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Bought a td04 manifold turbo and downpipe from ebay, Wuhan special, just wondering if I were to get an intercooler setup for the 4EFTE if the piping would fit my conversion? Asked the sellers but their english isn't very good dont think they understood me lol

Not updated in a while but I've got myself another starlet, I still have this one but I found one for sale 3 door same colour 70k miles for £450, still has mot till october and no rust, does have a bit of an issue with changing gears but at this price I won't moan, just for college and deliveries + winter, changed the gearbox oil to see if it would help but nah, so gonna assess it down the line. It's filthy and rough looking but gets the job done. Drove to Belgium for 2 weeks too and took the starlet drove faultless, Got a backbox installed on it but I'll likely be changing it again in a few m

So another update on the Starlet, got her undersealed last week, dropped her off and got her 6 days later all clean and ready. Underside got steam cleaned, needle descaled, rust converter applied and left overnight, then Dinitrol applied and cavity waxed. All the good stuff so hopefully helps it stay on the road forever, get a yearly checkup for free with Preserve & Protect in Johnstone, they seem well known in Scotland as many people I spoke to have used them or known customers who did and seemed impressed with the jobs. Also gave her an oil change but couldn't get the filter off was too

Was that a straight bolt on? Videos and other posts I seen you had to mess around with the throttle cable and putting in washers for it all to fit etc but it looks the same as standard in this pic

Another update on the Starlet, since putting the wheels on I've got my crystal headlights delivered and put them on the car last week, came with LED's too which is much nicer on the backroads here and helps freshen up the front of the car. Also got bored on Monday and bought a PA system and installed it on Tuesday, just put it on the driver's side of the engine bay where there's plenty space, drilled 2 holes and wired it up, quite fun on nights out speaking through it or blasting "its da sound of da police" 🤣I know its childish but its cheap fun for the time being I'll get pics of it in t

I've to put on the headlights on mine next but jacked the car up earlier today to put on some new wheels I bought a few weeks ago, for £120 I can't complain they sit nicely in the arches and look good lol just has winter tyres on the back and center caps missing. I think it looks really good with these wheels I just need to check if its rubbing anything cause I'm sure I could hear a slight noise when driving above 20-30mph maybe against the caliper or something, had a girl on the sidewalk turn around and look so guessing it must be hearable from outside lol hopefully nothing major they're 15/1

Hi mate, nice to know its atleast went to someone from the forums which is always better, atleast its parts live on to help other starlets, keeps more on the road. That's not a bad price at all to turbo any car lol I'm looking at getting some alloys for mine now that I've lowered it. Those TTE parts will most likely shoot up in value in a few years so he'll probably need to fight off offers from people in the future lol. That Shogun certainly looked nice and clean good thing its been restored, should last a few more decades at least. Goodluck on your turbo build though I'll be looking on updat

Well, that's the turquoise starlet gone now, sold it on Ebay and Callum Wellens who's also on this forum came up to get it. Sad to see her go honestly feels weird lol her parts will live on in other starlets, hopefully keeps a few more on the road now. This'll probably be the end of this thread on the forum and I'll keep going in the new one with the other Starlet. video-1648658720.mp4

I was surprised with how clean it is, there's one that's been for sale for months now with 29k miles seems clean too but its salmon pink lol and the guy wants 2k for it, I suppose there's still a lot of low mileage ones going for sale on facebook and autotrader still but a lot of them are automatics, useless for me but might be useful if its just a donor car for you, there was one with 70k miles or so for 800 last week when I bought this. That's me just paid the guy for the crystal headlights too so next week or so I'll probably install them, I'm not looking forward to taking off the head

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Dunno why its put the pictures as downloadables instead of posting them on the actual post but hopefully you get to see them and can be bothered downloading them lol

So after more or less giving up my first starlet after its needing repairs from the crash I bought another one last weekend while drunk at a club...which turned out very well actually. Went down to Sheffield on Monday onced I sobered up and had a look at it, it's a write off to the insurance because of the damage to the boot and bumper...a joke lol. Sills are perfect, genuinely perfect, not a spot of rust underneath, only has 44k miles was owned for 8 years by Hyundai dealerships since 2014 as a "float car" to move parts between stores I'm guessing. Written off in 2015 so I'm going t

Guessing I wasn't allowed to put the link to ebay in my thread so putting it on the right section then, selling my Cat N starlet on Ebay, 1 day left no reserve, full description on there about the car and link to walkaround showing underside is clean of rust etc https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403542857933?_trksid=p2471758.m4704

Cheers idk why it does that with the photos I’ll try sort it out, managed to get it from ID workz that bolt now trying to get a reply from people breaking starlets for a new washer fluid reservoir as mines cracked everywhere 😂 no luck so far

Anybody know if there should be a screw here to hold the black box behind the lower adjustment bolt in place? Can't think of anyother way to keep it from moving about

Not posted here in a while but may as well put an update. I sold the glanza tail lights as I really didn't like the look of them on a stock starlet, didn't suit it, surprisingly sold them for a lot more than I bought them just 3 months earlier, almost double. Since May the only changes I've made to it have been a pvt reg and that's all I can remember doing to it. I bought a 2004 Leon Cupra in August and that has been my weekend car now but at the start of December someone crashed into my Starlet when pulling out from a side street onto a main road, expecting traffic of both ways to stop t

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So some little updates, After getting the new sliders the caliper seized again so got a used caliper and put that on, so far so good.... Wanted to tint my headlights yellow as I have some tint film here and was going to remove them to bring them in so I can use my hairdryer, everything seemed fine until what I believe is the last clip just not wanting to release AT ALL, put my entire weight, up down, sideways, car moved in every direction but not the headlight unit, after 30 mins I gave up and put it back, now its slightly wobbly and not as firm as the other one which is bothering me 🤣 wh

I think I know the Lexus lights you're on about, I seen some too lol, I'm not sure on the difference between the reflet and glanza so I'll just say you're right 😂 I managed to find on Autodoc some sliders with rubber boots so hopefully should be all good, had found some on Ebay too but wasn't sure if the Glanza ones fit the N/A calipers which apparently they do too. Thankfully didn't need to ask the dealership for parts think Autodoc wanted £11 for them then had to pay for delivery £8

Depends really, I'm debating on getting another starlet but a 3dr and to use that one as the one to do up with lowering springs etc and keep this as a daily or get another Celica again for the weekend as I do miss my old one a lot. So I probably won't spend anything much on it atm apart from maintenance stuff. Maybe refurb the alloys to get them painted into gold or get a set of smaller alloys if I do lower it. I was gonna get an exhaust but there is an annoying rattle when I accelerate hard that it just wouldn't be worth it, it sounds like fuel injectors but I replaced them a few months ago (

Hmmm that is weird, I sometimes can't see certain pics on the pc either but I can for the moment, I'll try re-posting them on here then hopefully works now

Hello, been a while since the last update, just updating the thread a bit, recently got another oil change done, got the airbag recall done last week by Arnold Clark who wanted £120 to replace my door handle as they're typically half broken lol... ain't happening. Managed to find a set of bubble reflet lights too for a pretty good price and lastly last week replace my discs and pads as they were at the end of their cycle basically, but when dealing with the front passenger side I noticed how stiff the guide pins were, grease was no help. Brought it to my mechanic quickly in the hopes he'd mana

Changed my fuel injectors earlier after I got a used set delivered, all simple and easy to do but I've managed to drop one of the rubber guards into the engine bay and when pushing my fingers down to get it I managed to push it out of sight and reach...would I be okay driving without it anyways? I'd imagine its just there to prevent dirt getting on the bolt thread? Just waiting on my clear indicators to arrive too🤣 Next is to get it booked in for it's mot next month, get to see my wonderful dog in the bottom of the last pic thinking its food for her 🤣

Currently waiting on new clear lenses for the indicators as one of them that came was cracked but I'm also waiting on injectors off somebody to hopefully fix the annoying noise, I've never done this before so I just want to clear up, the fuel rail, do I turn off the pressure with the sort of bolt that's located on the side of it on the right side? Or is there a fuse for it? Also postponed replacing my heater matrix as I'm lazy and its somehow got its act together now most of the time, so until it breaks... 🤣

Thanks, I'll have a look, one thing I've had with the car since i've bought it is a tapping noise when I put the engine under load, always when I "floor" it in low rpm's or when its higher up the rpm's, essentially whenever more load is on the engine, I was thinking it would be the injectors? Kind of hard to get a video of it happening as usually my phone just captures road/engine noises, it sounds like a rattle like noise except its not