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Time to retire. Thanks to all for the helpful advice throughout my travels!

Awesome build! Great work and determination!

Thanks mate, it was a great feeling driving her on the track and feeling how all our bush mechanic skills have put her together! Hopefully my little brother will continue on with the track attacking. In true Fast and Furial style, he has been 'dreaming' of owning a Supra. However, he first wants to experience a 'cheaper ' RWD, such as a S13 Silvia. This is great because we have experience in FF and AWD. I guess it is his turn to continue our 'track day education' biggrin.gif The Starlet is still in my front yard unfortunately. It is currently on Ebay at the moment and it appears that there

THanks for the warm comments guys! Saturday 24 May 2009 - EXE & Circuit Club Winton Track Day How exciting! Pretty much smack bang on the 1 year mark, GGIII.T has been turbo. The Starlet finished her conversion May 20 2008 whilst I was undergoing placement in Newcastle. Prior to that, however in the same year, the Tein coilovers were also installed. To say that I was looking forward to this day is pretty much an understatement. The culmination of all our work had finally arrived! Please see below for the results (in session order): Passenger and Streets 02:01.9 01:57.7 0

Templates are easy to find... Thanks to Dan for providing the foam action - the self adhesives are STRONG as!! ... The templates were drawn on colour bond steel sheeting which was left over from our Patio installation a few years ago. Thanks to dad for hoarding random materials. - it must run in the family. TMIC all covered :surrender:

Thanks mate. Here are some updates: Project Scoop In the midst of a track day, I bought a Nissan Patrol Bonnet Scoop. Heaps of props to the EXE Crew for offering me their insights and help for this install. Highlights. First drill hole = fail. Drilled holes = Nuts not long enough = fail. Bush Mechanic skills. I was very determined to get this mod up and running before the weekend, luckily Bunnings is open until 8PM on sundays!! Apologies for the bad photos - Camera phone on night mode = fail. So - I ended up creating a splitter like function to cover/ block any excess air

Update: The Fuel gauge is fixed!! I was just puttering around and thought to myself - why should i just fumble around with the wires if I know that the correct fuel wire is just linked to the 'empty fuel light' in the dash? Couldn't I just switch the dash wires around? ....So 1 year later... Fuel Consumption Seems to be going well these days, just as long as I don't fully boost her around town etc. I managed 6.3 odd L/100 off the last tank whilst picking up the latest mod - A 2.5" Toyota Sportivo Muffler! Woot woot. Hopefully this baffled design will allow the Starlet to I

Update: Whilst in Melbourne... I got a cheapo set of wannabe wantanabes! :twisted: Mazda 14X5.5 +45. 12.3lb Also, I'm going to try to create an under body tray in the pursuit of science and cheap entrainment. Using flute board from bunnings at $7 each for a 2 x 2 m (i think) - it is a relatively cheap experiment. This should provide/test the following: 1. Give me better economy due to reduced turbulent under body air flow 2. Give me a higher top speed on the track. Here is the basic picture for the aero under tray: Might just do the front first, and then see what happens Also w

Awesome work Joz! This build is truely an inspiration!!

Thanks mate. I'm pretty sure we ( My little bro and I ) can rack in the GC8 time - primarily due to little/ no fear. The starlet doesn't really suffer from chronic understeer as much as the GC8 does, and I'm in a fairly good finanical position as opposed to the good old 'ohh my god!! I can't really afford to crash this car' days. The Autobahn88 dump pipe seems to open up the turbo a little bit more. She sounds more keen to boost ;) Good work Ebay !

u]Head Gasket Change & Dump Pipe Install @ 1013xx km So I've booked the Starletto into Kmart once again to this time replace the head gasket. It's taken a while to get her fixed, but I've been told that today she is being put back together. The Kmart dude that I have used to work at a Turbo place, so he knows a thing or two about snails (i.e. CT9 Turbo). The Engine was pretty much pulled apart and the heads + head gaskets were sent to a local place for analysis. It took all of yesterday, which meant the Box was idle at Kmart Results came back and it was definately a failed head

GGIII.T @ The 100,000km Service Got the box taken to Kmart Tire and Auto in Newy - they also were the people who helped pick the lock of the car when I accidentally locked the keys in there . So they are automatically champions. Whilst burning down time at the shopping center, I get a call from the Kmart dudes. "Yo dude. Bad news. We found the following...." *Deep breath. 1. There is Oil in your cooling system 2. Diff oil seal is leaking 3. One of your tires has a puncture 4. The water pump is DEAD 5. You require to replace the engine seals. Leaking badly. Me: Can you fix them

Craig, the Rays look mad. Any type of wheels on your car would look mad! Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more pics.