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Neither, as they're both cheap knockoffs of classic (and very expensive) Japanese wheels. Grant Scott's ae71 has genuine hayashi streets.

TREES...

Progressing slowly...

"You should never go in there without a mongoose" - Roger Moore, Live and Let Die

I'm wondering now if my temporary solution for installing the shocks without the seal on the gland nut was a good idea. After driving the car down the driveway and back, there are blobs of thick yellow oil sprayed up all over the shock tubes. Edit: After finding the english section of the instruction manual, it does mention excess grease may come out but not diminish function...

I had to bore out the hole to fit the tube, but also, that silver ring inside the gland nuts is all that remains of the gland nuts that came with the bilsteins. The stock nuts didn't hold them tightly enough, so I turned down the useless bilstein nuts in the lathe until they fit inside the stock ones! I bought them from GSL Rallysport for $295 each. AJPS can also get them. He can apparently get the correct gland nuts for a decent price too. I'm using a ~4.8kg/mm spring, but only because that's what were on the coilovers when I got them. I have 8kg springs in my road car and they really make you appreciate the better maintained bits of bitumen. Will most likely be swapping those springs into the track car to go with the bilsteins. Can't wait to try them out.

Hi Rian, The ones I used are a B6 from a celica. There's two numbers on the box 34-003527, and P30-0352. The gland nut that comes with them has a course thread that won't fit your fine threaded ae86 struts. Your stock gland nut won't fit because the bilsteins are humongous. As a temporary fix, I've bored out the stock gland nuts and made a bush to hold the bilsteins snugly. The bilstein gland nut also has a dust seal on it. Not sure how critical this is, but they are not cheap shocks and I'd hate to ruin them. Correct gland nuts can be ordered, but have been quoted up to $128 and a few weeks wait. Haven't driven the car yet, but they feel pretty stiff. Have to be better than the random assortment of blown TRD shocks that were in my car when I bought it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2kaBzIuF8

Paint them red and yellow. Then they'd be perfect on a soviet themed car.

Dangerous as in not enough grip. 155 might be fine for grandmas tiny shopping trolley car, but if like most kids, you plan on driving this thing fairly hard, put some decent tyres on it. They're pretty much the only safety feature your t18 will have. On the road I use a 195 RE001 on a 7.5" wheel. Has a slight stretch and is good for moderately hard driving. I use softer 205s though when I need to push the car a bit harder.

What's the point of running dangerously skinny tyres just for the "stretched look" when the rims you've got are narrow enough that a normal size tyre will fit under the guards anyway?

That's no dumpster, its a tercel. 7shades and I often discuss how awesome trispoke wheels are. Any more spokes than that is decadent and garish. Sometimes in the evenings, I like to put on some Meatloaf and just count them. 1, 2, 3. Ahhh, perfection.

Anyone that thinks tri-spokes are gay is gay. (And probably also listens to dub step) :no2: 3 is the optimal number of spokes! End.

Haha, Who's your Daddy! No, really...?

The last time cars drifted in the wet in Toowoomba, this happened Too soon?

Myself and a couple of bored RAAF blokes who took some time out of World of Warcraft to lift heavy objects.

Awesome. I'll tag along for the last bit of the journey, say from Gordonvale to Cairns. :wink:

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU SLACK-JAWED, CAT-BONDAGING, DUBSTEP-LISTENING HOOLIGANS!!

This toilet is worthless without pics!

I don't know who or what dub step is, but I don't like it.

Amongst volvos, it looks sleek and modern.

1988 ae82 corolla cs (cheap spec). Gift from my grandparents after finishing high school in 1997. I still drive it occasionally. Its like a time capsule, complete with all the silly mods I did to it when I was 18. While trawling corolla forums looking for ideas on what I could do with it, I discovered ae86s. Have accumulated a pile of those and various other decrepit corollas, but my only registered cars are the ae82 and trueno coupe.

Big improvement! This thing will be cool.

Using ae86 metal on a ae71? Disgusting! Plus, that blue sprinter was so rusty, you may contaminate your car further! :laff:

There was a diagram somewhere the showed the size increase. Found this in the street. I LOL'd, then facepalmed.