I finnished uni and came home on Thursday night for good (well i have to go and collect some stuff etc but I'm back) so friday the starlet build could start in ernest
Friday morning i had to service the pug and make the exhaust sensible again as i have to do a lot of motorway and the silly exhaust i made caused your ears to bleed at 4000rpm.
its now done 131000 and still flys - great car!
Anyway so the next job was to pull the motor out the starlet and strip it of all its trim, the next 2 days have been spent sanding, rubbing,filling, sanding rubbing and flatting. I still have to do the bonnet, passanger quater and door then hoping to get it in primer by the end of the week. I have a few errsnds to run and its my dads Bday so I'm going to lose 4 days this week
I have to have the car painted and finnished before the 23rd absolute latest as i have got a job (SERP/Development engineer with Jaguar/ Landrover) starting on the 26th and i need to sort myself out for that!
I still have no seats either!!!
In other news, Evo 2 for the starlet is in the pipeline already (Evo 1 will be a hot 1500 Lite ace motor)
Whats that i see is it a.....no it cant be..........is it?....yes it is!!!
A Toyota 4age, 1.6 litres and 16 valves of screaming rev happy performance ;D
But i hear you cry? thats no good, it wont fit a k50 box!!!
That is why i also have a T40 box from a TA22 Celica
this bolts to the AGE and the current propshaft without having to mod or shorten it - factory fit WIN WIN WIN.
Though this is a future develoment when i can spend a bit of cash and rebuild it with some tasty bits.
At the moment I'm tring to convince a guy to sell me a 1500 Liteace motor with everything done on twin 40's making 150bhp at the fly @ 9000Rpm - should be good for a laugh! so fingers crossed!
Last request;
I have a couple of ideas as for colour of the starlet; a smokey grey baby blue (like "that" Mazda Carol) or white, though i am open to suggestions as nothing is jumping out at me, i have every colour chart availible on my wall and I'm struggling! So anyone wants to play photoshop away;
this is prob the best pic i have for this!
Sorry for the long post, ill keep this thread updated with my progress up to the show!
Friday morning i had to service the pug and make the exhaust sensible again as i have to do a lot of motorway and the silly exhaust i made caused your ears to bleed at 4000rpm.
its now done 131000 and still flys - great car!
Anyway so the next job was to pull the motor out the starlet and strip it of all its trim, the next 2 days have been spent sanding, rubbing,filling, sanding rubbing and flatting. I still have to do the bonnet, passanger quater and door then hoping to get it in primer by the end of the week. I have a few errsnds to run and its my dads Bday so I'm going to lose 4 days this week
I have to have the car painted and finnished before the 23rd absolute latest as i have got a job (SERP/Development engineer with Jaguar/ Landrover) starting on the 26th and i need to sort myself out for that!
I still have no seats either!!!
In other news, Evo 2 for the starlet is in the pipeline already (Evo 1 will be a hot 1500 Lite ace motor)
Whats that i see is it a.....no it cant be..........is it?....yes it is!!!
A Toyota 4age, 1.6 litres and 16 valves of screaming rev happy performance ;D
But i hear you cry? thats no good, it wont fit a k50 box!!!
That is why i also have a T40 box from a TA22 Celica
this bolts to the AGE and the current propshaft without having to mod or shorten it - factory fit WIN WIN WIN.
Though this is a future develoment when i can spend a bit of cash and rebuild it with some tasty bits.
At the moment I'm tring to convince a guy to sell me a 1500 Liteace motor with everything done on twin 40's making 150bhp at the fly @ 9000Rpm - should be good for a laugh! so fingers crossed!
Last request;
I have a couple of ideas as for colour of the starlet; a smokey grey baby blue (like "that" Mazda Carol) or white, though i am open to suggestions as nothing is jumping out at me, i have every colour chart availible on my wall and I'm struggling! So anyone wants to play photoshop away;
this is prob the best pic i have for this!
Sorry for the long post, ill keep this thread updated with my progress up to the show!