Limeymk1
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Noo rubber from Camskill.
Vredestein Sportrac 5s, bloody huge grooves in them. 
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I'm curious if Powerflow are any good aswell...
Mixed bag, depends greatly on the individual franchise. Some are good, some rubbish.
http://www.jpexhausts.co.uk come highly recommended in Macclesfield.
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I have the HEL lines on my SS3 and there seems to be plenty of length in the longer pair of lines to compensate for the extra movement of the front suspension.
Can't comment on any improvement over stock as the brakes were in a pretty poor state when I fitted them.
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A nut riveter.
So I can repair my spoiler, which is currently sat on my dining room table.
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1MZFE?
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Take the Celica on a track day while it's my only car?! A daunting thought given some of the crashes I've seen (for example a fiesta st got completely and utterly destroyed because of a stone on the track!)
I track my Celica and it's my only car on the road at the mo, I've only seen a few cars crashed on track and every single one has been because the driver was being a bit of a prat.
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Vredestein Sportrac 3
Make and Model plus size of Tyre: Vredestein Sprotrac 3 205/50 R16
Celica owned: ST202
Type of driving: Full mix of motorway cruising, B-road hoonage and trackdaysType of driver: Happy to pootle but love a good blast
Miles covered so far and wear rate: Not sure, almost a year and 2 trackdays.Dry use: Very grippy in the dry but squeal like a stuck pig very easily, failed to get the car out of shape at Bedford autodrome.
Wet use: With full tread these are very good in the wet, the car feels composed and well balanced. With approx 3mm left I'm starting to get some understeer and slippage in the wet when being 'enthusiastic'.
Snow / Ice use: Not used
Noise: Eeeeer well I can't here them over the exhaust noise. :xmas_laugh:
Overall opinion / comments / strengths / weaknesses:Very good all round tyre at quite a reasonable price, I had Sportrac 2s on my Gen 5 and rated them highly and have not been disapointed with these.
Price paid and from where: £87 each from mytyres. Fitted locally.
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Shiny bits. :-D
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About £65 from TCB if I remember correctly.
There is a test proceedure in the Toyota engine manual but you will need an analogue multimeter, a choccy block and a few spare bits of wire to connect it all to the diagnostics port.
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Aah rite were they bad? Good luck either way lol :-D
They were the damaged ones that he had advertised so nowt unexpected, it'll take a while to get them up to scratch I think, one skirt has had a previous repair with fibreglass and body filler which will need stripping back if I can.
I'll be taking lots of piccies and will try to do a bit of a write up.
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Cheers limey...once I put heat on it do I hav to hold where I want it or will it pop back to its original shape?
Pretty much what Dazzy said.
Will be a good learning experience fixing it up. I have a set of TRD ones from Jason to do which are gonna be interesting.
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Heat to reshape, bumper filler and/or polyurethane to glue em back together.
Don't fibreglass it's a bit too inflexible will crack if bumped again.
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When are you going to buy a sensible car?
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My old widebody gen 5 had twin pot calipers and 274 discs, same as my gen 6 (I think).
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Would be interested to find out how good the Big Red caliper rebuild kits are. I've tried the Brakes International ones and they're ok, but only ok. The slider boots only lasted a year or two because the rubber is a bit on the thin side.
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An example of where Toyota got it horribly wrong is the exhaust system on the V6 3VZFE Camry, the Y-connector where the 2 banks comes together is more of a T-joint and is no good for the flow. There have been good gains all round demonstrated by replacement of this part of the system alone.
My V6 Surf (3VZE) was the same and if I had of kept it I would have changed that joint for summat better.
Re-polybushes they will always be a compromise, but as mentioned if bushes need replacing then it's often the cheapest solution.
My MR2 is fully polybushed with coilovers but it won't be used everyday. Celica may be in the future but I'm undecided at the moment.
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Went to Coucy-Le-Chateau Auffrique on Thursday then down the road on Friday to Folembray for a trackday. Saturday bimbled back to Calais via Amiens and Le Touquet.
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I try to use at least 2 layers of heatshrink on my wires as it makes it almost as thick as the original insulation.
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First one was a Gen 4 I won on the bay of E for £10, cambelt had snapped and was a bit of a state. Cleaned her up, fixed the engine and got her running sweetly. Unortunately the rust was beyond my skills to fix at the time.
Got a Gen 5 (UK spec hardtop widebody) as a runabout a few years ago, she was totally standard and a joy to drive, I used to lead the IMOC midnight run in her and she went through the twisties better then most of the following MR2s.
Current Gen 6 is also my 'runabout' but I've tinkered with her a lot more. Fun on track and comfortable for long distances, remarkably good for a wrong wheel drive car.
The reason I keep coming back is that they're practical, well laid out inside and above all a hoot to drive.
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New radiator just delivered. Now waiting for hoses and gaskets for the cam cover.
Gonna be a busy weekend of bearding.
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I remember using some of that stop smoke stuff in my MR2 when the piston rings went, you could feel the engine struggling to rev against the gloop. Lol
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A Toyota Manual for the ST202 wiring system, picked up off ebay for £4 delivered.
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There was a guy on HJC who had stretched tyres on his 200sx. One of them fell off when he was coming onto the M27. Doh!
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Different tuning requirements completely for turblo and n/a exhausts, from what I understand for a tubby you need as little restriction as possible so a big fat pipe is ideal.
For N/A it's a LOT more complicated, the length and bore of all the pipework is very important as there is a reverse pulse that travels back up the pipe to the engine and getting this right effects exhaust gas scavenging from the engine. There's more to it than this but I'd have to refresh my memory on the technicalities.
Best way to cut sheet metal?
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Angle grinders aren't the best with aluminium but they'll do the job, just make sure you have a couple of spare disks as ali seems to eat them up.
I'm guessing the panels will be ali rather than steel.