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So I got some more done to the Starlet. Managed to get the front springs in myself, was easy enough (never worked on suspension myself before, figured it would be relatively self explanatory). The rears were a different story. The passenger side bolt at the rear beam just would not shift, it was rotating in the hole. I drove around town for a few hours looking for a rental place that had an electric impact wrench, got one along with a 14mm socket and had at it. Same story, just wouldn't move. I ended up starting to damage the bolt head so I decided to throw in the towel (in retrospect a bad decision). Wish I had just bought a cheap propane torch and tried it again, because now I am out of pocket $600 (talked them down from $700) for fitting rear springs and a 4 wheel alignment. The JDM specialist I took it to charge $150 an hour, which is only marginally more than normal garages believe it or not. Needless to say I will be doing the entirety of the rest of the build myself, or with members of a local forum lending a hand, as those prices just don't sit well with me. Also got the new wheels on, these defo won't be to the taste of the majority Rota champions on here but as I said i'm a vw nut, and they're a wheel i've wanted for a very long time. I think they suit the car perfectly, i'd ideally like a 5mm spacer in the rear but to be honest the threads coming through the wheel stud holes are maybe a tad on the short side already. Further down the line I can either machine off a portion of the mating face on the rears, or look into extended studs. I like the way the car sits too, it's nice and low in person, and doesn't catch on any of the starlet sized potholes in the city, and no scrubbing or gut wrenching noises. Win! I also picked up a very cheap audio visual system to go in, it's a Kenwood 7 inch motorised DVD system, apparently this was $1800 new in 2007, well I got it for $80 including an optional Ipod interface board which will be handy. I can't honestly see me using the DVD function, but it has the important RCA input on the back, which is what I wanted. I'm looking to install my Raspberry Pi into the car, this will give me access to my entire music library, my video collection, web browsing (tethered to my 4g S4), and further down the line, engine monitoring. I can also use my phone to control the Rpi by way of XBMC remote, after having set up the phone as a wireless access point. The wiring loom is immense, and instead of hacking into the cars stereo loom, i've bought one of those el cheapo ebay adapters, it'll connect to the cars loom on one side with the adapter using the plugs, and on the other side i'll trim off the headunit interface plugs from the adapter and hard wire that into the Kenwood unit, creating a sort of 'field harness' should I want to remove it at any stage. I have also picked up a pair of mint (look to be brand new) Acura Integra GSR seats to go in, reason for this being that some prat in jappyland replaced the drivers seat with an absolutely screwed Recaro SR3 seat. I start my new work on Tuesday, so once i've settled in there, I can bring the seats in and weld them onto the old rails myself, because fuck paying for it! This is just a random google image find by the way, I haven't any pics of the seats yet, but they match the general feel of the standard interior (don't particularly know if thats a good thing though!). That's all for now folks, obviously the car is in need of a good wash. It'll be getting washed, claybarred etc next weekend. Comment! Cheers.

IE and Firefox are both awful and a pretty big security risk. Just stick with Chrome (also handy if you have an android phone or tablet)

I play it (and get utterly hammered too) every Saturday on the PC. Great game, there's a lot more to it than cod, which tends to keep the annoying 12year old turds out. I do prefer it to bf3, not too sure why though as there's a lot missing in 4. Hard line was fun too while the open beta was available.

That's the thing bud, would need to handle pretty awful temps in the winter, gets down to -38 here. 4wd would be a gift which leads me toward a Legacy GT before estate as I can throw loads in the back for camping etc. But a 10year old twin turbo Subaru may not be the most reliable. Hard to pass them up though, there's a grade 4 import for sale at the moment for $3600 with 80k on it. All the Hondas I was looking at were very high miles and in bad state of repair.

That's good to know. I wonder how they handle the mileage, all the ones here are over 150,000km.

Good ideas lads keep them coming. Doubtful I'd be getting a type R, they never made it to the Canadian market as far as I am aware so it would likely be a lower spec model. Is there much room in either car?

Howdy, I'm selling my Pontiac as its too big, heavy and just a shitty american car. Looking around the local market I've sort of sided towards an Acura/Honda Integra or Honda Prelude. I don't reaaallly care too much about power, I just want something bombproof, cheap and relatively good looking plus I've always wanted to own a Honda. There's plenty to choose from and the prices are relatively good, and considering a lot of people use them as winter hacks they must be good and reliable. Am I right? Also to throw a curve ball into the mix, what are the Paseo's/Cyno's like? Loads of them around too, and I like the look of them. Cheers

If you split the lights I want first dibs on the passenger side indi assembly

Got the car up on stands, and got the shocks out (easy enough) and fired in some new Tein springs, wheels nuts and spigot rings (more pics in a few days when the rear is done, and the oil and muck cleaned off, claybarred, polished and waxed Pretty cool, you can rent spring compressors here for free, just typical that the places that do them are the Canadian equivalents to Halfords. Absolutely no idea how a seemingly 14 year old Asian bird is supposed to know where to find spring compressors when she can barely speak the language never mind patch together the rubbish flowing out of my mouth! Ha! Car is cleaner the deeper I dig, all the nuts and bolts are like new, still lovely and slick and greased, it seems to have been very well looked after. Glad! They call me the "stylish spec dress up master", haha. Pics aren't great, as i'm working in the underground parkade in my appt building, much to the horror of the 80 year olds that live there. More to come.

So I got a fair bit more done on the car today. First off I removed the headlights and restored them to new condition using a Simoniz kit. Basically anyone considering this, I would defo say try it out, I am very impressed with the results. Save money by forgetting the kit though, just buy some 800 / 1000 / 2000 grit sandpaper, an abrasive cloth and some buffing compound. Before... You can't fully see how bad they were, basically they looked like smokers fingernails. The next pics are along each stage until the final product...

Nah mate I was working up until the start of the week in Sherwood park, welding centralizers for a big company. Changing jobs now though in the hope of better money and hours, was on nights in the last place. Heard bad reports about fort Mac (they call it fort smack) , it's full of rich laborers, so a lot of drugs around. Just got engaged in Nov too so woman would kill me being away lol. Aye Williams a good lad, seems to pass stuff through his hands that's of higher quality than BrianPro, but that's just from looking at pics.

Yeah man i'm right in Edmonton, I live downtown. I used William Baird to import the car for me, real nice fella and i'm considering using him again soon to get me a winter motor of some sort as this as I say will be in heated underground parking. Haha, I SHOULD have the wheels on tomorrow, gotta jack up the car and get the springs in before I stick the new wheels on then. You're defo along the right lines with that guess though!

As far as the engine and boost management, I'm almost fully sold on using a trust greddy electronic boost controller to govern the boost (as far as I am aware it negates the need for an adjustable actuator?). As for the oil temp/pressure, water temp, etc I'm planning on using a kiwi pld system linked via Bluetooth to either a parrot smartdeck or my s4. I like the thought of having a clean dash without the clutter of dials so having a central android powered system that can handle my Google maps, music, engine monitoring etc sounds clean to me. One shortfall I think these cars suffer from (and all Toyotas in general, I thought my yaris was bad) is the interior. Its extremely bland and drab, so come winter the interior is being completely stripped. I'm having the dash flocked, along with pieces of the door cards, parts will be hydro dipped and maybe the wheel covered in something nice like alacantra. The rear seats I'm unsure, maybe get them recovered to match whatever seats I find for the fronts with a boot friendly OEM rear brace. I'll have plenty of time to fettle in the winter as it'll be parked up for 7 months while the temperatures fall.

Thanks lads! You're right, the exterior is extremely clean. Its the cleanest car I've had yet, not a single mark anywhere. That reminds me I'll need to get the underside waxoil'd. I'm much too old to go down the splitter or bodykit route, I'm more into the clean OEM look so as far as the exterior I've planned on keeping it 100% stock. There must be less than 50 of these in Canada, so it would be nice to have one that's rapid, extremely clean and subtle.

Howdy, been lurking and buying on here for a while now, gathering parts and knowledge and such. I'm from Northern Ireland but moved out to Canada last year for a better life and work opportunities (im a welder). There's not too much of a car scene here, possibly due to the -38c winters, the awful roads or the retarded speed limits (already scored a $316 fine). All the lads are either into sledding, quads or lifted trucks. Having said that though I have seen a few JDM motors of late with the good weather (now around 30c) and there are a few JDM import companies thriving. I am mainly a VW nut, and have owned a few nice cars (Shrick tuned MK3 Vr6 Golf, 1972 1302 Bug, 1973 1303s and an Eaton Supercharged Polo G40 which some of the Norn irn lads may remember seeing, it was alpine white). The price of VW's here is absolutely ridiculous, you'd pay 10k for a clean Jetta/Bora with 200k on it, so I decided to grab a fresh import JDM car. I was originally looking for a Nissan March SuperTurbo, but was outbid on any of the ones I liked, so went for this Glanza. Must say I've always wanted a Glanza but never driven one, very impressed! It's a 98 Glanza V, completely standard apart from a very very very badly worn Recaro Speed on a Recaro rail on the drivers side. 113k on the clock. So far all i've done to the motor is as follows... Boost return mod (different car now!) Magnecor 8mm leads New dizzy cap New rotor arm New Iridium plugs Just this minute changed the oil and filter and threw in a magnetic sump plug from IDworkz (what a pain in the hole changing the filter on a standard Glanza!!) --- Got the following parts to go on waiting in my spare room.. HKS Sports panel filter Timing belt kit and water pump Triple core alu rad Slimline Fan Low temp thermostat Decat with OEM gasket Japspeed stainless system (in the mail) Free flow stainless manifold and new OEM nuts and OEM gasket FMIC (still needing pipework as mine came without the short route hot side pipe and it's cheaper just to order a full set of pipework and fittings than pay what lads are looking for that one piece) Cusco oil catch tank (in the mail) HKS SSQV (lost in space, last I heard it's now somewhere in Israel after paying for it in March) Trust Greddy Emanage Blue with 3bar map sensor Tein Springs (roads are MUCH too bad for coilovers, you could easily lose a full Glanza in some of the pot holes. Have some brand new wheels and rubber to go on, but i'll keep em under my hat, im guessing there won't be a lot of lads here who will appreciate em, but I couldn't bring myself to put Rota's on. Just don't like em! --- Future stuff i have planned.. Fit all above parts and have the car mapped Two new front seats from a celica or mr2 or get a clean standard drivers seat posted from uk Double din headunit Some way of monitoring boost, unsure at this point I hate gauges so Ill need some way of engine monitoring, something Android capable would be nice. I want to get the car finished relatively soon and take it through the rockies. Just back last weekend from driving a 30ft Ford E series RV through Jasper/Banff etc and it's easily the best road i've ever been on. Anyways here are a few pics! Let me know what you think.

Excellent, never even realized that Zisco existed I'll get that loom asap. Had seen those Karl before, just the emanage ultimate seemed a little overkill for my current setup. Once I get bored I can always swap over when I go td04 etc, which is why I wanted to retain the standard wiring. 224 for some wiring and connectors, mark up on that must be insane!! Cheers lads!

Haha, yeah just wondering where exactly. I've enquired to him, will see what the craic is.

Never worry, selling my existing pipework and buying new (for less than the cost of one pipe)

Wonder where abouts this lad is, this is exactly what I was after.

All PM'd and still need one!

Howdy.. I'm gearing up now for installation on a wreck of new bits for the Glanza. Have most everything I need including the obligatory Emanage blue to run it all. Spec is as follows - Got at the moment but not yet fitted - Standard CT9 turbo Decat and tubular mani (heatwrapped) FMIC HKS Air filter (panel) 255 LPH fuel pump NGK iridiums New dizzy cap and rotor arm Magnecor Leads Half size alu triple core rad and slim fan Low temp thermostat New waterpump and belt Emanage Blue with 2 harnesses and 3 bar map sensor Coming in the next month or so.. Either an HKS adjustable Actuator or a digital boost controller HKS Hi Power Silent catback I bought the Emanage blue from here second hand, it came with the ignition and injector harnesses and also a 3 bar map sensor and wiring for that. Basically, what i am wondering is how i should go about wiring the Emanage into the factory loom. I don't want to cut into the standard wiring or feck about too much so a plug and play affair would be much more attractive. I can't see any 'field harnesses' or anything similar for sale anywhere on the net. Would I be better off going for a JAM ecu or similar? Another point would be that out here in Edmonton, dyno service and on the rollers tuning is non existant....NOONE DOES IT. I'd need to limp the car 4-5hrs south to Calgary and get it mapped there once I fit all the parts. What are my options? I'm really not looking for nutbag levels of power at this point, just a very drivable, clean, nippy and completely reliable motor. Thanks very much for all of the help.

BUMP STILL NEEDED

Out here in Canada it gets to -40c odd in winter so having a 4wd daily that's reliable, safe and roomy is going to be a good idea. I don't like the thought of driving my Glanza through winter and the Pontiac Grand Prix is like driving around in a swollen penis. The B 4 GT's can be had for bugger all money (4-6k cad) and must be great craic having 4wd and 287bhp. I am just wondering what they are like to own? Fuel prices aren't an issue here but what about running and service costs? Are they fun? Are they reliable? Any info is helpful cheers!!

BUMP, still needed

Yup, JVC do a double din unit that supports mhl/app mirror so I'd be tempted by the likes of that. Have the phone in the glovebox connected and just use the screen on the head unit to select music and GPS nav etc.