ShafzC

I'm Mauritian too but living in London and I can proudly say there are a lot of NICE JDM cars over there! And some absolutely fantastic roads! Welcome to UKSO!

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Random update, apart from the car not boosting properly at times I still love it even more every time I drive it. Apart from general maintenance and a plugs/oil/filter change not much has changed. Got a HID kit ready to fit and the intercooler is probably getting raised up this weekend so it sits flush in the bumper, then I have to figure out what front splitter I want - Probably a Leon Cupra R splitter. Random shot with a friends new Yaris:

Saw you today in my mates golf, going past the Matalan in Purley.. are you on here?

Haven't got a boost controller I believe it's just the standard management setup with actuator. I drive the car cold but I don't boost till it's warm (75ish degrees+) but it seems to want to boost by itself. As in if I'm in 2nd on light throttle it will spike up in boost and the whole car will judder. I find it odd how it used to be fine cold and run like crap warm, but now it's the other way round..

No management at the moment. And it does boost all the way to 0.5 I just mean on light throttle it goes from -0.8 to -0.4 then suddenly goes to +0.1 then I get chatter, as in it boosts all over the place but when the cars warm it runs perfect. Would changing the gap from 0.9mm to 0.8mm fix the juddering at cold temps do you think?

I've got a TD04 GT running 0.5bar and at first when I got it it was fine when cold but when the engine warmed up it started to judder on medium/hard acceleration, and the boost gauge would on light throttle go from -0.8 to -0.3 and -0.4 then a hard kick as it started boosting and would build enough boost to chatter even on light throttle. I changed the spark plugs for NGK iridium heat range 7's and gapped them at 0.9mm and now it's the opposite. It judders and runs like crap when cold but when the cars warm its perfect and boosts just fine. Anything I should look for? As it's really hard to drive it when it's juddering from cold. Thanks in advance.

Do you have the rear seatbelt buckles (the things with the red button that says 'PRESS' on it) and the rear seatbelt bolts?

Sorry about the lack of response, I was on holiday. Does anyone have these with the bolts? Thanks in advance.

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They're the same seats my aunt had in her JDM 97 spec Reflet F, nice interior! GLWS

I've recently bought an EP82 GT turbo and even though it has rear seat belts, as the car has been stripped out in the past there are nothing for them to clip into - if that makes sense. As it is now I can't legally have rear passengers in the car as there's nothing for their seatbelts to clip into. I'm looking for the thing with the red 'PRESS' button. Alternately I have a set of spare GT front seats, would the seatbelt clip thing from these work in the back of the car? Thanks in advance Shafz.

Thanks everyone! It's good to be back in a starlet I am absolutely loving it, huge smile on my face every time I drive it! So far I've installed my headunit and rewired the front and rear speakers, I've also rerouted and redone the boost and temp gauge wiring so now it's not in the way. Next on the cards is a proper service and maybe a HID kit, as my 'blue' bulbs still come out yellow in the projector lense.

Hey guys, I know there's a pinned topic on this but I think my questions a little bit different. At the moment I've got a catch can setup as seen here: After some drives there ends up being oil over the engine and a smell of oil into the car, so I bought a 9mm oil breather filter, and was wondering how to convert from the catch can setup above, to a breather filter as the smell of oil gets quite alarming at times. Or can I mount a breather filter on the open port of the catch can? Will this solve the oily smell? Thanks in advance. Shafz.

I'm thinking to spray the cooler aswell to make it a bit more discreet once its mounted higher up, as much as I like the BLiTZ stencil it is a bit in your face haha.

Alright everyone! Some of you know me already, and some of you know this GT already. I'm Shafz and I used to own a 6P3 Green N/A Sportif 5dr as my first car which I loved, but sadly it met its death due to my own stupidity, since that day I'd always wanted another and after a year of owning a 1.6 MK4 golf - as much as I liked the comfort and the special features of it - I knew I wanted to be back in a Japanese car ASAP. After getting my 1 years NCB I decided to look at VTi Civics (EK4's), but they were all priced way too high or had done galactic mileage or had pretty much been ragged. My mate Amir (ali_legend) on here let me know he was selling his GT and having been in it before I knew it was the perfect opportunity and a good car for me, after getting some insurance quotes and finding out it was actually cheaper to insure than a Civic VTi or the other option I was looking at (Ibiza Cupra 20vTs - Not Jap, I know!) I knew I had to have it. So on Tuesday I made my way up to Leicester to go pay for and collect the GT then proceeded to drive it the 120 or so miles home, smiling all the way, thinking wow I love this car - The power is immense! Every time I drive it it puts a smile on my face and even though it needs some work, I know it's a really good car and it has potential. I've had it for two days now and I just love it, and it gets a lot of attention and respect from the other JDM car owners around here.. Enough of the talking and heres the pics! One from the Watford Gap services on the way home: At home with my old Golf behind it: A little interior shot: And some pics of it in its current state: So far I've got the rear engine mount done on it and a check up on the car and its fine, I've ordered a breather filter for the rocker cover as I'm not too fond of the catch can. Some new HB3/9005 headlight bulbs as the current ones are yellow. And I've fitted a headunit and only managed to wire the 6x9's up as there is no wiring to the front speakers. I had to mount the front numberplate on the car as even though it looked good in the windscreen, it flew off the screen and onto the front seat everytime I hit boost, and the police around here aren't too fond on numberplates in windows. Jobs to do: Fit breather filter Fit headlight bulbs Fit stereo properly and rewire the 6x9s, wire in the front speakers. Get the FMIC mounted higher up so it sits nicer in the bumper Possibly coilovers all around though I like the way it rides atm Drill a hole in the dash to feed the boost/oil temp wiring through as atm it's preventing me from putting the storage pocket above the headunit. Swap the GT front seats in it out for the GT front seats I had in my N/A as these ones aren't in as good condition. Fix half the indiglos lighting as I can't see the speedo at night - Sorting this out on saturday hopefully. Get the chip in the windscreen repaired - I can get this done on insurance BUT I know EP82s weren't exactly common here so would finding a screen be difficult? Buy and fit a remote central locking kit. So yeah there's the build thread at its start, I love this car and once everything's done I'll be even happier than I am now - if that's even possible! Shafz.

I'll just electrical tape it and see, thanks for all the help guys Missed this forum!

I must comment on this especially after what Amjad just commented.. I wonder what's happened to this?

Thanks mate, definitely gonna try to sort it out later, would soldering them do the trick? @Matt1878, just saw your reply, thanks mate, going to try sort it out later! Missed having a starlet haha if this happened in my Golf I'd probably be bent over for a new cluster or something!

Well I just bought N80Jamies car off Amir so that's probably why! Thanks mate I'll do that later!

Alright everyone, I'm back in a starlet and It's got a lovely set of Indiglo dials in it. The problem is at night only the rev counter, boost and the temp gauge light up whilst the speedometer and fuel gauge do not - which is a bit of a problem at night and sometimes I have to resort to using the interior light to light up the speedo. Is there any way to fix them without buying a completely new set or reverting back to standard dials? Thanks in advance Shafz.

Grey or Pink.. probably Grey, can pull it off on both cars easily.

Seeing as this is a 1.8 and not a 2.0, I doubt it, evo swaps can be done to these though.. Always liked these, good luck with the sale! Looks to be a minter too!