80W-90 tastes bad

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It's a Fraser... with a 3SGTTE. The engine was orignally out of a TTE Celica rally car.

Incidentally, we cooked the head gasket that day so we had to change it that night. At 2am when we were torquing up the head bolts, a couple twisted - and we had no spares. While we all stopped to have a think - I suggested two options:

a) Ring the Toyota Dealer at home
b) Take the head bolts out of Fred's GT-Four outside

Fortunately for Fred the Toyota dealer was very obliging - I think it had something to do with the fact his dealership was at the corner to the main straight of the street race.

I think we got home after running the engine along some roads out the back of the town at 4am...

It was all for nought as the race was a complete shambles. We got called onto the dummy grid and instructed to strap all the drivers in - we then waited for 40 mins in blazing sunshine - which did nothing for anyone's good temprament.

There were 4 restarts due to crashes and we ended up overheating from sitting on the grid waiting for the track to be cleared. I think the 8 lap race took 45 mins to complete from the first green flag...