Badge Graft
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Originally Posted by skywagon
While you are on the DOHC 16 valve subject, just got my new service manual and was going thru it, and can you beleive this sh$%? Solid lifters that need adjusting, and to adjust you need to remove both camshafts and install different size lifters. How hokey is this in this day and age???? removing both camshafts gets you into the cam chains and tentioners, i bet it is a big $$$$$ job.![Sad](https://electricvehicleforums.com/forums/images/smilies/emotikons/sad.gif)
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To find ZDDP in oils other than those that are certified for Diesel Engines or Off-Highway use (racing) is getting pretty rare.
You can, however, use something that goes into all our racing engines these days. STP. It's the original Zinc additive. I don't know how they escape the EPA but they do. Some people are concerned that the STP will "thicken" their oil. This is not really the case when used as advised. The product is a viscosity index improver and high detergent stabilizer. How much stability it adds to today's oils is anyones guess.. I can tell you that since we went back to using it a few years ago - we stopped having camshaft (flat tappet) failures.
The other thing to consider is the low load factor of the followers. The valve springs on these engines are most likely very low tension to minimize internal friction.
STP goes into all my vehicles now and the real beauty of it is that it's pretty widely available and doesn't cost that much.. It will be going into my TCH.
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So I won't be a total thread hijacker;
Of all the emblems I really don't like the Toyota logo and I especially don't like how they used it with the front grill - making it look like an afterthought..
Last edited by Big-Foot; 10-02-2006 at 05:43 PM.
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Originally Posted by WVGasGuy
if it were not for marketing departments, the car designers would have preferred it that way.
I was wondering what idiots come up with the ideas to splash "AWD", "FWD", "5.4L", "Turbo", and even more senseless information all over the cars. (Oh wait, you're a marketer![Wink](https://electricvehicleforums.com/forums/images/smilies/emotikons/wink.gif)
Seriously I have no problem with "Toyota" and enjoy the "hybrid" symbols. I don't like a lot of the useless emblems attached to cars (sorry, but similar to the VVT-I? or DOHC). Who cares? Why add something that doesn't add to the "purpose" of the car?
CHEVY had it right in the 60's with the flags and CI emblems. Simple yet they differentiate the between the different power level options. It's when they started adding 4-Speed, Automatic, and other descriptive but "unimportant" chrome that it started looking cluttered
I was wondering what idiots come up with the ideas to splash "AWD", "FWD", "5.4L", "Turbo", and even more senseless information all over the cars. (Oh wait, you're a marketer
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Seriously I have no problem with "Toyota" and enjoy the "hybrid" symbols. I don't like a lot of the useless emblems attached to cars (sorry, but similar to the VVT-I? or DOHC). Who cares? Why add something that doesn't add to the "purpose" of the car?
CHEVY had it right in the 60's with the flags and CI emblems. Simple yet they differentiate the between the different power level options. It's when they started adding 4-Speed, Automatic, and other descriptive but "unimportant" chrome that it started looking cluttered
This is a personal issue, and like all things cosmetic are in the eye of the beholder.
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This thread is cracking me up. vvt-i, Camry Hybrid, just hybrid, just Camry, no badges, more badges, HyCamBrid.
Everyone's reengineering their badge placement, what it says, why it says it, who it says it to. God help us if someone starts a thread that reengineers the power split device.
Everyone's reengineering their badge placement, what it says, why it says it, who it says it to. God help us if someone starts a thread that reengineers the power split device.
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God help us if someone starts a thread that reengineers the power split device.
You hit it! Finally an emblem that is unique to the TCH (and maybe Prius)
Maybe mold POWER SPLITTING DEVICE into the rear bumper cover similar to the COBRA on the Mustang.
I'm still surprised some of you don't have the string of neon green lights up under your car.
Then again it's all about personal taste
You hit it! Finally an emblem that is unique to the TCH (and maybe Prius)
Maybe mold POWER SPLITTING DEVICE into the rear bumper cover similar to the COBRA on the Mustang.
I'm still surprised some of you don't have the string of neon green lights up under your car.
Then again it's all about personal taste
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Originally Posted by WVGasGuy
I'm still surprised some of you don't have the string of neon green lights up under your car.
Then again it's all about personal taste
Then again it's all about personal taste
Then there's the Neon Flux-Capacitor warning badge that I'm going to put in place of that hideous Toyota BoHica (emblem) in the grill...
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Don't EVER confuse me with someone who has taste...
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I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PEOPLE!!!!!!
25 posts in this thread and NOBODY has said it yet. Well, I just can't help myself....
BADGES? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!
Is it just that I'm old? Well, mature... This is such a classic...I guess nobody's into classics. Never mind...
For anyone interested, here is the link to wikipedia for a history of the phrase...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges
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25 posts in this thread and NOBODY has said it yet. Well, I just can't help myself....
BADGES? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!
Is it just that I'm old? Well, mature... This is such a classic...I guess nobody's into classics. Never mind...
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For anyone interested, here is the link to wikipedia for a history of the phrase...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges