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1300cc turbo?

At the end of the day It's gonna be a lot better than the factory lump and you'll be able to sit on 100kph no worries You could convert it to EFI as well if you really wanted, but considering the vehicle it's in a DGAV will be more than adequate

A cam'd up 18R on a column change G52 in a ??? Sounds good so far

An 18R-G sounds like it'd suite your requirements too, but they're a bit hard to come by nowadays.

Except a 7K is a garbage engine option

Close but not quite. Toyota has their engine series, and then their box series. The G series box (what you're looking at) is their commercial spec units for vans, utes etc. The W series boxes are their larger RWD boxes for cars like the older Supras, Cressidas etc often mounted to various I6 engines but sometimes smaller 4cyl and diesels too. Bellhousings are interchangeable between most of these boxes, however you'll still need the correct bellhousing to suit the engine, so at this point you'll have a L to G/W bellhousing (L series engine, G series box). If you want to use a 3SGE for example, you'll need the S-G/W bellhousing, possibly from an older Celica /Carina (if they had W boxes, I can't recall what they ran) or from those funny 5S powered vans. Some engines, like the A series (4AGE etc) were never coupled to these boxes so factory bellhousings don't exist to suit, however there are aftermarket options available I think.

Nothing other than the L series diesel will bolt up without changing the bell housing to suit. The G and W series boxes have the same bellhousing pattern, which opens your options up to various petrol engines (the larger ones anyway) but you'll still need the correct bellhousing to suit your engine of choice

If you want more weird try a Leaf shifter. It's similar but more of a disc you push around. No B though coz it's all regen all the time. It annoys me that reverse is forward and drive is backwards though

Sure does, they heat, squish, and cool.

Measure the distance between coils with the weight on them to get an idea of how many to lop off, then a 1/4 coil at a time until it's almost where you want, then fine tune. Then sort some shorter shocks to keep it all captive. 50mm would be about 1.5 - 2 coils on the front, probably 1 coil on the rear at a top-of-the-head guess

Why? Cut is legit. My Cressida is rolling cuts and it rides bloody good. Otherwise you can get some custom springs made up if you really want to.

Cut them like a real man The same goes for leaf springs and torsion bars

How can there be a test procedure for exhaust volume that can be overruled by some numpty's personal discretion? Surely if they think it's too loud they should get a noise meter on it

Unless they've changed it, I thought you could only get the noise cert after you get pinged by the fuzz for excessive noise anyway.

Exhaust noise cert? Tell wof guy to get fucked. Volume is checked as part of the cert process.

My tyres don't work on gravel at all

Cutty weldy

What does the police mode on them actually do? I've never bothered changing any to cop mode to find out.

Carburettors are shit.

What's the reasoning behind that?

They won't, but that's what's dodgy. They could half-ass it and slap a mail order wof on it and call it legit coz at a glance it matches the plate.

Often people will be selling rolling bodies on the tard claiming they're certed for a 13B, adjusties etc etc none of which is fitted to the car anymore. Surely the cert would be voided if not sold with the equipment it's certified for?

Might wanna check where your speaker channels are too. You'll probably find one channel is running to both front speakers instead of both left speakers, for example.

Dunno actually, let's ask @KKtrips

The modifications are documented in much more detail than what's recorded on the plate, so although you may get away with it if anyone was to glance their eye over the plate, if there's an incident and they investigate further you'll probably end up in the shit.