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I TOOK DRUGS. Play with cars... . I'm seriously considering racing a saxo in the rookie rods next year by the way xxxxx

It's oe quality supposedly so should be just as good as toyota. Blueprint are widely known as probably the most popular second line part supplier with a good reputation. Comparing the gaskets side by side they look the same where as some don't... I'd confidently say this will be just as good as toyota.

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I actually lost my paint tin so I don't have the code annoyingly. I went back to the shop to try find the same colour but couldn't lol. I remember it was a toyota colour and was called brown.

My clutch has started slipping on the GT and I need a new one. I'm aiming to run around 220bhp so would prefer a paddle for piece of mind but depends on price and remaining life. What have you got? Cheers. Adam.

Some fair points mate. Agreed with the fact they're an import and stuff is harder to come by. But that said you can still get stuff from Toyota and second line suppliers and in a lot of cases, you will only pay like £10 more for genuine brand new stuff than you would for the "going rate" of second hand parts... Like someone said earlier, a set of 96 spec lights for whatever it was, and people are selling them at the same price second hand and nearly 20 years old lol. Stuff that doesn't sell often and their prices shock me too. Like when I was looking for them locks for Jo's car and someone wan

Use a load of washers and some longer bolts lol

Fair enough point. If you have the tools and the knowledge or help of someone that knows then go for it lol. As said above, the cheaper stuff to go for is the seamless tube which you will be able to buy in lengths... It probably isn't that hard to make a half cage if you have a few basic measuring tools, pipe bender, hacksaw and a welder.

As a community maybe we should consider to all sell parts cheaper and sell the cars whole for a little more? After all we do make the prices ourselves? It can only really apply to starlet specific parts as other bits could still be taken off and sold in other scenes but it might end up that there are like 200 starlets popping up for sale quite often which people enjoy and pass on instead of 200 starlets being broken every month and bits being spread everywhere ... Might just have the same effect on prices in the end though as there are none about because no one is breaking them anymore lol!?

I will make one next year . Rob H has some footage online for me somewhere that I may be able to make something from. Lmao!

Also on the skyline comparison. You can get plug and play ECUs for the liners just like the ones you get for the starlets and they go for about £100... Yet in our scene people sell them for £500 odd. How can that be justified lol.

Keep the prices High so that no one can afford to have fun with them? To be honest with current prices people ask we could reduce the prices of parts and still sell the cars for the same price lol. Why make it so hard for ourselves to be able to afford to run these cars? What's the point in being skint all the time deliberately just so that in 20 years your now 4k car will be worth 10k in bits. I don't feel they're supposed to be locked in a garage to be sold as an investment in 20 years. They're not ornaments lol. They're just cars (as much as we love them) and we should be driving them and e

How can you justify spending over a grand on drive shafts? Lol. I'm not sure how to answer without sounding unreasonable. But I would still expect to pay no more than £100 even for new units seeing as they have no benefit overy 2nd hand shafts with new joints which you can probably replace at like £40 a side?... why did you buy new shafts? Lol! I suppose it's a tricky one with near new aftermarket parts. I think it's a case of being reasonable and realistic. Wideband for example costs 130 new, maybe secondhand sell it on for 80? Not expecting to find stuff like that for £20 but should have mo

Name and shame. Pathetic behavior that makes people think fuck it, not helping anyone out again. Might seem far stretched but that's the kind of thing I would happily tell everyone I knew in the scene over small banter. Avoid them in the future, don't help them out again and eventually it'll come back to them. Exactly the kind of people no one wants in a community. Fair points again. I think though if parts weren't overpriced then everyone would be on a win. You still get the same enjoyment out of stuff and you still get your money back when you sell it. It just means you can actually af

Very true and fair point. I don't really even have a problem with people breaking the cars, it's just what prices parts are sold at once they've broken the cars. The more cars that are broken would technically bring prices down, but it seems loads are being broken yet prices stay sky high... I could probably justify spending a little more on parts if there were only one car broke every month for example.

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I disagree. I just bought a set of lights as I said for £55 when I think realistically they should be sold at about £20 a pair. Also if my engine blew tomorrow I would either have to buy a new one or use public transport and I don't really fancy public transport... So I'd have no other option than to buy a lump for more than what I think is reasonable seeing as they're all around the 450 500 mark now for some reason which just seems crazy to me when an FE can be bought for £80 from a scrapyard.

That is the exact reason, but it's killing the scene for me. As an OWNER and not a scrap yard, I can't keep justifying spending the extra dosh on parts to build a nice EP when I could be spending half the amount and building a nicer car in a different scene... Yeah it may be good for selling, but it's making it harder and so much more expensive to not only modify and make a beast, but even just maintain and look after them.

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Lol when I say chavs I basically mean younger ens that don't have a clue or give a shit about maintaining a car, get in it, fuck it, don't give a shit, eventually kill it and scrap it.

And that's how it should be! Doesn't seem to be the case for me what so ever.

Think this is on every cam cover from factory mate. It's just saying to change the belt every 100,000km. If you have no history it might be worth considering changing it for a piece of mind, although I've not even heard of a 4e snapping a belt and they're a none interference engine anyway so wouldn't bend anything.

So this is just my opinion and something that crosses my mind on a regular basis. This is probably because I'm always skint and yet I don't really spend money on anything apart from car parts (it's true, ask my mrs). Take it with a pinch of salt, it's more food for thought and I don't expect a revolution to happen lol. Second hand prices for parts within the starlet scene seem to be a lot of the time, a fucking rip off, in comparison with other cars and parts or just when you use common sense. For example, people are willing to pay like £30 for a window motor? £50 for a single driveshaft? Bon