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Thanks burty, I did the same with my indicators recently too. Water droplets were forming inside when it was wet so popped the lenses off and sealed them with some clear silicone .

Thanks bud

Thanks Sam, that's interesting. I think the gt turbo quad lights are glass too. Probably means there a bit more resistant to the elements and don't go yellow and hazey over time like the Glanza ones👍.

Yeah mate forgot to mention that, I just used some hydrophobic wax 🙂

Had a go at restoring my headlights today as they were looking really yellow and hazey. Ideally I would buy new lights from toyota but sadly they are now discontinued 🙁. I followed socks old guide on how to bring them back to life, so went out and got myself a selection of fine wet and dry sandpaper ranging from p800 right up p3000 grit and a headlight restoration kit. I started by removing the headlights from the car to make it easier. Next I wet sanded the lights starting with the p800 grit to remove the contaminents from the surface of the plastic. I made sure I was sanding in a

Nice thread burty, good work. Is that the breakers in bradford? seems like a decent chap, got all sorts of parts spare.

Indeed just read through this thread start to finish, great build gainzy. Hope its gone to a good home.

Yeah think your right claymore. Dont think id be able to bring myself to drill those holes in my chassis, like you say its almost to clean to do it. Get what your saying about some cars being investments too, Im sure if I left mine completely standard and sat it up for 10 years it would be worth a fortune but wheres the fun in that. I enjoy modifying it and making it my own but am also not very keen on making changes that cannot be put back for that reason. At this moment id like to say i will keep the car forever however as we all know situations and circumstances change over time so who know

Looking good, handy little guide. Thinking about putting one of these on mine in the future. Does look a bit daunting drilling the holes in chassis leg but well worth it for the handling gains.

Thanks chaps

Managed to pick up this japspeed full exhaust system on ebay this week for a great price. Drove 120 miles there and back yesterday to get it but well worth it. Had a good chat with the chap who was selling it and had a look round his 2 track/hillclimb starlets. Didnt manage to get any pictures but very intresting seeing what he had done, some really good work. Went about getting it fitted yesterday evening. Jacked the car up and dropped the old factory exhaust off, starting at the front of the car and working my way back. Was fairly straight forward to get off and didnt take long.

Sorry to hear the bad news fella. Good to see your sticking with it, enjoyed reading through your build. Hopefully it will be back on the road before too long

Thanks mate

Good read this Claymore, some useful info. Keep it up👍

Got my boost gauge installed this weekend. I managed to pick up an A pillar gauge pod trim on ebay a while ago to make it easier to mount gauges. I think it used to house some greddy 60mm gauges but i went for a prosport 52mm mechanical boost gauge and it fit quite snug with the visor installed. I tee'd into the vacuum line linking the blow off valve to the intake manifold, then found a convinient grommit to feed the vacuum line into the cabin and to the back of the gauge. Excuse the dirty firewall. All the gauge then needed was a power and an earth cable. I bought a few

Been working on getting my new front mount intercooler on the glanza over the last couple of weeks, I picked up a short route hot side pipe off glanzadude and bought the long route japspeed front mount intercooler kit. I was able to make up my own short route hot side piping by combining the hot pipe I purchased and some of the japspeed long route pipes. I also had to have a blow off valve fitting welded onto the cold side piping by a local welder, so I can run my blitz BOV. I then went about getting the intercooler mounted to the car. The brackets were provided i

Small update on the car, I picked up a whiteline adjustable rear panhard rod recently. I have seen that when you lower a starlet it pushes the axle over slightly to one side and thourght it was worth getting one of these to allow adjustment left and right. It was fairly simple to remove the original one from the car. I then adjusted the whiteline to the same length of the stock bar and got it bolted on, it seems a lot more sturdy than the stock bar which is quite light in comparison. I then lowered the car back down and measured the distance between the wheel and arch on

Got some tein lowering springs fitted to the car this weekend. The front springs had seen better days but all of the shocks looked in decent condition so just replaced the springs for now. Pleased with the springs, the rear sits a lot better now. Planning on getting an adjustable rear panhard bar to bring the axle back into line soon. Might get some uprated shocks in the future or possibly get some coilovers.

Thanks, there is some extra vibration inside however i dont find it that bad. It is worst when idling so I have raised the idle rpm slightly which has reduced the vibrations. My old mounts were pretty shot so it was worthwhile upgrading however i dont use the car daily. Your td04 setups looking good by the way, have made some impressive power.

I have managed to make some more progress on the car recently. I removed old water pump in order to fit the new one only to find when the new one was bolted up in place the pulley was stuck and wouldnt spin . Upon closer inspection i noticed the new pumps rotor appeared to be catching on the original toyota housing. Very strange anyway the old pump seemed in decent enough shape and spun freely so i bolted it back on with a new gasket. I have noticed some companies sell the full housing as a complete unit so I will probably buy one of those at some point. I then went about installing

Still doesnt seem to bring up the file upload box when I click on choose file?

Same here seems to be broken?

yeah strange times, hopefully more people come back on here. Was hoping to get the car on stand at some of the shows later this year but will have to see which ones go ahead... Batterys going flat is always frustrating haha, I try to get mine on trickle charge when possible if im not using the car seems to help them last. Will get some more updates on here when im able to get the car back together and running again Thanks I know bad times, Hopefully the situation starts to impove soon. There are some great builds on here people put a lot of time and effort into these cars, it

Thanks Its good to keep this forum active, I enjoy reading through peoples build threads and have learnt a lot from them. Unfortunatly due to the lockdown situation i have had to pause work on the glanza as its at my best mates house in his garage. Im dissapointed but i have very limited space to work on the car at my own house and we have a good setup in his garage to work on the cars. Hopefully we can get it finished and up and running again before too long. I am planning to keep the ct9 for now and do mods including a better exhaust manifold & exhaust, a boost gauge, a front mount inter

Yeah I have the original toyota mats bud but I am keeping them.