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Pretty simple for someone to make,if they can do welding.Which I can't .And I want 15% of any profits Just basically similar design to a car ramp,bit taller with a wider base and no 'drive up' bit.Pretty simple design.Could make 4 up out of some old ramps,to be honest. Might go down to my local timber merchants tomorrow,see what they got knocking about in the meantime

yeah mate gets its pretty high,still not higher than your ramps though?

So I've been looking at ways to get the car up,for those jobs where you DON'T need to remove the wheels.Yes,axle stands are fine and you can get some nice high stable ones,but I'm looking at ways to get the car up to a really good workable height without using them,and having something the wheels sit on instead.Safe and stable. You can buy drive on style ramps,that have built in bottle jacks and secure pins to pump it up an extra few inches.Bit pricey.But looking at alternatives.I've Googled a lot today,and not found anything thats quite the job on a cheap budget.ie next to bugger all. Now I've got a nice heavy duty mega pro garage jack,thatll pump up a car to a properly good height.So was thinking for example of using normal car ramps that ive got,jack the car up and lower it onto them rather than drive the car on.(far safer if you're on your own!). All well and good,but the average height of a car ramp is around 20cm only.I have looked at seeing if there are lift stands,that would be maybe double the height,without the 'drive on' bit.Lower the car onto them,jobs a goodun.But not had much luck other than one or two US jobbies. Example Basically a solid version of these,would be ideal. Thinking more of some nice extra thick railway sleeper cuts,slightly bigger than the footprint of the car ramps.Should be nice and flat,plenty strong enough to hold the weight,get 4 of those cut and then with the ramps on top,would give a nicer clearance for undersealing,etc etc.So would jack the car centrally,,position those under the wheels with the ramps on top,and lower down either one end at a time with the opposite end chocked,or get all 4 wheels off the ground if desired.The sleepers would be wider than the ramp footprint so be nice and safe.Could double stack the sleepers each side if only one end of the car needs to be off the ground,cant see it being unstable once the weight of the car is on.And not as much faffing about as it sounds,Jack,stack,position,lower down.And easy enough to store in the garage.Any other thoughts?

Definitely another marker that GT4 205s are still keeping their steady price climbs the last few years.

Perhaps the Government (whoever that will be at some stage) would be better taking the TV License rulings back from the thieves at the BBC and not force my 84 year old mum to pay £150 a year from next year,to watch her telly just because she doesnt quite qualify for Pension Credit.And shes still hardly a pot to p*** in.There's always somewhere more worthwhile to spend money.Certainly not with a bloated Stone Age out of date,celebrity-overpaying bunch of Nazis like the BBC. Anyway.Carry on.

Ummm..yeah,sorry about that.No speed limits,small children or animals were harmed in the making of this film. Definitely a clutch-dipping situation in built up areas for me.Just as well it only comes out of its lair infrequently.

Nice one Jan

Ive worked out a while ago that the extra performance i could squeeze out of my car is directly related to the weight of the driver.Sad but true

https://www.megazip.ru/zapchasti-dlya-avtomobilej/toyota/celica-38229 You can use google to translate from Russian,(!) but it has loads of exploded diagrams for pretty much all gens going right back to 70s cars as well. You should be able to find what you need from all the links that have been posted up.

Cool

Proper bloke,30 years of having a Celica about. Was good of your neighbour opposite to let you park your Robin Reliant outside his house as well Kev.

First Celica is the one i still have now,around 10 years on. A Gen5 GT-R and an ST205 GT4 I had at points as well,but the gen4 remains Its evolved a little over the years.

Blue Edition for sale in our own classifieds.

Nice one Rich.Know youve had to pull the stops out at the busiest time of year mate,thanks muchly again

Youd have more chance asking me to share a girlfriend than my Gen4..

Liked that colour

Dan does own the biggest,gayest wing on CelicaClub. You others have a lot of catching up to do

Headcorn Aerodrome

Maybe not,if you had a caravan then you'd need to get another made up anyway,for example.Which reminds me I need to get one done as Ive changed my car since the caravan was last taken out to annoy everyone on the roads to the West country.Cheers for the reminder G

Oil prices have been on the up,and the price of fuel has been rising for months now.It was steadily sneaking up well before Xmas. https://www.statista.com/statistics/262858/change-in-opec-crude-oil-prices-since-1960/ Not as bad as 2012-2013,however the instability worldwide surrounding the oil producing countries isn't a great outlook. And as usual the prices at the pump will jump up far more readily than they will jump down again in the unlikely short term event that the crude dips. The 'what fuel in my car' conundrum comes up every year on here.General concensus is that most of the higher RON fuels in a normal UK specced car is normally a bit of a placebo,the only real advantage you might get is with continuous use of the V Power type stuff will help the car as its supposedly a cleaner fuel with additives over run of the mill supermarket stuff,but from a performance perspective itll be negligeable IMO. You're more likely to get the most out of your engine with frequent servicing/oil and filter changes .And I mean frequent,like every 6000 miles or twice a year. Imported JDM cars are programmed by ECU to run best on a higher RON fuel however,typically up to 102 RON (which we dont get here,but could be worse,could be the US) so it makes sense to use a higher RON fuel like a 99 in a car like this.I always used VPower in my JDM GT4 and i use it exclusively in my gen4 with the JDM engine it's been fitted with for that reason alone. The diesel Passat I use generally gets a bellyful of Sainsbury's,but I will stick a tank of the 'good' stuff in every so often if I'm feeling a bit flush,mainly because it makes me feel better to do it now and again.Judging by my fuel computer I returned slightly better MPG using the Diesel V over the Sainsburys stuff but you never ever drive exactly the same way each fill,traffic conditions change even on motorway runs so its a bit of a crap shoot there,including the reliability of the computer in the car.For a UK spec car I would suggest you use what makes you feel is right,if you think you get better performance out of the Vpower stuff over 95 RON,then carry on.

^^ Nice shot

Because..... Generation Four

He's the go to guy.He'll do anything you need from small bits to,er,slightly more extravagant stuff..

Yeah it was always usually the case you couldnt put a plate on a car to make it look 'newer' than the actual year of the car.