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Mr Doors
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Re: opinions: Toyota Sera	Mon, 10 March 2003 18:15

Howdy Guys, I'm new to this club, and must say I loved the cruise I went on about 2 weeks ago past fitsroy falls, I Own a Toyota Sera and extreemly love them. The Veiw you have of the world from the inside cant be matched by any other car I've ever been in or could afford. For any of you guys that loved 'Back to the future' as a kid understand where my passion of the doors originates. They come in three models; EXY-10 Almnux The Heavist of the three weighing in at 1100kg with ABS breaks interior air filters a sera live sound system with rear projection luminecent graphic equaliser and thier automatic transmition. Costs anywhere between $14k-18k EXY-10 Phase I weighing in at 910-940kg, Again they have ABS and the sera live system but not as many interior creature comforts as the Almnux. Cost anywhere between $8k-12k EXY-10 Phase II Weighing anywhere from 690kg - 890kg, They have no ABS, nearly all interior creature comforts are non existant and no Sera live sound sytem, These are extreemly rare, The 690kg versions get their weight reduction from the materials they use to create the chaise. Carbon fiber I've been told. Costs anywhere between $17k-25k I have a EXY-10 Phase II, and its the best thing I've ever owned. They do have a timing belt problem at 80,000kms and the bottom end bearings are as week as papper mashay They consist of a 5e-fhe engine which is a 5e-fe bottom end with High mecca twin cam head opposed to the the twin cam in the 5e-fe The have the same bore as the 5e-fe 87mm but with a High compression piston setup. They also have an accoustic manifold They basiclly tweaked the the old 5e-fe and didnt upgrade the timeing belt to a stonger one nor did they bother to upgrade the bottom end bearings I've Killed 4 Engines to date and I've owned the sera for a little over 4 years. I must admit though due to bad habbits that I aquired from owning a robust Holden 202 kingswoord HK I was not one to change oil. I have learnt my lesson the hard way and I'm currently looking around for a 5e-fhe engine, (that I will Oil this time) If anyone knows where to pick up a 5e-fhe Please tell me. Also I have had this argument with gee120 many times, as he believes that the demise of the 5e bottom end was a dirrect result of my bad habbits (lead foot/no oil change) and that the bottom ends should hold up quite fine. After doing some research though I found that their are american companies that refuse to sell the el44 which is a 5e-fhe engine without replacing the bottom end bearings to more robust ones. If anyone has anything to add to this argument please jump right in. If anyone has any questions about the sera don't hesitate to ask Or if anyone has any good ideas on stuff to do to one, please forward them to me. The cruise that I went on only teased me to the point of missing my sera extreemly. It is now my number one priority to get her back on the road. [Updated on: Tue, 11 March 2003 08:42] [Report message to a moderator]

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