WallaceGlanza

Cheers guys, its an easy mistake to make, I'd even told my mate about before it and still managed to do it. Lesson learnt to double check everything! However once the smoke cleared the engine was running really smooth, I should have it back on the road tomorrow, then have an mot to pass on thursday....

Yeee ha its alive!!!!!! Well I've had fun today! With the battery charged up i tried starting it again and it still wouldn't turn over, I changed the plugs then it turned over briefly but died straight away, then I noticed a coolant leak.... from the exhaust mani. I'd properly flooded the engine.... becuase I'man idiot and managed to get two of the water hoses on the inlet mani the wrong way round when I sorted the leak yesterday, hence water was being pushed into the cylinders! So I swapped the hoses around to the right way and witha bit of a cough and splutter the car finally started,

Yeah thats normal. if you just use water it will freeze in winter, not really that good! You can get proper toyota "for life" coolant which is red or the similar stuff from halfords.

Cheers guys, well I got the inlet mani and all the crap in the way back off so I could sort the coolant leak. With that sorted and the battery charged I managed to start the car... just, for all of a few seconds before it stalled, then the battery didn't have enough charge to start it again. I'm leaving the battery to charge overnight and hopefully it will run ok tomorow although I'm slightly worried there's something amiss since it didn't want to even idle. I still need to fit the passenger side cv boots and put the brakes all back together then it will be ready to run....

Well I got the engine finally in last night just after midnight without too much trouble (bar my mate smashing the garage window ), and I've been at it all day today fitting everything back on it. I've just finished tried to start it and it won't start, then I looked about and there's also a coolant leak which I'll need to take the inlet mani off to get too. I'm really at my wits end with the car now and really feel like just getting rid, I've had so many troubles spent over 10 grand on it with fuck all to show and now after working on it for a fe days solid the thing still won't work. I'

300bhp enough

I take it you mean TOM's :P Nice looking glanza mate, some good pics too, like the one straight on in the trees.

Maybe too much! It'll be like learning to drive again and being hopeless at hillstarts etc! Also we did decide it was the same as the 309 back in february when I bought it!

So near yet so far today! The engine could've been in by now if it wasn't for the pain in the arse driveshafts! I've managed to remove both of them with the help of a mate so I could fit new cv boots but now the buggers will not go back in. Its so annoying as the engnie is all ready to drop back in, I'll be having another bash at it (literally) tomorrow. I also found this when I removed the old engine today: Looks like an exedy 35% uprated jobby to me, so explains why the clutch never slipped except on the strip, although it was quite worn: I'm sure the new blitz clutch will provide a

Just bush's and its £100 for all 3, check the website and their under the groupbuy section. You need to put your name down over on tgtt by the looks of it.

The buggered engine is out and the new engine has arrived and will hopefully be going in tomorrow! I didn't manage to get any work done till after 5 tonight but the engine came out fairly easily (once I'd un snagged the gear shifter cable which got caught!) So I just need to swap over some parts from the old block to the new and fit the blitz clutch then it will be ready to go back in tomorrow and hopefully all running by friday, fingers crossed for this one!

Quite impressive work on the taillights actually.

No there's not. They just look smoked when you fit them because the cluster is black.

No it was painted black.

Cheers for that mate, I considered taking it out the bottom but thought it would end up just as easy taking it out the top. If I struggle getting it out up the way then I'll just drop the bugger out!

Looks a niceclean standard example, those tsw's are so old skool, they were about back in the day of the venoms!

I thought it might just be that, it just looks a lot clearer than the other headlight.

Looking good mate, I don't know if its just the picture but it looks like your drivers side headlight is a crystal one already?!

So do I! Yeah its a nice clutch! Should perform well too. Cheers

Got a bit more done yesterday and today in preparation of putting the new engine in, everything else has been stripped off the engine ready to go onto the new one and the rest of the earths and bits unplugged: Also got the shafts out, a bit of a pain in the arse but got there in the end: So all thats left is to take the mounts off and lift it out with the aid of this: Big thanks to Gary (EP91STARLET) for lending it to me. Unfortunately I didn't get the engine out as I have no chains or straps here and the block is missing the hooks to lift it out with due to the useless garage that

I've just finished taking my shaft out.... .....the glanza's shafts that is , gonna have some tea then chill.

REFLET!!! There the same style as mine but it was ages ago I fitted them so you're peobably right, the other reflet one's are just the uk style na one's.

But you've got the reflet lenses these have an orange strip for the indicator, I thought it was only one screw on mine?It doesnt really matter anyway they will still need bonded ideally if going on the 96 cluster.

Yes, I said that yesterday. Yes you would.

Look in the parts section!