Yowzer

Adding a seatbelt will require a cert

Just had a LandCruiser in like five minutes ago where the customer had fit their own ball joint. It was the wrong one and the taper was too small, and therefore not seating correctly. So no, you cannot trust anyone.

There's really no point in debating the rules as LVVTA can say "nah bowl" on whatever, regardless of your interpretation. It's not like they're gonna be like "oh gee you're right, if you read it that way then yes you can slide through, we'll allow it", they'll just amend the rules.

Yes you would, because you are changing your car from its certified state. The same applies to anything else on the car. Once certified, you can't change back to factory wheels either. If you don't like the rules, don't modify your car.

That is correct. If however your clutch pedal resides on it's own independent pedal box and you don't touch the brake pedal box, you are fine. So long as the clutch pedal doesn't hit the wider auto brake pedal. The issue is, people in the past have modified their factory brake pedals to fit around their newly installed clutch pedal, they did a shit job, their brake pedal broke and they no longer got stoppers. Hence blanket rule to make sure muppets haven't stuffed anything up. All it takes is one mounting point to be in a different location and someone going "meh, doesn't need it" and then eventually the frame fatigues and things go wrong.

That corolla must have been such a sleeper

Make a wind turbine

A6 and X7 are mostly interchangeable You also have no engine

Kinky!

Yup I can see it in the above graphs, but I think it'd be interesting to see it mapped against RPM directly, ie how you'd map the control of variable length runners

Trumpet length that makes most power / torque at any given RPM

Howabout a graph of best trumpet length vs rpm?

I was surprised at how much the head gasket blocks off the water galleries, but it looks like all the 1uz gaskets do that.

That is the timing control solenoid thing, dunno about how to fix it though.

Surely not. Those rings would be humming if the heat was too much for the radiator to keep up with

Surely this whole "tight clearances producing more heat" is a myth, if clearances are tight enough to generate excess heat your engine would be a paper weight within a few km. I'm pretty sure the UZ doesn't have a water cooled oil cooler, so excess friction wouldn't show very quickly in the coolant temps since all moving parts are oil cooled.

Thrash it till it blows then replace it with a supercharged 1GZ

Buy it from Chase. Spend twice as much time and money making it fit than it would to build it from scratch.

I've never noticed any issue with blanking the EGR completely and leaving the butterflies as is, and I've blanked a few.

You don't have to, but it serves no purpose anymore. It does quieten down the idle a little bit but hardly. EGR doesn't normally function at idle, it's more of a light load situation and the engine still eats fresh air in the process.

https://www.alttune.com/vehicle-search/?vehicle=hyundai/sonata/25289/alttune Based in Taupo but have agents throughout the country. They cranked @UTERUS's Defender up very nicely.

Just use the tennis balls to begin with so you don't have to carry them with you.

Beauty. I see some dirty 5M extractors in my near future

How did you go about forming the collectors? Tac onto primaries and beat into shape around them?

This is what I was wondering about the long PVC intakes. It'd be pretty neat to see what they're doing with a slo-mo camera.