Hiro Protagonist

Extractors will help a little bit (stock FE manifold is a cast-iron lump of crap, apart from the AE112 7A manifold which is better), but the big exhaust restriction is in the engine pipe where it goes over the crossmember. Stock it flattens out to an oval shape and gives a big reduction in flow and power. Replacing the full exhaust will obviously give good results (I gained somewhere between 5 and 10kw with extractors, 2" to cat, 2.25" through hotdog to Lukey Ultraflow), although thats on a 7A so you should probably just stick with 2" all the way for the 4A As for the gearbox, sticking with a manual is the best bet (do you have manual or auto at the moment?). 4-speed autos behind 4AFEs are slower than a wet weekend, and there hasn't been a 5-speed auto Corolla gearbox, ever.

I wouldn't go any lower than 15W40, which is what Toyota recommends, along with 20W50. Remember, the car is 8 years old now, and A-series engines love to start burning oil around that age. 20W50 if the engine is reasonably healthy, 15W40 if it's a minta. And if it's like my 7A, 25W50 to prevent that extra burn-off when it's cold

Should have said Celica. That way you'd actually have a chance of getting a 3SGE (or GTE)

I think you're thinking of an AW11....SW20s have nothing in common with Corollas.

What grinds my gears is when people complain about their ADSL when some of us are still stuck on 56k dialup.......(you can blame my parents for that though)

It could be higher in the block than other OHV engines (and thats an advantage because it means shorter pushrods)? Or maybe it's a high-lift cam, compared to previous K-series... Or maybe it's just a marketing thing to try and sell new cars with old out of date engines....

Supposedly the cat doesn't like it either, but with most modern cars you have an accurate fuel gauge and a low-level light that actually works.....unlike KEs, which have a fuel gauge that one second decides it is full and the next it's empty. Jerry-can was a constant companion in the boot of the KE55 whenever I had it, ran out of fuel on me twice.

The first time you do it, it'll take heaps of time, often like half an hour. The second and further times you do it, you'll struggle to do it in more than 30 seconds.

I've got the Gregorys for the AE101/102, which has both the 4AFE and 7AFE, and ECU pin-outs seem basically identical between the two (apart from the odd difference like knock sensor, which the 7A has but the 4A doesn't, not enough so they don't show different diagrams for the two ECUs)

They're slowly becoming e-Tag only these days, Harbour Tunnel is e-Tag only now and pretty sure most of the Change lanes for the bridge have gone, making it Exact Cash or e-Tag. I avoid the bridge south-bound these days anyway, just take Ryde Road down to Victoria Rd and take the Anzac Bridge (main reason I go to Sydney is for cruises or see my brother, who lives in Glebe)

I got a job

Why not swap the ECU over at the same time? Doubt there'd be too much difference in wiring. But there is definitely potential in the FE heads, you just have to spend money on them. Couple of my mates (from Twincam) have had modified 7AFEs putting out around 80kw at the wheels (they only made 85 stock at the flywheel, and normally get mid 60s at the wheels)

4AFC is a C50 gearbox, 4AGE (and 7AFE) is C52. Tecnically the boxes are compatible, but the C50 has a shorter first gear ratio that doesn't quite suit the 4AGE. So yes it will fit, but for basically the same money a C52 is the better bet. Or fork out a tiny bit more for a C56 5-speed from a 20V (beware that some silvertop gearboxes are still C52), which has different 3rd gear ratio, or fork out even more and do some fabrication work and get a C160 from a blacktop 20V

Doesn't he want to do it the other way around? Late head onto early block, thus improving it? As Sam said though, the intake is completely different. Early heads have the injectors firing into the head itself, whereas the late models (same head as the 7AFE too, mind you) have the injectors in the intake manifold. Plus, the late head does away with the cold start injector, and I think the t/b is different too (can't adjust idle speed on late model heads)

To be fair, this has been the best season in a long time. But thats damning with faint praise if ever I've seen it.

In Newcastle you can.....ummmm.....errrr....hmmmm....dunno. Our biggest claim to fame (and biggest attraction) is that we're not Sydney. Oh, and our beaches rock. But it's winter now, so they'd be like dipping your testicles in a bucket of ice water, quickly followed by your whole body. Edit - serious bit. Go check out the wineries up in the Hunter Valley, it's only an hour or so out of town and you'll be absolutely spoiled for choice (if you like wine that is).

I learnt to drive manual from the very start (in the land barge that is the SXV10R Camry), but taught my g/f to drive manual in the AE102 and then the KE55 (she'd learnt to drive in an auto, so could do everything else fine). She found finding the friction point a LOT easier in the KE55, so much so that she could actually get the car moving on flat ground purely using the clutch. In the 102 however, the gearing is a bit taller so it almost always stalls. Nothing a tiny bit of throttle can't fix, and thats how I learnt it - tiny bit of constant throttle (say 1500-2000, no higher than a cold idle), ease the clutch pedal up about a third of the way to get the car moving and then smoothly release the clutch whilst adding a bit more throttle. Although I must admit I was a very fast learner, managed to drive the Camry all the way home (about 15km through heavy traffic) on my first day driving it.

What Doesn't Grind My Gears is failing uni exams Because I didn't I passed Freakin' sweet.

My g/f's mother ran over her two with a Wiz-Bin a few months ago and ripped the whole toenail off, trust me you don't want to feel your toes yet......she was still having pains whilst walking 2 weeks later.

The genuine Toyota yellow books come up on eBay from time to time, usually around the $10-$30 mark, I've got one that I'm probably going to hang on to even though I sold the KE55, never know when I'll buy another one :-) Anything you want to know out of it I can provide easily, pictures inclusive. Not going to scan the whole book though, it's pretty thick

Correct - there are two kinds of hydrogen-powered cars that are feasible, and both run gas tanks as opposed to water. In a straight hydrogen combustion engine, it's basically the same as running LPG except you have liquid hydrogen (due to the storage pressure) instead of LPG. This produces veeeeery little to no emissions provided mixture is kept correct, as the only by-product of hydrogen and oxygen combustion is water vapour, but you have to take into account the nitrogen in the air and excess oxygen in the combustion (due to wrong mixtures), so you can still get NOx in the exhaust, but no carbon monoxide or dioxide. Biggest problem is that it still retains the poor efficiency (~20-30% in ideal conditions) of an internal combustion engine. Second is a fuel cell, which feeds hydrogen and oxygen gas into a fuel cell, and the resulting reaction produces electricity. This electricity is then used to power electric motors in the wheels/transmission. Once again, no carbon monoxide or dioxide emissions, just water. And quite efficient, too

KE55s don't have a clutch fan from memory, only the KE70 4Ks did. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

Got to love the fact that the electrolysis of the water to produce the hydrogen gas will use more power than you can get by actually burning the hydrogen......so therefore you might as well run the car off the electricity. Occam's Razor and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work.

Like these? They turn up on eBay AUS every few months, usually around $400 for a set, I got them second hand off a guy in Brisbane who had them on his 102, little bit of modification as far as the plugs are concerned (might have been modified by him though already). Big thing is you NEED the matching grille, the stock ADM grille WILL NOT FIT, they're a different shape and bolt in slightly differently. Fortunately, the sets on eBay usually include the grille and parkers too.

They do publish their entire playlist online the night before, you know....so just look at the name of the next song when it starts then go to the website and look up the list for that night. It never bothered me at all until I started watching Video Hits (rage is still heaps better though, music-wise)