Bluebear

I'd be all over her like a fattie over a pasty, but fuck me, I'm not sure whether to be mortified at the absolute train wreck her life is starting to turn into, or to just get the popcorn and enjoy it.

Epic!

Lel, my intercooler hotpipe has just split on a weld. Panic time until a mate said he can weld it tomorrow

All shall be revealed at JAE. Truth be told, I am not at all happy with the paint finish on them, but the current tyres on my Rotas are pretty much illegal now so they have to be fitted. Am going to give the wheel refurb place a lashing though, find out that they were playing at and try and get them to redo them after JAE. Also tested the cooling system now that I have the 1.3bar radcap, doesn't seem to be overheating like before, but the expansion tank is still filling up under sustained heavy load in 5th (high speed ;p), so whether that is just a shit stock cooling system on the starlets, or a deeper problem, I don't know. Did the bubble test with the 'straw' pickup in the expansion bottle and there's no major amount coming out, just the odd one or two if I blip the throttle.

:ph34r:

I'm having this exact problem, got myself a 1.3 bar radcap on the way and hopefully that'll solve it. Any airlocks should have been well gone by now, and I don't think the rad itself is cracked.

This man knows what's up! :ph34r:

We seeing this at JAE then?

Well, after checking, it seems the blue smoke is only very very intermittent, and only on startup. Will leave it until it starts getting worse. I was having problems with my cooling system when going on *ahem* high speed runs. (To be fair, Dad kept egging me on ). Under very high load it seems that the pressure gets too much and forces its way inot the expansion tank, filling it up and leaking out of the overflow a bit. Rad cap is probably fucked, so I've got a TRD 1.3 bar radcap on the way, hopefully that solves it. If not, then we'll know it's a more serious problem. Other than that, there's a set of Magnecor 8mm leads and Yellowstuff brakepads sat in the shed. Hopefully be able to fit them before JAE, but I really want to get my breather sorted before I fit the leads so maybe not. Oh, and there's a super sekrit addition to the car to be fitted at the weekend, all shall be revealed down at Wicksteed ;)

Got a £2,000 limit CC last year when i was needing to get the GT on the road, and that got stuffed with costs like coilovers, clutch etc etc. Cleared it off a couple of months ago, and just put the car insurance payment on it which I can easily clear. Trick is to not just let it get too out of hand.

^^^ Please tell me you're joking!! What a fucking shame!

Sorry mate, I had no intention of shitting over your sale! Just musing on it that's all. Love mine haha

Need to see this in the flesh some day

I tried a standard with mine and it was miles off touching the clutch, as soon as I put in the Ogura bearing it was fine. It's a strange one, I've heard a lot of people say standards are fine and then some say (including my own experience), that the Ogura one was needed. Were the release bearing forks ever different between gearboxes? Surprised this clutch hasn't sold yet either way!

Hey mate, I'll grab the TRD rad cap off you. I assume it's still working alright? I think my standard one is letting go atm.

Thought you were on a bigger set of wheels there than 15", those tyres have really compressed under cornering on the Carousel!! Skits aren't too far off scraping either haha. Looks liek good fun and the car is looking fantastic now, fair play Chris!

Bourneville

Euro probably suits the look of the N/A EP91 better than any other Starlet shape to be honest.

Meisters are a lot nicer for UK roads I'm guessing. I've never had Teins so I can't comment, but a mate who had a ride in mine with Meisters commented on how much nicer a ride it was. Teins made him sore haha

To be honest, my dad drives the GT sometimes and he's just started drawing his pension hah

Just casually driving into Morrisons carpark to pick up a bit of lunch and there's a bone stock Glanza S driving out, with some old biddy at the wheel. I was gobsmacked, I drove past her, but she didn't seem to recognise the Starlet GT so obviously not into her JDM Starlets hah. Must have bought it without really knowing what it was.

I must admit, I did wonder if you were going to be there in a more 'official' capacity this year since JAE kept posting last years vid on their Facebook wall a while back

Blue smoke And I'm getting a really annoying vibration noise coming in at around 4k RPM. Hopefully it's the turbo that was supplied with the Zisco kit that I got that is on it's way out, so I'll be taking it apart weekend after next to see what's up. HOPEFULLY it's the turbo, as that just means it's a case of swapping the welded up exhaust housing from this one over to my old turbo and using that instead, but I just cannot remember if the car smoked beforehand on the old turbo as well.

I think hill-bill10 sold his Castrol liveried SR ages ago, possibly the same motor?