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  1. JadeyBlitzen
    I actually came across a noah imported from new zealand with such a permit. It was an sr40 townace royal lounge with all the extras. The pics I took of it proved invaluable in my conversion.
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    care to tell us more about this special permit chamaj?
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    when it gets clogged I guess. like when the indicator comes on. no point in wasting fuel cleaning it all the time
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    dude try toyodiy.com/parts
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    nope. the vehicle has to be registered over 3 years ago if you want to convert it to diesel
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    exactly my point. Slow vehicles are more fun here. Even in my noah its a hoot. the best part is all the cars that smoked you in the straight quickly fall behind in the corners if you use the right technique. That said I enjoyed it even more in my vitz rs when the traffic flowed in the opposite direction because the exit from the s bend is wide. so exit speeds around 80 was possible before safely touching 130 on the straight. but recently after the new system was implemented I tried getting close to the limit on a weekday morning. It was just too scary at those speeds with all that traffic and pedestrians. It was less adrenaline and more that voice inside your head saying slow the **** down funny how much the direction of travel changes things
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    Looks like people of this country will have to learn the lost art of reading road signs.
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    I liked the old system more cos the s bends opened upto a wider stretch. so you can carry more speed out of the bends. I remember taking them in the 70-80 region back then. and its foot down from mid corner right until you approach the roundabout.
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    The bit through independence square is like a mini racetrack. you start at the roundabout barrel down the straight up to independence square then lose some speed and negotiate the s bend clipping the imaginary apex and letting it run wide. then getting up to 3rd and slowing down again for the long left hander. inching the throttle up to the midway point and then flooring it into the straight. then some more speed and a sharp left hander and you are back where you started. and you barely have to cross the speed limit. 50-60 through the bends is enough fun. use a slow car so you feel like you are on the absolute edge
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    So I'm guessing there are automatic systems too. thanks for that bit of info MRM
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    somebody's on a steady diet of jeremy clarkson I see
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    final drive is the gearing system you get in the differential and it further cuts down the gearing after the gearbox. so when a prop shaft turns 4.3 times in your cr41 the wheels turn once. its this ratio I cant recall from the top of my head. anyway don't worry about this since you are sticking to the g52 gearbox.
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    more than an old tata does
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    Whatever helps them sleep at night Don't know how it works in the Hiace but there should be a switch with a similar acronym I guess. I was referring to a system in a new vanette earlier. If you don't clean it, it'll get clogged up and you'll get restricted performance, I'm guessing with a warning on the dash
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    sorry I meant to say they come with either 4.3:1 or 4.1:1 final drives. no point in asking the shop people. they won't know sh*t about diff ratios. I had a jolly good time matching 4.1:1 diffs for my 4wd
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    Mrs. First Lady, Y u no wear seatbelt?
  17. JadeyBlitzen
    change the coil springs and bump stops in the back to noah units. it'll improve the ride quality massively. As for the diffs yours should come with a 4.3:1 or 4.1:1 because its 2wd manual. so the final drive is ok but this being a 42 (although I really think its a 41 cos the yom is 97) its rear axle housing is different to the noah unit. anyway you don't seem to be going for the originality so I guess you can leave that one out.
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    It does. then you have to select the DPF cleaning mode and let the engine run on its own till its done. takes about 15 mins. and a very ugly sight with lotsa black smoke and bad smells. when they first came out our local "aiyas" thought it was something wrong with the filter and opened it up and emptied the filtering material ruining the entire system
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    Its got a DPF
  20. JadeyBlitzen
    more pics
  21. JadeyBlitzen
    why's the speed limit set at 100 and not 120 like in most other countries?
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    Too bad we'll hardly see any here. I did some research on how much it'll cost to bring one down sometime back. sources said it'll be a 2 mil Yen car. but realistically with some options i guess it'll be in the 2.5-3 mil range. So that's a 2 litre sports car, and both importers I spoke to said i'm looking at a total cost of 11.5-12 million after tax. Correct me if i'm wrong but with the way our tax system works we are missing out on some really good affordable cars.
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    this is why http://speedhunters.com/archive/2011/11/21/gallery-gt-gt-a-few-brz-details.aspx
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    I woke up this morning with a tweet from speedhunters. The production version of the Toyota FT-86 has been finally unveiled. Excuse the over excitement but this is probably the most important toyota in recent times and the purest driver oriented toyota in decades http://www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/FirstDrives/Toyota-FT-86-2.0/259779/ http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/259769/
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    saw the parked car outside my gym last night. couldn't help but notice the 10 plates. so the car has been used in the uk for some time.
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