. "both cars can be driven away, it's something for the insurance companies" they say but mark my words, next time someone is all alone doing 110 in a 100 zone of runway-quality highway, endangering nobody and not actually causing ANY accidents, they'll get pulled over and given a ticket for being a dangerous road user ;) free plug - speeding is bullshit website

does anyone know a place that will recalibrate a mechanical speedometer? i'm wanting to go from 195/82/14 to 235/45/17 or 235/40/18 on my hilux, but i don't want the speedo to be out

sorry i've been busy at work and haven't remembered to check the board to see who's working what weekends. i've emailed myself so i'll check in the morning ;)

yeah but you can actually drive ;) i get sideways in industrial estates when it's wet, and i put my corolla around a go-kart track a few times

the part numbers were different, but according to cafee, whose work has the bosch catalog with part numbers and specs, they all do exactly the same thing

wikipedia rocks, look up ANYTHING ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk and it's all written by real people just like us :y:

alan taylor would more than likely know

i'd actually be interested to ride in a truck with decent seats but it's kinda hard to be comfy when the cab is trying to register something on the richter scale. my cd player skips quite regularly

lol i've given you a complex ;)