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I'm with trev. If that bearing is sloppy you're going to accelerate wear on your gears as well.

and just to make it clear, water DOES expand when it gets hot, that's exactly what an overflow tank is for. Just not as much as a gas. When you say it runs hot Rob, do you mean it's always boiling? Or it just seems to be hot all the time? I've noticed that my top hose gets quite hot long before the thermostat actually opens on my KE16. Probably due to the trickle past the thermostat and some conduction as well.

Hahaha he keeps calling his exhaust manifold an Octopus. Awesome. 11.5:1 comp and 140bhp. Man I'm running higher comp than that too. Insane. I love it.

Yeh I was clicking around for a bit on his webpage but didn't get far, cheers for the link Cam. Here's a funny quote talking about his new suspension bushes! "The people who ride the Corolla KE10 item worth trying. " This is wicked. One day I'll drop my 5K into a track built ke10 I reckon. It's a ball on the road but a single carb mild 5K would be fine on the road for the wags. It's inspiring to see him have so much fun in what is still a cheap as car. I mean those two 911 he's chasing, you're looking at 30-40k to buy one cheap and then an engine rebuild to standard specs won't see much change from 6 grand!

another crazy KE10. I love this thing, it's keeping up with early long bonnet porsches up until the long straight sections, I'm guessing they're 2.4 Litre porsches! As a 911 owner I have to say I never thought thought it'd be possible to get my 5K running this quick! looks like unreal fun Hey how do I embed video?

Cool you bought No Dice's car. wicked. I'd stick with the EFI and tune it. If you don't mind some electrickery you could run a Megasquirt, that's probably as tuneable and cheap as you'll get it. You wont get much change from 1000 bucks to go twin carb and that money spent on EFI will be a much wiser solution.

Timing seals when they're clapped out can dump a bunch of oil, especially after shutdown when the hot oil comes running back out the galleries. Maybe even check simple things like oil filter, oil pressure sender etc to make sure nothing there has failed, but my money would be on a seal. Also, sump gaskets can be tricky to get to seal.

No, the rule, un der the "simple modifications" category is this: The welding, chrome plating, heating or bending of axles, suspension or steering components, as a method of repair or alteration, is not permitted. Verbatim from HERE To me that says you can't use weld on coilovers. Nothing specific about bolt in coilovers but if you met the bump stop and other clearance requirements (height, shock stroke, captive springs) then you'll be less likely to get nailed.

second that call. Who's driving the yellow ke70 with a zorst. It's been resprayed and it's pretty tough sounding? Flexed up winns road yesterday arvo, I heard (before I saw it) it coming down main road Coromandel while I was in my garden, looked at my brother and said man I reckon that's a K engine..... But after I saw it I'm wondering if its a 4age?

Cool everyone's had a vent now lets get back on topic cheers guys. Can anyone conclusively answer this dude's question? If the seals are the same and the bolt pattern is the same and there's no internal clashes' you will be fine.

So is it a competitive rally? Or just flexing from a to b?

No.

not sure why you wont have any oil pressure, more likely that you'll just get a bunch of leaks.

You might find that the flanges on that manifold are thicker than the flanges on your exhaust manifold and you may have to file things down to get them even. Otherwise, you may have trouble with exhaust leaks around the gasket.

Yeh vinyl it. I was checking out a trippy datto 1200 ute with a vinyl roof one night after I'd had a bunch of pints at the Geebung in Hawthorn, Melbs. The old dude who owned it came out and I got chatting, he showed me a photo album he carried of all the cars he'd done! Crazy. Some freak even got his blue VR commodore done with a white vinyl roof!! Man you guys in the same shed with Ryan? I ought to swing by some night after work and check these puppies out.

probably running it hot and then got it wet in a real hurry, that'll crack cast iron no problemo.

Or they might even be able to fab up a new core for it pretty easily.

Yeh I second that. I'd also check that the ID and OD of the friction area is the same (pressure plate to clutch plate) and that there's no mechanical clash between the spring plate and centre boss of the clutchplate (possibly foul with the pressure plate levers or something like that. Also if the shaft ID is smaller, you may have a smaller thrust bearing which will need to interface with the new pressure plate.

It should have a number stamped in it and you should be able to search for it on google.

Problem with replacing it with another 30 year old heater core is that its likely to fail again. You might be able to get one new?

I jammed 7 pine sleepers 2000mm long in a daewoo lanos hatch with the boot lid closed.

Yeh getting my 911 off the ground enough to work on is difficult too. It's got the sill jack points though but I need the little insert that goes into it. Worst thing is that the old 911's have two oil lines running just inside the sill and dickheads jack it there and crush the 600 buck oil lines!!

Yeh, some carbs (including some of the webers I've seen I reckon) run the fuel bowl vent parallel to the throat. Seeing as most people talk about upgrading carby on a turbo setup I was assuming they'd probably not use a factory one. I fiddled a bit with my mates turbo stanza running a Falcoon (32/36?) weber and that thing kept blowing motors because it was leaning out at high revs without the reference line.... BAM.

I got my 5K head machined out and port matched to a dellorto manifold for 150 bucks. Ports are now bigger than a 3Kbp I honestly don't see the obsession with paying that sort of money for a forty year old head with a tempremental welsch plug. Give me a ported head half its age any day.

I was thinking it was another Red Dead Redemption obsessed RC member.....