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by **barryogen** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:39 pm

Well this weekend I sold it to gurutasker ... a wellington toyspeed member for what I consider to be a very reasonable price.

I'm on the lookout for a manual version of either a Caldina GTT or an RS200Z Altezza as a bit of a gas saving equivalent of the Caldina...

any other suggestions...

must be fun, ~160HP/ton, manual... umm, thats about it.

incidentally, took a 99 Golf GTI for a spin, nice, fast, solid, reliable, but boring as all $&#$%.

by **Alex B** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:59 pm

Golf, solid reliable...errrr yeah.

by **barryogen** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:23 pm

yeah well, not looking at it anymore... just grazing over trademe at the altezzas...

Website · by **Steelo** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:28 pm

barryogen wrote:yeah well, not looking at it anymore... just grazing over trademe at the altezzas...

If you had sold the RunX earlier you could have bought my brothers Altezza........was mean, very tidy.

I bet your missus is struggling to keep up with your car fun :lol:

by **barryogen** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:35 pm

Steelo wrote:I bet your missus is struggling to keep up with your car fun

She works at a dealership as the finance manager... so she's not so bad.
The RunX was the longest I've owned a car yet... all 2 years 5 months of it.

Looking for a longer term commitment this time I think, hence my looking at an altezza... they're a bit better on gas than the GTT.

by **Lloyd** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:41 pm

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:Golf, solid reliable...errrr yeah.

You didn't bend that much on it, and reverse still works :lol:

by **barryogen** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:29 pm

heh... going to look at an RS200 tonight... lots of goodies included with it, and it's not too bad price wise too.

Website · by **AJz** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:12 pm

tezza's are very nice to drive and handle better than dina's stock.

Even 3sge's arn't cheap to run unless you feather it like a nana everywhere. Anybody know what size tank it has ?? And please for the love of god do not get one with a fart can on it........they sound worse than civics

Website · by **Steelo** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:26 pm

AJz wrote:tezza's are very nice to drive and handle better than dina's stock.

Even 3sge's arn't cheap to run unless you feather it like a nana everywhere. Anybody know what size tank it has ?? And please for the love of god do not get one with a fart can on it........they sound worse than civics

60L fuel tank, yeah they aren't overly cheap to run either.

And they do sound like ass usually :lol:

by **bluemaumau** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:43 pm

a 2jz one would be nice

Website · by **AJz** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:27 am

Steelo wrote:
AJz wrote:tezza's are very nice to drive and handle better than dina's stock.

Even 3sge's arn't cheap to run unless you feather it like a nana everywhere. Anybody know what size tank it has ?? And please for the love of god do not get one with a fart can on it........they sound worse than civics

60L fuel tank, yeah they aren't overly cheap to run either.

And they do sound like buttocks usually

heh, so good luck in the saving petrol department

by **barryogen** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:06 am

well it was sweet...

As for gas, I'm not overly concerned, but the mrs is.

The car went beautifully...
A few details...
The extractors are a no-name "Jasma" cert'd ones followed by TRD piping to the end.
TRD mags, TRD wheel nuts, TRD bodykit, TRD air filter... noticing a theme.
Toms gear knob
Apexi Power FC.
Apexi RSM
Lower springs, stock struts, feels nice, doesn't bounce.

Just got to convince the mrs now, but she did like it.

Website · by **cozmoid** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:00 am

how much and is there a controller display thingy for the power fc?

by **barryogen** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:36 am

yep, there is a controller, and price is "reasonable" at $15k.

I don't think it is cheap or expensive at that... it is a 2001

by **jakelanauze** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:23 pm

sounds not too bad considering what comes with it

Website · by **cozmoid** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:34 am

sounds like a sweet deal. Thats a good price for the car with all those thousands of dollars for the xtras!

by **barryogen** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:58 am

It's getting one of those oh so useful AA tests on Monday morning... well, I guess they'll tell me if anything obvious is borked.

Then it is just a matter of convincing the mrs that $15k is not too high, for a car with 108000kms.

by **Lloyd** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:09 pm

108kms is damn near a new engine for most Toyotas. Hate how people wont buy a car because the kms are too high when its got over 100k on it, if anything thats when it'll be at its best

by **Mr Revhead** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:10 pm

yep

and id say 15k is cheap

you try buying one and doing it up like that

just make sure of the following:
IT STILL HAS THE STOCK AIR INTAKE SYSTEM
the TB works rigth

if not
walk away.....

by **barryogen** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:39 am

Mr Revhead wrote:just make sure of the following:
IT STILL HAS THE STOCK AIR INTAKE SYSTEM
the TB works rigth

It does indeed...

Thought I'd change it for a POD and then put a rota in it...
Oh wait... nah that'd be gh3y

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