CheFinn

Thank you guys! Much appreciated 😄

This also sorted out the extremely awful exhaust leak/knocking I had, whilst allowing me to now chop off the exhaust hangers someone bolted through the boot floor pan.
As far as I can tell this was done to (try) to stop the midpipe and back box from knocking against the chassis. The backbox was a Yaris T sport one apparently so not the original starlet one regardless.

So all in all no big loss here. Also a lot more pleasant to look at from underneath as the catalytic converter had been crudely chopped out alongside the midpipe hangers and had a crappy piece of pipe welded in place.

Now we have a house the next bit on the agenda is to get the new front KYBs in and the Tein springs, as I now have my own garage to tinker in 😀

Don't hold me to my word, but hopefully I can start doing more bits regularly now  

Thank you guys!

Sorry I've been on a massive hiatus as of recent as we just sorted our first house.
However, the SR is still in the forefront of my mind.

Dropped the car off on Tuesday for the exhaust to be made. I went with 2.25 inch straight through to an outer rolled tip with just one silencer on the muffler.
It looks bloody ace while keeping some of the character of the Remus backbox, however; its far too bloody loud, so I'll be dropping it off this Monday coming to have another silencer in the mid pipe put in. 

I'll post the pictures below, the reasoning behind the 2.25 inch wide was to future proof the car, whether I go down the route of a full ITB NA build or decide to go turbo and run reasonable power on the efe without going daft.

7 hours ago, burty said:

looking good Che what profile are your tyres they fill the arches really well

Cheers man!

They're 195 50 15s, I don't know if that's what the speedlines have from factory but they fit well like you say!

I'm thinking of getting 15mm spacers on the front and 20mm spacers on the rear to try flush out the arches a little more too 😄

Thank you buddy

Absolutely awesome pictures, love it 

Another quick one, gave the car another wash yesterday on the way home from work; managed to squeeze the side decals on before dusk and its fair to say they look brill 

On 11/2/2020 at 2:52 PM, Pikey009 said:

Awesome progress mate, lovely to see another one getting some love. Get the UK plates back on, it's a UK special edition car that always gets confused with a Glanza 😉

Cheers mate!

Yeah that's definitely on the list at some point, +1 more thing to do 

Cheers Dale!

Quick update, not posted anything for a few as I've been busy getting some bits sorted and ordering a bunch of parts 

Took the car for a clean today!

First since it's blow over and put the front and back decals on.

Didn't start the side ones as the weather started to get too choppy,

I'll throw some pics up and I managed to grab some new front shocks as I've been putting it off for a while 😄

Looking forward to seeing how they all look!

Ace build!

Thank you all!

I'll probably leave it a month or so to put the decals on just to be safe😶

27 minutes ago, RoyalDutchie said:

Looking good the SR decals will finish it nicely, keep it up!

Thank you 😄

Just a quick update.

Today I got a photo of the progress on the bodywork. Had the wiper removed and boot lock as that never worked anyways.

Also the original stickers were made up and arrived yesterday 😄

Excited much!

Strange, must be something Toyota brought in from 98?

20 hours ago, burty said:

I'm gonna check mine this week mines a 99 S plate I've never changed it never new they had one this will be interesting 

I should imagine it will definitely have one, especially if you have AC

Mines 98!

I read somewhere that it was mainly 98 spec onwards that have them but I'm not sure how true this is.

1 hour ago, Sam44 said:

Great progress. 

Action pics, this is why we do what we do. 

Pollen filters??? NO WAY DID I KNOW THESE CARS HAD THESE. 

I have a cd model will mine have them?? If so we're are they located. 

I'm not sure if it definitely will have them as I'm not sure all do, but, if you do have them they will be behind the glove box and will have 3 button like clips holding them in place!

Pretty sure some have just a solid cover over the heater box instead. 

However, if you do change them think I paid £8 each and needed 2, then spray them with a nice scented air freshener so when the heaters come on it smells lovely and dust free! 

Chances are they will have never been changed regardless

47 minutes ago, burty said:

Congrats mate I also became a dad to a girl this year in Jan lots of sleepless nights I'm sure can't wait to see the decals really sets the sr off

Thank you buddy, congrats also, yeah I'm sure you know the score all too well, worth every second of tiredness and dedication though!

Other than all the above that's everything up to date as of now.

The car is booked in from the 19th to the 21st for the bodywork sorting and some decals have been sourced thanks to burty so come next week I should have a good bit of progress.

The bootlid had a lot of damage and so did the rear bumper and drivers door and quarter.

The bootlid will be having the lock removed and filled along with the rear wiper for a more 'clean' look. (The boot lock has never worked during my ownership regardless)

Also the bonnet will be finally sorted paint wise!

18 minutes ago, Kieran Barber said:

honestly mate I'd love to see it again

I'm not sure how to pm you on here but if you have Instagram we could organise something on there!

che_finnerty

Most recently I fitted a bucket seat as I felt all the suspension bits I had weren't getting used to full potential.

So I purchased a BB seat off of eBay with a set of 'universal' runners.

After a lot of drilling and cutting the feet off of the standard seat rail and buying some decent bolts I managed to get it into the car. 

Probably took around 4 hours in total as I had to buy 2 sets off drill bits in the end as they kept blunting. Most of the time was spent measuring and adjusting the seat runners, but it is possible with ace results!

After I had done this I couldn't believe the difference, it did mean sacrificing the original seat for the rail but it was well worth it.

Especially for only around £190, by far a massive improvement to the whole driving experience.

Come July I didn't really do anything to the car, however, I got some IdWorkz half rad brackets and a japspeed radiator and fan and shroud.

But come the end of July I didn't get round to fitting these as I became a dad! My daughter was born on the 26th of July!😀

Since then parts have been collected and been awaiting attention as you can imagine, it's been a hectic (but amazing) few months but up until now I've not been doing much car wise.

In June I grabbed some clear side repeaters and clear corner lights, then gave the calipers a lick of paint and replaced what I'm guessing to be the original cabin filters.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you they were disgusting 😆