Looks good Rob. I seem to remember you previously had a full shield over the exhaust manifold, any reason for the change?

Looks good Rob

stuka
Looks good Rob. I seem to remember you previously had a full shield over the exhaust manifold, any reason for the change?

Because it was ugly!
I kept the part which protects the coil-on-plugs and the oil catch can hoses. 
Plus I cut out a rectangular hole in the stock engine lid shroud directly above the exhaust. 

Ha ha fair enough.
 
Have you had any issues with coil-on-plug reliability?

stuka
Ha ha fair enough.
Have you had any issues with coil-on-plug reliability?

None at all.
*touch wood*

This post marks the 100th page of this build thread!

I'll be getting a wheel alignment at Road and Race in Rydalmere on Friday. I have a crazy amount of toe-out on the front wheels because I lowered my car further since the last wheel alignment, which was at least a few years ago. I've also hit some big potholes since then. The excessive toe-out makes it very difficult just to drive in a straight line on poor quality roads. Plus this has caused the inside edges of the front tyres to be worn much more than the outside edges, despite having only a small amount of camber. I'm interested to find out the current alignment values, because with the naked eye it looks like there's at least 6mm total toe-out at the front! The rear alignment looks about right and feels good, so I also want to know where it's currently at for future reference.
 
I'll also be going to MRC on Monday so I can finally check how much the AFRs have changed during power runs with the new Turbosmart FPR1200v2 fuel pressure regulator. At the same time I'll be monitoring the fuel pressure with the sensor that I installed earlier this year just before I upgraded the FPR. This will confirm whether or not my fuel pump is operating safely below its flow limit under all conditions. There was already some discussion about this topic earlier in this build thread, but it's taken this long for me to find a spare day to visit MRC again.

Longest thread in history Rob! Looking forward to an update to the above.

Here's a photo from Toyotafest 2016. My car was professionally detailed the day before. 
 

Well, the front toe-out was even worse than I thought. Before the wheel alignment was adjusted on Friday, the front total toe-out was.......wait for it.......18mm! That's not a typo. No wonder my arms always ached after driving on poor quality roads! I don't know if the crazy toe-out was mainly due to lowering the car a bit more since the last alignment, or if it was mainly due to the potholes that I've hit hard enough to require both front rims to be repaired.
The front has now been adjusted to 1mm total toe-in.
The rear had about 4mm total toe-in, which has been adjusted to 3mm total toe-in.

Bloody Hell Rob !
Them wombats musta done a quick front alignment for ya.