Bluebear

Mate, you're 17 days too late for April's Fool.

But then why aren't they called 4/5s?!?!? WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER. This is clearly an attempt to sow chaos and implement the beginning of a new world order. THE BLACK HELICOPTERS ARE COMING OH GOD.

Fitted my reverse scoop on Sunday, bonded it in with some Tigerseal. It's not the best fit in the world (2-3mm gap either side), and the slightly different paint colour sticks out a bit more than I thought it would but I'm not too bothered. There's already a chip on one edge where it fell through my bonnet and landed on my manifold when fitting it And a full shot. Amazing how different it looks. Certainly (to my eyes), it looks a lot more purposeful, from both a side profile and from the drivers seat!

£255, tits sake. I would have bought them at that hahahaa. Seriously though, real shame about that, they were worth £750 all day long!! Just couldn't afford it

Damn son.

Aha! It was you who rolled up at the Corolla RR day I was there with the Corollas, going on a power run. Mine was the black GT looking fairly stock on the outside with gold wheels if you remember it. I was going to say something to you, but you looked fairly busy

Ooooh!

As some of you saw on Facebook, a few days after putting on my 5/4s, I've had to put the Rotards back onto my rear. The culprit? A screw through one of my barely used S.Drives Got it repaired today, and will probably fit them back on Sunday along with the reverse scoop from Starbuck! The one thing I am debating now though.... which way round do I put them on?

Can't see me ever selling up the '82 to be honest, or at least if I wanted another car but couldn't afford to keep it going, my parents would look after it. EP82 track slag and MkIII Supra daily please.

Knew they were going to be in gold too hahahaaaaa! Gonna look brilliant mate, what tyres will you be running?

Completely missed this topics revival!! Brilliant to see you back Enzo, always loved your blurple Starlet,

I'm guessing 501 or 530? 8J is going to be mad! You getting some fat arches on then?

Bought a reverse scoop off Marc, plenty of communication, even snapped a pic of the package so I'd know what it looked like! Was well packaged and item exactly as described. Very happy mate!

Picked up the scoop in my lunch break, looks lovely. Now I just need to buy some Tigerseal (Halfrauds don't seem to stock it), and get it on! Also Yellowstuff pads are fucking horrid. I regret buying them now, seem to be worse than the Hawk pads it had on before.

Nah mate, from a member called Got.boost

Can't get over how lush the gold bronze colour looks on them! Shame that the wheel refurbers did a cack-handed job when they did them a second time, I think they basically just keyed them and gave the front faces another coat, backs of them is all shit. Not taking anything to Wheel Repair Centre, Bamber Bridge again! Anyway, need to get onto Josh in a few weeks time, see about getting some decals made up for them in black.

Another week, another update! Was down at TD at the weekend, joining CorollaClub.net at their RR day, where the car got 162bhp. Nick was quite impressed, and he said that he suspected that it may be running a different wheel inside the turbo (can't remember if he said intake or exhaust). I know those particular rollers' reputation as heartbreakers, so the fact that I'm still 160bhp+, on a warm day, has made me chuffed. Curves are pretty much the same as the Powerstation printout the weekend before, and the fuelling and boost all seems fine, no worries there so I'm pleased! Only hiccup I've had recently is the car seems to be using a fair bit of oil (I'd imagine the amount to be the same as from Full down to bottom of dipstick, in 2000 miles). There's not really any smoke coming from the exhaust (and if there is, it's white), and there's no coolant being used, or visible leaks. However, the CT9 that is on it at the moment is one that came with the secondhand Zisco kit. I ahd checked it for shaft play and what not before it got fitted, and there was nothing to give concern. I'll keep an eye on the engine in general, and bear in mind that it is being used daily. I believe forged engines use a bit of oil anyway. May consider getting my old CT9 down to Liam D to get it overhauled or rebuilt as a hybrid. Other than that, not a lot to report! Spigot rings has cured the vibration through the wheel when the Volks are on completely! One wheel still needs rebalancing so there is a slight vibration at 70ish, but it is very minor. As well as that, I have a parcel from Mister Starbuck waiting for me at the sorting office; nothing exciting, just a reverse scoop. It'll look slightly off since it's 205 Black compared to the Ford black that my car is sprayed in, but I don't think it'll bother me much.

:/

What you did there, I see it.

I'm now running 14"s on my GT as my summer wheels, and although they're 6JJ over my 7J Rotas, they look too boss not to run them Volk 5/4s baby! Would love to find a 15" set though, but they're even rarer than the 14" sets!!

Brilliant games, currently playing through TXR3 on my PC! If you have a PS2 still, I can recommend getting Kaido Racer 2 (part of the same series, just named diff as its in the mountains rather than wangan runs.) For everything else, emulation using PCSX2 on your PC will probably be your best bet, can set it up to work with an XBOX360 PC controller.

If only I could afford it. Would look right at home under my 14" Volks Looking on Endless's site, they don't even do 2-peice discs or the braided lines for the Starlet any more!

Looking good Tristan! I'm guessing this is all a bid to get it properly set up for track use?

I run 0.8 bar on a CT9, externally wastegated, and to be honest, it's enough for me. Any further in terms of boost, then I'd have to fuck about with management and fuelling and all that shit, and really, that can wait until I get a bigger turbo.

Well, yesterday I fitted two of the Volks, only to realise that the tyres had been put on wrong by the wheel refurbers ( left hand tyres had been put on both 4-spoke wheels, right hand tyres had been put on the 5-spoke wheels), but the good news is that the spigot rings fitted fine, now I just have to try them out properly. Dad got the tyres swapped around today while I've been away, so I'll get the wheels fitted onto the car tomorrow and see if the rings have eliminated the horrendous vibration I got at speed. If it's all ok, then I'll be at the JDM North meet with them on I've been down in Gloucestershire today for a rolling road day at Powerstation in Tewkesbury, with members of OverclockersUK, where I'm pleased to say that it made a healthy 172hp at the engine. Seems a bit high, but there were guys there with basically brand new cars which made the stock power levels so it could well be accurate. Next weekend I'm at TD with the Corolla club to give it a go there, it'll be interesting to compare the two graphs. The power at the wheels figure is quite low on this, but I talked to the operator and he said it was skewed so they could get a more accurate figure for the output at the engine (each wheel has two rollers on it rather than the standard 1). It goes well enough on the road anyway, so I'm not bothered! Been a long day and I've been up since 5am! Time to shoot some fools on Battlefield 4 and then retire to bed