Jacko

*real N52 195kw

Im no Z4 expert, but would it not be worth waiting for an N52 manual, Im assuming they are much more energetic to drive and will hold their value more?

This is the equivalent of rolling up to concurso de elegancia with a PT cruiser.

They're not as confidence inspiring or refined feeling as F1 Assys in the wet, not terrible but you can realllly lean on the F1s assys in the wet, but I suspect on raw off the line traction RE003s are better. My 0-100 5.4s was on Re003s, they certainly grip.

Tony's actually really impressed me, the guys in Takanini actually appeared to give a fudge, and did stuff like torque the wheels to manufacturer spec..

Already done, sony xavax3000 slapped in the dash. Feel like I should be wearing a visor and gloves whilst driving...

Did you ask to speak to the manager?

Its cool for a funny little sh*t box, someone definitely loved it in Japan. The headunit would have been worth a couple of grand in 2011 when installed (maps, digital TV, DVD, MD, et c etc), and the speakers are all Focals and all professionally installed. The roof has been resprayed black with gold fleck, so have a couple of the dash panels... very early 2000s ricer!

Serviced everything down to a new waterpump, still got to research how to change fluid on the CVT, but Seri graphics did a slick job. Things actually pretty fun to drive. Its slow as sh*t but it actually grips fairly well, and the TRD exhaust sounds hilarious once VTEC kicks in yo (even got a pop!) and the CVT paddle shifters nearly behave like a DSG

Tonys tyre service always seem to have sharp pricing on em.

Had a look at the DISA valves while had the manifold out, both are healthy and tight. New serpentine belt, tensioner and idler installed and torqued, all back together and bleeding as I type..

Re003s are sticky and cheap

I go away and come back and relearn it all every 5 years or so, stops it getting out of control chasing the latest and greatest and keeps it interesting. Now is a good time to relearn it all with the new gear being released, with a solid jump in performance Vs the last 5 years of incremental mediocrity.

Seals totally poked, amazing it didnt leak more.

After market wheels that are missing hubcentric rings?

But what would I use to hold my sammich then! (they got taped over right after pic )

About the only things left to change on the 330 before it good for another 100,000km... First up oil cooler seal leaking all over sepentine belt then soaking all the waterpump area, then new starter... getting the intake manifold off on these things is about the worst job on whole car.

The release data on the rx6000s looks legit, and the smart access memory stuff with Zen3 looks like a no brainer for new systems. Intel must be shitting emselves.

Crazy low volts! Mines at 1.28v for 4.8, 1.32 for 4.9... starts to get warm though even with a 360mm AIO and not delidded. Its been running at 1.28v since new, happily. I amazed 4790ks can still hang with the big dogs (kind of!), on things like FS2020 at 4k its very much GPU bound still with a 2070 super.

Im over here still rocking my [email protected] like a boss 5 years on Zen 3 and a big navi are probably in my future next year, once the rush is over and pricing settles down.

Toyota make so many small shitboxes with terrible names, Ractis is something like Recreation Active Sports... I dunno about the Toyota Isis... Was looking at a later model S ractis as well, which come with orange stitched sports seats and get rear wheel disk brakes, but the interior space on the later ones has nothing on the earlier generation so common sense won on the day..

Ractis done, just got to sort out sign writing now. 1st gen racti, stupid large cargo area (thing is like a tardis) with fold flat rear seats. 1.5 big block, flappy paddle 7 speed gearbox, TRD exhaust and Koni sports struts and springs, and a couple of JDMAF subs under the front seats

White auto LCI with bent chassis rail on faceballs for $1k at moment, looks like a decent parts car

Done a lot of reading about the modern Caddys... lots of DSG failures and turbos going pop...