jason_l

Sounds good No honestly, im not joking!!!!! When people start looking at little runarounds like that it means they are usually going to have a MONSTER of a car seperatly that has huge spec..................or at least thats my guess

*** Update **** Well yesterday i was up in Basingstoke and cracking on with it again. Although it seems to be going backwards now. Yesterday we started looking at the suspension setup on the rear. The new coilover setup i will be going with has meant BIG changes and i only have myself to blame for it. Because of where the coilovers sit there is currently no way of fixing them at the top to the buggy. We discussed options for well over an hour and the outcome was that the exising towers at the rear are going to be modified substantially. This has meant a slight setback as alot of the work that was done before is now getting changed again. The Demon will now be getting the rear clip welded to the chassis, rather than have a removable rear part. To keep it as a removable piece just means more work as new plates need to be made where the join together. This will mean a stonger buggy i guess. We started with removing the current top mounts, or whats left of them! After this was done the existing mini 'towers' had the tops completely cut off. The new plan is to get some new tower covers lasercut that will blend into the light unit parts. Its hard to explain but when its done i will get some pictures up and im sure people will agree that it will look 100% better than before. Its a bit of a shame really as all the hard work that James put in before re-enforcing the chassis where it bolts together has now been wasted and is all getting removed. We both agreed that if we had done it this way originally we would have made a new rear subframe rather than cutting up the mini one. However its too late now and so much work has been done on the current setup that some of it needs to be salvaged. Today i managed to pick up some HUGE box section steel pieces that will be shortly put to good use and fixed to the frame. The problem with a project like this is you spend ages thinking about how to do something right and go through all the options. You think you are doing the best option then later what you did comes back to bite you in the arse meaning it needs rechanging or something else needs to be modified. Im sure we are now on the right route and will keep everyone posted on the changes. Bit of a setback but will work out for the better in the longrun. However i am now doubtfull that it will be ready this summer/year Jason

This actually makes me sad to see such a nice Starbo get broken Hope you go onto bigger better things CAT and you don't regret it Jason

Welcome to the club Cars look sweet, love the Evo Jason

This reminds me of my old job sounds random i know but my old boss was a complete gimp. So when i left i superglued up his tyre valves a treat! Make sure the ones you have are not the security type that have a little grub screw in the side otherwise it will destroy the valves if you don't undo the little grub screw. Im sure they are not but just in case. Jason

Best time to get rid of the A/C, when you need it most Should make a difference though, the thing is about 1 ton

Welcome to the site. Where you from? I would get some pics up asap if i was you Jason

Ah, some one beat me to it

Nice car this........ Add made me chuckle. Renault Clio Jason

This looks so sexual its unreal Makes me actually want a GT

Contact iamlegend on here, he is selling a new cambelt kit for £40 delivered

Thanks Mate. It is getting there, slowly

*** Update time *** Well i got up to TGT yesterday and got a little done, not much but was one of those days when you walk away feeling happy with what was achieved and knowing whats coming. The plan for the day was to get the gearbox to a reasonable condition and talk through the next stages of the chassis work with James. James managed to get hold of some cleaning stuff that he recommended for the gearbox, its acid bassed so was watered down to a 1:1 mix. This stuff is toxic like you wouldn't believe but my god its amazing. They put some neat onto a cylinder head and left it for a hour os so to see what it would do. It actually started eating the cylinder head, luckily it was a old crappy one. I sprayed the solution on the gearbox, left it for a minute or so and the steam/pressure washed it off and it now looks like a new gearbox. The gearbox was pretty clean anyway, having only done about 40k. I can talk all day about this stuff but like they say, 'A picture says a thousand words'......so here they are. Before the clean........ and after............ Friday i also picked up the remainder of the laser cut steel profiles that will finish off the majority of the chassis work and hopefully shortly see the engine and new gearbox go back in. James has some free time next week from Tuesday so we are both going to crack on with it and more updates will hopefully follow next week. Jason

Its threads like this that really make me want mine done even quicker. One day........................... :harhar:

Haha loving the Glanza in there with the Scooby front mashed on it

He only has himself to blame for posting it in the first place Well done for reviving this post though, how long now till he see's this and lets another one slip with worry

Thats OK then That is crazy!!!!!!! Is that an EVO engine then? Dyno graph says 2.3.?????

WTF Is that still FWD??? bit of a waste if it is.........

Don't worry yourself mate, this thing is going to be crazy

Yes but parts that i don't need, and parts that are getting replaced with better parts

Welcome along Just had a little look at the site, doesn't look too bad and im looking forward to the mag Added a few pics of my project, although its not a toyota Jason

Sounds good to me Go PP This should help traffic between the two sites also if we don't have the same traders as them and hopefully will be a bit more friendly between the two sites. Jason

No worries Chanelle Glad you got it all ok

Im guessing its the MK1 mr2 so will be the 1.6 litre engines but don't quote me on that. I was looking at the Exedy clutch's a while back and the starlet and MK1 mr2 have the same order number so in theory are the same clutch!