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what a cool project, I miss mine a lot, but I was spending so much money on it it was ridiculous, i probably only drove it 1000 miles a year if that!! Ill have to keep an eye on how you get on.

No problem, glad they are still being put to use

Yeah take a look in the howto section, its in there

You can turn off the beeping sound

Hope they worked OK, they are a nice set of gauges

My honest advice on buying a forged engine after building one from scratch my self is to just buy one ready made from tuning developments or race tech. After i priced everything up, the price difference is hardly anything. By the time you buy all the parts and get the machine work done your gonna be topping well over £2k anyway, which is near enough what they charge, but the most important part is you get a warrenty and after sales support with the supplier which is worth 10 x the cost of the engine. Its too easy to miss somthing or make a minor mistake building it and the whole build can go down the pan, sorry to sound so negative its just what i thought in hind sight after mine. Save up some money and get a fresh built one Or if you do build one just make sure you take your time and check everything twice!

I liked the balls out on every corner comment

you have to register to buy them, when you get onto the page you have to put in your unique registration numbers, then you get the tickets with a picture of you on them, you cant sell them. So if you dont get a ticket, you cant buy one off a tout.

yeah i would only give them to people i know and just in case i was gonna cancel the card after the ticket sale.

£100 to hit f5 for 10 mins lol

Bit of a random one but I missed out on getting my Glasto tickets this year and I have been going for over 10 years so i was extremely annoyed!! Although its ages away the Glasto ticket resale is in April and I am trying to get an army of people to try and get through the sea tickets website and get my 4 tickets. Getting through the sea tickets website is like a lottery so the more people i have hammering the login page to buy tickets, the better my chances are. I'll supply you with all the details you need and also with my bank details if you get through so you don't need to pay out of your own pocket, but if someone manages to get through and buy my 4 tickets, I'll pay you £100 to say thank you I estimate the resale is around 5000 tickets, so it will sell out in approx 1-10mins, so got to be quick I figures if i get shit loads of people all trying I significantly increase my chances, so for 15 minutes of your time you could earn your self £100 and maybe put it towards some car parts for your starlet, so win win! Post up if you would be up in helping.

ah yeah thats horrible to watch knowing he's dead, my best friend was killed exactly the same way , shame but it happens all the time. One of the reasons i hung my motorbike boots up and got a car.

cheers lads, not in the starlet scene any more but glad people will get to use them for years to come

Cheapest option for you to get the engine running again and quickest lad is push the pistons out from the bottom through the top, keep the engine in the car, take off the knackered piston and swap it for a like for like, i have even got some spare ones you can have for free if yours are the same standard size. Stick a new set of rings on and give it a quick hone to get the glaze off the cylinder walls and put it back together, will cost you a set of head bolts and a head gasket, so about £100. You just need someone to do it for you which can be done in a days work. Otherwise your either looking at a whole 2nd hand engine drop in, £400-800, or a forged lump which is more like £2000+

Bumped as someone was looking for it

you need to take dash off and yes you need the whole loom engine, dash and rear to fuel tank.

Yes just get your self a complete loom off a GT or Glanza, lay it out in the car side by side the exisiting one and just wire it up the engine. it should be all standard to fit into place. The only thing you will need to do is wire in the wires on the ignition and your good to go, the block connector on the back of the ignition is numbered, just correspond the numbers with the old loom and you can use the existing ignition key. I made a load of videos to help on youtube, or failing that Grant can give you advice

The head and cams are whats worth the money, you could sell them easily for that or more. You will double your money and then some easy

pritty rare, they come up once in a blue moon and they are only in the toyota Sera if you can even find one to scrap! Probably looking at about £250 for the head and cams on the forum, but buy the engine of an unsuspecting person who has no interest in it and you can probably buy the whole engine for about a couple of hundred quid, gearbox add on another 100