i find ways to re-purpose parts and do my own labour to cut costs while still meeting/exceeding the spec i'm after, so no. I couldn't have had a 300bhp starlet. well I could have, but for how long?
at 300bhp i would need bigger wheels, to fit bigger tyres, an lsd different gearing. boost is a long slippery slope and I have exactly 0 interest in E series engines on boost. my only interest was the fact that the toyota starlet Gi and not the gt, was a homologation spec model for a race series, and i wanted to see why toyota didnt use parts they already had to raise the spec...and in building mine I understand more. Boost is fun, but a pointless waste of money where I live in my opinion, our roads are trash and few turbo starlets even bother to do trackdays. if i had a stock turbo starlet i'd daily it and go full on with my time attack build (engine spec is already fully planned out, aluminium toyota 2.0/ screamer )
p.s.My initials for my middle names literally are N. A.