Blue Icarian Wings

Got the insurance coming up soon, so been looking for quotes, DirectLine would give me £501 (1yrs NCD), and it would cost a mere £177 more to get my learner g/f on the car also Good stuff, but reading the small print they won't insure modded cars for the under 25's (I'm 23 this year) so I phone up to check and yes, my alloy wheels (offical toyota ones, fitted at the toyota dealer) makes me uninsurable 1yr NCD, no accidnets ever, 3+yrs driving (this was my first year with my own policy), never broke the law, claimed dole and now supporting myself with a good job at BAe, the perfect young driver, but add alloy wheels OH SHIT!!! now he's too much of a risk to insure (guy on the phone said they'd insure me if I could the old wheels back on ;) ) AAARRRGGHHHHH [/rant] Anyway, the real reason I posted, does anybody know if alloy wheels were an option for a ep91 Solida, I mean factory options are standard, so not modded and ok right ;) Thanks

Suspension here also, performance before bling!

MAF, yeah thats what I meant,......... It tells the ECU how much air is coming in, which decides how much fuel to give the engine, mildly useful for the engine ;)

MAS sensor?

Just keep telling him your busy, after a few years the rust should of settled in and it'll fall apart before it gets enough speed to catch you ;)

I thought the AE was an older version, I stand corrected

Do a forum search the info is there! I've seen bug-eyed ones from p-s, I took to checking the reg of the cars while I was looking for mine, the model number is EE-111 I think

Seen here ages ago, check out how well the rear door rams are fitted into the seats, the rear camber, and under the wheel arches

looking good!

There is a seal at the rear of the bonnet, black rubber thing

Good stuff, read somewhere fuel cut happens at about 0.9bar

I believe it does, just bear this in mind before you get the hacksaw out, a de-cat may fail the emissions check at MOT, so check that out first, or at least get an arragment where you can easily get the cat back in, or get a sports cat

Look very good and street Mr Joz When you say 'Glanza Rear Splitter' do you mean a Glanza rear bumper or an addition?

Turbo a 5E-FHE, tis my dream

Don't K&N's have the filteration properties of a worn net curtain? Source: "High Flow" replacement airfilters section of this page

Unluckly, or foolish of your mate, that doesn't look like the result of a low speed crash,.....

Off e-bay, off a scrapped starlet, £28 + 9p&p

That is unlucky, worse thing is they don't make them anymore, we're on a slow road to extinction Glad your in one piece

I know it's wrong, but I kinda like the way the white bonnet looks on the blue car in the first photo

I was trying to ed-you-kat's you all so you wouldm't be fooled in future, a lost cause it seem's

I also missed my orginal point for posting, basicly the lack of any useful info makes it look dodgy, and do you really think a small 12v plastic fan can shift enough air at enough pressure to act as a turbo, the damn thing would just be a restriction in the airflow

Snake Oil My maths may not be spot on but bear with me,..... A 4-stroke engine needs completes a cycle in 2 revs So the whole engines displacement is used in 2 revs (1332cc) Or half of the engines displacement is used per rev (666cc) So at the rev limiter 6000rpm (revs per Minute) will be using,...... 6000 X 666 = 3996000cc (cubic centimetres) Or 3.996cm3 (Cubic Meters) per minute Or 66600cc per Second Or 0.0666cm3 per Second Or 66.6 Litres per Second Or 33ish of those big bottles of your favourite cola per second Or enough air to fill the engine 50 times over a second (66600/1332=50) This presumes, that A) The engine fills itself fully (admitly not going to happen as some exhausts gasses will be left over and the engine vacuum won't be strong enough to suck enough air in through all the restrictions, and push against all the back pressures) ;) Car in place where air pressure is 1 atmosphere, so pressure inside the engine when full is the same as outside (I'm not sure about gas pressure/densities, so I'm assuming a nice density of 1:)) I know the engine probably won't manage to fill itself 50 times a second, and you won't be at 6k revs all the time, but I was going for a rough peak air usage I also chose max revs as you want it to be able to at least keep up with what the engine demands, but this is a 'turbo' so we should excide demand and ram the air down there (double pressure, double the air flow) If somebody who knows more about the sucking power/back pressures of the 4E-FE, and gas pressure/densities can calculate a better figure, please do so Anyway, the 'turbo' in question, runs of 12volts (like fan in the back of your desktop comp), can pull 40amps @ max load (40,000RPM), later on it says the unit includes a 25,000rpm motor (/|\ from the faq bit, hmm can my alternator handle 40amps on top of the existing load? ), but,...... What is the radius of the fan? What design are the blades? (designed for high flow or pressure, both, neither?) What power (Watt's) is the fan? And most important of all, what is the fans flow rate? (CFM cubic feet per minute or CM3M Cubic meters per minute) What I'd really like is a graph of flow vs pressure, so I know how much more air it can push into my engine, pity all we get is the fuzzy dyno graph, with labels/axis we can't read from an unknown dyno if you look at the text at the bottom the DIY version also lacks the dump valve Also if this is the Gen2, why does the faq talk about the Gen1? and if this thing has been in dev for 2 years don't you think there would be more details at their site? not dodgy looking, no sir not at all! If it was as good as it claims, how come it isn't standard or at least an option from the manufactures, EH? But if really, really want one, you can make your own even cheaper, best add an EBay superchip to avoid fuel cut Now I've finished boring/educating/insulting you all, I'll go back under my rock

JVC somethings, blue and £40 from halfords, they do 80's metal a treat

Some very good ones

look under starlet engine tuning on fensport, basic setup £302 (before VAT)