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Well done Mark for organising an excellent meet & weather! Good to meet some new people & a nice mix of cars. Glad to see you're taking good care of my little baby Luke & giving it the love & attention it deserves Cheers, Phil

I'm glad you're happy with it Luke, it's a sound little car. It looks tons better with the new wheels! The previous owner was an invalid, hence him having an auto, he didn't do the boost mod so I don't think he thrashed it at all. Be interesting to see what else you do to it. Enjoy Phil

Oh well all good things must come to an end so my little Glanza is now for sale. See the for sale threads, not posted it anywhere else yet, set a realistic price (I think) though happy to negotiate. I'll be sorry to leave this forum as it is very friendly. If it sells off here I'll be happy to make a donation as it is the least I can do. ;) Cheers Phil

Happy for now, I was hoping to get into 11s and JUST made it. The car has plenty of power for road use (TOO much sometimes) & to increase the boost further (currently 1.25 bar) would probably need forged internals etc. etc. as the car has now done 80k miles & is 14 years old. This would also be rather expensive & use even more fuel which seems to be going up again. So I think I'll just enjoy it as it is for now, it still amazes me how quick it feels. But who knows, maybe in a year or two??? Next mods will probably be a nice set of 18" wheels & some uprated brakes. Might (regre

Not been on for a while so a few questions here. The Glanza came from St. Annes & he was the first owner in the UK, supplied by Fuji @ Bell Vue. I'm in Middleton & work at/own Kirkway Service Station. (traders insurance does have advantages ) Hi Makaveli, I remember you, you arrived at Helsby Arms with undertray of your R34 scraping the floor if I remember right! Just an update on the Skyline, went to RWYB at York Raceway yesterday & did some runs, best was 12.33@120 first run but car seemed to be lacking power slightly after second run. Couldn't get it off the line properly usi

I used to have the plate on a Discovery, looked really cool, but now everyone thinks I'm a DJ, until they see how old I am

AT LAST the Glanza is taxed & I can have a play in it again, been off the road for a month! Just need to put back the drivers door mirror, it needed a respray. AND the skyline is back together & had a remap. It is noticably quicker than before, I would guestimate about 500bhp Niiiiiiice

Well finally took some piccies so here they are:- and the two together with the skyline sporting its Nismo bumper:- and here's a little mouse I rescued from my 3 cats, thought I'd feed him up before setting him free Cute eh!

Wow Enzo you're quick to reply, put me tea in the oven & there you are ! Yes I did skimp through the tutorial but didn't take it in. So exhaust manifold looks like the next thing to do. I do have a dremel, but this looks like a few hours work to me! Remove manifold (two of those nuts look a t**t to get to), grind away restriction , replace manifold, possible new gaskets, oh dear what am I getting myself into There was me thinking I could just tweak up the boost & away you go! Anyone want to buy a Glanza !!!

Still not taken any pics of the Starlet, it's just standard with some glass tints as far as I know, try & get some pics this weekend. Removing the CAT didn't make any noticable difference I have to say. Next mod ? I think the next mod is to increase the boost to 1 bar. What is the best way of doing it? It was easy on the Skyline, you just remove a restrictor in one of the pipes & it goes fro 0.7 bar to 1.0 bar. As I understand it on the Glanza you can replace the wastegate actuator with a stronger one (HKS for example) or fit & plumb in a boost controller. Electronic ones read

I've not been able to try it out since removing the CAT as I put a Forte engine flush in the oil to do an oil & filter change then found some idiot had returned the filter I received yesterday, so can't use any power until the oil is changed, it gets very very thin! I doubt it will make anything like as big a difference as the little pipe mod, still every little hepls. Hopefully my Cosworth head gasket will arrive tomorrow for the liner so I'll be busy putting it back together (for the fourth time!!! ) & hoping this time the gasket doesn't leak ;) or I'll be getting seriously

Well I managed to remove the CAT innards this evening, took about an hour or so & had to break it up to get it out! Here are some pics of my Skyline (hopefully), sorry not taken any of the Glanza yet. I'll post some as soon as I can. These were all taken before the front bumper was changed & some other slight mods.

Hi Mel, I'm new to Glanzas but I don't think it will harm the engine at all as it is only putting out the same power as in higher gears. The thing it will do is put a lot more strain on the gearbox, but what the hell, when the wheels start spinning it relieves some of the strain?! I don't think you'll regret, just try it, I bet you don't change it back again! ;) P.S. Some a***holes just tried to nick my skyline, fortunately no damage, no cylinder head on the engine so if they got it going they deserve to have it!

Thanks Enzo, the Skyline only does 23mpg at best on a run so I'm sure the Glanza will be an improvement! It came with an air filter fitted (make unknown) & the rear silencer has been changed to a stainless one (again make unknown) but a bill from Hi-Q for £336 was with the paperwork for it! I think remove the CAT & pull out the innards is possibly the next move as this will cost nothing!!! Pics of the liner, I'll have to work out how to post them, it's fairly standard in silver (same as Glanza) though I have just fitted a Nismo front bumper to it. Phil

Hello everyone, I just bought a 1996 Glanza V auto last Friday. Bought it on a bit of a whim as it seemed quite cheap & only done 48k kilometers + 4k miles (34,000mls total if my reckoning is right). I took it for a short spin but it was a bit sluggish I thought, definately not a 0-60 in 7 second machine. Anyway Googled Glanza & found this website, joined up & found the mod to bypass the turbo solenoid. Well, 30 seconds with a pair of pliers & it was transformed, well pleased with it now, came back chuckling away to myself, great fun. I mainly bought it to play with as my Skyl