Hiro Protagonist

Supercheap stock Superpro too...

The OP was asking about Honda engines with VTEC. Last time I checked, rotors were made by Mazda, and didn't have valves, let alone ones with variable lift/timing.

As long as you do it before the one-way valve :happy:

And turbos can't?

The oil system isn't totally pressurised though, whereas the water system is. Remember that there will be air in the sump and the cam/rocker covers, whereas the water system (assuming the radiator cap pressure valve is closed) is 100% coolant. If the gallery in the block is a return/drain to the sump then it is highly likely that an adjacent water gallery/jacket would be under a higher pressure, and thus you'd blow water into the oil but not the other way around.

No such thing as a 2EFE, it's either a 2E or a 2ETE, but both of those are 1.3L SOHC 12V from memory (which is "close" to 14V, which you'll never get in a car anyway). 4EFE is a 1.3L 16V DOHC

16V 4AGEs have the starter on the exhaust side, FEs and 20Vs have it on the intake side. Main reason why the C52 gearbox has two mounting humps for the starter motor (one on each side), and has earned the nickname "Mickey Mouse" (because the bellhousing looks like Mickey Mouse's head/ears)

Combination switch = indicator + wiper stalks.

Starter motor on a 4AFC is on the intake side of the block, not exhaust.

Checked the combination switch?

You sure you're not confusing double-clutching with heel-and-toe? Double-clutching requires pushing the clutch pedal in, shifting the gearbox into neutral, letting the clutch pedal out again, matching the engine revs of the gear you need to change in to, pushing the clutch back in and then changing into the gear you want. Heel-and-toe is "blipping" the throttle in the middle of a single-clutch gearchange whilst on the brakes (hence the "heel-and-toe" as traditionally your toe was on the brake pedal and your heel was on the accelerator) and the engine is free-spinning (ie clutch is disengaged). Double-clutching on a fully synchro-ed box (ie pretty much all cars made in the last 20-30 years) is useless and slower than heel-and-toe. I've learnt to be able to shift gears cleanly and at high rpm/throttle in the AE102 before the clutch pedal has even hit the firewall, so already the motion of the clutch pedal is the slowest part of the system - a double-clutch would require two such movements, and thus would be even longer. Essentially you "punch" the clutch pedal in at a split second before you shift gears, if you time it right then your foot and the pedal essentially bounce off the firewall (or the end of the pedal stroke, or whenever you choose to pull-out) with no time spent with the clutch fully disengaged and the pedal motionless.

The FnF movies are the movie equivalent of that kid at school who tried to sound cool and smart by inserting technical terms or big words into his sentences without actually checking to see if they were appropriate or even correct.

Presence of the word "valve" kinda rules out rotary....

Worst Decision Ever. Sure, the tCs look the goods, but a 20V? The stock 2AZ already puts out 120kw and a bucketload more torque than a 20V, and there's a TRD Supercharger kit for them too. With the 20V you'd be revving the rings off it just to keep up with a stock 2AZ.

With a little bit of playing around, yes. Our AE82 TC has an AE92 SX radiator in it.

Got photos of it? The AE102 and 112 7AFE didn't run a water-to-oil (and didn't think the AE9x ones did either), they ran a air-to-oil cooler behind the front bumper.

I believe the only thing really wrong with the Rukus is the name. The rest of the car is great. The Scion brand as a whole is going gangbusters in the US, and it is the sort of image-boost that Toyota Australia needs.....then again, they also need to make sure they bring the FT86, and why not a Scion tC at the same time (need a hairdresser's car to replace the Celica)

??? Paypal still works for me through my bank account, it just takes several days (as opposed to instant for a linked credit-card)

If you've had to top up the coolant then something is wrong - somehow coolant is getting out of the system and being replaced by air. Headgasket?

_XXXXX_ = emphasis. And if I use italics, it means that the text is sarcastic (somethine adopted from Toymods, where sarcasm is rife).

In some ways, we are finding new ways everyday to get out of doing things we don't want to, and finding shortcuts to things which just take too damn long. Evolution is taking us towards the most efficient and compact language, which unfortunately means dropping letters and spelling things phonetically/intuitively, and Anglicising loan-words (something that should never happen, it is like customising a hire-ca I for one refuse to welcome the new dumbed-down language overlords, I prefer to use the full language of the English people that I was raised to know and love. I also believe that the full stop, shift, and comma keys were put on the keyboard for a reason, and thus use them at every appropriate opportunity, even in text messages and emails.

The head-gasket problem should only be a problem up until the first change, it was a production defect that can be fixed once and for all by the correct gasket and torquing procedure. Sounds like your old man has warped the head.

Strut braces don't stop body roll, they reduce chassis flexing. Sway bars/anti-roll bars stop body roll (or reduce it).

TOCAU - probably 50% of regular members own or have owned a ZZE123 Sportivo, including turbo and supercharged ones.

True, stupid non-remote RWD gearboxes :yes: