I have heard people mention 'Osram nightbreaker' as a good bulb.

Chances are the headlight glass needs a damn good polish too.  Otherwise, Raybrig globes win :)

Raybrig? So who stocks them? (and which size...H7?)
 

H7 on the facelift lights :)

Well, the Tein Driving Master Type HA struts are out and a set of CASA EDA struts, secured via member EssDub, are in and I'm stoked at the difference. No more bangs on potholes or surface changes, and feels different to steer...
barely higher (15ml more height I asked the installers for, to clear gutter driveways), handles bumps and potholes much better, slightly more nervous but more grip. After driving it home I had a grin from ear to ear. This is without the electronic adjusters.. they should go in 5th June, but hard to imagine them getting much better.
 
I was ready for them to not match my imagining, but its pretty much just what i wanted. Not often results match hopes.
 
My apologies to those who love the low look, but I don't live in a flat city or on a plain...

Made at the Sagamihara plant in Kanagawa Prefecture ...

Went and met EssDub (Graham) at Tenterfield en route to Brisvegas Nats, and we had an enjoyable drive back to my place, arriving back about 3:30pm with thunderclouds threatening.. no matter to Graham, straight away he dives into my engine bay, clears the way to the gearbox and pulls the selector mechanism out to see why it is so vague. Seems the reverse lockout bits weren't in the reverse lockout housing.
 
I had bought the monkeywrench racing conversion kit a couple months ago so that i could be surer of a fix when i found someone who knew how to fit it. Well, EssDub was the one. He replaced the existing setup with the monkeywrench parts straight away. No more vague gear selection. Old bits out and new bits in in about hour and a quarter.. just in time for 5:00pm sunset.
 
Great Job Graham!
The gears all select the way they should now, compared to the vague sloppiness before, it's like chalk and cheese.
 
If you're going to convert a 1ZZ six speed SMT the monkeywrench-racing kit (see above) has all the mechanical bits you need to manualize the box from scratch without dropping the gearbox out. There's an adapter for the SMT clutch fork so it can still be used. Gear selection will be accurate and precise. You'll still need a Brit ECU though, and a shifter and cables and the clutch pedal setup and either a manual wiring harness or a modified smt one .........
 
Many thanks for the help Graham.
 
(They should have sold the manual version here in the first place.)

Electronic Damper Adjustment hardware fitted.
One control unit in the frunk, and one adjuster motor, with the other adjuster motor on the outside of the frunk housing on the left.
The rear control unit is in the compartment behind the seats.
 
What I'm chasing here is that stiffness doesn't necessarily equate to best handling, or at least, not on all surfaces. Maybe on a very smooth racetrack.. Even with these struts, I'm thinking it's still a bit too taut, but I'm not any kind of suspension expert. Definitely better than the Teins at potholes or sudden changes in surface.. Thinking now of getting some 10% softer springs made. (??) Thinking rally type setup rather than track, and not giving the body/frame too much of a pounding on the poor roads in the area I live.
 
 

I've bought a second one, 11th month 2002 facelift for $6K. Had CEL lights, limp home mode, made it from Melbourne to Northern NSW in 22hours. Minor adventure. MAF was loose and one O2 sensor crook. Once that was fixed no dash warning lights and no limp home mode, goes hard but sounds rattly up top. Cleaned the pre-cats out properly.
 
Body kit, but no side skirts. One visor missing, but I've picked up a pair of imported ones. Not a word of English on them. The Air Con button is missing from dash, but I've found and bought a face to fix that with.
 

 
Precats were disintegrated/ing.
 

 
Compression as image.
 

 
Went to Ormeau today to check out a motor with five speed and harness out of a roll-over. Bit sad that #1 only has 90 lbs wet or dry. Gave $250 for it anyway and bought his engine hoist too.
 

 
Not finding any good 1ZZ-FED motors in easy reach. Tempted to put a 2ZZ in it.

Addictive these little creatures are! Why not 2zz it then you'll have 2 different spydes! Have a track one and a daily!

 
 
So here we are, never having bothered to remove a wiring harness b4, trying to get one out of a Sportivo, to pillage for the wires and plugs we need to add to a 1ZZ harness for a 2ZZ to work...
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Found a rolled Sportivo '05 Corolla with 90,000 on the clock, but compression test shows 180 - 180 - 150 -150 dry.