HedgeyGedgey

Lovely standard example that. Look forward to what you're gonna do to it

Finally got the old girl running, few issues with the water lines. Had to take a drill to open them up a few mm, but it's all running now. Moved her from the front garden where she was basically stuck till the grass dried out a bit. Nice spring clean, who doesnt like a snow foam pic might de-chav the rear end of the car, although I'm still undecided. Annoyingly the headlamps need another cut with the mop and might attempt to lacquer them this time to stop them going yellow I'm relatively happy with the car. As I'm still a new driver shes plenty powerful en

Update time, semester finished at Uni and I quit my job (bunch of assholes) so now I have ~2 weeks off till uni starts up again. Made a large order general servicing parts with ID Workz. All the gaskets needed, calliper rebuild kits, Walbro 255, some fresh Miller's CRX oil for the rather tired gearbox. And set about getting stuck in on Scarlet With the top mounted turbo, you have to rotate the core of the turbo so the oil drain is at the bottom. Not a big job, just a pain. All done though All bolted up in place finally now, all genuine gaskets used (yes my bank account h

So thought I'd mock up the turbo kit, I was concerned that the down pipe wouldn't clear the bottom rad hose, it's got a civic rad but I've no idea which one as the it clears Just gotta get the actuator off, wastegate welded up and the clock the turbo for the oil and water lines

Had a few hours spare this morning, ended up reading the whole thread in 1 hit. Kudos to you Nick, the first picture to what you've ended up with is some transformation. Hope I see the car sometime in 2019, she's a beauty

It's Christmas though lol, could've probably had it all on by now tbh. But i decided to drag the Cavalier out of storage and give that a clean Glanza abandoned in the naughty corner for all the issues its given, I even kick it as I walk pass lol. I'll give it some love when it's capable of pulling itself off the wet and muddy grass

Been speaking with the man himself Sacha, sorted out a new turbo kit as it really needed an external wastegate as the boost cut was pretty horrendous. I quite like the CT9 turbo, nice and quick spooling so decided that was staying, went for something different though.....top mount setup in stainless steel. Mounted to a genuine Tial 38mm wastegate on a vband. Have braided oil and water lines made too, as well as the the oil return pipe in stainless steel. Honestly this kit is exceptional quality, it's almost criminal to put heat through it and make it change colour lol

As I'm a poor student , will be ordering the EP top mount CT9 manifold combo, genuine Tial 38mm external wastegate and a walboro 255 pump next week. Potentially if a P&P ecu comes up cheap enough I'll chuck that on as well, and run 1bar safely but if not 0.8 it is on the standard ecu

I know with my OEM LSD, it needs load to lock up. So wheels turned, dump clutch coming out of junction it'll leave a 1 wheel peel. But load up the car first, get it crawling and then do the same it'll spin both wheels

Quick little hoon too, taking my dad and his mate for a blast round the block

Small update. I'm back at uni, cars currently layed up at my dad's under its cover now. I made it to a local show the week before I left, she's boost cutting like an absolute bitch now it's slightly cooler tho. So much that I had to adjust the actuator when I got to the show! Still pulled away from 2 VXR's and my grandads evo tho She certainly attracted attention, despite being surrounded by rather expensive classic Ford's! Little bit on the old man's evo, to our surprise it won Best Car Of Show. A lot of hard work paid off, spent my childhood cleaning and helpi

Looking sweet mate. You'll notice the difference with the roll bar for sure, I had mine off for a day and it just felt weird, almost as if the back of the car wasn't connected to the front

Much better pic of how she sits now, doesn't look too bad a car now. Tried some wheel wax on the wheels, you know you're anal with car cleaning when the wheels bead To think this was it 2 months ago, nothing but elbow grease I'm heading back to uni in a few weeks time, Scarlet will be taken off the road then. Might order a cheeky forged engine package to stick under the bed over winter tho.......

Cable ties ftw, takes 2secs to take the front bumper off . Jks I need to find some bolts lol

Did a few niggly bits on the car this week, the black door surrounds were bugging me being faded and chipped. Pain the ass to do but satin blacked them back to how they should be. Helps dad trained as a panel beater many years ago lol. Decided to take the ol girl off the road for the winter, will just be covering it up on the front grass to keep away the salt. So took the opportunity to take pics of the evo and starlet together for the last time this year. We've booked a local show in a few weeks time but he'll be on VIP so won't be together unfornutaly. Looks so dwarf

Good choice, best suspension for the money. Honestly the ride quality is excellent, went in an evo with Meister R's and was blown away

Looking ace mate, what suspension set up you going for?

This is something you might have trialled with, I wanna do boost by gear. AVCR is the easiest choice for boost control to do this, but i wanna do it via the ECU. Have you heard of someone doing this on Starlets?

As its a road car that I'll bring to the odd track day, I need it to function as OEM. I've heard the cold starts on Link can be tricky to get right? Especially if you have aggressive cams and big injectors on our tiny CC engine

I like the safety the link can offer, just not the price tag lol. And i also like the ease of the ME, had a play with both of the programs. But knowing theres someone on here that can help with the wiring of the link it does open that door up again. Decisions decisions

I'm thinking ME221 for ease of installation, MX5 lot seem to rate it but heard mixed reviews on Starlets. Link G4+ is the other option, but its in a completely different price point as I'd want the wideband and additional sensors into a CAN system. Rough cost will be £2k for that option

Cheers buddy, it looks good fun. Might have to try it too once I'm happy with this car

I've got the turbo here already so it will be going on 100%, in talks with ID Workz atm about a manifold to suit. I'm mapping it myself, so I'll be more than happy sharing the logs when its done. For an old school turbo, max boost at say 4.8k on a 4E I don't think is too bad, revving to 8250 leaves a half decent powerband I think

As i understand it as long as you choose the correct wheel design, spool will improve. Billet wheels are easier to get the fancy aerodynamics than cast ones? All theory atm, just wanted to see if someone has used one on a Starlet before as there's not much info out there. And Race-techs twin scroll turbo kit is all hush hush so i can't even steal any info from that!

I think I wanna stay 4e, I'm willing to sacrifice some spool for a higher rev limiter. Hoping to rev safely to 8250rpm, but I'm still only thinking of engine specs atm