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yeah mate got there in the end ta mate love the gt shape haha, well im in no rush and got alot planned for it, but hopefully shouldnt take too long..

haha, yes mate well have to organize a massive old meet once weve finally built our starlets, i still need to come up get them bits off you too!!

Well I started a full strip and rebuild off my first glanza as the bottom end went, looked like this.. i was building it to be a track/ road car, however i always felt and preferred the older gt shaped starlets so when i saw this come up for sale, i had to have it, but i didnt have the money for the whole car so i asked the bloke selling it if hed be willing to break and ill take just the shell, was a long shot but it paid off couple days later got her on a trailer and to mine after a 5 hour round trip. couple pic's off the trailer first thing first, started stripping interior out, won’t be needing it all the rear fully stripped out.. front stripped out aswell next to come out, was all the sound deading, properly heavy stuff!! All gone! So started removing metal brackets I don’t need/ aren’t structural, also removed some surface rust, started with the wheel well Rear seat brackets removed Got the front on axle stands, removed all the front suspension, first cleaned up and sanded down front wishbones then painted then up Crash bar sanded down and painted Cleaned up and painted gearbox brackets while I had the paint out Gave the front arches a properly good cleaning and though may as well hammerite it since I got it out! Before paint After paint Looking much better and cleaner, also started painting some off the chassis as it was filthy and starting to rust so sanded it down cleaned it up de greased then painted That was it then for a couple weeks, as it has been pretty much none stop raining down here.. but I did manage to get hold a lovely cage.. Trail fitted it Looking good I must say Spent the weekend prepping for the interior to be sprayed so sanding everything flat, getting rid off all the left over sound deading, unfortunately this is the only picture I've got And that’s roughly where I am now, next will be masking everything off, rewire interior loom see what extra weight I can shed and then finally spraying the interior.

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You got passenger side window switch mate ?

Ha thanks bud, yeah I though that too, something the owner before me must have "forgot" to mention luckly it's only the crash bar that has a bump in it everything else is 100% straight

so the glanza is coming along slowly need more day light and less rain! my breaks are completely shagged so they came straight off, they wont be going back on as ill be going for a big break setup off some kind in the near future, couple pics of the breaks disks are rotten! i was then left with this, which will be coming apart and cleaned up. then took out my old shocks, they wont be going back on as i will be getting coilovers at some point. this what was left removed the wishbones, completely covered in grease and general road crap. clean them up, will be sanded down and painted with hammerite i had an oil leak in the oil line to the turbo, so alot off the underside and most the suspension is covered in oil and grease, everything will be getting cleaned and painted throughout the build removed front arb, again covered in pure crap dirty clean i will prob be going with a thicker item, but though id clean it anyway got some Tein coilovers off shorty for pretty much nothing, however one the shocks is blown and one needs a new topmont so not sure whether these will be going on or not. they need a good clean and paint. got some new wheels they are SSR, 15x7 very light, not sure if they will stay white, well see, heres a quick pick i then moved onto the loom as its always been something I've not been happy with, just generally always looked dirty and scraggly i started by stripping all the old conduit and tape off, cleaned all the gunk and crap of the wires and started retaping it got this far with it, looking alot better but will order some new conduit to go around it at some point. sprayed these two brackets with hammerite aswell since they have been laying around for ages thats pretty much it for now, more to come soon though ;)

If you still got this in few weeks time I'll have it off you pal

thanks mate, small update today got off work early so had an hour to crack on got the rear off the car on "stands".. BARRY!!!! just waiting for more axle stands to arrive lol.. found out i had KYB shocks... finished spraying the crash bar up gave both rear wheels a quick wash and degrease, insides where greasy as fook so hot water and depio and some scrubbing did the trick dirty better car now stands like this, hopefully get alot more done at the weekend, hoping to be picking up some coilovers saturday.

thanks mate.. got abit more done today, started the day off with removing all the old air con pipework and crap before after also removed the charcoal filter but only got a pic of it before i removed it got a mocal 13 row oil cooler off a mate for a bargain, cleaned it up heres a pic degreased and cleaned up front off the chassis getting it ready for painting removed the alternator and gave it a quick clean, gota polish it now dirty as foooook abit cleaner also removed my front wheels as they covered in crap and need to come off anyway, had one wheel nut round off one me so had to mess around hammering a smaller socket onto it to get it out, looked like this after, lol wheels are so filthy on the inside will be cleaning and polishing them throughout the week. last thing i did was spray my crash bar with some hammerite, will be doing the other side and finishing off the front sometime this week, heres couple pics

Cheers lads! Bottom end went when I was on the motorway to my mums, oil light came on as I went round a roundabout as I was coming off the motorway then as I slowed down noticed a clunking sound then couple minutes after she went - yeah shorty gonna be proper build ;)

soooo.. been meaning to get a build thread up for this for a while now, just never got round to it. Bough a Glanza v about year and a half ago, compeletly standard apart from exhaust, boost gauge and crappy old steering wheel.. looked like this when i got her: Driving it home felt alot off wobble in the steering so investigated to find one the studs was loose, and the rest wobbly which basically ate the alloy, then i replaced the studs and got new alloys.. they are Team Dynamic pro 1.2s 15x7 wrapped in yoko's parada spec 2 then the standard mani cracked so got new s/s mani, s/s decat, air filter relocation kit and front mount intercooler, fitted all that in the rain LOL! car stayed pretty much like that for a while, got new steering wheel rep OMP deep dish wheel.. bought a 4 point cusco rollcage, bumper exit exhaust and new front bumper with oem splitter from a member on uksc cage fitted, nice and stiff, didnt get round to fitting the bumper and new exhaust untill my s/s mani cracked, so bought a cast iron sps mani off a member over at tgtt. fitted all that only pic i got as it was dark.. got a bucket of a mate of mine, super cheap, ta mate car looked like this.. couple weeks after fitting all that, the turbo water line split dumping all my coolant and blowing the headgasket, pretty crap, so stripped the head down rebuild with athene racing headgasket, arp head bolts, pretty solid now. while everything was apart i bough some lightwiegh pulleys and adjustable cam pully in a group buy on uksc also fitted a nismo 255lph fuel pump, half size ally rad with slimline fan, no pics unfortunately. couple pics of the head stripped etc everything was lovely jovely for a few weeks then the bottom end decided to let go. pretty ****ed at this point, though about what to do, thought about selling up but ended up on taking it completely off the road, stripping everything, cleaning and replacing every single part. Going to buy another engine to throw in it, then on the side rebuild the broken one with forged internals and maybe cams... but that wont be for a while yet. So far most the engine bay stripped out.. inlet mani cleaned inlet mani with throttle body cleaned and rebuilt fuel rail dizzy and HT leads turbo power steering brackets sprayed up couple pics.. Started this week off by getting the car on axle stands and taking front bumper off got rid of the heat wrap round the intercooler pipes then put it all in a box to put it away for now... intercooler off then took the lights off most the bits i took off together then i got the machine polisher out, started polishing some the bits, done the exhaust gave the lights a quick going over before after pictures dont do it justice, alot better in person cleaned up air filter and pipework crash bar had alot off surface rust so started sanding it getting it ready for painting couple rusty brackets didnt get round to sanding them down as it went dark car looked like this at this point also removed the windscreen container as im moving it to the boot and replacing it with an oil cooler then moved inside and gave my intercooler a quick polish hot water + deepio then quick polish, looking better thats pretty much it for now, more to come

Stunning mate

Right just had a look and it says on the mot fail certificate that it was at a fast idle ? I assume this Means they had it reving to some extent ? Cheers for the help by the way lads

Ah i didn't know that, i just assumed was the same throughout most countrys I think it was tested at a fast idle ? I'll have look on the sheet I got when I get home

Hi lads, My car failed its MOT on emissions, where can i get a new cat from, or can i get one off another car from the breakers that will fit ?

Cracking cars there lads

Cheers for the positive coments boys

Thanks for the welcome and the nice comments lads

haha, ill do it the way you did when i got some time

cool guide, i did mine last week with polish, works a treat too

alright im jake from pompey i have owned my glanza for about 9 months now, done a few things to it, when i got it looked like this it now looks like this