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I have one of these... they drive quite nicely too. Much better than the AE9* series. 7A engine has buckets more torque than the 4A... even with the slushbox auto. :hmm: I sold it yesterday. Too many cars....

Well if all you're after is a fishing trip, jump on a plane... flights are cheap as chips and I got a tinnie and plenty of gear you can borrow :hmm:

Pink bits... hard to photograph.

Just plumb a nitrous kit in... flog the bejesus out of it til it blows, and then upgrade to a GE :hmm:

What are you guys paying for LPG down there... its so expensive up here its negates the cost-saving aspect of converting...

While the cat is away, the mouse will play... did some tinkering with the gf's car while she was working today. This is how a shed should look.... hers and his :hmm: Monza seats in, Nardi on, hideous Jap-spec-pink-glittery-gearknob installed. Dodgy scorpion rims with their shitty secondhand japanese winter treads removed, replaced with good tyres and some alloys with a better offset. Going to have them blasted and painted white... one day. Also chucked some lower springs in... doesn't look like a 4wd anymore. Huzzah. Sits at a very nice height too... not too low, still plenty of travel and isn't stupidly hard. Little miss bought some bulb paint (pink, of course) from Autobacs the other week, so she spent a couple of hours the other day changing ALL of her dash lights to pink. Actually looks kinda cool... I'll get a pic tonight.

Des drives like a granny.

You're correct about colour and heat, but paint finish does have quite a lot to do with it as well. Sunlight is radiation, and heat is only generated when that radiation is absorbed by something. Having a more reflective finish bounces more of the radiation off, ergo, less heat. Having a nice thick clearcoat and a metallic finish makes a world of difference. My Suzukis were flat white and metallic black... probably why there wasn't much difference between them. I would NOT like to own a matt black car up here.

Flat black, yes. gloss black. notsomuch. Also the mythbusters thing is in Fahrenheit... I owned two GTi swifts, one black, one white (it was the 90's, they were cool ok?) and I didn't notice much difference. Mind you, up here any car's interior will hit 50 deg and you're hard pressed to tell the difference of a few degrees.

Its been raining for a month now... and I'm bored. This little fella likes it though... he's using the aerial of one of my backup 70's to try and get a bit more sun. Brief moment of angst + Pickaxe + Shitty Corona = Feel much better now :hmm: And now for something completely odd.

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I'm going to assume this monster is no longer street legal...? At least over here it wouldn't be

With the black, dumping several niteclub sluts worth of glitter (mica fleck) into the clear coat can assist in hiding imperfections and swirls. But yeah that BMW blue is a damn sexy colour... especially on an equally sexy E39 M5..... mmmmm.......

Scarily enough, I actually did. *sigh*

I've owned quite a few. I have an encyclopeadic knowledge of all things completely useless and irrelevant. Ask me what the longest recorded flight of a chicken is.... I dare you

Did the little strumpet muddle the overrated properly? Did she use simple syrup or just sugar? Bah. I can offer some advice from my time staging events in clubs, cute bartenders are always useless. Go for the butch looking uber-dyke or the gay dude. Something in the genetic code that makes them homosexual also embodies them with an uncanny skill for cocktail making. A good Mojito will rock your world and you will never drink anything else ever again. PS... Is DJ L8s still doing the rounds down in Adelaide? He's an old mate of mine. He got me utterly toasted in Sugar once... oooh nasty memories.

There is a difference in seats.... it depends more on the trim level rather than the year model. If memory serves correct, the ones with the fore/aft adjuster on the front (as opposed to the lever on the side) go back further.

I'd really like to see you do this. I had an big single carbed 18RG in a TA22 some years ago and it was a monster. I later had another one, EFI, in an RA40, and it too was quite a machine... One attribute I remember an 18R has that a 4AG will never replicate is the huuuuuge amount of torque they have, especially the EFI. At the time I had the RA40 I also (stupidly) owned a HQ Monaro with a 307 Chev, and the Celica would easily whoop its lardy arse up to 100kph. In a lighter car like your rolla, the effect woud be even better. And don't let anyone tell you they don't rev.... mine hit 7.5 regularly, and as a bonus, they sound they make at full noise is almost woody-inducing :jamie: Yes they are an old engine, and they are kinda heavy... but they were the toyota tuner's motor of choice for a very long time, for very good reason.

Just as a side note re: black cars are hotter in the sun... 70-80% of the heat entering your car's interior via sunlight comes from the glass area, not the paint. The real world difference between a black and white car's interior temp is actually bugger all.

No need. 4k valve seats are hardened so will run unleaded just fine. I also get over 500k's per tank, but I'm running a very nicely tuned weber and a decent exhaust which helps a lot.

What do I win if I can...

Heh... Visions of irokin slowly pacing around the table, watching everyone eat, menacingly brandishing a paddle with 'warn' inscribed on it...

Can and has been done... everything is custom (mounts, tailshaft etc) but if you're handy with the welder, shouldn't be too difficult. Thats also a pretty good price for an 18RG if its in good nick. This guy has one... http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=14160 Just watch he doesn't try to sell you anything :jamie:

$275 sounds pretty good. They're a dime a dozen really. PCD is 4x100, standard offset is +38/40

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