Roman

Hey guys,

Basically I've got a few areas of my car which I want to protect a little better from exhaust heat, and for the exhaust manifold I want some type of shielding that will stop radiant heat from cooking the engine bay or melting things or whatever.

Exhaust wrap seems PERFECT apart from the fact that the friggen stuff is useless and discintegrates almost just after you've finished putting it on. bah!

Ceramic coating of the exhaust manifold is an option, but $$ and does this wear off, or stop much in the way of radiant heat? I understand why/how it works but I cant help but be a little skeptical that such a thin coating can prevent a really hot manifold from radiating heat in the same way that exhaust wrap could...

For another area, I just want a patch of (xyz material) to be stuck to the underside of the car, so it's not being heated where the exhaust is very close.

Any reccomendations on what would suit, in each case? (that isnt exhaust wrap)

I had limited success heat wrapping the 2-1 section and then hose clamping a 1mm thick aluminium sheet around it to protect it, but this isnt going to work for the 4-2 section where the shape is more complicated.

This is one of the greatest thing I have ever seen.

I commend you and your fine automobile.

I reckon there's no point to the complexity of dual plenum, for an NA motor at least, especially with quads.

Single throttle engines want to minimise plenum volume for throttle response, so they balance between that and having large enough to give comparable flow to each runner.

You dont have same issue with quads, so bigger the better for plenum is better.

Lower air speed in the plenum and intake pipe means there arent the same issues with biased flow towards uneven cylinder filling.

Is that cosmos floworks, or a newer version of Solidworks which has it integrated?

Photochops look awesome! Definitely do it.

The blue looks best I reckon

As per the rest of the internet, I have a giant boner for 240s, best car EVAR!

If you could combine a 240z with tentacle porn somehow, it would clock the internet.

Hey Alex long time no see!

Good to see you're still kicking around with the Toyotas.

<3 star sharks, reckon looks better with the shiny lip and polished face on the star... But as you say, heaps more work that way haha.

Damn, they scrubbed up awesomely!

lol'd @ 'Jif' replying to a cleaning thread.

RX8 is a nice enough car to drive, but it really does fall into that gap where it's not exciting enough to be a weekend only car, and not practical enough (gas wise/space wise) to be a daily driver compared to similar offerings.

FD RX7 is the best freaken thing in the universe however, do want!

There are so many different generations/types/etc of corolla that it's a pretty meaningless generalisation.

This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen

Think of it this way... Why are most engines water cooled, and not air cooled?

So you'd own an FD3S? It has very very similiar dimensions, 50/50 weight distribution & a shit tonne more power and is only ~50kg heavier.

Who wouldnt, freaken awesome cars!

One of the best looking Japanese cars IMO.

Agree with Brad, FT86 aint light.

QFT, in terms of looks/power/weight its pretty much a RWD Mitsi FTO.

Are your parents peurtorican by any chance?

Yeah man, keep it simple and get some good use out of it!

Rather than excessively complicated, never going/constantly broken & in the garage aka Roman style

Got an engine crane etc here if you need it for a weekend or whatever.

I've come to know two things about old wheels.

No dish = not worth much

Not wide = not worth much

Never seen that design before

Would love a carina wag as a daily, jelly as.

If I ever stove mine into a wall or something, reshell into a a coil rear wagon would be my preference if I couldnt find another 2 door.

Or 2 door corona.

Slightly off topic, but why do people remove the factory oiling system in rotary engines in favour of having to use 2 stroke oil in the gas tank?

(Not being facetious, I literally have no idea)

Most likely not, no haha.

Definitely +1 to the car making me think of circa 1999 Queen street with people "doing laps", hahaha.

I've not seen a rotary starlet in a long time!

It's a pretty good combo, really.

Is there any benefit in tidying up the shape of the throttle shaft/screws/throttle plate for when throttle is wide open?

That stuff is so thick, I managed to pull most of it off by unpeeling it off at one corner, and just rolled up into a... roll when it unstuck off the floor. Hah. (On a hot day)

Thinner stuff is definitely total win to do it on a cold day with an air powered chisel, smashes the shit out of it in big slabs.

Go to toyodiy.com

Find part number of your heater box thing

Go to the part which lets your cross reference parts to other vehicles

Find the most modern car which has the same part number

Get one from pick a part or something

great success.

Haha, there should be heaps of 3AUs floating around.

I'd just guess that most people dont even bother putting them on TM due to low demand.

A cats eye would tear your sump a new arsehole!

I cant see the point.

GTR brakes are no doubt popular for other non GTR skylines (which have narrower calipers) so why not just buy the GTR ones, then swap?

Might get some cash difference your way, as opposed to paying for machining to get them narrowed down to the same thing,.

You neglect to mention that the mid engined aspect of MR2's skews the figures somewhat due to superior launch over your average RWD street car.

And the fact that its an absolute cuntola of a job to fit north/south.