Super Jamie

i have no idea what i did, but thanks ^_^ congrats to all the other winners as well, what a team we make :D

that is kinda insensitive. like "omg someone has put their car into a pole and could be dead, lets get pics for the intarweb" but oh well we've all got stories to tell i'm also pretty sure it's an offense to put those online, publishing evidence from what is now an open police investigation, etc. not sure what news? looks like a big hit

not necessarily. take any stock car and put a turbo on it without opening the motor. emissions changed, head same

i want supercharged oldcorolla to play around with too :D

ps: tockico also good

haha you mad bastard :D but why do you want two cars with blown head gaskets? :wink:

it really depends what brand/model you're talking about. the aussie rb30 from the VL commodore is far inferior to the jap rb30 from the R31 skyline. however, i'm pretty certain 323s and lasers are simply cosmetically different cars. a grease monkey at a wreckers could probably confirm this. ask a few, they're not the brightest souls :wink: you're looking for the same thing i was in a car, only you have the same to double the money to spend. cheapest choice is an AE92 corolla, reliable as f@$k and overrated examples are available for $5k to $6k, shitters for as low as $4k. next best would be a tie between 2 litre N14 pulsar and 1.8 EG6 civic. both very well handling unbreakable cars, and with powerful engines. both have a bit of a "boy racer" stigma. both available from $6k, but be prepared to spend $8k for good examples in best trim model, quite alot for an early 90s hatch. all of these cars sound absolutely shithouse with an exhaust on them, get one with a stock pipe i considered 323s and lasers a bit too girly for my liking, so i never really looked into them. besides which, the best i could get for my budget was a KC-shape tx3, which is still an 80s car. the interiors are also a bit crappy if you ask me, they are spartan and remind me of driving my old econovan. the others all have a fairly good semblance of comfort, fairly buckety seats for the good trim models, shifter in a position that falls readily to hand, etc

stop right there. you have a 1983 engine. you are not required to change details when you put new pistons in or head on your motor, you are required to change details when you change an engine ADRs are only allowed to move forwards, not backwards. a 1992 head and emissions system is equal or better to the emissions standards of 1983 motor this is providing you mirror the exact factory setup. you go changing compression or intake or computers (or add a supercharger), and yes you are required to have emissions testing to ensure continuing compliance with the ADRs applicable to that particular engine number that's what i would think anyway. it makes the most sense

don't forget the marg and the oil :wink:

kyb are very good. pedders gas are good, but stiff. i wouldn't bother with monroe, gabriel, other cheap brands. konis are nice but bring your chequebook. can't think of any others off the top of my head. kyb or pedders is all i'd use, and have used at the top end of the scale is billstein, some of which are in-cabin adjustable, and then moving onto proflex which is rally suspension, one corner is worth more than the whole car, but you can jump the car very high :wink: corollas weren't made to lay out. it's hard to lower one alot and still have it handle well

if you're going to cut, just take the springs out

we can just agree to disagree then :wink:

i have always found pc gaming irritating. drivers and crashes and all that shit. always having to have a f@$koff expensive system to play games at their best settings with a console, you just pop it in and play, none of that shit, and the game always works and always looks its best. and it's on the comfort of the lounge where you can lean back and spread your legs or lie down or pause and have a nap if you so desire i used to be a big pc gaming kiddie when pcs were more technically capable than consoles, but the games were still about gameplay than focus on graphics. i think good pc games died about the time quake came out, and everyone went out and bought a playstation

http://www.liveforspeed.net/ they don't get much better than this, as far as realism goes i've wasted many hours playing colin mcrae 2.0 on both pc and psx i havent touched pc games since i got given a ps2 last christmas

honestly i disagree they're 38mm chokes at full noise, they flow 148cfm each, as opposed to the single 160cfm singlecarb i had, which hit 8500rpm fine. they also were too big at low (sub-1500) revs, which you could tell from the half second of bog when taking off from an intersection. the mini guy i was going to get to tune them told me they were almost too big, and i should have gotten inch and a quarters. i'm no tuning expert by a long shot, but i'm pretty sure i know the difference between running out of air and running out of fuel i've also read lots of old car books which say things as fact, which we now have learnt to be not quite so. turbochargers are a fuel saving device you know, they have nothing to do with increasing engine power at all. i have books that state this as fact :wink:

it was the first single bridge on teven road, just on the south side of ballina nsw, before the turnoff to the quarry

yeah i know, i loved them. they lost a bit of response under 1500rpm but everything else was great. i couldn't believe how the thing picked up massively at 4000rpm and just kept going! instead of tapering off like it used to. pity i never got the chance to get them tuned properly, they leaned out big time over 7000rpm, you could feel it just hit a power wall and die, like putting a too-big air jet in a weber. i hadn't hit 8 grand for a while, i was missing it hopefully they'll serve simon well, they're his now

that's what it would indicate, yes google "spring stiffness" and you'll find a formula that lets you work out the stiffness of any given spring, based on its coil diameter, coil thickness and number of coils

no, that's why stupid uni student bitches in charades should learn to give way on one-lane bridges when there is a give way sign in front of them, and another road user already halfway across the bridge

bag the f@$k out of it so it lays frame, or put it on juice so it bounces. roll on stockos with hubbies and whitewalls, or gold wire 18s would be pretty pimp, chrome 20s would look awesome. do a beige leather or velour interior. big stereo, tints. pimp some hoes, flick some switches, throw some sparks, come home. a job well done

my mum once skidded into a charade in the rain, in her pajero. the charade needed towing and a new roof and windscreen. mum got the pajero's bullbar resprayed where it got scratched :wink:

i have heard theories that ideally, you want the front control arms to sit level when the car is at rest. that's how low your car "should" be for best handling i think for a corolla, you want 170lb-195lb in the front, and stock to 150lb in the back

buy 5 mags :wink: or just a cheap odd ebay/wrecker/mate mag that fits. you see them for sale in pairs every now and then, i think fook had some floating around a while back i suspect a few hours of running around at the wreckers trying on different steelies would net you something that fits

yeah, just a manifold and linkages. kangaroosa made some awesome linkages for his twin SUs, mirrored from the setup i had on my set old minis also had SUs, look to mini wreckers for sets of twins

and very, very much worth it. if you can't afford sidedrafts, look into twin SUs. almost as good, a third of the price! seriously, two 32/36s is going to run like shit on a 4k. one of them is too big, feeding all four cylinders. with two you'd be lucky to have any throttle response at all under 4000rpm or worse full marks for thinking, but you need at least 2 litres to pull it off well. twin 1.25" or 1.5" SUs :)