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Don't get me started on the Corolla. The starter motor stuck on this morning.

Looks pretty cooked to me. The oven didnt go to 300 so I just maxed it for the final bake.

Divorce pending...

I'm gonna finish at 2 tomorrow and get stuck into it. Might paint the head tonight though.

Let's do this. Oh wait I have to attend to family stuff. Let's do this tomorrow!

This is in a ke1*?

Well.. I..... Carry on. :D

I bought my kit for $140 before I knew basic electrics :(

For less than $30 you can't beat these kits. I was gonna make and sell them but no way I can compete. I use a quad light one and the difference is quite noticeable with decent bulbs. Same guy sells a quad light kit for a few bucks more. So you could hook your spotties up to high beam with it. Such a piece of piss kit to install too.

Dropped the head off to be skimmed this afternoon. Got a bloody TNT missed delivery note so have to drive to pick up the gasket tomorrow avo. Will pick up the exhaust gasket and pipe cleaner too. Gotta weld up the EGR hole in the exhaust or fill it full of exhaust putty. Things should move along a bit now that parts are on the horizon. Looking at a full RCA and tie rod end kit from T3, with the full poly bush kit and the coilovers the suspension should be sorted. Will see how that handles and see what sway bar upgrades are available and whether they are worth it. I can't find anything or anyone selling short steering arms to boost steering response, maybe there's a quick rack out there? In all honesty I haven't even got under and had a look at the geometry as I have been so disenheartened by the whole situation. Hopefully having parts will motivate me, I'll be tapped out for cash that was meant for possible Rwc issues so hopefully the local guy isn't too harsh. The plan is to have this driving by Sunday. I think that's a fair call, tick off a few things in the avo after work then Saturday avo.

I actually noticed these dags and sanded them down. Will see how they are after its shaved.

Agreed, Awesome info, thanks. I think for now I'll just get it skimmed so it's flat and worry about getting it running. The head off the GZE is a tempting idea to mod as it already has cams. This way I can take my time, it's definitely something I'd be interested in learning about and wouldn't be hard or expensive to find a head to play with.

Soaked the head in a boiling hot bath today, the amount of solid built up crap in it was pretty amazing. Used about 5 cans of degreaser and a few hours with a small flat head screwdriver picking out the shit. I'll 100% get it surfaced, if anyone wants to recommend shaving it and specs I'd be keen to hear.

The F1 has its own dedicated high definition live YouTube stream. Only way to watch it. Well it did last year.

116mm. I'm gonna get the head shaved so I may as well get some skimmed too I suppose. And Dave I bought a genuine standard Toyota gasket for a better seal.

don't have calipers unfortunately. Might graba set today, a need some.

So I've been screwed on the pistons too? Great.

Block looks immacculate. But will give it the same treatment but with 1000 grit. Dave I'll get interior pics when I detail it. Its pretty gross after a road trip.

Shitty vid of it going. Loved that noise.

I'm just jealous.

I completely agree Ben but I'm phucking poor as shit. The plan was to buy this, daily it then part out the KE. The KE part out was gonna pay off the loan while giving me play money to spend on the MR. Unfortunately I have a broken MR, a KE I can't strip for dollars as I need to daily it. I hopefully have someone coming to buy my KAAZ tomorrow which will give me $400 breathing room to get it on the road. At the moment I'm looking at gambling that the head is ok enough to get me out of trouble for a bit. Get the car good enough to go. Once the KE is off the road I may look at breaking the engine up and keeping the head and cams, getting that sorted and putting it on the MR. The whole situation is crap, I'm not particularly happy but at the same time what can I do? I could start throwing shit on credit cards but thats just asking for trouble, I don't know enough people in the game to ask favours. At the moment my options are back yard ingenuity, elbow grease and good spirits.

The KE is so depressing now. Diff is getting noisier. I got offered 5500 for it. That'd cover the loan for the MR2. But parting it I'd make a few more grand. Clean break, pay out loan, new car. Part car, deal with KE70 retards, pay out loan, extra MR2 stuff. Decisions, I kinda want to part it.

Head bolts turned up but not the gasket so it'll sit for at least another week I'd say. Might give the interior a really good detail and fix the drivers side power window. I also got a whole bush kit with it too so might get stuck into that. I gave the head a bit of a tidy up. At least the pistons look legit. They have STD stamped on them so I'm hoping that means bore and not compression. If anyone can tell what they are by the pics let me know.