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Yeah he's got one in troon -- Here's his website Dunno if it would be worth coming from dundee to get some stickers off though!

A member on here -- he runs a spray shop up our way.

It's the 4E-FE and yeah you have it about sussed -- much more work on the engine would be a bit fruitless and cost a lot of money!

That's just a lip that sparky posted a link too (I'm almost 100% sure)

Damn if only you had posted this before I had started doing my sig! Would've made getting the little images a lot easier -- not that google images is very hard though ;)

Not necessarily -- When the oil drains out of a turbo (from not being in use) you will get a little shaft play... but it would be minimal.

Might invest in a relocation kit -- oil gets up to temp nice and quick being next to the turbo though!

Advent children! Not a bad flick -- I aquired it about a year ago. Wasn't too bad.

If I was to change mirrors I'd get a set of carbon DTM cups -- but my mate has the WRC replica's on his Impreza and you can't see jack shit out of them.

It's cool Uri Geller's coming round and we're gonna have a bash at it!

Just open the door and get your knee down -- only good for left hand corners though unless you've got a passenger ;)

You must be able to change your avatar Joz -- it's changed twice in the last minute ;) ;)

Mine's is 500x125 -- but it's low quality .jpg so the file size is really small.

Heh -- your car is red then ;) And full body photo's too!! Looks good mate! I really quite like that spoiler! Only thing I'd say is use black mesh as it would bring the whole car together!

P.S I was suggesting a black and white banner simply because I think it will be cheaper... but if you could find out how much etc then that would free up a bit of creativity! ;)

If it is then great! cheap replacement turbo's ahoy!

Jam a screw in the end of the pipe!

Are you planning on making your own hybrid? ie. actually replacing the compressor wheel from this new turbo to the shaft of your old turbo? If you were replacing the wheels and housing you would need to re-balance the shaft to an extremely high rpm (turbos spin up to 150000rpm) or else the shaft and wheel would vibrate itself to bits and probably get sucked into the engine -- possibly blocking oil journals and causing oil starvation to parts of the engine... Or am I misreading your post? Also the play in the shaft of this new turbo -- could be ok if its dry (ie no oil in in) but depends how many mm of play. When turbo is connected the oil makes a fluid "bearing" and stops the shaft from moving The wastegate crack could be a problem but a way to get around that would be to weld the watsegate shut and pipe in an external wastegate. ================================================ This is why you can pay upwards of £600 for a company to hybridise your turbo!

Well I also now have a lovely FMIC pipe in front of the filter -- so I now have to battle around: The turbo above the filter The AC belts to the left of the filter The rad to the right of the filter And now the FMIC pipe to the front!!!

How about a white banner with a kind of black outline of a starlet/Glanza/GT -- like the header I did of Wullies Glanza? Something like that? I'll mock one up in photoshop when I get a chance?

Diesels tend to run lower boost pressures though -- so maybe the compressor wheel has a different trim? I don't know for sure but it's the same way you get TD04's with different trim -- some perform better than others.

I tried and failed the other weekend -- so I'm investing in one of the filter wrenches that grip from the front of the filter (tringular shaped thing) Other people suggest sticking a screwdriver through it to remove it but personally I wouldn't like to be stuck with a bust filter if it never came off that way. It looks like a piece of piss if you have removed your aircon though!

I saw a post on TGTT that reminded me what pic it was -- was it the KM design red 5 door?

Turbo would be a good idea -- some people would question whether the drivetrain would stand much power -- but it's been done with a 4EFTE so that's been proven. You do lose a lot of power through the transmission though so and the extra weight would be an issue -- so the engine would need to kick out a lot more power to compensate in my opinion.

Me and Geo were talking briefly about this earlier -- talked to Paul and he reckons it shouldn't be too hard to fit ST185 GT4 brakes to the starlet. The ST205's might be harder as they tend to foul the suspension when fitted to a ST185 Then it's brake discs -- but vauxhall have 4x100 fitment, just need the right thickness and offset!