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pfft your all weaklings. Wheres that AE86 with the super-dooper dished Watanabees??

yea don't worry warwick I almost deleted it for you but thats Grims call now.

dunno but from what I gather they try to get out of the warrenty contract if they can. Resetting it I think you have to physically disconnect it for something like 15 minutes but again I don't have any direct experience.

Yea I think I'll take your advice and get a sparky to look at it if it happens again. I hate getting under the dash, and even then I'm only guessing.

yep they will expand with heat :)

can't. I have no idea how its wired in there. I have a spare dash loom but I can't be assed ripping the interior out to install that. It would appear that the problem has _somehow_ rectified itself. I have my suspicions that the distributor was to blame not having a diecent earth (somehow). I played with the timing a touch to get it to idle nicely while i tried to hunt for the problem and all of a sudden the tacho and all the gauges worked fine. Possibly the coil was using the tacho signal as an earth restricting the amount of earth line left for the gauges??? Ive honestly no freakin idea what the hell is wrong. As long as the problems gone away and STAYS away.

you might wanna try and reset the ecu caws when it goes for the next service chances are these guys are gonna be able to look and see what the error code was.

even with my raped 5spd It wouldnt even budge into reverse if you even LOOKED like you might be going for 5th

if you can ajust the rockers and it makes a difference in the noise then theyre solid. If they arnt ajustable or ajusting them makes no difference they are hyraulic and are probably fuxxord. I bet you got covered in oil running the car with the cover off........

SHOULDNT be possible on toyota boxes if your coming out of 5th. There is a lockout gate on every 5spd I can think of. That is unless your box is completely f@$ked in the ass.

so I take it the bluedwarf isnt staying so...blue

old wiring...sure is, its a 32 year old car. Ground is my best guess too. I'm gonna see if I can't run an extra ground wire from somewhere. I hate my immobiliser to death. Its more annoying than anything. If it was just a 4 point alarm Id be happy.

colours are very very debatable. Considering petrol is refined out of OIL. Also the colour will change according to temperature. Ive seen very black oil smoke right through to a grey/white.

Penrite isnt synthetic. Its a mineral oil just like pennzoil. I get a clean 5000 odd km out of it. Lasts titloads longer than bloody castrol oil

On the plus side I can finally put that METRIC temp gauge instead of the GHEY american imperial crap.

give me the shits.... Pulled up at the servo this morning on the way to work. Filled up with fuel, got an ice coffee (coffee is crucial to saturday morning work) and paid for the stuff. Get back to the car, turn the immobiliser off and attempt to start the car. She cranks but no hint of firing. I try again, pumping the throttle a few times thinking there might be a fuel problem. Still nothing. So I wiggle some wires and stuff around. can't get it going after 5 or 6 attempts at checking things like coil connections, plug leads, points gap, rotor, dizzy cap etc etc. So I push it out of the road, check fuses etc under the dash. Mind you by this time I was getting pretty pissed off about being late for work, ITS TIME AND A HALF I'm MISSING OUT ON HERE, so this is costing me something in the vecinity of $27/hr. can't getting going after trying everything I can think of (and yes I checked that fuel was going into the engine). So I decide to start my iced coffee, thinking this will reduce my rising stress level. Dad rocks up about 15 minutes later (I called him in amoungs all that shit somewhere but thats not important) I try to show him what it does, and the bloody thing starts. Many ???? and wtfing ensued. So I get in the car ready to continue to work and notice my tacho (factory tacho dash, yay celica) is reading 250rpm!!!! more WTFing from me and I call dad over whos gotten in his car ready to follow me. I show him and rev it up to ~2000rpm with the tacho only reading 1000rpm. I also noticed the charge light had come on but my volt meter showed that it was infact charging (at a healthy 13 volts). So I get in dads car and he drives me to work. Now when I come home dad tells me that he'd driven it home and the temperature didnt get above the first knotch (usually gets to 1/2 way), the fuel gauge sat at half way (and if you remember I fueled up with premo and iced coffee), charge light stayed on and the tacho showed weird readings. However my volt meter and oil pressure gauges showed correct readings (aftermarket gauges). So now I have to go down and rip the dash out and find what the hell went wrong in the 3 minutes the car was switched off. Dad says something similar happened to his old HQ but he can't remember what it was that caused it. Anyone got any idea?

Yea I might as well come out. Ive got the perfect set of rear skidkhana tyres...and now I can use the bloody things.

ONLY 130,000k? theyre only supposed to last 100,000 (although its debatable). Newer motors (i.e. 1990ish onwards) will last 300,000km+. I wouldnt worry about it. Drive it till it starts blowing dickloads of blue smoke all the time. K motors are cheap. Alternatively try some Penrite HPR40. Its very thick (25w70 I love it to death) and should reduce the oil consumption somewhat.

Youve obveously never been to New Zealand. They have mountains drifters have wet dreams about. And freezing cold intake temps.

Wolf 3D ph34jr

Thats on the proviso they can accually FIT between the christmas tree and side walls and then avoid running over the 60 footer blocks. 28.4 seconds empty lol. Need a MPH calculator

cheap and nasty. Avoid at all costs.... $200 should get you a basic brand name head deck. Look out for Brisbane Car Sound (or strathfield/whateverthef@$ktheywannacallthemselvesnow), wow and JB etc specials. You can usually find "last years" model going for HEAPS less than RRP. I picked up a diecent amp for 50% off. Keep your eyes and ears open.

Its pretty impressive the speeds these things can pickup in a short distance. Theyd make a sub 2 second 60 footer aye. Earth shattering torque. Thats fully laiden too. Do another calculation on 26 tonnes (dry weight)

very much so!!!!

AND i get paid for it :P hahahahaha I compression locked up in the corolla once in the wet. accidental 5th to 2nd change in my sloppy old 5 spd. ass hung out at a 50-60 degree angle with me turning the wheel as fast as I could crapping my dacks about where the fella behind me was.