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Awesome, I'll be living in Brizzle in September so not too far. I'll have to give him a ring when re spray time comes. He did a cracking job on yours

Whereabouts is he?

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You're not wrong, I know the 7s better in every way, but I was 14 when the 8 came out and I fell in love with it. I've wanted one ever since.

I've always wanted an RX8

Morning Does anyone know if there's a 12v constant in the back of N/A clocks? I'd rather not delve into the mess behind the stereo if I can help it. Josh

5e Colin had some success getting coilies from a Golf to fit his Starlet. Have a look through his thread http://www.ukstarletowners.com/topic/78342-the-budget-coilovers-setup-polo-6n-golf/

Also have a look at the sensor Earth on the inlet, mine was corroded to shit and caused all kinds of fuelling and idling issues.

Red suits you mate.

^^ If I had a point for every time if thought about financing some Meister Rs I wouldn't need to finance them.

Uzzy's got one for sale here http://www.ukstarletowners.com/topic/93498-japfest-stand-pass-x-2/#entry1109663

Good to know mate, cheers

Iirc, don't autos get significantly worse fuel mileage? Not sure how much that'd bother you but I think it was something like 100 miles less per full tank because it's a 4 speed.

If I had a 4age lying around, I'd do the same in a second

Wouldn't drop it any more than that mate tbh, it's a lovely car and worth that all day long. Just hard to sell an N/A. Glws.

That's your solution for everything!

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Couldn't be easier mate. Pop your head under the engine block and you'll see the sump, black tray-type-thing that literally covers the bottom of the engine. In the middle of this there's a plug, it looks like a bolt when it's in. Get a tray under there with a 3L capacity minimum and undo it, all your oil will start draining. Go have a cup of tea, it'll take a while to come out. If the engines a bit warm when you start it'll take less time. You'll need a new plug before you start - http://id-workz.co.uk/toyota/starlet/starlet-glanza-ep91/service-maintenance/magnetic-sump-plug-4e-fte When you've no oil in the engine, you want to do the filter. It's located on the front of the block, right over to the drivers side. Small black cylinder sticking straight out. In theory, you should be able to get it off without any tools but I've never had one be that easy. You can get it off by either nipping to any car parts store and buying a socket head or chain wrench that's designed for oil filters, or use a hammer to stick a screwdriver straight into the filter to give you leverage to get it moving. Obviously the first way is better, but there's no harm in the second except getting oil all over a screwdriver. New oil filter can be had here - http://id-workz.co.uk/toyota/starlet/starlet-uk-spec-ep91/service-maintenance/oe-spec-oil-filter Before you put the new one on, get a bit of oil on your finger and wet the seal. Then just do it up finger tight. Once that's done, put your new sump plug in (not too tight, they can be fairly fragile), and then put your new oil in. A 4E takes 2.8L, and everyone will tell you to use a different brand of oil so I won't make a specific recommendation there, apart from don't cheap out on it. It's worth spending the £50ish for a 4L of decent silkolene or castrol than putting Morrisons shite in your block. Hope that helps man, and welcome along

Damn, 26k? That's incredible. Liking the plan, SRs are only getting rarer so it's nice to see one being kept to spec

On the parts list for the intake it's called an air cleaner, but I couldn't find anything about what it actually does.

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http://dub-se7en.toyotagtturbo.com/useful_info/OTHER_PDFS/4EFTE_4EFE_Engine_Diagnotsic_Code.pdf Have a shifty through here mate, explains the code and tells you what your next step in diagnosis might be. If you're stuck on any still, post em up here

N/A ones have a 3wire plug on them, and they're odd. One wire is live when the lights are off, then goes dead and the other goes live when they're on, so the power to the socket itself switches when the light goes on. 3rd wire is ground.

Okay, done and put back together and now it's idling at 2.1k, so definitely not an improvement. Believe me when I say that it is 10000000% percent NOT a vac leak. I've checked the pipes enough times and on a N/A, there are only 6 of them to look at, I would have found it by now. This problem's followed me through 3 inlets, 4 throttle bodies, 2 N/A ICVs, 3 TPS's and about 30 hours of my time, not including time spent googling.

I haven't, no. I carb cleaned everything before it went on the car but I didn't actually take the ICV off the TB when I was doing it. You thinking it might be a sticky solenoid? I'll go disassemble, clean, and reassemble now and see how it goes.