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As clearly shown by CO2 causing global warming... now that idea has been firmly thrown out the Govts are abandoning their carbon taxes by the score.... Hmm... "The Science is Settled" ring a bell?? In theory you are right, but that example just shows why we DON'T want a Govt rushing off with the latest scientific theory and caning us with it. A technocracy would only work as a Libertarian Govt, otherwise it would be captured by the engineers in power who would never want their pet theories thrown out. I'm all for educated politician's so long as they can only raise money for their ideas voluntarily. Anyone watching NZ's upcoming referendum on how they elect politicians? Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic largely, but it shows that a democratic people can get fed-up with one-man one-vote and the results it produces. Anyone want to pitch into why Aussie has so much Govt?? Three layers plus?? How the State Govts who handled the Federation could be so silly as to form a Federal Govt that could raise its own taxes? What would Aussie look like if Canberra had to form a budget then go to each State and say "we want this much money this year, please"??

maybe... maybe not... Depends on the gauge a lot. I reckon warm idle at 10psi is fine, running around 40 at revs is great and cold it will be up around 60psi. So you may be low but not disastrous, the rattle is more a worry. Have you had a mechanic confirm the rattle?? Don't forget an oil pump recon when you do it up.....

What does actually mean?? Does it turn over? Does it turn over slowly but not fire? Does it turn over OK but not fire Does it turn over OK, fires but won't run. Does it not turn over but you can hear it 'click' once Does it not turn over but you can hear 'click-click-click...' ???

I'm damm sure! Ever tried to disagree with an engineer? They would lock all freedom up in a straightjacket of engineering science and there would only be one way of doing anything forever! Meanwhile- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

extractors- they only come in 2" these days so take the 2" to the resonator under the passenger's floor, then inch & 3/4 to the rear with a tri-chamber muffler. Works for me and sounds great. You can use a 2" all though but I doubt you need it, and a straight-through muffler, instant cop bait. If you want to keep the stock manifold just 1&3/4" pipes with two mufflers. Explain to the exhaust guy what you want it to sound like and he should have some recommendations. try this- http://autospeed.com/cms/title_Giant-Muffler-Comparison-Detailed-Test-Results/A_0383/article.html

Well, I'm aiming for a Libertarian Govt Irokin, but I'm happy for any steps towards giving freedom back to the individual. This hasn't happened in my lifetime with the exception of the economy in the 1980s when Roger Douglas and his cronies saved NZ. The country was like Greece right now, but no-one was aware of it outside Parliament, and The Gang of Four used the Labour Party to free up the economy in a way that set NZ up for the next 30years. Since then Labour has tried to grab all that power back, and National has done nothing to move it further forward, but it was a life-saving move. Why do you think a fuel filter costs $95 here and $55 there. Look at Steve Jobs- the effect that one capitalist has on the world is so positive, and the effect of one Socialist (say, Obama) is so negative! The Govt is not the answer, they are the problem!

But that is no different to any risk in life Twinky- We all decide how much risk we are willing to shoulder and we insure against the rest. Yes, we might have ambulance drivers who would want to see your insurance card first (or run an EFTPOS terminal over your wallet!) but that is the same as going into a supermarket without money. You want something, you will have to pay for it or beg for it. Christchurch has just taught people a lot about having insurance, and also demonstrated the unnoticed lesson about people's charitable instincts even above Govt tax. Just what are those services costing you at the the moment?? Probably far more than what you expect. After all, you are giving away 20years of your working life to the State, so you will only have 25years left to set up your life and save for your retirement! Overall, I've always found that the private sector is far more efficient than the public sector (having worked n both) and competing companies are the best way to keep costs down. If you want to see how bad things are, read about the powers of the tax dept. They have total power to examine everything in your life in the aid of making you a slave to the State, while the Police are hobbled in their pursuit of the other criminals stealing from you- http://pc.blogspot.com/2011/10/power-to-pillage-but-not-to-surveil.html

You do have a chance to set it all on fire..... Don't pick the wrong wire! You'd be better to get an auto electrician to look at it, or get the 4AGE AND the KE70 wiring diagrams and look at them carefully.

Pull it out and fit new bearings. Don't even pull the pistons out if you are happy with the compression. Mine suffered from the wrong oil filter before I bought it, so the bearings were rattley on startup. I pulled the motor, dropped the sump and took out the crank to be cleaned, then fitted new stock bearings. Make sure you glue the hell out of the sump gasket!!

lol! Win!! Yeah, check the mounts like Jimmy said. Make sure they are both sitting on the crossmember towers properly add the motor hasn't slipped to one side. I think there's a little locating pin in each one... can't remember exactly now.

Love it! Another man who wonders why politicians can't behave like their voters ! "Yo the leaders an I'm following! You don pay your bills then I'm not gonna pay my bills!"

Toyo if you can get them in your size, I've used them for years. Since I found they were as good as Falkens but cheaper. They make a great sports road tyre in the T1-R and a roadable race tyre. I see the Targa in NZ has changed from Dunlop as a control tyre to Federal, so I assume they make a good road/race tyre too.

I've got a Gregorys.. Avoid them!

That is the crux of the whole matter! You don't approve of what other people do, but you won't stop them. Now why can't Govts behave the same? Why do the people in power have have quite the opposite mindset?? "I don't think what you're doing is good for you so I'm going to stop you!" Do voters feel that they are so inferior to the politicians that they have to be told what to do?? Is it obvious that politicians are somehow far more intelligent than us, far more moral and better-behaved, and have far more wisdom than we?? Personally I've never found one that I would waste a pee on, and I've been in politics and run for Council. They are generally slimy, ingratiating and out for themselves with a mean power streak that reminds me of the worst of school teachers. They HATE it when people won't do what they're told. So why don't we start with removing all laws that don't require a victim to stand up in Court and say "The accused wronged me by committing force upon me". No victim, no crime... and select politicians randomly rather than let them steal our money to bribe us with to vote them in to steal more money...

lol! I'd never heard of it, but Wiki saved me- It came up because Hitler was very keen on eating less meat, eating lots of veges in a healthy diet, having the volk do exercises and practice clean living in the way approved of by the State. He was anti-smoking and against getting drunk.. All the things our Govts now try to nanny us about! Being a Fascist he believed in private ownership of business, but the State told you what you could do with it and how you could do it. He felt a subject's first duty was to the State and you were expected to sacrifice yourself for the greater good. Sounds familiar to me! Now this- is meant to be SELF-discipline! You are an adult when you do the things you should because you know they're right, not because someone told you to do them. If they turn out to cause you grief, you take the consequences... not common these days, the usual response is to blame everyone else and then expect the govt to fix it!! That runs into Twinky's comment here We don't need a master to control us, we just need to realise the actions we take will have consequences. We don't need a Govt to enforce that either, for as mentioned above, if you pissoff all your neighbours you will live a very lonely life. The local shopkeeper could refuse to serve you, the gas station, all your peers in fact! In an anarchy you have to be nice to people, or you won't survive! In contrast, some fkwits in NZ pushed a Jewish bookbinder through Court because he refused to repair a book denying the holocaust. So he didn't have the freedom to choose to serve someone or not! Talk about State-sponsored slavery! What should really happen here? Well, having no job should cause you to starve! Without the Govt making slaves of everyone else, you will have to beg rather than get "welfare", or find a job. When I ran a garage in Cape Town I would get people coming in and saying "Got a job for me Boss?" Try and find that anywhere in a welfare state! I have cornered guys in the labour dept offices trying to get them to accept jobs in NZ, and you can't get them to work! So, no welfare, no minimum wage, work for a $1 a day if you are at the bottom. You can bet your rise up the ranks will be much faster than now! Do drugs?? Sure anything you like, your body is your own! Screw it up and you will suffer the consequences, no-one will HAVE to pay to fix you. Suddenly the consequences are right there in front of you... Bring up your kids badly?? Well, who is going to look after you when you're old?? There is no Govt screwing money out of the younger generation to pay the pensions of the older one. And speaking of that... you do realise that there is not a chance in hell you youngsters can pay for my generation to retire on the current tax rates don't you? Unfortunately we will out-vote you to guarantee our incomes, even though the Govt has spent every dollar we paid in tax thinking it was for our pensions! Its the biggest ponzi scheme in the world. On top of that the reserve banks have ruined the world economies and will inflate the currencies to pay the debt, so all those private pension schemes will turn out to be worth peanuts.. Its going to be a rough ride!

Nope! Don't exist! Not a chance in hell! Maybe your research can prove me wrong...

There is a little book around called "The Pencil", which goes into how many people do what they do to make a buck, without any of them except the end-producer wanting to make a pencil. Some guys cut down trees, some transport them, some mill them up, some sell timber and so on.. no-one sat down (except in Communist countries) and said "We need pencils, go and plant trees" Make no mistake, all the components of a technology come together in the marketplace, and have done since trading began. A Govt's role is only ever to disrupt this and make it less efficient and more expensive. You make think the high tariffs on imported cars is helping Australia, but actually it is only helping a small power group within the auto industry, and it costs everyone else dearly. With no Govt interference the people work in the most efficient industries. I emailed a mate in Auckland for a price on a fuel filter for the Altezza- $59AU. Then I phoned the local Toyota agent... $93.40, used in the IS200 & Camry I think. Now, which country has the protected industry? I don't think I'm too idealistic, the good people outnumber the bad people by a long way. Charities and voluntary actions are common everywhere, even after the Govt steals half your money and tries to run the real charities out of town We are suffering 50years of welfare that only promotes bad people's behaviour, and that has been shown to reverse quite quickly when welfare is withdrawn. The concepts of working for a living, looking after yourself and having consequences you must bear for your actions are only just under the veneer of the welfare state. The real question I suppose is, what will happen if we DON'T rein in Govts? How much of your income are you willing to pay? Tax rates were 90% in the past, they might hit there again. How much intrusion will you let happen, surveillence in your home 24/7, like countrys are now allowing? Is there a level of Nanny State you will get upset at?? Ban smoking, ban gambling, ban drugs, ban fat foods?? Enforce exercise?? Zero alcohol when driving? Speed limits absolute with no leeway? They have all been slowly crushing down in my lifetime.. Adolf Hitler would be proud!

I've used worse heads than that without a problem. Skim the head to tidy up the face and replace the pistons . How's the bore? OK for a hone and a re-use??

Hold it! What about Finland and Switzerland.. Both heavily armed countries, but with quite a different outlooks to the USA, maybe because they don't have Hollywood. I haven't been to the States, but I have a sneaking feeling that people running around firing guns is no more typical than Sydney. Its generally crime-related in poor areas, and they have found in the last decade that allowing good people to carry concealed handguns does drop crime levels by the bad guys. Most country's citizens were able to be armed in the late 1800s earl;y 1900s, before Govt realised that armed citizens were dangerous to Govts! Never! The free market always supplies what is needed, and if there is a demand for ammo people will be supplying it. The armaments industry started before Govts caught up with the emerging technology. No, we are as armed as Switzerland, where every citizen can defend his life and loved ones. There is nothing more difficult that trying to subdue a proud, free (armed) people, which is why no-one invades Switzerland. Actually, they have held off the empires of the world. No-one seems to have invaded and ruled Afganistan in the last 150years. The Brits,the Russians and the American have all found their graveyards there. God knows why the USA is there, apart from the worlds greatest supply of drugs. They will just get soldiers killed year after year after year until they give up, and I'm sure they will! If what we have proved impossible,then we would substitute it with something else. Like mobile phones are replacing copper wires in emerging counties, the incentive to solve a problem leads to new ideas. However, because things like road and sewerage are a gain to everyone, it is hard to find someone who would stand against it overall. (Roads did happen before Govts of course!) Yes, and the word that hasn't appeared at all is VOLUNTARY. We form groups voluntarily, as seen in every town in the country. The difference is that a Govt immediately uses COMPULSION to force its ideas through. If their ideas WERE really acceptable to the population they wouldn't have to be compulsory! The hallmark of a tyranny anywhere, the Govt forces you to do its bidding. Yet humans got where they are by working together voluntarily. What we have seen is a Govt that found the way to easily steal your wealth in the industrial age by PAYG, and then dribbled a little of it back to keep you happy. The vast steps forward made with the help of new technologies have not really enriched the people, it has concentrated wealth with those in power. They have used it to entrench their position, otherwise why wold Govts always have bigger and better armaments than the people they serve. The system is working against us. More later when I digest Twinky's post, this is hard work!

lol ! :laff:

Well, certainly a more modern diff is likely to have discs, but I wouldn't rate that as very high compared to being 'LSD-usable" Things like- I had an aluminium diff carrier for an R31 Skyline in NZ, and sad to say I had to throw it into a rubbish bin when I moved to Aussie. That and lightweight finned alloy brake drums were around. I think NZ and Japan would have the widest range of 5-link live rear axles with LSDs.

OK, The Boss said we could discuss this here, as he cringes everytime I give the Govt a big, well-deserved slap in someone else's thread. Not that it will stop me doing that, but here we can argue without ruining someone's build topic. So, I'm an Anarcho-capitalist, an anarchist who believes in a free market. Maybe at a squeeze a Libertarian, they think there is a role for a Govt in protecting us from each other, but not from ourselves. First up, anarchy is a state of NO RULERS, not NO RULES! Many people who hear the term write it off as some wild place with people doing as they want. No, if you want a quick introduction, read this comic- and read this graphic novel- https://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=1 https://www.bigheadpress.com/eft?page=1 They both show a society where you will be castigated for doing harm to someone else, just as it was in our history before Govt found the power to take over from the Church in shaping our social lives, and they have ground us into the dirt ever since. So, if you feel you have plenty of freedom right now, the Govt does a good job and you're happy with life, then don't bother reading this, you will only understand when you are picked up by The State one night and your life is destroyed, be it for a real crime with a real victim for which maybe you are accused wrongly but convicted, or one of the millions of "rules" that do not even have a victim, but could cost you dearly. Let me show you a current example- I want a shotgun, just a cheap behind-the-back-door sort that might save my life or my family's one time... That used to be the most common thing out until quite recently, and it should be the normal thing once again. But no, you're not allowed to use a firearm for self-defence, #1 against the Govt. They say they will look after our safety, but only ever turn up after the crime has been committed. Usually its a bit late in crimes of violence, you are dead or beaten up, but that doesn't worry them. In fact they don't want all crime to vanish, they would lose a major stick they beat you with every election time. Now, being unemployed and broke, I don't want a multi-thousand dollar two-cartridge long shotgun for shooting clays (as NSW bans shooting ducks...) I want a cheap short-barrel shottie that hold half a dozen cartridges n& will nail rabbits for the table. However not only did the Govt ban people defending themselves after Port Arthur, they also banned pump-actions and semis, both so common in quiet little NZ where I used to have them. Luckily, I am happy to buy a cheap Chinese copy of a Winchester 1887 lever-action that hold 5 cartridges, and they are available in Aussie for about $800. In NZ on holiday I find them for sale at only $520AU, so I buy one. I bring it back over and hand it in at Customs like a good boy so The State can make sure it agrees with their rules. Actually, they find it doesn't! There is a test they have just taken to doing where you pull the hammer back and let it go and it must not set the gun off, and it will in these guns because our forefathers were so much smarter than us they didn't need complicated "safe" guns. So, point #2, Govts are capricous, you never know what they will do. This week I'm trying to get it flown back to NZ before Friday or they will chop it up, and they don't give a rat's arse about what it costs me, there is no compensation for destroying my property. But there are thousands already here I say... "We don't care.." This is how they ban guns without passing a law doing it. Now I'll have to buy the identical gun here and pay a lot more for it... Sound familiar... Oh yes! THE CAR INDUSTRY! Don't try and bring in an import, we will force you to buy our locally-made shit at higher prices... Now try and find any facet of life or any industry where the Govt DOESN'T step in and screw it up! They RUN on the idea of pleasing some pressure group or other to be seen to being do something, ANYTHING, so long as they are passing laws. ...and of course they just add laws on top of laws, never deleting any. So no one man can know them all... they want everyone to be a criminal of one sort or another, then you will feel guilty and fear the Govt. What should it be like?? Well, go to a farmer's market, like we have in Orange. People voluntarily sell their goods to people who voluntarily buy them. Both customer and seller are happy that they got what each wanted in exchange for something they valued less, be it a bag of spuds or a $5 note. Why can't that happen all through society? There is no reason except Govt WANT to get in there and interfere, and there is always some pressure group who sees an advantage for them if Govt do so. Did you know here is a manufacturers group RIGHT NOW lobbying for Govt to put up GST? How can they be so absolutely fking stupid as to encourage more tax!! Because NEXT time the Govt will be working against them for someone else, and they are too dumb to realise that! So, Where do we need them? We don't need them at the UN, that's for sure, we don't need them interfering with overseas trade and talking about "trade agreements", we don't need them taking every dollar we earn until the end of May each year and wasting it. We don't need them "running" the economy as they have just collapsed the world's one and it will screw every one of you young guys who will have to pay some fat bast'd bankers for the next twenty years. We don't want them printing currency, it has been shown time and again that Govt's in charge of fiat currency (pieces of paper) just destroy the wealth that people have saved. Let every bank and every chain store have their own currency, let gold and silver be the backup, as it did for thousands of years! The ONLY place you might find a use for them is in punishing those who harm you, for the only law you need is this one- "You must not commit force against another person" That leaves all the rest of the problems to be sorted out by Common Law, which is the vast store of decisions made over the last 500years about "Who's fruit is it when it falls over the fence" and "Who pays for the fence when the tree falls on it" All that has been thrashed out by our ancestors without needing a giant bureaucracy and a crazed Parliament. ..and as for roads... who knows! Back in 1988 people would argue- "What about telephones and communication?? Without Govt it will all fall apart and we will never be able to contact anyone" Well, the internet sure stopped that- the most unregulated, private setup the world has seen since the Gutenberg Press! Not for long I'm sure, Govts everywhere hate it! So, how do you get a Govt like this? Well, not by electing one!! That has been shown to attract entirety the wrong sort of people, in fact WANTING to go to Parliament should instantly disqualify anyone! Those power-crazy people are the last ones we need in there, yet they are the ones ruling us. So we would be far better running it like jury service, randomly picking anyone unless insane or a criminal, and expecting them to give up 5years of their life in service to the country. There won't be much to do, no new laws to pass, no junkets to go on while Govts examine economic coalitions, and no army of bureaucrats to boss around... Meanwhile, I'm over 60 so I've seen the world go downhill, and I can see that you youngsters CAN'T see it because you're too young! But take it from me, it was a lot less regulated and a lot more enjoyable when I was young! So unless you question the very basis of how society works, YOU ARE ROOTED! Just read "1984"... more and more is becoming true! -Armed people are citizens, disarmed people are subjects-

Why bother? They are just a bit of bling, there is no rational reason to have rear discs other that changing pads is easier than changing shoes. Consider- Rear wheels do very little of the braking, so rear shoes don't heat up and fade. If anything, they should have put 'rear' discs on trucks 40years ago, as they actually do some work under load. Handbrakes on rear discs are usually some atrocious pivot & thread system acting on the pad, or a tiny set of shoes inside the disc hub. The lever 'n thread are useless, they barely manage to hold the car. The complications of the tiny drum brakes inside the hub means you might as well fit full-size ones and be done. Why fit them?? Race teams & rally teams obviously did because you can do a brake pad change in no time flat. So it became a cool item to skite over, the same as mag wheels evolved from racing magnesium to heavy copies in aluminium for the public. So don't sweat the discs, just find a diff with good ratio & an LSD option.

Willis is right- Sadly, either it is running smoothly & registered, or its nearly worthless. Anytime an ad says "just needs finishing" or "needs a tune" it means the car is a dog and needs heaps of time and sorting out. So you'd be best to either give up and flick it for what you can get, or finish it and make the extra dollars. ...and if you had "built" the 4AGTE you would know what the compression ratio was. On here tonight somewhere is a graph of compression versus turbo pressure, and you can see quite clearly that a CR of about 9 becomes 13 under boost. So if you are only boosting at 7psi you will have an abysmal CR without the boost, and it will crawl...

If it cranks fine when it does, then its a solenoid problem or ignition key. Strip the starter and solenoid. Put a washer under the big copper contacts inside the solenoid to push them closer to the copper bar. That's where the 300amps goes through. Check the brushes in the starter motor & clean up the rotor face they run on with sandpaper. A problem there usually makes it turn slowly. The contacts in the ignition key setup may have eroded, that can be stripped and checked, and sanded clean if needed. Its quite fiddly to do with lots of little bits of copper. Keep an eye on all the wiring for a burnt or broken or corroded contact somewhere.