FrozenJakalope

You've got 8bhp/tonne on him, but he'd put it down better. It'd be close as all hell, you could definitely keep up.

Just been out and rechecked all the vac lines, definitely not them. Might just put the N/A tb back on tomorrow, I can't be doing with this and I really can't think what else it could be.

As title. I have an FTE and TB fitted to my N/A. I initially did the "twist the manual FTE TPS" thing mentioned in the fitment guide, which made the car not start. Some tinkering later and I got her running, but she was running very rich and absolutely murdered my fuel mileage (to the tune of 14.8mpg on my last tank). So I bought an auto Glanza TB because it has a variable TPS like the N/As, connected the wires following a handy diagram of the TPS I Found on TGTT and a UK spec pinout diagram and she starts, the fuelling issue is gone, but now she idles at a consistent 2k RPM. I'm certain there's no vac leaks, because I didn't actually move any of vac pipes except for the two on the TB, and I've checked both of those thoroughly. The idle control screw is all the way in, so I can't just manually drop the revs. The throttle cable is free and has the slightest amount of slack at rest, so the butterfly is fully closed. I'm down to one idea: since the N/A ICV is just kinda sitting in the bay with no coolant running through it, does the ECU think the engine's cold and so stick the choke on? I don't really know how to test for that either. End of my rope here.

I've got an N/A TB with all the sensors etc attached sitting here doing nothing if you want it, came off my car last week and she always idled fine with it. Could at least rule out an ICV problem before you change your plans radically. Yours for the cost of postage if it's any use to you

What kind of engines are in those beasts?

Main thing is how your car makes you feel. Other people are always gonna say "too loud" "too fast" whatever, long as you're having fun, fuck em

I took the arm off, aye. I didn't notice any splines but I did spend literally 5 minutes doing it start to finish. I'd love to know how it ended up where it was in the first place.

Fixed it this afternoon. For the benefit of anyone else who might be having the same issue and stumbles across this thread: At the base of the wiper arm there's a small plastic cover, pop that off and underneath there's the nut that holds the arm onto the motor. Loosen the nut and rotate the arm as necessary, then retighten. Job's a goodun, go and have a cuppa

There's no sensor to tell when the lids open, but you could adapt a door sensor for that and put it in where one of the rubber feet sit just above the light cluster. Then all you'd need is a power feed coming from somewhere (tail lights, maybe?) that isn't ignition switced.

As above, needed as the Glanza TB and TPS I'm using now are making me run at about 15mpg.

^^ 100kph=62mph. Unless you want a 180-mph speedo. And, tbf, who doesn't, really?

You can't actually send a battery through the post unless it's empty, so even if someone's willing to donate one (I'd have given you my old one if I hadn't binned it tbh), you'll still have to get it filled with acid and charged before its any use. Have you got any mates that drive that you can talk into taking you to a scrappy? Honestly is your best bet.

Is that a UK-spec EP91 owner's manual? Very itnerested if so.

Yeah, lovely sound to it and a bit torquier in the lower revs. Destroyed a mk2 Golf GTi off the line this morning Very happy with it, feels like the cars coming together a bit now.

Quickie piccy of the engine bay as she sits now.

If you won the auction then he's in breach of contract, no way they can find in his favour. What a dick.

This.

Got it sorted, cheers for the help mate. Bigger mani aside, having a clean tb has made a massive difference to how smooth it is. Next project is the GT gearbox sat in the middle of my bedroom floor

I did, and it broke the plastic pin that rotates the outer ring of the TPS. Is that right? Seems to me that that makes the whole sensor a bit useless, so I repaired it by putting a screw in place of the rod so it still does something.

Spent 6 hours hunched over the bonnet today changing the inlet mani for an FTE one. Got it on, got the filter and all back on just as the sun was going down, tried to start her up and... Nope. She cranks but doesn't start. Probably something simple but I was out of light, so it'll have to wait until after work tomorrow.

http://www.ukstarletowners.com/topic/46648-fitting-glanza-inlet-and-tb-to-na/ About halfway through the first post there's a bit on which TB pipes go where. Is your engine alright?

If Paypal resolved the dispute, they won't reopen it whatever the circumstances. "Once a dispute is closed, its not possible to re-open it or escalate it to a claim" from https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/first-dispute I don't really know what the next step would be after that. Small claims court?

Afternoon all, I'm having a bit of a problem with my O/S wiper motor where it travels too far and makes the wiper overrun the windscreen. If I'm doing 70, the wind pushes it as well, which has led to a couple of fun times where it can't travel back down because it's gotten stuck on the A pillar and I've had to nudge it back out of my window, and a particularly memorable one where the arm came back down and twisted the wiper clean off. Luckily no one was behind me and I managed to get off the road and rotate the wipers around so the missing one was on the rear, but serious ballache all round as it limits me to about 60mph in any rain at all. Any ideas? I've tried applying some forceful persuasion to the wiper arm to rotate the motor a bit but it's made no difference at all.

100% behind this as well. Just had an FTE inlet mani delivered, well packed and got here hella fast. Great guy to buy from.