Gadget

I think it just limits the amount of power you can make, 2.5 should be good for 250bhp

And I'll probably be going custom, lucky to have a really good custom exhaust place down here in S.Wales

Do you have any idea of how much that would cost?! I think my target is 230bhp.. that should keep me entertained for a while..

Ah it's custom, no wonder! I think I'll have to change my front section anyway from 2.25" to 2.5" when I go TD04!

Yeah you will need to get a new front section to get the full powa from the TD04. not too sure if it's 'bad' to run it with a 2.25 or smaller exhaust for short and or long term though?

You got an idea where to get the front section from?

Really like your V man, makes me feel guilty about how dirty mine is! but seriously I hope its nothing more than the seals mate.. i want to see some K POWA!!!

Omigod those wheels are sick!

You will love TD04 haha

Out of interest what exhaust is that? If I was to encounter a problem like that it would p*ss me right off! :L

Cheers mate i love 'em too..

Yeah mate you should have seen me when i found out i was lying under the car swearing for a good 10 minutes!

Erm it's a custom mid section with a nur spec back box i think. If the plate was only a tad larger i could have drilled the holes out! So now i either have to buy a new 2.5 inch mid section or weld this plate on.. but i need some monies.. lol

Arch Enemy

Afternoon all it's been a while since i have updated, so i thought i would..

So since my last update i have fitted the new wheels which was a rewarding 10 min job.

After taking her for cheeky spin i evaluated that everything was fine with the new shoes and thus was well happy.. Until the next morning, i lift-share to work with two other people and their extra weight in the car must have pushed it over the edge.. either way it started to rub bad... every imperfection in the road, roundabout and of course speed bumps were a serious challenge and pain in my arse...

So after a bit of research on arch rolling companies i found Arch Enemy, they are pretty much the only mainstream company out there so i booked a time and waited with excitement.

Chazz turned up and blitzed it out, a cracking guy, here's a pic of the car just before work began:

Looks pretty weird..

Anyway after a morning Chazz was done and on his way, i took it for a test drive (with people in this time) and all was good.. very impressed and i would recommend Arch Enemy to anyone wanting arch work done.

TD04 POWAAAA!

Now i have had my TD04 kit lying around my bedroom for ages and have never got around to putting it together (for one thing i had a nut and bolt issues but Dean was very helpful and sorted that out for me) anyway I started getting some quotes for companies to fit and map the kit but they all seemed a bit pricey so i thought i would try and fit it myself and then get it mapped in a couple of weeks.

So on an exciting Friday night I began assembling the kit..

After 30 mins of grappling with it on the floor it looked like this:

Powa hole:

As all was going well i decided to fit it at the weekend, if all else failed i could put the CT9 back on.. although that would be a massive ball ache. Early Sat morn the work started, it took me a couple of hours to get the old kit of:

Out with the old:

In with the new Powa creator:

Some time later, which included plenty of cursing, sweat and a little blood, it was in! (A bit like sex aye?!)

Looking good if i do say so myself...

But i came across two problems

1. The oil return pipe from the CT9 couldn't be used on the TD04 as it's just not long enough and the diameter of the Td04 oil return pipe is slightly smaller... wish i knew this before i started.. as i was now so close to finishing but a pesky little tube was stopping me..

So i gambled and swallowed my pride and headed for halfords... i was hoping to see a selection of 90 degree blue silicon hoses suitable for oil, but there was nothing... pants.

So i turned to ebay and swiftly ordered the appropriate tubing only £9... would have paid alot more for it if i could have had it on the day..

2. This was a bigger issue, the last thing i tried to do was connect the decat to the exhaust system, i had previously quickly lined them up and they looked good, but on closer inspection they weren't.. the TD04 decat was a little bigger than the exhaust which meant none of the holes lined up... and there wasnt enough room to drill out the holes on the exhaust flange to suit!

i was bamboozled and tired... and upset.. lol

I got in contact with Ricky Lee and i am now in the process of getting the appropriate sized flange so i can weld it to the exhaust.. job done.

Hopefully i will be able to sort this out before next weekend.. as i have places to be. .. actually more like..

Anyway here are some pics of the car as i left it:

So once this pickle is sorted i can get her mapped... but not before fitting some injectors and the walbro fuel pump... I am genuinely excited to see what powa she will kick out.

Stay Classy.

Took her for a drive after work today and she feels great.. didnt have the heart to put my foot all the way down.. my confidence has been rocked a little every time i see a blind bend i have my foot hovering over the brake pedal..

Have lots of random items i dont need now.. keep eyes open for a random for sale thread.

Cheers for all the comments guys, always nice to talk to people who appreciate her.

Sorry to hear about the crash mate. I've some parts left over that i didnt use when repairing my car like carsh bar, slam panel and other bits and bobs let us know if you need anything.

Thats a puka job there man, Shit luck with the cars but it looks really nice now, Is there anything wrong with the wheels I think they suit the car very nicely.

Nothing wrong with the wheels mate, might benefit from a refurb though. I just fancied a different look.

Car passed M.O.T.... BACK ON THE ROAD BABY!

Back to Black

Over the last month or so i have been desperately trying to get my car fixed. I was reasonably lucky as there wasn't any major structural damage although lots of important brackets and things seemed to have been lost/broken in the crash.

After taking the car as far as i could, it looked like this:

Ignore the old bonnet 'hidden' under the car!

I was hoping that the silver on black would somehow work, alas it didn't so i went through some options, was thinking about carbon wrapping but just decided to get it sprayed black.

There were still some jobs to be done, a bit of welding here and there, some spraying and a bit of improvisation with the headlights. So i decided to take it to the same chap who did a cracking job on my manifold. After a week or two all the work was done, which was fan-fucking-tastic, he also managed to take it for its M.O.T... bonus!

Got a phone car with the car failing/having advisories on the following:

- Headlights not fully adjustable (so can't get correct beam angle/height)

- Emissions

- Exhaust too loud

- The ABS light on the dash not working (could've been anything)

- Number plate was cracked

- Rear number plate not properly illuminated

The major issues were the headlights, emissions and ABS.

So i set about getting new headlights (cheers Shorty, great service!) as most of the brackets were broken on the old ones and they had some cracks.

For the emissions i assumed i wouldn't need a CAT but the garage said it was an automatic fail because it didn't have one.. bad times, i managed to borrow one from Ollie Ryan (another legend, with a great car)

For the ABS light i decided to order a ABS unit, although as a quick fix i just spliced the ABS dash light wire into the engine warning light wire (proper job!)

Number plates were pretty simple, i used Craigs Plates great service and pretty good number plate (if you can get bad ones?!)

I didn't bother addressing the 'illumination of the rear number plate' or the exhaust loudness, as these were only advisories.

I picked her up last night to put the CAT on, ready to take her to the garage this morning.

This is how she looked:

I had to get up extra early this morning to finish the work on my car, but it's at the garage as we speak and hopefully will pass its M.O.T tomorrow.. we'll see.

I am well chuffed with how she looks, Paul has done a grand job, i highly recommend him to anyone. He put up with my daily phone calls and wasn't afraid to go to extra mile for me.

So the next steps are to fit:

- Race tech TD04 kit

- Walbrow pump

- Injectors

- Emanage Blue

- Rear strut

- New wheels

- Air filter

- FMIC TD04 pipe

- Eyelids

- Gauges (x 5)

- Boss kit

- And finally a couple of well placed stickers

After these are fitted i will think about addressing handling.. don't worry uprated brakes are on the shopping list!

Stay Classy.

Cars looking mint mate.. makes me want a respray on mine.. thanks again for the CAT once all this shizzle is sorted we should have a meet.. (did someone say TD04 vs. K24)

I am also interested in this. I was looking at the ebay brake discs and pads and it looks all right.. but it's ebay is it worth the risk...

you living in kingston mate?

At the moment i am in bristol, but back in Kingston most weekends... when my car is working. Is a mini meet on the cards?

Right guys, Silver bonnet fitted and we all know how well silver on black looks......... naaart!

Anyway slowly getting it sorted will update properly once everything is done etc..

Me and some mates will be heading down that route, getting on M4 at junction 16. Unfortunately i won't be in the glanza so i am having to ride shotgun in my mates S13..

What time you thinking of setting off?

Ahhh what a shame :rtfm:

Although lucky the trailer was high and just took the top end of the front out, could of easily destroyed your FMIC and chassis legs etc.

Doesnt seem impossible to repair to her former glory as you said.

Let us know what you do with it

Yeah you're right mate after closer inspection i think it may look worse than it actually is... just trying to get all the parts to fit this weekend.. not going to happen.

dont think cars are ever the same after a crash

EDIT : i think you should give up driving after driving your civic over the edge and now crashing your glanza

Cheers for the positive comments :rtfm: .....but yes you might be right!

What a massive c-unit

Afternoon all, so i was driving home from gym (important to get that info in there for the ladies ) and i managed to ram my car deep up a tractors arse.

In all seriousness, i was driving home from gym and i noticed a tractor ahead of me on my side of the road, initially i thought there was enough room for me to overtake safely. At this point I saw a car on the opposite side of the road coming past it, so i hit the brakes they locked up and started to skid. I had three routes to take

1- To the left which lead into a ditch followed by a lamppost

2- To the right which lead to the oncoming car

3- Straight ahead which lead into the back on the trailer the tractor was pulling..

I chose to stick my course and hit the tractor, ironically i had enough time to think about this but not enough time to stop the car??!?

It was weird though as the car must have skidded a good 20 meters, i know my car (well i thought i did) and normally the braking distance i had would have been enough, not plenty, but enough.

Either way here's the damage:

Poor car.

So i managed to take her back home as i was only 1km away, took off the bumper and analysed the damage, on first looks i need the following parts:

- Bonnet

- Driverside headlight bracket

- Vertical strut bar (the one that the bonnet catch is attached to)

- Crash bar

- Air filter

I think that's it, the rad is fooked but i have one coming in the post already.

I will also post in the 'Wanted' thread, but this is a massive pain in the arse as i have the mot due on the 15th.. can it be done?

Also insurance is due this weekend... half of me wants to close up shop. Thoughts?

Stay Classy

Are you selling the Sparcos dude?

Yeah possibly mate, depends how much they are worth

nice car buddy! welcome on board!

loved those wheels on popsys car too, what happened to the sparcos tho?

The sparcos are still here, they could benefit from a cheeky refurb though. I might use 'em as winter wheels or sell them, currently undecided!

Bucket do you remember me p'ming you ages ago about buying a Glanza? I had to chose between a white one and a black one, do you want to know which one i went for?!

I think it was you anyway?!

Cheers for the welcome lads got a lot that will be done to her in the next couple of weeks.... i hope.

I keep boasting to my mates who own, listed in order of best mate-ness, an S13 (Night hawk), an S15 and a civic type r, that my car will be hitting around 230bhp with the new kit on and will pretty much 'merc them'.....'blud'. .. and i am sure it will. Can't wait.

*Mini Mani Update*

Have been desperately trying to get my Wepr mani welded as my car is pretty disabled without it. So I set about taking it off last Saturday, after wrestling with it for a couple of hours i managed to free it from the engine bay. But only after i removed the heat wrapping (possibly the cause for the problem in the first place?) would i know the true extent of the damage. Unfortunately i found two large cracks, i am unwilling to take the blame for both of them... the small one might have been me!

Anyway it was pre-organised that a guy at my work would very kindly have a crack at welding it (pun), this was pretty perfect as it meant it could be done whilst i pretended to work and it would also cost me nowt.

However, he looked and it and said he wasnt able to do it 'there and then' and would in fact need to take it home and spend the weekend on it. I was chuffed that he was willing to do this but i immediately thought "Thats not good enough!" but as i wasn't paying him for his services i felt it wouldn't have been appropiate to say this.

The issue is that i need the car to be running by this weekend so i can take it through it's M.O.T before the TD04 kit is fitted, but mainly as i am due home this w/e for a St Georges day piss up and i will be stranded without it.

After phoning a large proportion of my local garages it seemed unlikely that i would be able to find anyone that was capable of welding it?! They all seemed to think it was a massive/complex job and that was before i told them it had two dirty cracks.

But out of the blue a mate recommended a bodyshop garage, it was the kind of garage that an internet search wouldn't bring up. Thinking i had nothing to lose i stopped by after work and he blitzed it out in like 20 minutes and charge me 20 snut.. which i was pretty happy with. (As a side note it turns out his son has a Glanza, described as "Yellow with a Black roof" anyone on here? )

So pretty much its a 'go go' to fit this back in tomorrow, just waiting for the new gasket which should be waiting for me at the post office.. we'll see. Looks like the princess will go to the ball after all! ;)

Stay Classy.

Bonjour!

My name is Richard and I am from Kingston, Surrey (not Jamaica) but I am currently living in Bristol.

I have been on both UKSC and TGTT for quite some time now and thought it was time to say hello and tell you about my Glanza.

Warning: This is more of a story than a build thread at the moment, the building will be coming soon

Warning mk2: Picture Light

First Encounter

I remember the first time I came across these wicked little cars. It was in September 2008 and a friend of a friend rolled up in a mean looking Starlet, I think he was pushing around 200BHP on CT9! (Pretty sure he was/is a member on here, he has moved onto an S14 now for something called drifting?!)

I could hear it coming from a mile off and just assumed it was another Halford modded up car, little did I know! We were heading into town so I nominated him to drive as I had a â??need for speedâ??. As a side note the only â??fastâ?? car I had ever been in before this was another friend of a friends Corsa Redtop.

So the four of us poured into the pocket, I was immediately impressed with the dials and gismos he had on display and the bucket seats were amazing. It even had that â??Jap smellâ?? (you know the smell of fresh importsâ?¦.no?.. just me then).

Anyway he fired her up and I heard the deep rumble of the exhaust, at this point I thought to myself that it must be carrying some power. The first chance he got he floored it and fook me. I can only describe it as the same feeling I got when I first went on a jetski and floored that. It was incredible, I had never felt acceleration like that and that was with four of us in the car (2 girls 2 boys if it matters?!).

Pretty much there and then I was hooked and wanted one, immediately. For the rest of the day I was hassling him with constant questions about his car.

It was such an anti climax getting back into my mumâ??s Honda Civic â??Maxâ?? which I was using at the time. Donâ??t let the Max nametag fool you, it was a 1272cc car with the gearstick in some weird place and the owners had an average age of 60 and thatâ??s a scientific fact. (And yes my mum fits into this category!)

As a little side note hereâ??s a pic of the car in a spot of bother (proper shat myself)

Banter!

Anyway after I got home I started looking at TGTT and UKSC, mainly in the classified section trying to find a starlet in my price range. Unfortunately I couldnâ??t afford one and being at uni meant I would have to wait along time before I could.

Buying

January 2010, I was in my last year at uni and I needed a car for when I would graduate in May. The Honda Civic Max had been written off by my sister in law (cheers!) which pretty much gave me the opportunity to buy a car for myselfâ?¦. I mean buy a starlet for myself.

I ended up landing this weapon, it was bought off a guy from Hatfield, was in good condition although it had been keyed down one side. Here are some of the add pics, maybe you remember it?

It was pushing around 180bhp which I though was a good start for a beginner. I ran it at 0.7 bar for the first couple of months as I couldnâ??t trust myself with it on 1 bar. Not straight away anyway!

Basic Modding, if that

Not much changed in the first 6 months of ownership, I added some simple mods like:

- Laguna splitter

- Replaced headlights, cloudy as fook

- New radiator

- New gear knob and shroud

- New windscreen

I also bought a scratch repair kit (proper job) which helped but it needs a re-spray to reach its former glory.

Hereâ??s a pic I found of the splitter fitted:

(Sorry for the Shoddy phone pic, if I had known I was going to do a build thread I would have bought a digi and taken a lot more detailed shots)

Pivotal Point

Apart from a service I gave it in February 2011 not much had been done to her and I hadnâ??t enjoyed her through the winter months as much as I had when I first got her so I decided to put her up for sale before my next years insurance kicked in. I chucked her up on pistonheads, i got some interest but nothing solid.

I was so confused with what car to get next, i pretty much looked at every car out there, here are some of the main ones I was considering:

-S15

-Intergra DC5

-Civic Type R (even after owning the â??Maxâ??!)

-Ford ST2

-Audi S3

-Vauxhall vx220

-BMW 330D or 330i

-BMW Z4 coupe (was dreaming!)

Anyway after yonks of searching I couldnâ??t find anything that I wanted as much as I wanted my Glanza so I decided to keep her for a bit and spend some monies giving her some more beans. (little did I know how much those beans would cost!)

Pretty much in the same week I decided to keep her, the mani crackedâ?¦ bad omen? Anyway this pretty much forced me into action.

Shoes

First things first, I hadnâ??t properly put my stamp on the car yet and I was eager to change this.

Another side note: My friend owned a G40 (which I loved) and he had some mint Supalights on it, he soon sold his G to get a S13 Aka Night Halk, seen below:

This was on the M4 near Bath, the S13 had a tyre blowout, seen below:

Scary.

In tyre place next day

The following day we were heading back from Brissy on M4 and the same thing happened, turns out he had a crack in his alloyâ?¦bad times.

Anyway, he sold his G without the wheels so I thought I might as well â??chuck em onâ?? and see what they looked like, turns out they have a different PCD (who would have known!)

But this got me thinking, how would a Glanza look with some cheeky dishes on. A few searches later and Dean@DW developments gave me the answer, epic! His whole car is pretty amazing. At this point I need to thank Dean for his advice and for putting up with my bombardment of questions.

So I started looking for some good dished wheels for the glanza, turned out that popsy on TGTT (solid lad) had some mint XXR 501â??s with a gunmetal centre for sale, so after some quick fire questions and a bit of negotiating I got â??em!

Pretty sure you donâ??t need any more photos than this one, oh the quality!

Them on my floor (Donâ??t worry I think I got 4)

After getting some firestone tyres fitted for £184 all in I was pretty happy. I opted for 45/195/15 to give a little bit of stretch

A few pics of them fitted last weekend

Its sitting a tad high but I need to do some arch work (rolled and/or flared) before I can lower them.

Once again a general apology for the lack of and quality of the pics I will invest in a digi. (Thatâ??s a lie, all funds are buying beans)

Engine

As the mani was cracked I had a couple of options-

1.Weld mani and put back on

2.Buy cheapo ebay chocolate one

3.Upgrade the mofo and get some more bhp

I went for option 3, which pretty much required a new turbo kit.

Now there comes a point in everyoneâ??s life where they ask themselves the question, â??TD04 or Hybrid?â? I was at this point in my life and luckily there were a couple (fook loads) of threads about this dilemma.

It was a hard choice especially with Enzoâ??s TD12 kit trying to tempt me.

But timing is everything and The Notorious Cat had a completely new Race Tech TD04 kit for sale. After a lot of umming and errrring I decided to dive in and get it!!!!

After all if I didnâ??t like it I could sell it. (Watch this space for a possible TD04 Kit for sale) (but donâ??t get your hopes up!)

(Iâ??d just like to say that Notorious C.A.T is a real credit to the site, in all honestly everyone that I have come across seems to be really helpful and friendly. â??Propsâ?? to all.)

And this is currently how it stands I am awaiting many new things including:

- Depo Racing Gauges (Water and Oil Temp, Boost, Volt (for shits and gigs), and tachometer)

- Externally Gated Race Tech TD04 kit

- Civic Rad with fan, pipes and water temp adaptor (ideal)

- Walbro Fuel pump

- HDI pipework to TD04

- TD04 Gasket Set

- Boss kit with horn button (on this note I cant get the steering wheel off, I have undone the main centre bolt but its on their pretty good, before you ask I have tried WD40, ideas on a postcard please?!)

- Oil sump plug (rounded the old one)

Also I am currently shopping for an ECU and some injectors.

So watch this space as this thread is in danger of actually becoming a build thread.

All comments welcome and 'Thanks for stopping by'.

Stay Classy.

What are the prices for the TD04 setup? (turbo, decat, mani, external wastegate and oil and water lines)

Also would this kit fit round a HDI FMIC?