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Yeah, I'll have them. Drop me a PM with the payment details.

Are those two window trim bits available? If so, how much do you want and what's your preferred method of payment?

are these the monoblock ones or the older split piece model?

I'm convinced tether was an attempt to bring fractional reserve banking to crypto.

And this is why I've never put any money in Tether. It's shady as hell and a lot of the dodgy stuff around USDT had a huge part to play in the last boom. I suspect this will get a lot worse before it gets better.

how exactly does one convict a car of a crime?

Nice production work, looking forward to this.

I'll have a 2jz-ge non-vvti and W58 with a spec stage 3+ clutch coming up soon, but I don't think I'll be giving that away for free.

I gave mine away to another member on the condition they would get used

It's nowhere near Sheffield, but I would honestly invest in a trip to WIM.

I gave mine away for free a few years ago, nobody wanted them. Black as well.

Really not a fan of that.

Right, unfortunately this car has been sat on the drive for all of 2018 due to my career taking a much more demanding direction and a some rather serious illness. I have been saving plenty of cash during that period to get going though and today, these turned up: Rear sump and engine mount brackets from a UZ Soarer, as well as the power steering pump and lines that should allow the 3uz to bolt straight up to the existing power steering pipework. I'm in the process of hunting down a workshop. I think I've found a donor car, in the form of a 6 speed auto GS430 that will be promptly dismantled as soon as I've got somewhere to take it to bits. Other jobs for the next month or two: Strip interior and finish the sound deadening fit carbon bootlid fit carbon bonnet and front wings replace radiator install Titan anti-roll bars MOT and insure it so I can drive it to said workshop Remove the rats nest of excess wiring and start to fit the custom digital dash I've been working on Finish the LED rear light set up Polish front lights and potentially respray the inserts and clean up the rings. I'm planning on fitting some LED projectors but that can wait for a bit longer.

I'd put the money towards a pioneer sph-da 100, 110 or 120

https://www.zf.com/products/en/cars/products_34944.html This is something that could be quite interesting as the crackdown on petrol cars gets worse. I reckon a hybrid Supra could be a laugh if you did it right.

Daft question Bignum, but is the red button NOS or some kind of meth/water injection?

3uz-fe and a CD009

To be honest, I'm not the best person to ask... My knowledge of it applies largely to the context of nuclear reactors, the conditions under which different types of corrosion/cracking occur for various types of steel and occasionally titanium. I just remember some elements of hydrogen assisted cracking and annealing in different materials. It's been a few years since I really applied any of this knowledge but here are the basic points: - stainless steels are naturally resistant to hydrogen embrittlement - I wouldn't expect it to be a huge issue for stuff on a car that's exposed to atmospheric conditions most of the time; for hydrogen assisted cracking to be a real issue, you'd need to expose the parts to elemental or molecular hydrogen (so basically acidic conditions). - Electroplating will actually be the main cause of the problem as far as hydrogen assisted cracking is concerned, as you get molecular/elemental hydrogen forming at the metal boundary during the plating process - that's why I mentioned annealing it fairly quickly after you've done the electroplating work. - Tensile stress will exacerbate the hydrogen assisted cracking process, but unless you've got conditions in which hydrogen is diffusing into the metal and degrading the grain boundaries within the component, this is largely not going to matter. I think this is pretty much a non-issue to be honest, just anneal the stuff you electroplate within a few hours and you'll be fine. Mechanical failure of bolts and brackets is going to come from other forms of corrosion or stress fracture to be perfectly honest.

ah, fair enough. Just thought I'd let you know in case you'd left stuff sitting for a long time.

Annealing should ideally be done shortly after whatever process has been applied to the metal you're worried about. Hydrogen assisted cracking will happen faster (and at colder temperatures) when the concentration gradient is high (as it will be with a coating).

Do diesels qualify as hot hatches these days?

It's an obvious yes from me. Look at the prices ls400 front brakes now go for compared to a few years ago. It's more than tripled in price.

BMW stand to gain a lot, which can be passed on to their next lines but I'm not entirely sure what Toyota have gained that can be passed on to another Toyota. If the main benefit Toyota brought was reliability and the input into the platform, then tweaking another manufacturer's suspension parts, this is all a one off exercise. BMW must be laughing all the way to the bank with this. It seems entirely 1 way, BMW now make something that meets Toyota's existing quality standards. What do Toyota now make? Nothing new.

You can bet some of that will be passed into the next generation of BMWs as well.

I've no idea if it works with the standard Supra ECU, but you can use any form of connector that interfaces with a normal android device if you have a can bus compliant ECU. I've been working on this for quite some time. My plan is basically to have an android head unit that operates as the master computer for the car, coupled with an arduino with a CAN bus adaptor for the dash. This will allow me to pass information via custom can bus commands to whatever sniffer is feeding the android head unit. It also means I can pass information back to the dash, so if I decide I want a sport mode (or whatever) then I can have a setting that will change the information on the head unit and the dash at the same time. It's nowhere near finished yet, but I've got a basic prototype working with an arduino, an android tablet and some dummy can bus data from a computer.