Ryan.Truesdale

Sold my seats and rails today! im now on the hunt for a set of bride zeta seats.

Engine failures..... they haunt me. Knocking sound came into the engine over the weekend. Ive finally given up on the na engines time to take it out and build a reliable turbo lump.

Since then I've fitted a set of d2 coilovers and put the car pretty much as low as it can go. It's a wee bit silly but looks cool as so it's staying. Ive also changed the tyres as the proxies tried to kill me on a few occasions. They where good in the dry though.

I'm glad somebody's getting some enjoyment out of them I certainly didn't lol

Picked these up very cheap about a month or two later. They are brand new too!

Did this but they didn't last too long. I wanted to keep the interior, but front seats have to slide and fold forward if you have back seats and these where fixed so I sold them. Kept the harnesses though. I had the seat sitting perfect too, my shoulder was lever with the top of the door and My line of sight was straight over the top of the steering wheel.

upgraded the brakes with a set of glanza carriers and mtec discs.

Finally the car wasn't burning oil! And was possibly a little sharper too!

Halloween holidays 2017 I pulled the engine too bits again head off, sump off, bearing caps off and pistons out. I was getting good at this! I could now have the head off within an hour. My problem was piston rings and a lack of oil return ports in the pistons. from memory there was either two or 3 broken rings and all the ports in the pistons had been clogged up with old lumpy, shitty oil. So I ordered new rings and a set of bearings, I gave the block a quick hone up and down twice on each cylinder just to take the shine off. Between

Yay! It didn't help in the slightest. Yup I was still standing in the college car park putting oil into my car so that it wouldn't blow up on the drive home.

I had to do something about the amount of oil being burnt as it got to the point that if I drove it too college and home (45 mile round trip) there would be no oil on the dipstick. The smoke out of it was embarrassing! I had already got a full gasket kit as I had planned on rebuilding the old engine. In it there was valve stem seals so I decided I would do them in the head of the blown up engine and then swap the heads over at the weekend.

I took the car to japfest in Ireland at Mondello. I didn't plan on it being in the show section but it meant I got in cheaper so why not. I ended up parked beside a GTR also not where I planned to be LoL On the other side of it was Hookie's wee glanza probably the quickest one in Northern Ireland it has a built 5e good for over 400hp. The gearboxes aren't keen on it though.

Brought my new engine home and again stripped it down gave it a bit of paint and fitted my Corolla intake and the black rocker cover. Then threw it in and it started up after 3 or 4 cranks. Happy days! I drove it for a week with no issues then serviced it. Nearly immediately after servicing it. Smoke lots and lots and lots of smoke. Another engine that burnt a tone of oil!

Decided I was going to rebuild it as there was no damage to the block. So I sent the crank to get polished and got oversized bearings to match it. But could I find a conrod? Nope. I then ended up just buying an engine. This new one supposedly only had 80.000 miles and came from a granny's car but I had no proof. So I took a gamble on it... bad decision LoL

Decided I'd pull the engine apart see what damage had been done and possibly rebuild it. This was the first time I ever took an engine apart (and it wouldn't be the last). There was a stupid amount of oil in the intake, some actually can out of the manifold as I took it off. The pistons were black with oil and the sump was full of what was left of the bearings. Then to top it off a bent conrod!

Drained the engine of oil. Of which there was about a pint of.... oh dear. I knew the engine was burning oil but I didn't quite realise how much. This was within 3 weeks of me getting the car finished. I was actually surprised that I was actually quite calm and not really that annoyed about it blowing up, it was more an inconvenience than anything else.

I was rather enjoying my little starlet until this happened. major bottom end failure.

The finished product! Off to mot Trailered it there as I hadn't insured it yet. Front window washers stopped working after taking it off the trailer but other than that no issues and it flew through.

I was originally only going to put a steel exhaust on but I was convinced otherwise as you can see. This was custom made using 2" stainless pipe and v-band flanges. The small silencer is actually from an evo however it looks a lot like a cat so we put it up near the front. The pictures of the back box are recent ones. It actully sounds pretty damn good I was very concerned that it would sound like a Corsa or a 1.4 civic.

A bit of waxoil to seal the body. Hateful stuff makes a right mess.

Pictures of the engine bay after completion. I fitted a half size double core radiator. I made and welded on my own mounts and then ordered up a fresh set of hoses for it. Also picked up front and rear Cusco strut braces. Fitted a catch can also.

Painted the wings, bumper and picked up a glanza S bonnet that was slightly damaged but I got it fixed up pretty good. (Bumper and bonnet were not painted in those pictures)

Engine in! Took me a very long time to get it going though. I forgot to sand the earths back to metal oops. Other than that no issues.

Suspension time! The front wishbones received a fresh set of polybuses and were repainted with hammerite black. I managed to source a very cheap set of lowering springs, rear shocks and new front shocks. I fitted a glanza antiroll bar and polybushed droplinks. New ball joints and trackrod ends were fitted also. I got the brake discs skimmed and put a fresh set of brake pads in along with a set of braided brake lines.

Refreshed the engine with a lick of paint as the block was a bit crusty. (This turned out to be a waste of time and paint) Also fitted a corrola intake manifold, magnetic sump plug and serviced the engine.