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If you can't find those clocks, it's worth looking out for Paseo dials too as they'll also fit. You will, however, not be able to swap over the tachometer as you can with clocks out of the SR or CD. If those still aren't an option, you can pick up aftermarket tachometers pretty cheaply that wire up to your ignition system. I'd imagine the hardest thing with those would be running the wiring through the firewall into the interior, but there are plenty of places that could be done. Can't offer much advice on the second option as I went for the first!

With those updates finished, here's what I got up to this month! Around January/February I noticed that my clutch had started slipping. I think 78,000 miles combined with a trip to the strip were too much for the poor old thing In any case, I got in touch with my mechanical mentor and asked for some guidance (and brute strength) in clutch replacement. With very short notice, I ordered a Blueprint clutch kit and travelled down to slay the beast. In a surprisingly short time we had the car up on stands, the transmission oil drained and the CV joints out. Also surprising was that none of the

Haha, he certainly is photogenic! November 2016 Following my order of the new (but incorrect) sump, I decided to take a closer look at the crack and see if I could fix it with some JB weld, as I was getting very fed up with having to carry a paint tray everywhere with me to put under the sump to catch the drips of oil. When I looked more closely and gave the crack a little prod, a big chunk of some kind of sealant/epoxy broke cleanly off of the sump, revealing that the real culprit was a small hole! Apparently this had been fixed in the past, not very well though I took a wire brush and s

Well, after a long absence I'm back once more and with a whole heap of updates! It's been a busy few months and though I haven't neglected the Starlet I have neglected my progress blog a bit. So, starting from last year, I'll get bang up to date over a few posts! September 2016 September marked the first time I went drag racing. I and a bunch of mates went down to Shakespeare County Raceway for the RWYB weekend and it was an absolute blast. Some of us brought tents and some of us (myself included) slept in our cars, another new experience. It was surprisingly comfy lying on the back seat

Thanks Trisk, you're a legend!

Morning gents, I'm looking at getting (what is, I assume) an OEM-style twin cam sticker for my Starlet. Since there are none for sale to the best of my knowlege my only option is to produce a vector and get my mate to print one for me. All of the reference images I've found so far however are not that great for this sort of thing. My question is, does anyone on here have this sticker and could get some clean frontal pictures of it please? Even measurements of the general size if that's doable. I'd be more than happy to share the vector on here when done. Here is the picture of the sticker,

Long Eaton reporting in! It's funny, just saw a pristine red N/A driving past a few minutes ago. Loads of Starleteers around Notts for some reason

Riding shotgun with a colleague yesterday when we saw what looked like a silver Glanza driving past the hospital into the city at around 5PM-ish. Any one of you?

Sorry for the long absence! Between work, a breakup (more power to weight now!) and curtain installation, it's been a busy Month. The car side of things has been no less busy however. I've also gone back and resized all of my images so they're not so obnoxiously huge! First order of business was to finish off the rear brake shoes. When I replaced them previously I discovered that the previous owner had replaced them asymmetrically; the nearside ones were practically new. Not wanting to continue the cycle of asymmetry, I changed them over so they should now both wear out at more or less the

Lucky; I've been searching for one myself to no avail! Lovely SR though, looking forward to seeing what you do with it

Looks great, nicely done! I'm tempted to try and source some skirts now lol

Quick evening update: cable tied the offside splash guard so it doesn't dangle worryingly anymore. Drift-spec ;)

The past weekend I made the long trip down to Essex to meet up with my mate and reseal the sump. After braving the horrors of the M1 I made it quite late in the evening. We had a bit of a crack at the sump on Saturday night after I got there, but with the light fading fast and not even the use of the patented Active Swearing System (ASS)™ managing to get the thing to budge we called it a night, parked up the Starlet and got down to drinking. Eventually on Sunday we got up and got to work! Here she is, up on axle stands and with the nearside wheel removed for easier access and more "bashing r

Hahaha, I'm hoping that Justitis can only be caught by Subarus ;)

No problem guys! I'm very much a novice with all this so I'd make sure to double check my advice with some of the older members on here, but best of luck to both of you. Look forward to seeing the results

I'm not sure, though from what I remember they're 10mm? Is that then called an M10 nut? Sorry, you'll have to forgive my lack of nut know-how

Looking really nice, it's great to see a 5 door getting some love! Can't wait for the sideskirt pictures

Damn, this is badass! Can't wait to see it turboed. Keep on saving, it'll be well worth the wait!

This looks great! I'm really loving the custom grille you made for it, the vinyl you added makes it work well with the bonnet. That's a really good job on the carpet too. Looks like it'll be a lot more rugged now. The steelies suit it really well also, I can't believe you got such a nice finish on them with rattle cans! Looking forward to seeing what more you do to it, keep it up

I'd say it's pretty easy Westie, I'd never been that far into an engine before I did mine either! All you do is remove the nuts holding the rocker cover on and then carefully pry it off (since the old gasket will probably be a bit stubborn). I used a screwdriver at each corner to gently ease the cover up and then off, with a little extra persuasion along the sides. The little washers under the nut might also put up a little resistance so be careful with them and if need be unscrew them like you would the nut. The PCV valve should pop right out of the grommet and the breather tube to the right

Thank you Rich I was a bit worried that I might be posting too many pictures so I'm glad that's not the case! A quick update on the car front: I should be heading to my mate in Essex sometime this weekend and resealing the sump, which will hopefully stop the oil leak. Also, since I'll be getting paid on Friday, I'll be looking into getting one of those sexy looking bolt kits for the bay to replace the rather rusted ones currently present.

Welcome!

Thanks Pikey! I need to do everything on your blog someday too lol (especially getting my paint looking as nice as yours!). I got all of my ignition parts from Eurocarparts and the new gasket & sump plug from ID-Workz. The plugs are NGK and seemed to already have the correct gap so I didn't bother gapping them. If I'm wrong then I'll gap them ASAP but I've not noticed a drop in fuel economy or performance at all - completely the opposite! The recommended gap is 0.8mm I think Plug seals were fine so I didn't replace them. I just made sure to cover them up so as not to get any paint on the

Congratulations man, and very nice SR!