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Toyota still can get a lot of trim peices, sure some will have been discontinued but the only way to really find out would be to ask them. The word trim covers

check where the exhaust hangers are mounted, its not uncommon for them to start splitting at thise points and cause a bit of a noise. Bit of welding and all was good with the last one,

SuperRedMR2 wrote:its alot quicker!

Not if you've stripped the hell out of your mk1b, just ask my mate in his SC when he tried to loose me.

I didn't beat him but it wasn't actually too far apart.

I wouldn't say its beyond repair, you'll just have to treat it as a fairly intensive welding project.

Tis better than my last one I was trying to save (only stopped cos I got offered a better shell).

I'd check for a vacuum leak. The hard metal vac pipe around the intake is well known to split and I know for a fact when it went on mine the car didn't drive right and as with your fuel consupmption it sounds about the same as I was getting.

I have the koni catalogue in front of me and it lists both.

Both have the same front damper listed , part number 8641 1071SPORT

mk1a rear part number - 8641 1072SPORT
mk1b rear part number - 8641 1142SPORT

oh, glad its sorted tho

strange to have to hae the engine running, I've never done it that way and never had a problem. And I've worked on quite a lot of mk1's now.

Not to worry mate, am sure you'll get there. These things take time to do properly. Just to make you feel better I've got 1 quarter, 1 set of repair panels, both sills and 1 front wing to sort, and thats after the job of stripping the engine and changing the headgaskets thats just been done. Oh and ...

I like PI springs, will be using them on my V6 and track car, they are being run on my mates SC, I've fitted them to another SC. I also sold a set to a local lad and he's happy with them.

The toyota prices for those parts are rediculous for what they are. I have templates for all the bars (excluding the slam panel one, sides and lower spoiler only)as had to make some for a few of our cars and if my welding guy gets some time might be able to sort some more out. They are not exactly t...

I've had dealings directly with KYB in the past and they told me at the time that the nuts for thier kits could be ordered seperatly. Find a local motorfactors that deal in KYB's and they should be able to sort it out for you. Unfortunatly I've lost the part numbers and prices but they should be abl...

The V6 is slower than the tubby overall, but its a completly different engine and there are different reasons to want one, it can be a nicer drive, it makes a nice noise and if you want it to be lazy it will be Ok not in a mk2 like most of you guys arguing are but heres something that happened yeste...

Ah have you managed to blow one up in 5 miles tho, Fitted it drove to work and it went on the way there

3 engines in under a week were in that car

Hey Paul, you know when anything of mine breaks I like it to go in style, no point having small failures

Paul I must be unlucky. Both the engine that came in my spare car and the replacement one I put in created 10mm wide holes in the gaskets and ran really rough.

Never mind tho I'm slowly destroying all the 4age's

I always use whatevers cheapest, saying that I don't really care about the engine giving up as I'll just fit another one. Afterall its only my cheap temporary car until I finish rebuilding the V6. Back when I cared about my old 4A tho I still used the cheapest I could find, always ran fine and in fa...

As tthe 2 guys above, noone can tell you whats best, everyone has a personal preference, the only way to tell what works for you is to try all the settings.

I'd agree that if they are the company that used to be nippon spares avoid them. I once bought a gearbox off them (quite a few years ago), was meant to be low milage and so I didn't mind paying a little more. When it turned up there was no way it was low milage and not only that it wasn't even from ...

I got a mica blue one to match my car a couple of years ago, had a white one as well but gave it to a mate.