Dan23

yep sorry, you're right, was thinking that people carriers are 12 seats for some reason lol dont matter for me as i have a D and D1 on my licence anyway

oh thats a low blow

yep you need a D1 iirc on your licence to drive anything over 12 seats, and unless you passed before 1992 i think it was you have to take your C test to drive HGVs

in case you get your head stuck to the vinyl

my last two celicas both have the rear arch at the bottom by the bumper dented in, in exactly the same place on both of them

both them celicas have been up for sale for months on ebay, the silver one last time i looked had a starting bid of £1200 and after 10 days it was still no bids and the black one has been up on a auction so many times aswell, they probably have a mate shell bidding so it dont sell for cheap

its not sticking paper onto things dude the wrap will come with sticky backs already. you could speak to Rich about getting some off him, try not to go for the cheap stuff as it is pretty thin and probably 1 wont last as long and to wont work as easy

Spot, jack of all trades, master of none

maybe a pre meet at yours Ray before the Ace cafe meet *hint hint*

it was sunday and i was bored and i had it on discovery turbo and couldnt be arsed to change the channel lol

well done Ray

thats awesome, love the paint job too

But that's a cost I don't wanna pay mate

Yep this is true Ian, can't trust you cos your car don't even run with your bodge super chip fitting The plenum is something I'm gonna look into, not to sure on playing about with the head as that's defiantly specialised work and I wanna try and keep costs down on the car and having the head ported and custom exhaust headers made up will probably push into the few hundred quid then the price of fitting and cos you cam belt would have to come off that will bump it up a few hundred quid again as it would be better to put a new belt on, that seems like more effort then it's worth ATM I'm just trying to find cheap way of making the engine better where anyone can do it, like I say even if it just gave better response thats a bonus in itself

Well I have the benefit of my old man who used to be a mechanic to help me. My main worry would be doing it and messing the engine up or worse distorting the engine due to it, I know that sounds extreme but you gotta take all things into account when doing stuff to the engine as I would be altering the air flow rate and as you say Andy, most places would probably use some kind of air flow bench, but in the same vain I can't see Toyota/yamaha really spending to much time making sure the plenums are as smooth as can be and being caste unless you port them you will always get imperfections on the tunnels, could explain why some 3s-ge's feel slightly quicker or get slightly better results as the caste was smoother when it came out the machine, again just a theory of course. And on another note, my car has done 152,000 miles so I can imagine the tunnels on the plenum are not as smooth as when it was made, and it wouldn't surprise me if it also had oil in it too

I might invest in a second hand plenum and give it a try, as you never know, it might help, and it might even just clean the thing out, might even to the tb too

Well I think they added filter, system and sports cat but they seemed to free up a fair bit of power from doing it. So I guess it would need to be down by someone who has the tools to get into the thing. From what I gather less resistance is better as it allows the air to flow better, but if gain was minimal and cost was high then it's obviously not worth doing

Ok after watching chop shop this Sunday just gone and the BMW they mangled they ported the 1.8 intake engine to give it around 200bhp, now seeings as the 1.8 is only like 115bhp stock that was pretty impressive, so I was thinking would porting the plenum in the 3s-ge that would free up a few extra ponies would it not? As I understand it the plenum is caste steal and the tunnels on the plenum are probably not as smooth as they could be creating a resistance of air flow, so smoothing them would allow the air to flow freely??? Anyone got any thought on this, i.e is it worth doing? Is there going to be any decent increases in power? Am I thinking about the right part to port? Could a DIY enthusiast do it or could I potentially fuck up the performance if I was to say over smooth the ports?

Basically that explanation sounds more impressive than it actually is

no £5k isnt cheap, but for what you are getting and what price they were new, it makes them cheap in a expensive kinda way

for a car that was £20k not 5 years ago, £8k is very cheap mate, that car has lost £12 in 5 years, in another 5 years the seller should be giving you £4k to take it if kept depreciating like that

still cheap tho mate, i mean £2-8k for a gen 7 when they was what about £17-20k new where they not?

If you wanna come to me I don't mind helping, ain't got any tiger seal or alike tho lol

There was a curren on eBay a few weeks back for breaking and I was tempted to get all the bits to do the conversion, but it does need a bit of cutting to the front to make it all fit, not something I'd really do to my Na celica, but on a gt4 I think it could look epic

So I was right, was getting shit bored of the game to as I just knew it would be a normal celica. Now get your arse out and clean it so it's White and not cream