The Off-Topic Thread

[JimL]

Now you should make your own torque wrench like i did :D

 

[towe001]

I hate you :P

I'd love to have a metal lathe and and mill, but nooo the minister of finances put her foot down down and said i have no room in the garage so i can't have them.

 

Bought a workbench, pretty good for $150. staff discount rules.

$150 !! I fitted out my whole garage with a bench and shelving for about $200

[ke70dave]

Anyone else get up to check out the eclipse?

 

We had about 80% here in brisbane @ 655am.

 

i stood there lookin like a fool with my welding mask on. Down at the wynnum forshore i was, not a cloud in the sky.

 

interestingly once it got to about 645am, there was not enough sun to activate my auto darkening welding mask! Luckily i bought my standard non-auto helmet as well.

 

Was quite an impressive sight to see, really quite a weird sensation as it started to get dimmer and colder, then warmed up again as the eclipse passed....

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Sameissue with my welding mask.

[rian]

Now you should make your own torque wrench like i did :D

 

 

Looks awesome, but how did you go about calibrating it?

[JimL]

With a 'TruCheck' tester.

 

http://www.industrysearch.com.au/TruCheck-%E2%80%93-Torque-Wrench-Tester/p/24115

[Hiro Protagonist]

Anyone else get up to check out the eclipse?

 

I saw some clouds....actually, the only sign down here that there was a partial eclipse going on was that you couldn't see the sun burning through the cloud cover like it normally would......

 

 

Stupid clouds....

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Can anyone enlighten me on the pin size of a Jap KE10 diff so I can get the correct lowering blocks? Google is being difficult.

[ke70dave]

just crawling through the jap car listings and came across this!

 

http://www.j-spec.co...er-7083357.html

 

ohh another

 

http://www.j-spec.com.au/dealer/1973-Toyota-Sprinter-7073220.html

Edited November 18, 2012 by ke70dave

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Dat TE27

 

[ke70dave]

ke30 lookin

 

http://www.j-spec.com.au/dealer/1975-Toyota-Sprinter-7043744.html

[B.L.Z.BUB]

From wiki.

 

The Corollas were given E30 codes while the Sprinters were given E40 codes

 

Generally the Sprinters look better, this looks like the bastard love child of a KE30 and an XT130 :P

Edited November 18, 2012 by B.L.Z.BUB

[ke70dave]

more cool cars

 

http://www.j-spec.com.au/dealer/1978-Toyota-Corolla-7081649.html

 

http://www.j-spec.com.au/dealer/1980-Toyota-Corolla-7034292.html

[It's_AUDM_Yo]

more cool cars

 

http://www.j-spec.co...la-7081649.html

 

http://www.j-spec.co...la-7034292.html

 

Speaking of cool...Well I guess different

Dave was it you that posted up the s15 with the weird body conversion? Any who found some more photos of one.

[ke70dave]

haha i seen that thing before, weird as!