Mark Ayling

Looks like a Tamiya kit to me

So am I

Can't you just get the old one put back on? When I had my car resprayed and debadged they gave me the badges afterwards and they would easily stick on again...

AFAIK you either get folding mirrors OR heated, not both (I may be wrong though!). The heated ones come on with the heated rear screen...

James, Have you tried ToyodaTech, they're quite close to you and know their stuff http://www.toyodatech.plus.com/ Speak to Stuart Sandy, tell him I sent you

Cheers Neil - actually, after I started this thread I then read your "where did you locate your restrictor ring" thread which pretty much answered my question! I'll give Chris a shout shortly

....is probably not something I want to do for long, right? I guess that now the weather's cooling down I'm boosting higher, I thought the car felt quicker today and when I looked over at the AVC-R it was showing a peak hold of 1.45 So am I right in assuming I need to get a restrictor ring to limit boost slightly? TIA

You need to get out more!!

I have to say that if it had of fitted pefectly and not snapped then I would have been very happy with the result (if that makes sense!).

Yep, I've never ever seen my temp gauge move either (once warmed up), I sometimes wonder whether its busted!

Yep, pretty sure I did - I seem to remember someone saying that they'd been fixed/improved since then, I seriously hope they have!

I had a B & M one... Basically, it does shorten the shift by quite a bit and has a nice notchy, clicky feel to it... ...however, that's if you can actually get it to fit so that you can engage ALL of the gears! Mine was a bloody nightmare and never was right in all the time I had it, you'd adjust it one way and get 1-6 but not reverse, or 2-6 + R but not 1st, etc etc. In the end I settled for being able to engage all gears, but having to crunch into (and sometimes miss) 6th and reverse! Also, although throw was reduced by the kit, it made it very stiff and often a pain for day-to-day driving. I liked the shortness of the throw, but it wasn't worth it IMO. Oh and did I mention the build quality of it? Well when I say that the shifter snapped off in my hand on a trackday, does that explain it? Basically, the reason it broke off (we discovered) was because the shaft was connected to the base with the smallest blob of weld, off-center as well - very poor. I only had my stock shifter re-fitted a couple of weeks back, I'd been driving around for nearly two years with it held on by a £5 weld that some garage near Goodwood bodged on for me - thing is though, it was obviously stronger than the original! Other than those points though, it was alright

JapUKMeets I think, they usually do it...

Just found out that there's a Boxhill meet on on the 25th, what a nightmare Not sure what to do now...

Went for a new viscous coupling in the end, cost me about £140 plus (very little, 1/2 hour or less I think) labour. I used Woodcock Hill, who I normally go to.

Cheers, I'll give that a go

There is a way of trying it by swapping a couple of vacuum pipes around, Dude did this to my car a while back. I don't think its meant to stay like that, buts its a quick/easy way to see whether you like TTC or not...

Right then, managed to get the centre off no problem - however, I removed the centre nut holding the wheel on and it just wouldn't budge! Is there a knack to getting the actual wheel off or do you just have to smack it until it comes off?

Check out Miami Rice or Envy

Ah, just spotted that - cheers

I tried TTC but didn't like it, the car felt gutless at first and then suddenly went mad where the second turbo would normally kick in. I suppose you could get used to it, but personally I like to have as much low-down power as possible. One thing it did do which was interesting was completely change the sound of the car, the exhaust note (with a decatted Hiper) was totally different, less "burble" more "drone", also an acquired taste I guess but I wasn't keen.

I haven't got the foggiest what any of that means, or whether its correct - but it sure sounds impressive

LOL

Its OK now, I popped the center back onto the spare steering wheel I've got, then popped it back off again, so I know what to do now - probably won't even need to lever it, it came of really easily! Cheers Dude while you're on - do you know of anyone who can refurb/retrim this steering wheel? See here

Well it looks like its just popped on to me, there's three holes into which three plastic "pegs" go, see the following pics: Steering wheel with centre off Steering wheel centre