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Found this bro might help http://www.toyotagtturbo.com/forums/showthread.php?12017-**Full-Guide-To-Importing-A-Car-From-Japan**

Very sorry for itself lol

heard tht I bet uve done sumthin

That looks like blue smoke there decky lol

Sometime a wonder about you boy!! lol its just a matter of practicing with welding the more you do the better you will get. I used to do it in ma old work but cudnt tell u kit details I just worked with what I was given.

Kevin Bridges is a friend of a friend met him a few times. My HOD in work is also Rufus Hounds brother.

Think its the member number that there used to be. Good work getting this back looked very empty.

Lol im normally one for not appreciating bad spelling. Cheers mate done it rushing back in to a meeting at work.

Alright guys well its been a long time coming but I thought I may aswell start a build thread 5 years after buying the car lol. Ill do the word works then add pics when I can this will be a long MOFO 1st post lol. Bought the car in the spring of 2008 after spending a good while looking for an unubused example without spending £6k on a fresh import. I found mine on PH went through to Edinburgh to have a look and bought it for £3500. It was one of the most immaculate I had seen even though it had done 104000km it didnt look like it had done a yard over 50k. The only mods in the car were a Sony explod CD player, a pair of infiniti 6x9's and a set of Assis JDM alloy wheels. I could not have been happier with it. (will try and find an advert pic when on my home pc but not sure) So after picking it up naturally I headed straight for the petrol station before the journey home filled her up, insured her and off we went. Being 18 and this being my 1st boosted car the jump was quite alot and me and a friend had endless fun with the power on the motorway on the way home. After a few weeks of owning the car I noticed a terrible knocking noise on acceleration had it on the ramp at work to check and noticed the drivers side engine mount was loose from when the timing belt had just been done. Good that i noticed it nice and early. At the time my plans were to keep the car completely standard and to try and basically add plenty optionals to the car and make her a very clean example. So 1st was light mods (bearing in mind at this point I had no idea of the forums and was a relative noob to the starlet world) so I pursued ebay in my desire for mods. 1st up I had to replace the mix and match mats in the car I had 1 passagers OE mat and both rear ones but 2 rear rubber 1s instead of a drivers mat which just wouldn't do. I purchased the custom fit ones from monster motorsport with the Glanza Emblem stitched in (still have these today and still in great shape would recomment them to anyone). I then got HID's from a supplier online and a Bailey's DV from ebay as they were all over the place at the time and all was well. Months of driving i decided to freshen up the car and rather than have my JDM wheels refurbed as a noob I instantly went out and bought new ones. I chose the Kei Fuji 15" wheels which I felt were plain enough to go on an old car without looking out of place. I ordered them direct from Kei as they were on offer at the time I also bought some Greenstuff front pads. Then as winter began to creep in me and the Mrs went to the cinema on the way home I was on the dual carriage way and a fox ran out in front of us. I changed lane but the fox continued to cross It then froze in the headlights so I changed back lanes and as soon as I did the fox decided to retreat and the inevetable happened.... I pulled into the very next lay by and got out to assess the damage I was already raging because of the dumb ass fox. The results were not good. Headlight mounting brackets Fucked Bumper Fucked Splitter Fucked It was fair to say this wasnt my night. After cooling down I went to body shop my work used in the next few days and they repaired the bumper and splitter I ordered 2 brand spanking new Headlights from toyota which my work would allow me to pay for in installments due to them being £240. Then when winter set in I began to notice a loud drone from the rear of the car and it bogging down...yep my rear brakes were the next thing to be tackled back to ebay it was where I found 2 rear grooved disks and calipers and a new set of pads which I managed to steal for £80. I ordered new cables from Camskill and got it all fitted at the next oppportunity. This was around the time I had just joined UKSC and wasnt on very often I posted topics for new bumpers when I hit the fox and others. When I started coming on more frequently I then bought some WRX seats from a member fitted them straight in and off I went again. He also had a friend who I got in contact to for a respray as because of the damage the freshly painted front bumper didn't match the rest of the car. Next move was to replace the 14 year old standard suspension which had 0 oil in the shocks and the springs had sank to ridiculous levels. It actually looked really good because of how low it was but the ride was awful. Poor in the coners and ever bump felt like you had just came off a kerb. Back to ebay I went where I watched some different set ups pass until I came across a Potenza Shock and HKS spring combo and bidded on it. When I received them they came minus the top strut mounts but I carried on to fit them done the back ones with no difficulty at all. Then on to the fronts where mine were slightly shot but I'd dealt with worse. Only I discovered the shock rod would not pass through my top mount the hole was too small (we all wish to experience this once in our lives) at the time I more frequently used TGTT I quickly came to the conclusion that I needed EP82 top mounts and Rory from TGTT very kindly dug a set out and sent them to me. Again these didnt fit but I noticed a tiny bit of destorted metal on the top after 30 secs with a file they slipped on perfectly. My next move was to go for an exhaust I wanted an HKS Hi power Silent to keep noises down but in the end got a Blitz nur Spec R from this very forum I believe. Had the standard one removed and that fitted and all was good. Months went past where I wasn't sure where to go next with the car I was caught between modding it and keeping it standard. After plenty of thought as you would expect modding prevailed. I found a member who was selling a brand new CT9 zisco decat already heatwrapped. Another from near by me I met and picked up an HKS actuator pillar panel pods with boost pressure and oil temp gauges. I got in on James' group buy for Indiglo dials which of course I fitted as soon as they had arrived. To add to my pile which was now emerging I got an ARC rep IC from Ebay a Jperformance mani from Craig EP91 and a shagged Tongs CT9 from Hazzagray. I dropped the CT9 for new seals to my local speciaist. Next on the list was to tackle the incresingly rising clutch pedal so shopped around and decided on a Greenspeed unit. There was slight confusion at my end as I bought an Exedy organic clutch for £115 thinking it was stage 1 only to find out it was a standard replacement thankfully the guys at the clutch shop were kind enough to give me the Greenspeed item for the same price as a gesture of goodwill. Fitted it and low and behold it was still a terrible pedal. So I then Proceeeded to buy a lightweight toda flywheel from Stavros in the hope this would cure the problem. I couldn't bring myself to be pulling the gearbox off again as I used the car daily so I started stripping down the old turbo set up after collecting the rebuilt tongs and a set of hoses from cj performance. Plugs leads and a Pcv Valve from Shaun. Good old rattle can. To this I bought the turbo knowing it was smoking and discovered the comp wheel was chipped to hell so had that changed for an even more upgraded slightly larger wheel with different blade alignment for better power I had the exhaust side ported out and a larger wheel to in there aswell to make a completely different Tong's CT9. Unfortunately the trouble didn't end there I fitted the turbo and it was pissing smoke so came back off took it to the guys who done the rebuild and had some racing seals put in instead. Again though fitted and it was pissing oil so back it went for a new bearing housing the guy had lying around but sure enough still smoking. I thought it just wasn't going to happen so when I took it back off we decided we would put the cat off the road and the housing from my known good standard CT9 so after doing this I fitted it and finally we had a working smoke free turbo. So all was back on track. Next was that flywheel so on a cold October Sunday me and DaveEP decided to get stuck in and finally after hours of struggling and cursing it was finally done and has massively improved the feeling in the pedal. Then a few weeks back I got this And that brings us upto date this has taken an age but I can hopefully now get more relevant pics and update it regularly. Please leave your comments guys.

GAY!

My mrs refuses to get me any car parts aswell so fresh pair of y-3's as always I expect lol.

James how long we looking to be on these? Since its just a case of buying them? I'm a little desperate to get it soon as with christmas coming.

Defo if the worlds going to pot at least you can vent your anger on a few zombies in the process. Plus The Walking Dead is becoming more appealing lol.

This is still a bargain can pick up the unit for less than 200 on ebay this is the expensive part when u consider having it wired together by a mapper etc someone snap this up. GLWS mate.

Theoretically it would quieten it down as it is a cloth material so therefore would absorb vibrations. Whether it is noticeable or not is another matter.

Aw well if they are knackered just bin them. Thought it was just corrosion.

Now now boys public forum n all tht.

Are they corroded with rust? Or just with battery acid? If its the battery acid just pour boiling water over the terminals and sand them down a little and its ready for your new battery. If its rust then just dive straight into sanding them.

Make a photobucket account upload them to that then copy and past the IMG CODE onto your post and it will appear as a pic. Where you from?

Whoever he 1st told he planned on painting it that colour really should have been having words. I feel like they are to blame for this!!

I've had my gearbox off twice in the last month mate I can assure you you wont need more then 2Ltr

You might well be correct. I had been told in the past 82's wouldnt fit my 91 without modding but that could have been false info in the 1st place.

I dont believe so I think modding is required for both but I cant garuntee that.

I dont know exact box codes. Is it possibly LSD? I know the manual box non LSD is 1.7/1.8ltr.

In a manual gearbox? You sure it wasnt leaking out lol.