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On 12/22/2022 at 11:58 PM, Mk3silvertgt said:

I'm not breaking a starlet but I do have lots of standard parts left over. 

Let me know what you looking for 

Cheers, pm sent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm after a few standard parts but can't seem to find many for sale anywhere.  Is anyone breaking any these days? Or maybe parts left over? 

Crash bar looks mint! Nice new bolts too 👍

i need to do this with mine.

Good work going on mate!

Get some paint or something on those new wish bones when they land as they dont get much of anything that will protect them. Im sure you are already planning to do that but just thought i would mention it.

Another small update, boot is painted as are the front aero spats and the drivers side rear 1/4 was re done as there was a couple marks in it still, bumpers now refitted. Now he just needs to spray the rear aero spats, do the satin black parts on the top of the doors, and polish the car. Might be finished on Saturday but ive heard that a few times 😆

I also picked a set of these Gt Turbo gell door decals which recently appeared on ebay. Until now i havent seen anyone reproduce these so they turned up just at the right time, i do have one genuine Toyota set of these which i got hold of many years ago before they became discontinued. These should be the silver ones.

I just need the "Starlet" and "GT turbo" decals for the back end now.

On 8/21/2021 at 9:58 PM, Pikey009 said:

Great bit of TLC for the workhorse mate. Makes me want to take the plunge too! 

Haha go for it mate!

On 8/23/2021 at 8:36 PM, Sam44 said:

looks great and ive not seen many in this colour. 

Cheers Sam, hoepfully it will maybe be back together soon!

Well we are slightly further on now. The bumpers and grill have had their first coat of primer and are currently been sanded down. They should hopefully get painted today / tomorrow.

I didnt go this year, they just keep moving it further and further away. I Liked it when it was at Newark show ground and they had the drift area for the drift cars.

Just called down and it was sat outside, hes painted it again in the colour matched colour. It doesnt quite match the boot so hes going to paint that too now. The bumpers, arch trim pieces, grill, mirrors and aero kit are still to paint which hes making a start on this afternoon. Hopefully i might have it back next week.

A couple pics how it came out of the booth, it still hasnt been de nibbed or had any polishing yet though. The finish is really good no orange peel which alot of bodyshops round here seem to think is acceptable to put out.

The rear bumper was badly faded thats why the colour looks so far off.

Shes going to look so much better, im not sure how i will feel about using it for work everyday once its completed then polished and waxed.

10 hours ago, Dale SR said:

I've always loved this GT Really looking forward to seeing her finished, Great Work she already looks amazing! 

Cheers mate.  I'm going to call round today after work,  early finish its FRIDAY! So I will try get some more pics.

Just awesome!

6 minutes ago, Kieran Barber said:

Glad to see she's getting the care she deserves mate, can't wait to see the car in its finished state.

Im mega chuffed mate, thing is the car is stuck in the booth now until its finished so he has to finish the car now or he cant use his booth!

Ive had a really shitty few days this week and if i went to see my car still sat outside the bodyshop with no progress i think it might have tipped me over the edge! But its really cheered me up and i think once its finished and looks really good i will enjoy it more and get some motivation back to finish the odd jobs on it.

Ive no idea what the job is going to cost as hes ended up painted alot more than i was expecting but so long as it looks good when its finished i dont care.

Well EMO was starting to look very tired, all the clear coat was peeling off the bonnet, the front wings were rotten from a bad previous repair years ago and the bumpers had scuffs, and the spoiler was badly faded.

So i swapped the wings over which i bought years ago that were rust free.

The paint was pretty much holding the wings together.

I stripped the car down as much as i could to help the bodyshop man, and just left things held on with a couple of screws or clips.

The car had been booked into the bodyshop for just the front end and the mirrors resprayed originally, but when we looked at it we deceided to do the front end plus basically the gt body kit plus the back bumper and then i remembered about the optional aero kit i had so i thought i would get the bumper spats done too. I dropped the car off at the bodyshop which is next to my mates garage so i do call down now and a again.

I would go down and for over a month there was no sign of anything getting started on it, i even bought the epoxy primer for it myself as i wanted it done in a certain primer. I called in last week and still no progress, so thought i would give it another week and if there was no progress i would give him one last week or find somewhere else for it.

I called in after work today and there was no sign of it outside the garage so i started wandering into the bodyshop thinking it was maybe sat inside being sanded down... Still no sign of it so i look inside the booth and there she is all painted, hes ended up respraying the full car all except for the boot and roof.

However its not all good news! the paint mix was off so the colour doesnt match so hes had the car colour scanned and they are mixing another batch up and hes going to re do it then clear coat it (no clear coat on in the pics) I was that excited i never got any decent pics im afraid haha.

Hopefully it should be all painted in the next few days then i can start putting it back together.

Just got updated on your thread mate as ive not checked it for a while. Great work going on here. The downpipe repair looks bang on too.

Nice one on the IC kit. i think these are the best off the shelf kits for the starlets with a sensibly sized core. Just make sure all the pipes are clean before you fit them.

Yep i would check your grounds im sure this happened on my teg after i sprayed the engine bay and the grounds needed cleaning up due to the paint.

Great build! i always loved the doobie rear bumper extension.

22 hours ago, Trevstar said:

The guy says he's sold bare engines for £650, well I bought one back in 2016 for £250 (that I regrettably sold the bottom end) but I seriously doubt prices have crept up that high since then. 

 

Maybe someone desperate with more money than sense would buy it, but I'm not that guy and hopefully no one else from this forum is either

Its not a 5efhe but ive a complete 5e never messed with i would happily sell for £650 lol.

not worth half what hes after for it.

stock brakes are fine for me, i mostly fly about on little back roads. But i keep them in good condition and use mintex 1144 front pads.

good work mate.

we have boooooooossssttttt!!!!!

Theres a bit of work in there!

Good work on the bearings mate. BC clearing trying to rip you there. Theres nothing special about those.

14 hours ago, Pikey009 said:

Oh and the first ignition module arrived today, really pissed off, no correspondence from the seller- delivery was from Hermes so it says it all really 

That took a while. check the tracking number to see when he actually posted it. Atleast you have a spare now!

ran helix paddle over 300 and it was great, nice pedal too.