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  1. Like a blast from the past ^_^

     

    Little blue beast lives on as my daily, end of this week she will have clicked over 10,000 kms !

     

    Sir Med-Man saved my ass a few months ago discovering a hellish intermittent fault - wet weather, car would not start. Elec Fuel pump would not kick in.

     

    Any guesses ?

     

    lol.

     

    Wet weather I would have the front demister on with the blower fan on low. Turns out the variable fan speed resistor Red/White wire was mistaken for a solid earth.

     

    Sooo... everytime the fan was on 1, the car would not start. Car broke down in my driveway 5 odd times over the years.. once running, was ok, just not enough to start the wincam as my brother calls it.

     

    Apart from that *TOUCH WOOD* it's been a turn key reliable daily that sings to 8-thousand quite happily.

     

    I won't be selling her any time soon. Been collecting too many new bits.

     

    Maybe part of her will be up for sale though..

     

    he he he

     

    :devil:

     

    #itneverends

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  2. Absolutely.

    Here is a little story how rollaclub and I crossed paths. 

    it was Aug-ish 2003. Id been noticing these square cars over the last few months of life, going to and from school.

    After googling square cars and various non-related terms, i managed to discover this box car was infact an early 80's corolla. 

    I managed to find rollaclub via boost cruising, thanks to medicine Man. After chatting with him & this other guy called Nick (Who, at the time lived around the corner from me and was like a big brother for me, ended up showing me the entire car scene!) I said to Justin - Hey, do you know this Nick dude? He's got an old rolla as well! - And, well, they turned out to be brothers ^_^

    First of too many cars; I managed to pickup a blue ke70 for $350 off the trading post... I thought it would be interesting to pull it apart. It had so much rust in it holy crap. It ended up going to Nicks house, and would one day in future years find some of its part into my current blue car. Early 2004, I purchased the white ke70 (seen in my avitar) and have been driving it as a daily.. well, up until about a year ago (2012)

    My 21st - a weekend at Brads house, I purchased a Volvo station wagon from some dude off E-Bay who had butchered the wiring. Fixed it up, drove it out to Boonah & spent 2 days drifting it around a paddock. Far out I could write a book on that car. 

    Small world, Justin & I ended up going to tafe at the same time, ended up car pooling with him for a term. So many volvo memories. My god that car was such a slow, heavy piece of shit, but always good for a smile. For a car that should have been decommissioned when the previous owner cut every relay out of the car thinking it would fix it, it went on and lived another painful 4 years until uncle shady took it, and mercifully abused it every day, for another 2 ? years.

     

    All of my genuine, long time friends these days are from Rollaclub. When school ended (Yeah, I absolutely hated school), I kept a couple of good people in my circle, and drifted away from the rest. Justin's Family is now my adopted family... heck, how much time did we spend in his parents shed doing that blue car, for 6? years strait? 

    At one point, i was going up-to cairns to visit Mr Shades every 2nd weekend. I do miss that! Thanks Frequent flyer points hahaaaaa..aa..a .. ughh

     

    Rollaclub was the kick start to my addiction to travelling, meeting people and turning into a social butterfly. A far cry from years prior. 

    Heck, if it wasn’t for this place, I don't think I would have ended up working in the industry. Or servicing rally cars. Or visiting Victoria every year... to visit RC family! The yearly great ocean road trips in Victoria - Long term friends down there now :)

    And what am I doing with myself these days?  Back in the books, Back at uni, I'll never learn. The blue car lives on, don't worry 😉

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  3. Ahhhhh fantastic.

     

    1081 km's - Tue Feb 5 12:30 am BP servo on the northside of brisbane, Blue car splutters to a halt.

     

    -_-

     

    Thanks bosche for an expensive, noisy and now non-pumping fuel pump.

     

    Thought i'd put some fuel in her whilst i was.. at a fuel station. Drank about 24L of BP's finest, 330 km's. Much better than the 280 kms to 42L last time.. lol.

     

    Oh well, maybe this car is better suited to a museum. It looks good on the back of a tow truck.

     

    lol.

  4. Hahah Cheers Guys ^_^

     

    Lets see. Car has almost 500 km's on the clock now.

     

    Tailshaft needs to be balanced / replaced with a 1 piece. God dam the 2 piece tailshafts are trash at the best of times.

     

    After a long wait at a set of lights, about 30 seconds later the car feels as if it gets vapor lock, coughs and splutters for a second then comes good.

     

    Apart from these 2 little.. Issues, the car has been faultless and drives really, really nicely.

     

    It's not the fastest car around, but it feels like it would be good for a high 15, low 16. Just have to find out oneday

    What else have I been doing on it. Installed a stereo into it today and some rear speakers. I have taken photos, but need a computer that takes an SD card.

     

    It took me _ all _ day to get it sorted, keeping to the factory OCD standard. lol.

     

    Made a list of all the thing's I am yet to put into the car ( in no order ) :

     

    1) Front speakers in door, stealth

    2) Correct door trims

    3) Air ducting for fuel pump area, it works ok atm, I just want more air flow

    4) Tint

    5) Finish off A/C

    6) sound deadening for door trims, boot lit and under bonnet

    7) deep dish corn

    8) Each door turns on individual fading light on floor well as well as light on bottom of door

    9) Electric windows with auto one press down and up

    10) cruise control

    11) glove box light

    12) rip out the current alarm and install one that a) works and b) doesn't shit me off

    13) replace boot light switch

    14) trim boot

    15) upholster centre console lid and surrounding components

    16) Rear airconditing from front system with rear controls - feet and face

    17) Front heated and cooled seats

    18) Vanity mirrors with lights in both sun visors

    19) Tweeters integrated into A pillar trims, stealth

    20) Subwoofer mounted in boot, other side of fuel system, behind trim panels, stealth

    21) Passenger front electric mirror starting to fault, too noisy, replace

    22) Rear Cup holders

    23) Electric arial

    24) Under bonnet light

    25) power inverter mounted in rear section near subwoofer with outlets inside cabin and boot

    26) 2x rear roof mounted map reading lights (one each side near jesus handle)

    27) Roof mounted map reading lights for front seats with twin sun glasses holder

    28) Lock / unlock all doors switch mounted in center console

    29) Remote lock / unlock function on new alarm system which auto winds up or winds down all windows

    30) Door warning lamp split up into 6 sections with red LEDS, relevant to which door /boot/ bonnet is open

    31) variable speed wiper control knob on stalk, modified from 2002 onwards ADM Toyota

    32) 2002 onwards ADM indicator / fog light / headlight stalk

    33) yellow period correct fog lights

    34) Finish aftermarket dash with gauges (lol forgot about that one ^_^)

    35) If I could make it fit, I think a rear 4x can or bottle ice cooler like in the crowns would be fantastic in the parcel shelf

    36) Retrim the boot. Did I say this above? eh. Ill say it again. Retrim the boot in my OCD standard

    37) Front lip spoiler

    38) Re-wire / re-light the font end, both twin lights are twin bulbs -

    - low beam 55w for outer bulbs (filament 1),

    - high beam is 60 w for inner bulbs + low beam lights on

    - Spotlight mode with both inner and outer lights on 2nd filament being 100 something watt

    39) make the exhaust quieter. hahah

    40) Discreetly mount 1x foglight? in the rear, under the bar that comes on in reverse

    41) Every switch in the interior needs to be illuminated when the park lights come on ;)

    42) headlight on / ignition keys out / door open buzzer

    43) Rear power sockets in boot and rear passengers

    44) Removable Centre arm rest for rear seat

    45) Parking ticket display clip in A pillar, drivers side ( thanks for the suggestion Volvo <3 )

    46) JDM guard display emblems

    47) Key lock surround clear stickers

    48) Side external pin striping

    49) New leather strip to tie up gearboot selecter inside, old one has faded

    50) Master switch that turns off all the lights inside the car (service mode)

    51) Hooks on or near rear grab handles for shirts / coat hangers

    52) Analogue air temp gauge for inside car vs outside - discrete

    53) Rear high mounted stop light

    54) Power socket in engine bay for 12V accessory work light

    55) Single a/m fuse box for all the different thing's ill be needing fuses for :P

    56) Throw this heavy little ke70 on the scales, see how much over a Ton she weighs hahah

    57) CB Radio

    58) CD Stacker. Because 1997.

    59) Install iluminated dice into rear parcel shelf / window area

    60) Engine oil cooler

    61) foot rest for drivers left foot

    62) manual air bladder and pump for lumbar support for drivers and passenger seats

    63) When wiper switch is pulled back, squirts water, waits abour 3 seconds then wipes windows 2 times

    64) Engine kill switch

    65) Discrete mounted Phone hard wired in car for tracking if car stolen, turned off and on at corrct times

    66) Low washer fluid light on dash

    67) Low Transmission fluid / temp too high light light in dash with buzzer

    68) Low Diff fluid / temp too high light in dash with buzzer

    69) Low Engine oil / temp too high light in dash with buzzer

    70) Low coolant / temp too high light in dash with buzzer

    71) Low clutch fluid light on dash

    72) heat shield exhaust (well.. more of it)

    73) Fuel door open warning light

    74) LED in fuel filler area

    75) Fuel lid holder on fuel door

    76) Stero with blue tooth for phone

    77) Rear- seats AUX or USB input for stero with remote

    78) For the rear blower / Ac / heater - upgrade the front fan with something a little more upto the task of my silly idea(s)

    79) Re-design front foot blower vents so they actually put air on your feet, not on one side of your leg.

     

    I'm too tired to type any more. I know i've missed a few things. lol.

     

    The car has just turned into a

     

    'How much stuff can I fit into this car, make it look totally stock, keeping to the blue-car OCD standard'

     

    ^_^

  5. Thankyouuu =D

     

    7 years, 3 months, 1 day from the first day I started working on it in Justin's parents shed, over 1800 km's away - Blue car / OKe70 is now on the road ;)#

     

    Had 88 km's on the clock (000088.3 km's) :P this time last week. Tonight, put 140 km's on the clock over about 2 hours.

     

    Adjusted the headlights, re-wired the cooling fan operation, Installed my new cup holders properly in the ashtray (so proud, I need a photo :P).

     

    Car has a vibration in 3rd at about 3000 off-load, comes and goes in all the gears; eh. Its not too bad atm.

     

    Really need to install the door operated fade-in & out feet lights. I hate not being able to see things at night :P

     

    Exhaust got fixed up. By the people that fitted it. With a ziptie :S - Will get the name of the company and bag them out sometime later.

     

    On the cards tomorrow : Horn / Check fluids / Tyre pressures / Adjust TPS / Switch for choke position / Radio / Speakers / More Km's / Oil pressure gauge

     

    It still feels.. odd that it's actually on the road now. =D

     

    I shouldn't, but i kinda drive it like a granny. owning a volvo 240 and 1x HZJ75 non turbo L/C Will do that to you ^_^

     

    T

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