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Adex

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  6. 2 Totally different things bud. BOV - Dumps unwanted boost (when the throttle body closes) to avoid compressor stall & associated engine/turbo death. Wastegate - Diverts exhaust gas away from turbo to limit/control boost.
  7. I was on their site earlier... "Our online shop is now closed, thank you for your interest in our products. Please email sales @jap-spec-performance.co.uk for any outstanding order enquiries. NO new orders will be taken. Many thanks Jamie."
  8. Firstly, don't tap into your MAP sensor line! Your engine makes decisions based on that sensor's readings, so false readings are the opposite of good.
  9. As has been said on a previous post though, in reality I think both 5's & 6's do have their areas of questionable design. On a 6 it's obviously the headlights, which were the only bit which never quite sat right with me. On a 5 its the Quasimodo arse hump (Interesting that so far not one photo posted to convince the guy to buy a 5 has been of the back end....). Thing is, the 6's problem can be cured with the addition of projectors, to sort a 5 would take some subtle modification with an angle grinder! What Bully0712 should do is get a gen 4 & drop in a Beams & LSD 'box with some ST205 brakes. Now that would be perfection.
  10. At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, the little piece above starts 'Poor misguided youngster!'.... What really says it all, is that out of that entire post that's the bit you mention.
  11. Poor misguided youngster! Allow me to explain what really happened... Once upon a time, the clever little boffins at Toyota (with their tiny hands) crafted a true masterpiece in the gen 4. Some years later they decided to try to improve upon their creation. In their efforts to fix what wasn't broken, they misguidedly penned the awkward to work on, humpty back tinworm magnet that was the gen 5. Their desire to create a more rounded, sleek design had failed miserably, relying on topical design features such as needlessly motorised headlights, which to this day provide their owners with an apparently debate-ending justification for actually having bought one on purpose. Keen to rectify their hideous mistake, the boffins were set to work to try to undo some of the damage which had been done to the good name of Celica. Shortly afterwards, the magnificent gen 6 was unleashed on the world (to global rapturous applause & presumably some sort of fanfare). Mechanically far superior to it's predecessors in every way. Aesthetically too, it had achieved what its mutant older brother had so miserably failed to. Here was a machine worthy of the name Celica. And perhaps most importantly, here was a car which was able to actually drive down any given stretch of road without hemorrhaging oil &/coolant everywhere. As if further proof were required, the very same boffins decided that their latest creation had reached the pinnacle of it's evolution & they their new model would rely on design by revolution instead. Which left us with the gen 7. Bad Toyota! Bad, bad Toyota! :lol:
  12. You shouldn't use a torque wrench for undoing nuts/bolts. It's a precision instrument, not a fancy breaker bar.
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