Hiro Protagonist

The best bit about the Australia Day flags been flown from car windows is that they tend to be the same people who put the stupid reindeer horns in the same spot, so they had to get rid of them to fit the flags.... Now all we need is something to make them replace the flags.....

There's a difference between aftermarket and factory-fitted. Varexs are designed to be manually opened and closed by the driver whenever they want (which can be used to bypass, whereas the factory-fitted systems (Astons have had them for ages, and a lot of them just change the sound or open up another set of pipes rather than actually bypassing the muffler) are not manually controlled and obviously have been complied to ADRs, otherwise the car wouldn't be able to be sold here.

W-series isn't really overkill when you remember that they came out behind anaemic 18RCs (not the W58 though). I certainly wouldn't baulk at using one behind a BEAMs if the J160 wasn't available or too expensive.

There are 2 different 3SGE BEAMS motors though (well, technically 3 but one is so rare it's not funny), the red-top which came out in the last of the ST202 Celicas and SW20 MR2s in east-west config and single VVTi, and the black-top which came out in north-south config and dual VVTi in the RS200 Altezza. So it could have been a BEAMs motor in the MR2...

WGMG - sliced my thumb open last night chopping up pumpkin (stupid good sharp cleaver), wasn't hugely deep but was quite long, makes typing and other stuff quite difficult, fortunately it's my left hand though otherwise it would have been even worse. Still, you gain a whole new level of respect for opposable thumbs when you suddenly can't use one...

Only on the STi though - regular run-of-the-mill Subies are still 5x100.

There are ways around it, like disabling Javascripts, hitting Stop before the page loads fully or looking on the mobile site.

Third post in the thread :P

CSIs are only used during cranking though, right? So as soon as the engine catches and you let go of the key it is no longer part of the equation. Unless it isn't stopping and is flooding the engine making it run rich and rough.

95 is still ethanol-free...

It needs to be feasible though :P The PRV only puts out about 100kw, and weighs a fair bit too with a cast iron block so wouldn't exactly set the world on fire. Oh, and there's no such thing as a V6 244 - the middle 4 means it's a 4-cylinder. 262 and 264 were the V6 models.

Why would you bother doing that? A 5K has the same stroke (exact same crank actually) as a 4K, so boring out a 4K to fit 5K pistons gives you the same end result as just putting in a 5K in the first place. That is unless there is some major upside to retaining the 4K head

??? As Troy said, there's no "jump", the 7A is essentially just a 4AFE with longer stroke and was used in the AE92 beforehand as well. Not at all uncommon for a model of car to come out with several different engine capacities depending on spec, just look at 90s Civics which had 1.3, 1.5 and 1.6L models all at the same time in the EG series) BTW though Troy, the 4AFE never had 85kw in Aus, it was more like 76-77kw (although some of the AE95 4WD wagons apparently came with the high-compression 4AFHE, but they would have been imports from Japan).

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What do you mean?

If you want to eliminate the wax pellet as a cause then pull off the intake pipe, cover the small hole inside the throttle body and then start the engine (cold), give it a _tiny_ bit of throttle and see if the problem goes away. If it runs then then it is quite possible that the wax pellet/idle up valve is completely jammed (I think they do tend to clog with carbon/oil deposits too), in which case remove it and completely clean it and the throttle with carby cleaner.

What's the idle speed like when warm? There is history with the wax pellet idle-up system failing or not functioning properly, but normally it is so that the car never gets to warm idle and just sits there on ~2000rpm all the time (either because the pellet has jammed or because of an air bubble in the cooling system.

Ah missed that, only saw the "vertical", "not rotary" and "rotary as in a knob" bits

101/102s have a vertical one (like an air-vent control) - hardly the vintage you're after though...

Ye olde Sega GT2002 on the XBox has a TE27 in it :D Many cool cars in that game...

No idea on the actual code, but it looks extremely similar to colour of my mum's first car which she bought new back in '69 so would be quite surprised if it's not a factory colour (or very close to one).

Sounds like a really weird order at a chinese takeaway.. #69, extra kinky, no cashews, and 3 spring rolls please.

The fact that it's a chopped bigport intake manifold would scream to me that it is still a bigport, just with the opening on the plenum for the throttle body moved to the other end. It is harder to make a bigport manifold fit a smallport head than it is to adapt a plenum for RWD, so there's a pretty good chance that the plenum/manifold matches the head, in this case means it is a bigport.

In Aus both the bigport and smallport were MAP-sensored...

Looks to me like a bigport, at least as far as the intake plenum (which has been cut and shut though for RWD though) and cam covers are concerned. The small rectangular section on the plenum is where the TVIS label normally goes (smallports have a plain ribbed plenum with no markings), and the cam covers only have one level of bolt holes for the spark plug valley cover which also means bigport (smallport have two levels). As has been said though, cam covers can be swapped over easily and the plenum could be a red herring too because of the RWD conversion.