What did you do to your car today?

[Mr Ree]

Im going to be running an ECU for the GTE, and the coils/ignitor from a VVTI GTE, and deleting the dissy cap/leads, but retaining the dissy base for the cam and crank angle sensors.

Ill upload some pics to a host site, and then put a couple in here so you can see how much tidier it is with the GTE cam covers, and without the big mess of dissy cap/leads lol

Down the road, if I end up getting a stand alone, then I will use the CAS from the 7MGTE as its even lower profile than the billet cap I have on my dissy base

Why the VVTI coils and ignitor?

Because they are far newer than normal GTE coils, less likely to be cracked/faulty, and they output lightening bolts like a boss

And because I got them for a great price too

[2jayzgte]

Front TE 37 SL's ordered yyyeeeehhhaaa c'mon me.

[Mr Ree]

Very nice

It will look hot with SL's as your street rims.

Did you end up getting a sharper price for them than we ere discussing a few weeks ago?

[2jayzgte]

Very nice

It will look hot with SL's as your street rims.

Did you end up getting a sharper price for them than we ere discussing a few weeks ago?

Yep $1500 to my door.

[1I1]

Finished getting Corolla ready for road and track tomorrow. Oil changed and 15's fitted up.... was hoping to get a decent timed dry day, guess not. Rain looks to be pretty set in, doubt it'll lift before tomorrow.

[l SIC l]

Random question: Does anyone know what club was holding a gymkhana at Ellerslie Racecourse today (Car Fair area)? There was a few Lotus 7s, Lotus Elise, AE86 Trueno lift-back (tidiest you'll ever see in your life), R33, Onevia S13, a few MX-5s (one with an 8 or 9-year-old driving) + more

[Mr Revhead]

Raised it! Lowering is for girls

Before
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zbLK ... 110041.jpg


After
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2JGt ... 162753.jpg

Dipshit me forgot to measure before I did it, but it's around 3" higher at the back now

[Mr Ree]

Very nice

It will look hot with SL's as your street rims.

Did you end up getting a sharper price for them than we ere discussing a few weeks ago?

Yep $1500 to my door.

Now thats more like it.

I might have to get some details from you at a later date

[steroidcontaskie]

Got the car back together, filled the fluids and started the engine........huge fluid leak from the front of the transmission. Stink!!! Looks like it is all coming out again.

[2jayzgte]

Very nice

It will look hot with SL's as your street rims.

Did you end up getting a sharper price for them than we ere discussing a few weeks ago?

Yep $1500 to my door.

Now thats more like it.

I might have to get some details from you at a later date

Pretty happy with that if I'm honest.

[Grrrrrrr!]

Bolted on the modified fuel rail, turned the key and watched a nice fine mist of petrol spray across the head from a pinhole leak in the brazed up fitting. Decided that I wasn't in the mood for playing firefighter and turned it off.
Went car shopping instead and wasted an afternoon asking sales plebs what have you go in manual that has got a bit of go.

[Stott69]

Ripped the dump pipe out, pain in the ass! Cut the top flange off, then reinstalled everything with a loose flange. Now need to weld the flange back on now its sitting right. Also started make a pattern for the cold air box.

[Mr Ree]

Ripped the dump pipe out, pain in the ass! Cut the top flange off, then reinstalled everything with a loose flange. Now need to weld the flange back on now its sitting right. Also started make a pattern for the cold air box.

Is this a new problem Scott, or the same fitment issue you discovered when you first installed the new manifold/dump?

On that note, I forgot to ask how you get on when you sent it back to be altered. Did he sort it all out for you with no more added costs etc?

Im going to be buying a new manifold next year so keen to hear what the after sale service has been like.

[Stott69]

Yea, got done at no extra cost. Think one of the vbands may have been loose when we fabed up the w/g return hence things not sitting 100%. Tryed fixing it with ali gaskets, but they all but disintergrated on my road trip.If I did it again Id buy the manifold off Mike then get some one local to do the dump and w/g.
Next on the fix list is coolant lines and radiator.

[blindnz]

Random question: Does anyone know what club was holding a gymkhana at Ellerslie Racecourse today (Car Fair area)? There was a few Lotus 7s, Lotus Elise, AE86 Trueno lift-back (tidiest you'll ever see in your life), R33, Onevia S13, a few MX-5s (one with an 8 or 9-year-old driving) + more

Likely to be the sports car club sccnz.co.nz have been down for a watch there before

[Scottie]

Purchased a new one and drove it from the bottom of south island back to Auckland.

When the guy says "freshly repainted wheels" (and you can see the overspray on the dirt inside the rim he didn't bother to clean) its code for the front calipers are leaking brake juice. Which I found out gassing up in Taumuranui.

Hopefully got some good timelaspe stuff





Needs a bit of tidying up. I already have some replacement trim pieces I picked up from Pick a part Christchurch.

[Shrike]

Purchased a new one and drove it from the bottom of south island back to Auckland.

When the guy says "freshly repainted wheels" (and you can see the overspray on the dirt inside the rim he didn't bother to clean) its code for the front calipers are leaking brake juice. Which I found out gassing up in Taumuranui.

Hopefully got some good timelaspe stuff





Needs a bit of tidying up. I already have some replacement trim pieces I picked up from Pick a part Christchurch.

Going off what might be a boost guage inside hoping its a gt4???

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Going off what might be a boost guage inside hoping its a gt4???

If you squint your eyes a little and look really closely you can just make out the 'GT FOUR' badge on the bootlid

[Lloyd]

http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=ACC291 says so too.

[Scottie]

Going off what might be a boost guage inside hoping its a gt4???

Oh yep, a GT4. The owner had to check how much boost it ran after I asked him (It has a cut and bent ST215 heat shield and I was fearing the worst). He (a mechanic) had to check, and replied 3 days later(RED FLAG)saying 12psi, seems legit. After picking it up I noticed the gauge (that read in bar) was only reading .7(~10psi), Fcuk. Got to timaru and stopped for the night - gauge was reading a whole lot of vacuum when engine off, eg stuffed. So its is prob ok, apart from the missing downpipe bolts(no leak) and about a zillion other things.