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Yea smartest idea ever eh. Make the car virtually immobile and stuck where ever the hell it decided to quit. I guess Toyota or BMW don't even trust owners to be able to roll a car to a safer/more convenient location if it quits for some reason. Some BMW's have an under hood cable release system...

In general terms plastic welding depends on what the material is. Some materials it's not possible In most cases you can re weld it with some filler of the same material with either a heat gun with a fine tip or a small soldering iron. The soldering iron actually works pretty well and I use this...

What you probably don't realise is Autos are very much an American and Aussie thing. The majority of Europeans and southeast Asians drive manuals. I'm just back from 5 weeks in Italy and it's unusual to see an auto in any form inc taxi cabs and delivery vans even in Rome and Milano. Not saying...

I wouldn't be interested in anything that required drilling the front bar which this does. Phil

Nice story. BTW my 25YO son learned to drive in a manual and passed his first licence test in a manual. Keepin the dream alive, lol. Phil

Sorry, best image I have. https://www.autoware.com.au/shop/auto-styling-enhancement/toyota-supra/autostyling-2020-toyota-supra/sto-n-sho-plate-bracket/ Phil

Just had to help my 22YO daughter buy a cheap car (hers got written off, not her fault and she's a Uni student). Her written off car was an auto as was her first car. When we were considering a replacement car she told me she wanted a manual. She's not even licenced to drive a manual but she...

Me too, good move. Everyone I spoke to at Toyota including the dealer was astonished at this request to not fit the horrid std front plate holder. You'd think I was asking to have the vehicle delivered without wheels. When I fitted the plate holder I had bought that attaches under the front lip...

Thanks. I was more concerned with the stress put on the headlight. In the video he seemed to need a lot of force to compress the rubber duct. It's a nice piece though.

looks mean. Don't like the fact you need to shove the headlight into place and compress the squishy rubber connector. Why not just mould it to the correct shape to start with. Nice GR badges, where do they come from? Phil

Yea, tight plug gaps usually meant you had a substandard ignition system that wasn't coping. Phil

I am assuming you have made a typo here as .22 is getting close to 1/4 inch for imperial and only 10 thousandths of an inch if it's a metric figure you have stated. So assuming it's 0.022" then I would if having misfire issues open the gap to the standard .030" which I believe is the stock gap...

I don't disagree with any of this, it all makes perfect sense however you forget a few important aspects, from an engineering perspective of course. My shifter is now 6mm shorter than stock and has less leverage over the gear detent spring in the gearbox. This combined with the additional weight...

You can just use the std Raceseng collar and boot retention system but the knob will be 6mm or so higher than stock. Or you could use the Raceseng knob without the boot collar and have std shift knob height. Either way you can approximate what I have done without the small reduction in shift...

Well I drove my car today with the new shift knob. I'm pretty objective about the modifications I do and I know how to differentiate between "different" and "improved" so considering the new knob is from memory around 190 grams heavier than the std knob I certainly expected the shift action to...

Yes that looks way taller than stock. May be just the image angle. If you look at the image of my Receseng it's 6mm shorter than stock for reference but again not the ideal image angle. Phil

So you beat a 321cc learners bike. Well done you :thumbsup:

Torque to yield bolts are always in my experience torqued to a base setting then the final torque is to an angle. Not all torque to angle bolts are TTY though such as head bolts but a lot of chassis and general bolts are these days. A torque wrench isn't accurate enough for a TTY style bolt so...

In all but specialised cases bolt torque specs are standardised and reflected by the bolt diameter and material. This information is readily available on the web. So if you don't have a specific torque value for a particular bolt then you can just measure the shank dia of the bolt and check the...

No except that to get sensible answers you need to provide ALL the relevant information. I mean it's troubleshooting 101 for a high school kid, seriously. Phil