carbonboy

Bugger the coconut...with banana prices down here at around $15 a kilogram, I'll settle for a bunch! :laff: This, however crazy, sounds like an epic journey! Anyone interested in going part-ways in a Toyota to drive there, donate to 7shades & fly home? (odds are the car will be so shagged it wont make it back) P.S Evan, you just want to argue with Trev face to face don't you? :P

The Bundaberg stuff? Its damn good with Bundy Red mixed in :yes:

Cheers mate! :y: Funny you should mention updates... I pulled out my (old-ish) digital camera to use, as my phone has a better resolution but has a scratch on the lense that stuffs my shots whenever I use the flash. Upon loading the memory card into my reader, I discovered some shots of the car from March last year :) As she was.. The original engine bay. And again. Interior post sound deadener removal. Rusty bit in passenger A pillar. Very rusty bit in spare wheel tub. Thanfully, now gone!!! Slightly dinged up & rusty front end. Found some other photos too, mainly reference shots of where the black goes on the pillars etc. I do have the other one sitting in the yard but just in case. :wink:

AE71...KE70...I'm easily confused at 80km/hr :laff: Either way nice looking ride! :yes:

Okiday, my bad! :blush:

I think you're right here, they're all nice cars though! :yes:

Spotted yesterday at about 3pm: A clean white KE70 CS-X sedan (pinstriping on the boot) with green P-plates cruising along the Western Ring Road (inbound) between Sydney Road & I believe took the Tullamarine Freeway exit. This thing was lowered, had gold mesh with chrome lip (serious dish!) wheels & just the right amount of camber :wink: Car looked good, gave the driver the thumbs up & mouth the words "nice ride". I was the guy in the cruddy blue hatch :laff:

Oops, my bad :blush: I havent driven a Chaser, but I have driven an SV21 Camry so I can say I think the Chaser would $h1t all over it, in everyway possible except purchase price (which counts for not much) :laff: But it's such a fine ass! :yes:

Problem: buckling caused by heat from welding process. Solution: big claw hammer, smaller ball pein hammer, block of hardwood, metal bar, earmuffs. You can probably guess what happened next :laff: Quite a few love taps later, the bottom was looking much more respectable...still lumpy but about as good as I was going to get it. Its not exactly an area thats HIGHLY visible so just going to blend it in & make the curves/shapes look like they're meant to be there. Sadly my reshaping caused a few cracks/holes to open up, so out comes the oxy set again & back at it. :( After another couple of frustrating hours of filling holes, making more holes, filling thoses, grinding the weld back, finding more holes, filling those, grinding them back, finding more, filling them... I got the spare wheel area ground back, rust converter treated again in some small, sketchy areas & washed down ready to roll. Mmmm...shiny. We have primer! :yes: Going to scuff this primer back (figured I'd primer first as its a better water barrier than bog?) then go with the metalmend/bog process....Yay! Sanding! :party:

Your pain is felt :wink: My old job involved a sanding device known as a "torture board", 8 hour days on that thing...:blinks: Keep it up man, don't be tempted to do it half-arsed as the better your prep, the better the final result! :yes:

That's the spirit, celebrate hard or go home! :lolcry: Happy (belated) Birthday!

Weren't these designed as a sort of luxo-barge-cruiser-mobile? Or am I getting confused with the Soarers? :hmm: Nice work with the brace Raven! :y: By going flat bar instead of tube, you've saved yourself quite a few MM's of ground clearance (I'm presuming this is mounted under the car?) & probably weighs about the same as equivalent strength tube. I've been working on knocking some up for my AE82 & this material choice solves a problem for me with one of them (besides the fact round tube is a pain to cut/grind/file to fit as opposed to 'cut' for flat bar), cheers man! :happy:

He could just be like me & have had his curiosity aroused by this, its a little Corolla Mystery that needs solving! :yes: :laff:

That's what right hand thread, means, most left hand threads can be found on fuel gas vessels i.e BBQ gas cylinders, acetylene cylinders, some hydraulic applcations etc. :) Dunno about programmed from birth...do you mean the mental capability to perform certain tasks or doing upo bolts/nuts in particular? :wink: :P :blinks: "Okay Sir, thankyou for coming in today for your trial. I'm afraid you didnt get the position...NEXT!!!" I'm guessing hammering a nail into a piece of wood is essential in your job? :happy: I'd always thought everyone had the ability to throw/catch a ball...apparently this isnt the case!

Well I didnt plan on just me using it to stash stuff, also handing for holding the camping gear if track is a way away. Have fun tomorrow! :wave:

I think I'd be arrested as I'd pull a handbrake U-turn & car-stalk it just to get a better look! :wink: Definitely sexy :yes:

Well when you put it like that....I don't blame you for trying to remain as inconspicious as possible! :wink: I've built a weather-proof canopy for my 6" x 5" trailer which I'm hoping to be putting to use in the future to hold spare bits, wheels, tools etc. Planning on being able to keep it locked up, as I'm sure people at trackdays are nice people but I'm just concerned about things 'growing legs & walking off' when I'm not around (too much time in the westie 'burbs methinks). The downside is, I'm either going to have to get a car to tow it, or just hook up/remove at track the towbar I have for my AE82 & use that to tow it :)

I think this is the only kind of Honda Civic that I like (at all) & you a have an incredibly fine example! Looking good :y: My high-school Japanese teacher had one of these (he hated it though), got a lift with him (a no-no nowadays!) a couple of times & he used to absolutely flog every last bit of speed out of it. Great car :)

I dunno, thought you maybe had a kind, enthusiastic friend to haul bits/tools for you & provide a place to stash gear. :blush: I got lucky when I was last at Calder Park, a mate was there watching & let me stash my stuff in his VX Calais, leather inerior be buggered! (blankets are your friends :y:) If your semi's have DOT approval marked on them, surely the police can't actually do anything? I mean, I'm sure they'd try but if they're DOT approved street legal... *shrugs* Then again if the cops don't even understand the Club Rego Scheme, who knows what may happen. From what I'm hearing the weather is 17 degrees & cloudy...

Kill them...with a packet of bacon :wink: Sorry to hear that man, that sucks hard! :( Top work getting all that work done in the timeframe you set yourself :y: Doesnt matter which town/suburb unfortunately, the morons are everywhere! If only we could just stop them breeding... :glare:

Good luck at Sandown on Sunday!! Gooo the Detomato! :rock: I wont be able to make it as Mothers Day duties have me headed out west to the parentals. Just curious, do you drive to the track with semi-slicks on or change wheels (from support vehicle) at the track?

It doesnt matter whether its a feature or just a couple of shots, either way you have been deemed worthy of gracing the pages of a national (international?) publication. :y: :y: :y: Top stuff man!

:lolcry: Sorry, couldnt help myself.

No I don't :no2: I only know (as actual people not screen names) a few here. But by what I've seen this Terry is at least semi-skilled :P :wink: , very resourceful & has excellent taste! :yes:

The little badge of the four valves with 'twincam' written perhaps? I see these on the LHS of AE92's/Novas...maybe someone put it there? :hmm: People do stranger things, like putting modern Toyota logo badges on cars that were made when this didnt exist :(