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Location: Sydney
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Toyota Avensis
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Mon, 23 December 2002 00:06
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I wish speed would do their research...
Its a ZE125 corolla shell and tahts about it...it runs complete GT4 running gear front to back, most of the chassis has been modified, especially the rear end, being beam axle meant they had to fab up strut towers and mounts for the sub frame, which are integrated into the roll cage believe it or not, this is to cure the lack of rigidity a fwd generally has the rearr.
The tunnel has been opened out, and front end modified in quite a lot of places, Id scarely say its a Corolla anymore, besides the shell heheh. Its a very nice car to see, and to examine it closely well its an engineering master piece. Neal and the team did a fantastic job...and if you're lucky there will be more of these floating around soon enough. A second one is being built, and might be finished by now! =]
The corolla will be out in full force next season, they had to get papers and crap sorted this year and lots of testing/setting up done. But I can tell you now its looking very good indeed, and what speed quoted about power/torque is totally wrong =] Take my word for it, power isnt that high, and torque skyrockets past that std figure =]
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