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It's mainly about handling - BC coilovers, custom spring rates, Whiteline rear sway bar and alignment. Engine is stock. PowerFC to tune the lift point to lower rpm to gain mid range power. Port matched factory header and straight thru 2.5" rear muffler. 1ZZ baffled sump for some protection against oil surge. And I use 15" wheels with lower OD tyres to lower the gearing for better acceleration.

@hillclimbharry what this car needs! especially baffled oil sump. enjoy it mate! (corolla Tsport 2zzge owner💪)

If the AHC was any other weekend I would have been there, but Bathurst is hard to go past. Congrats on the win & record mate!

It's got a PowerFC to bring the big cams in earlier to improve midrange power. And replaced the rear muffler with a 2.5 straight thru to make a bit of noise and save a few kg. Intake, headers and front half of the exhaust are stock.

@@hillclimbharry awesome thanks mate, my young fella was in the same class as you, came third, was an awesome weekend

Thanks Bas. I really miss this ute. It was great fun to drive and sounded sweet.

it was supposed to be a TrueTrac, but I suspect it might just have been a tightened stock cone LSD the way it seemed to open wheel up the 3rd hill into the right hander. Biggest let down was the dopey auto though. With a manual it would have been pretty good.

They're getting a bit old tbh and most will need lots of maintenance. Most don't get it either because they're mainly owned by P platers these days. It's common for them to have a flat spot or miss when cold. Mine had it - coil failed tests, leads failed tests, distributor had oil in it. Replaced all those parts and kitted the dissy. Plus plugs and dissy cap and rotor. O2 sensor is also a common fault. They're also renowned for being tappety/noisy at idle. On mine this was caused by cam lobe wear. I'd say it's the case for most of them. They're renowned for using oil as well, and that's concerning because they only hold about 3L from memory, so you have to keep a close eye on that. Synchros are another common issue but pretty obvious when you test drive them. Mainly caused by people not using a GL4 oil imo. Superstrut components are generally pretty worn out by now and are a little pricey to replace. Most people just convert to Mac Struts, which kinda ruins them imo. Some parts like TPS are very hard to get now. I think they're NLA. In all honesty, we're past the Goldilocks period for owning any 90s import. You're going to be up for alot of maintenance, and prices are going up now too.

Best find a garage kept or low milage one.

Thanks mate. Mine's just standard with rear muffler delete. It was like that when I bought it and sounds so good I haven't changed it.

One of the advantages of weighing just 1000kg I guess.

@@hillclimbharry one of many

Got the results today. Best run was 48.5. I wasn't expecting it to be that good with the open diff and the way it falls off the big cams when you change up to 2nd gear on those steep hills. Beat an Elise as well :)

@@hillclimbharry same engine as an Elise

Yep SII Elise used the 2ZZ toyota engine. They're a bit lighter and more track focused.

It is a good bit of road :) Really needed a bit more power there though. I kinda missed the Soarer...

Would have sames all those gear changes

I should have done the last run... I didn't know it was cumulative timing where they add up every run for the results. Skipping that run meant instead of winning my class by 17seconds over a Lotus Elise, I was last. Actually worse than last - "not eligible for a final result" was my official result lol

tangles01 Good stuff. You must be itching to drive it again!

Oh man I'm sooooo keen. I've started left foot braking in the falcon to transfer the skills onto track in the 32 lol.

D R thanks mate

66.3 officially, so just over a tenth off - surprisingly close considering I had to make the GPS timer's start and finish lines on Google Maps! hehe Yeah, FWD is always going to under, and it's probably still a bit soft in the rear spring rates, and I'm still working out my plan of attack with the left foot braking here to reduce the understeer. Room for improvement in most corners yet. Hope it stays dry tomorrow - Hoping for a 65...

harrydoling thats impressive man... i reckon you could dial out a lot of the under steer mechanically... but i agree with your driving style. Need to carry that speed mid corner with low power... rockon you have a half second easy just from the mistake on the turn 9 mistake.

yeah, totally ballsed T9 up. Tried turning in flat out and by about 2/3rds through it became apparent that it wasn't going to work! lol

Exactly how it looked, an up the hill that slowing on exit will be a hash time penalty.. so yeah more time there for sure.

I didn't trouble too many apexes on that run either! Easily 65s in it the way it is. I've had a few people with fast FWDs tell me my rear spring rates are too soft compared to the front, and I haven't even given the thing an alignment yet - it's probably got far too much toe-in on the front. I did tweak the rear toe settings earlier this year, because it visibly had far too much rear toe-in. I'll have a look at the front this weekend.

got down to 63.5 on Sunday. I think this run was a 64.9.

Thanks. Suspension mods are just BC coilovers with 16/10kg springs.

I've been reading a lot about BC coilovers over the forums, a recommended setup also best bang for buck. What about wheels? What size and tire setup if you don't mind sharing.

Yep, BC's are pretty good. I didn't like the standard 14/10 spring setup though. 16/10 is much better balanced and still easily comfortable enough for daily driving. My track wheels are 18x9.5" +38 all round with 265/35 Nankang AR1 semis currently.

Appreciate the info, been looking to see what wheels that will work best for cornering. I like how your soarer performs out and impressed with it's cornering, might just copy your setup if that's okay. The +38 offset, did you experience any negative/positive effect from it? I'm assuming +50 will be ideal because of how the suspension geometry is.

+38 is a common offset and pretty tame, even completely road legal. No negative effects on handling imo.