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Turbo_Tim Regular Location: Townsville Registered: February 2005	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18 Sat, 20 August 2005 23:09 Yeah we are probably the masters of dodgy stuff on a budget! Ours just gets raced at the sprint rounds here, which are 5 x 4 timed laps on a 1.1km go kart track. Most things sprinter for the suspension work for t18's. We just did the usual brake upgrade of ra60 struts which gives you ventilated fronts. They are more than good enough for what we need. Just with metal king pads it does feel quite overbraked just about, very very easy to lock the fronts if your not careful, that might be related to tire choice though. We won a set of racebrakes pads last time out, but arent bothering to get them for that car just because it doesnt need them. To go with those struts your going to need very early model sigma lower control arms which are one piece, not two piece like the later model which is bolt on ball joint. That combination will give you a nice 3 degrees or so negative camber apparently. We have it on the car, works well. Get some decent rate low springs from somewhere, try second hand from a sprinter on these forums. To be honest with you we are still using cut stockers! We swapped diffs to the later model t18 diff with the swaybar. I dont know how much difference it makes as it size is pretty average. We did it in the hope of going up to a bigger one later on. Interestingly however, a number of the quickest cars dont run sway bars at all and just rely on stiff springs. Shocks on ours are stock and horrible all round. Will sort that too eventually. Diff is still open, might lock the spare diff some time are give that a go. Engine consists of stock 3tc with all emissions gear gone, 40mm sidedrafts from the 2tg bolted on with a homemade adaptor plate, extractors we bought here secondhand for a 2tg and finished off with 2.5" exhaust with a straight through muffler coming out before the rear wheel for $100. Tires are 6 year old yokohama street tires the other 1/2 owner had lying around spare for his car. Anything which had no value and had weight was removed. There isnt much left, but probably another 50kg could still come out of the car. For comparsion all this work ended up with the t18 being slightly quicker than a few cars including a s14 200sx, mini cooper s (new model, blown), gt4 celica, commodore 5.7l S ute on good rubber, a friends charade turbo, sss pulsar and a few others which I cant remember at the moment. It would go quicker if we had the money to do some more. Thats just what we have done for a start anyway. Keeping the 3tc is debatable, depends what you want. We find it useful because its torque and gives instantaneous torque when you need it, dont need to rev it out for what for spool or similar. Its no gem, but its useful for what we want. Actually sounds really great now too! [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Thu, 07 April 2005 05:18
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	WHITCHY	Thu, 07 April 2005 08:20
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Thu, 07 April 2005 08:39
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	riceburna73	Thu, 07 April 2005 08:40
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Thu, 07 April 2005 09:36
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Thu, 07 April 2005 09:48
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Thu, 07 April 2005 09:53
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Thu, 07 April 2005 11:01
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Thu, 07 April 2005 10:05
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Thu, 07 April 2005 10:23
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Thu, 07 April 2005 11:42
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Thu, 07 April 2005 12:06
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Henn	Thu, 07 April 2005 23:25
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:29
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Fri, 08 April 2005 00:02
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Henn	Fri, 08 April 2005 00:59
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Fri, 08 April 2005 01:02
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Sun, 10 April 2005 08:55
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	ToyT18	Sun, 10 April 2005 09:15
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Sun, 10 April 2005 10:58
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Sun, 10 April 2005 11:16
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Sun, 10 April 2005 11:46
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Mon, 11 April 2005 00:00
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Mon, 11 April 2005 00:02
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:05
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:09
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:13
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:16
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:23
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:24
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:29
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:26
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	nightdevil	Sun, 17 April 2005 08:31
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	jesseT18	Sun, 17 April 2005 09:35
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	TE72_Turbo	Sun, 17 April 2005 10:10
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Purple_Beasty	Sun, 17 April 2005 12:05
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Purple_Beasty	Sun, 17 April 2005 12:16
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Henn	Mon, 04 July 2005 05:57
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Wed, 17 August 2005 12:55
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Thu, 18 August 2005 00:16
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Thu, 18 August 2005 00:44
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Thu, 18 August 2005 09:56
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	bunkyT18	Thu, 18 August 2005 11:44
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Thu, 18 August 2005 12:21
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	bunkyT18	Fri, 19 August 2005 00:24
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Henn	Fri, 19 August 2005 01:28
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Fri, 19 August 2005 02:50
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	bunkyT18	Fri, 19 August 2005 06:27
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Fri, 19 August 2005 06:51
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Fri, 19 August 2005 13:02
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Fri, 19 August 2005 13:14
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	bunkyT18	Fri, 19 August 2005 14:56
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Fri, 19 August 2005 23:09
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	incubus_tool	Sat, 20 August 2005 12:48
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Sat, 20 August 2005 14:24
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	incubus_tool	Sat, 20 August 2005 14:55
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Sat, 20 August 2005 23:09
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Sun, 21 August 2005 01:58
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Sun, 21 August 2005 02:35
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Thu, 25 August 2005 10:30
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Fri, 26 August 2005 05:13
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	roids70	Sat, 24 September 2005 07:25
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	gearb0x	Sun, 25 September 2005 10:07
	Re: Dedicated to TE72 T-18	Turbo_Tim	Sun, 25 September 2005 10:34

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