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Could you please enlighten me as to which IACV you used and how you achieved this please? The FTE throttle body only has part of an IACV on it. The rest of it is on the FTE manifold and that one does not work with the standard loom or ecu I believe. On the standard throttle body the whole IACV is on the bottom. Gavin

Because its a bypass valve there is one pipe on each side of the butterfly so at idle with both lines disconnected only one would suck. If the throttle was opened a little both would suck one more than the other. Working as it should the valve in the steering rack would allow the vacuum side to suck from the other side when the steering is moved. The IACV on the FTE manifold is a little harder to seal yeah but it looks about the right size for a 1/4 bps or npt plug it just need drilling out and tapping. Gavin

Glad I was of help. Yeah as far as I can work out the FTE manifold is the same as the Gi one except like you say the FTE one has more holse drilled in it for sensors and vacuum lines. Pluging them up will be fine ive had to plug a couple on the Gi one aswell. I just want to say my success with the FTE inlet and 45mm TB might be due to the Gi's pink injectors (believed to be 200cc) but as the ecu controls the duration it might not. May also be the Gi's fuel regulator or even both. I dont think it is TBH but just a warning because ive never had standard injecters in the Gi engine so have nothin

No problem!! I would recommend the FTE inlet having one as standard on my Gi engine before I rebuilt it and will be going back to it soon!. You will not be able to use the FTE throttle body tho due to different idle air control valve. When my Gi engine was fitted we had the same problem with the throttle body so we mated the standard throttle body to the FTE inlet and it worked very well. One thing I noticed is I think your measuring the wrong side of the throttle body. They taper from front to back so you need to measure the back of the throttle body. The standard one is 45mm and the FTE an

I believe the vacuum lines that go from the throttle body to the steering rack is an idle up valve that lets air leak past the throttle body to up the revs when the steering is moved or gets to its end stops at idle. The normal electronical IACV dose not control this because it was probably cheaper and/or easier to use a mechanical valve than to use an electronical sensor to talk to the IACV. If you were to disconnect the lines from the throttle body end and not block the holes in the throttle body there would be a vacuum leak and it would idle high. If you were to disconnect the lines from

There is one that colour that I have seen around Loughborough. Its kinda pale lilac. Gavin

Cheers everone. A few more bits and parts have turned up today, some interesting some not so interesting. Just a few more bits to get and then I can start. New drivers side door hinges because the old ones have major play in them Rear quarter panel and sill Wing Compressors new and old Air fed mask Gavin

Cheers for the kind words everyone. Gavin

I dont park my car on the street so Street View aint gonna work for me but I did find my car on normal Google Maps satellite view. Gavin

As im getting close to starting the bodywork (next week hopefully) I thought id outline my plans. I have/want to ... Replace part of the drivers side rear quarter panel and sill. Remove the bump strips from both sides. Smooth the ridges that are under the bump strips. Drivers side only to start with and I bet no one notices ive only done one side for a month or two. (The only smoothing im doing youll be glad to hear) Mod the front bumper. Replace passengers side front wing Spray the complete drivers side of the car, front bumper and passengers side wing. I mi

I think it looks quite clean and tidy, they do look nice in white, good luck with the project. Gavin

The paint is an acrylic. I got it from an antomovive paint supplier, that's your best bet! Gavin

Wish I had the time because I would love to. Gavin

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Gavin

Thanks for understanding and the kind comments. Gavin

I've had my 1997 Starlet Sportif for four years now un-modded apart from an engine from a Gi and a filter. I drove it hard and it started to burn oil lots of oil. I thought of a turbo conversion but I like instant N/A power so I decided to rebuild with one or two little tweeks. I love Toyota!! After an estimated 100,000 miles I pull this engine apart and there is very little ware. First this is a before shot I would like to take this opportunity to further confirm that I believe this engine to be assembled from mainly turbo components this is my guess... Rods = Looks like 4

Some of you might of noticed that my old build thread and I disappeared a couple of weeks ago and I would like to explain. The day after I posted the finished engine bay on here I caught a couple of scum bags around my car. I did not know if they had seen it online or not but just to be sure I removed everything about my car from the net, not only this website. Anyway my paranoia has subsided and im back. I can resurrect my old thread with absolute accuracy because I drafted what I posted in Word first so I still have a copy of it. Old photo for reference How the engine stan

True Gavin

Yeah so true if they want it they WILL have it. You just got to make it as hard to steel as you can. Thanks everyone Gavin

Tell me about it mate. Cant stand em. Nice one mate thanks Gavin

Some of you might of noticed that my threads and I disappeared a couple of weeks ago and I would like to explain. The day after I posted the finished engine bay on here I caught a couple of scum bags around my car. I did not know if they had seen it online or not but just to be sure I removed everything about my car from the net, not only this website. Anyway my paranoia has subsided and im back. Gavin

Totally agree with everything. I dont have it in me to make thousands of the things or ever hundreds but the market needs a few more! From uber rare to rare is all that is needed in my option. Gavin

I think your making it sound worse than we did tbh. And Id do it myself im almost an expert with fibreglass. Gavin

That was harsh. A bit to blunt. You wanna hope I dont get ahold of one cuz it wont be rare for long. Gavin

Paint work looks stunning. Good work! I hope you get the idle problem sorted soon. Gavin