Glanza_Person

I'm looking for a Glanza for my wife. She sold her first one when pregnant with our son, who is now 3 and a half. Had a nice spec. (Roll cage, front mount, work emotion cr Kai, power fc, meister r's, TRD 1.5 way lsd, miracle x brace, TRD steering wheel, and a few other bits and bobs). Well anyway, we've been looking at new cars for her past few weeks and the few ideas I've suggested to her, that she likes the sound of( Impreza hatch sti, Mazda 3 MPS facelift) the reason she gives for liking them are because they remind her of her old Glanza. So we came to the conclusion tonight that what she actually really wants is another Glanza. She had an awesome 400bhp evo 9 last year that she sold for us to move house last year and she doesn't want another one of them either..... Like I said, she wants another Glanza. Firstly I'd like to say I feel like I owe her one, we both put our cars for sale last year when we wanted to move house. Only hers sold, I managed to keep hold of mine, so for the last year she's been driving a rusty 325 ti bmw where I've still had a nice car, really her budget to be fair is whatever a nice evo 9 should cost, but since what she really wants is a Glanza, then I'm happy to spend the money for the very best one I can get her. What we are looking for.... Tidy rust free car. 98 spec. She likes blueish silver as that's what her last one was but I think all the colours look good and I think the right car would convince her to change. Forged engine. Big turbo. Fairly standard looking. Very tidy engine bay. Freshly imported as possible or not used on salty roads. Would prefer non under sealed but realise people want to keep mint cars mint. Not expecting to get everything on the list and happy to change a few things ourselves. Willing to pay the right price for the right car. Benjaminhodgson@aol.com or 07834 730304

yeah will adjust the boost to just below fuel cut :-( theres a couple of ecus on ebay atm for about 50 quid which seems reasonable any idea what the part number is so i dont get stung with the wrong type? u not got a glanza at the mo mick?

looking at selling my gf's glanza in the near future and probably gonna sell a few of the parts seperately to raise a little bit more cash. it's a facelift glanza v and has a power fc ecu fitted at the moment. it only has standard turbo/mani so no harm really in going for a standard ecu. i know the ep82 ecu has a different harness for power fc so will steer clear of that, but i'm just wondering if all the different year glanza ecu's would be fine? also will there be anything else that i'll need that will have been changed when the power fc was installed? it does have the optional boost control kit but the old hi-lo solenoid setup all still apears to be there so i imagine it will just be a case of re piping this up? any info like part numbers of ecu's that will work on her car greatly apreciated cheers

chose this one in the end we do have a high res version if it wins but photobucket doesnt seem to like it

I do like that pic you suggested Mick, but you can see that other car in the background and the underside of the car looks a bit weird. went and got a few more pics today. still no idea which one we should use tho????? any of the below any good?

yeah it's the one with the miracle x brace mate.........just painted that brace fluorescent pink yesterday actually......dont worry tho anyone, can be taken back to an original polished finish easily enough if we ever want to. i tried to get a pic but it's so bright it kinda looks like its powered electrically.... and switched on. lol

my girlfriend did most of the paint stripping which probably took about 6 hours total i sanded them with 240, 400, 800, 1500 then autosol'd them, took about 6 hours per wheel masking took about 3 hours per colour a couple of hours spent painting them in total about another 6 hours repolishing the wheels to get the edges neat and take the raised lip off the paint. my girlfriend did the black lettering in about an hour. so 6+24+15+2+6+1= 54 hours total thats just a rough guess really tho cost was sandpaper, free off me mate autosol, already had it masking tape 2 rolls £2 pink, yellow, orange, green, laquer, £4 each, primer £10, blue £12, total cost £42 for paints glad they're done now like, next time should be easier now theyre polished

cheers again everyone i did em myself

Got a few more pics today. Was thinking of entering the last one for POTM. or should we try getting a few more? cheers again for all the nice comments

we wont be needing that clown......we're painting the miracle x brace pink !!!

we did think about that, but there's another glanza not too far away with pink/silver rims........maybe next time......i can see these wheels having a few more coats of paint over the years.....now that theyre polished we could get them powder coated with clear pink so they look like pink chrome aswell.....too many choices. we did think about doing each wheel a different colour aswell and lots of other combo's

cheers for the positive comments we dont know what they look like rolling ourselves yet cause were in it when its moving but we'll deffo get a rolling shot sometime soon. if there's anyone in the middlesbrough area who's handy with a camera that is looking for things to take photo's of we could do with a decent pic to enter POTM cause i'm rubbish at taking decent pics and choosing decent locations.

here's the new polished/multicoloured look........they were getting faded and chipped.....and pink wheels were getting a bit common round here now anyway

only jokin mate, looks great by the way

well i dunno, you paint your wheels pink on your bluish silver glanza cause there's a few about in the area, so you want it to be a bit different......and somebody who lives about a mile away gets pink wheels for their bluish silver glanza....