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Oh and almost certainly the brake booster would not be a direct fit. If you want to upgrade the master cylinder on your TA22, which is the important part of the equation there, 03-06 Camry two bolt one's are a bolt up fit and commonly used in brake upgrades for Celicas.

I don't know by looking at them. I would imagine the build tag on the shell will tel you. A search found this thread that mentions RN41 I think. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?showtopic=30377

This was last week.. Well I gave her another right old flogging at a Fun Day at Winton on Saturday. The Fun Days are pretty much a "come and try your hand on the track" for $30, so its pretty crazy... at one stage they had 66 cars on the track apparently. Camera played up so I only got one shot of her in the pits Plus this one of the harness bar that Meridian Motorsport made up You can also see one of my Cobra seats fitted. Its just too narrow and I ended up with cramps and aches from the drive up there, the day out on the track, and then the drive home again. I am thinking that for the Phillip Island 6 hour I might have to return to the factory Recaro... and at the same time I sell the two Cobra's fixed seats I bought cheap with a view to funding the purchase of a new sparco or something that fits my hips better. Anyways here is some footage from one of my sessions.

Some in-car from the hillclimb weekend. Microphone is no good in this camera.. can't hear much at all other than it rattling when the front wheels start spinning in the wet and it tramps its way up the hill.

Fast forward to June... Well its been a while since I had anything worth mentioning! The little DeTom went and visited the panel beaters and the rear quarter was repaired, and the peeling roof was repainted at the same time. Looks great now.. though one side has decals and the other doesn't! Need to peel the right hand side ones off, though that is proving rather difficult. Competed at a very wet and cold Rob Roy Hillclimb on the weekend in it. Still waiting to see final results but I think the Charade might have made the top 15 and beat all manner of much faster cars... the wet certainly played to its strengths. My best was a 31.79, which was 4th in class I think. Its now in the hands of Meridian Motorsport getting a harness bar and fixed seat fitted. Next outing will be a Fun Day at Winton in early July. Hopefully before I run it at the Phillip Island 6 Hour relay I will have replaced the front pads with something more motorsport oriented and got the Koni's rebuilt. $$ is proving a challenge on that front at the moment though... but fingers crossed it all comes together.

In November I posted this... We have more small progress... A second hand rear bar from Japan arrived last week.. thanks to import monster for making that staggeringly easy. Just need to find a left hand skirt now on yahoo japan! Took it to the local exhaust shop today and ended up getting a new muffler, cat and flex pipe installed. Everything was r**ted. There is a wire dangling down near the cat - I am guessing this might be from a cat over temp sensor or something that was there originally from standard. In other news I noticed the previous owner has a dash up for sale with 248,000km on it... me thinks I know which car that came from based on the state its in!! Oh well... its still a good little jigger :(

At this stage I hadn't managed to sell the Corolla yet, so not much development on the Charade as yet... however ... My first acquisitions for it arrived - some 15" wheels fitted with brand new Falken semi-slicks. $650 for the lot on ebay which makes me happy! They looked silver in the photos on ebay not the platinum colour they turned out to be, so I think they will get repainted at some point, but I actually kinda like them - shame they clash with the silver on the front bar. Here are some photos of them fitted Its sitting up like a 4WD which is odd given it appears to have king springs fitted all round - perhaps they were standard height ones?? Anyways I will have to address that when the Corolla sells. I have a set of Koni's to put in it once they are rebuilt so that can all happen at the same time.

Thought I should post a thread on the replacement for my original club racer.... its another rehash of other forum posts so bear with me if it seems odd in how it goes up! Back in about August last year I acquired a very cool Charade Detomaso from a guy in Sydney. It was eventually destined to be a weekend club car - used in sprints, hillclimbs and hopefully one day events like the Targa Tour. (this bit may well be dreaming!) It's in reasonable condition, though its had a prang in the side in the last month just before he sold it. It has all the original Detom parts on it - the seats, steering wheel, dash top, grille, body kit, wheels and most importantly that great little engine and close ratio gearbox. Bits and pieces on the car need a good tidy up, so the plan is to do some of the following: Body tidy up - repair dings, repaint roof, bonnet and rear wing. Replace rear bumper that is dinged and torn. Interior tidy up - repair worn seat and cigarette hole Remove all the shoddy audio wiring Improve the suspension and brakes Remove the "fully sik" muffler that makes it drone horribly Replace the faded plastic headlights with Aussie spec glass ones Recover the steering wheel that is worn Fit harnesses and eventually fixed back seats Roll cage in the future some time Go racing! Its replacing the KE35 which has been a lot of fun, but I wanted something that was still road registered, as the need for a trailer each time I did something was killing me: Here is a pic from the previous owner's ebay ad. I drove it home to Melbourne from Sydney yesterday, so haven't had a chance to take any myself.

Here is some more progress on the suitcase stereo for Veronica Buttercup It was at this point that people who understand electricity much better than I told me that my idea of running this set up through some piss-ant wires and a cigarette lighter would be a fail and end up with the smoke getting out. They suggested that unless I planned to use the big cables I was testing it with, it would not work. So I am going to plan b and have ordered a mini-amp from ebay dudes in china which should cope with my power source a whole lot better. Might not crank as loud, but thats OK me thinks. Here is a pic of Veronica with some gear I have acquired for her rack!

I thought the diff to have for celica's was an rn25 hilux diff. which are rare like the proverbial rocking horse poo

widened stockies look sweet.. but do it properly please :(

Ahhh... I was joking Kehendo... it was in reference to me cooking parmas for people in the post above... don't worry.. the meeting is still on.

In news just in... an entire car club came down with food poisoning over night....

The Hotel we currently use, whether intentionally or not, do their level best to make us feel less than welcome. Putting someone else in our meeting space last month was the icing on the cake! That said the meeting spot is always going to be central-ish to the city... has to accommodate the eastern people.. the south eastern people... and the western people... and I imagine a few northerners as well. All suggestions for a venue are more than welcome.

Tuesday evening (tomorrow night) Bells Hotel South Melbourne 7.15ish if you want a meal with a few people (usually sitting around Table 8) 8pm to join the meeting.

Missed it by that much :( mr organised? lol... i wish

TCCA Meeting tomorrow night. Come one come all. It is also the AGM. The Committee stands down and you can elect a new one. Better yet, you can volunteer to be on it. Someone who wants to do the newsletter rather than me delivering it late constantly would be an excellent start :( See some of you tomorrow!

I will be racing the Charade at the Phillip Island 6 Hour on the Sunday, so I won't be attending. I will put it in the club mag though :(

Subscribing for the updates... god knows what I will be up to by then... Veronica the VW makes an excellent camper though I reckon :)

www.toymods.net has even more information. Best/cheapest option is to source yourself some XT130/RT132 Corona struts that come with the twin spot brake caliper. Then convert these to coilover, using one of the kits from someone like otomoto. This is all covered in my KE35 Club racer build thread if you want some ideas, I used the same parts in it. Alternatively there are a couple of guys using s13 coilovers but I don't think they are a pure bolt in proposition.

If you were asking this on a Celica forum you would probably get a better response. I think you have yourself an RA40 Celica. Which will have the same axles as an RA23, RA28 and RA40 Celica. Also some Corona's of similar vintage will have the same diff. Welded diffs will very often equal a snapped axle. I would suggest not welding your next one :hmm:

My name is Adam and I am a car-buying-aholic. It has been 2 months and 12 days since I last purchased a car. So help me god :hmm:

hehe... i took the bait... just used to the large number of nobs here who actually would ask that question in all seriousness :)

Drive it? Or ask a real question perhaps?

http://cars.ebay.com.au/Toyota-Corolla-196...bayphotohosting selling again Gav ? :wink: