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One reason I didn't want to take the cams out is that I might not get exactly the right torque on the caps the second time around. It should come out the same but you never know... I just made sure they were all to spec and left them there. My intake side was easy because I had tons of shims...

=) Good luck! If I caught this earlier I would have said that the older corollas (pre-93 I think) with the 3 bolts on the valve cover are easy to pick shims from and there were tons at my local yard. I never did figure out a good fast way to get the shims out of the newer I4s or V6s =(

It's not fast food or commonly sold but you can find some really weird stuff being sold in stalls in China. The insects I haven't seen before in person but I've actually had a bit of stingray before =\

Haha, I work with a guy named Troy. Or I did... I quit today to go get me some higher edumacation. Thought it was a pretty rare name. Old lady color FTW!

The sheet I used (probably the same one rennat linked) was in inches, so make sure you change the excel box formulas if you do it in mm. I almost put the wrong shims in my car! If you need shims I have about 50 of them ranging from about 2.70mm to 3.10mm

More unsprung weight maybe? Tires are actually pretty heavy. But I don't know much about drag racing =\

I just did this and it honestly took me about 30 minutes to get the first shim out from under the cam with the special tool. But I figured out how to use it properly and it's a pain but it's not that hard. It might actually go faster taking the cams out but I figured I already had the tool and...

Please tell :bigthumb:

Please tell me that's not their next model...

Oops, forgot to say I was on a W58. I never actually went on the highway with the R154/4.30 combo =\ 4k rpm is insane though!

You guys are scaring me here =( But my old key doesn't work on my new car, in any lock. Then again I have an older 89 and a newer 89 so maybe they changed the key for 89+?

I mostly wanted to change to 3.73s because I'm going to be doing a lot of highway driving going to college and the 4.30s were at something like 3k rpm at 80 mph! I suppose I just have to live with the lessened acceleration as part of the compromise =( Oh well, another excuse to up the power!

I did notice first gear went by extremely fast with the 4.30s... it was pretty much useless. What I think I'm missing is the lower end torque. Out of boost with 3.73s 7Ms are pretty slow aren't they?

I've recently swapped my drivetrain into a new shell and went from an open 4.30 diff to a 3.73 LSD. The whole drivetrain is exactly the same as it was before except for the change from a MBC to an EBC, and I've run both setups at ~8 psi. Thing is, my car feels a whole lot slower now. The old...

How did you match it so well? If I can find a way to match colors that well I'd be ok with putting my pre-89 spoiler on my new grey car =O The hood is awesome too, but I'd paint the nose cone center part too to match the bulges.

=O I like samuel jackson... I hope he doesn't go too!

Welcome, pictures are required for these types of threads =)

Happy birthday! Now how many punches on the arm is that... =)

Assuming nothing's been swapped the JDM engine will have 1 vacuum nipple instead of 2 on the throttle body. The throttle bracket will also be missing because they don't need the funky crossover like we LHDers do. There won't be any EGR either, and the oil pressure sender unit is a bit different...

LOL I want a turbo light! It looks beat up but I think that's how toyota trucks should look =)