funny onion

hmmm i'll think about it and let you know i'll give you a text tomorrow!

it is leather and it says momo

hehehe have a look and see what Y reg clio's with 80k on the clock are going for, and you'll get an idea of what i paid for it

hmmm? lol i'll get one tonight if i can ( i have no interior light )

yeah that's true, just trying to avoid people assuming that all advances have lsd boxes as standard better manifolds as soon as money permits, new clutch over christmas because i think the one thats on it might be on it's way out . in the long run T25 turbo maybe, forged internals, rx7 intercooler maybe, civic rad, possibly see about putting N/A cams in (longer duration, more torque and power etc). nothing set in stone yet just toying with ideas at the minute

So i thought i'd start a build thread Finally got my hands on a GT Turbo 3 weeks ago, and have been in love with it since i saw it. I've had a Y reg, 1 litre, mk 2 clio since i passed my test, and for all the stick renault get for being shit, it was an absolute little work horse and i do still miss it sort of... So after decided i would buy the GT, i put the clio up for sale and it sold within 24 hours, and the money i got for my clio just covered how much i paid for the GT (gives you an idea of how much of a steal the GT was) Anyways, the GT had been sat in the lads garage for nearly a year without moving, when i went to see it we got it out, fired up first time and took it down the road, and it drove like a dream- no crunches from the box, no smoke on start up, boost or overrun. It wasn't taxed or tested though, so got it trailered to my end of Hull and had it in for test a few days later. Flew through MOT apart from one of the rear callipers was jaff'd. it came with spare rear callipers anyways, and the MOT tester was errrm... sympathetic . Obviously drove it non stop for about 3 days, but it wasn't running up to temperature, was cold unless it was sat ticking over, so got on the old e-dogg and ordered a new thermostat which cured the problem straight away. Other than the dodgey thermostat, it came mechanically sound, and i've not had another bother with it since (mechanically...) It is more or less standard, standard turbo and intercooler etc, but it has had the air con removed, and it has a hks fcd fitted (set it back to normal though because it's still got standard manifolds and turbo and i don't want it to go pop!) And i think it's running about 1 bar of boost but not had a boost gauge on it yet so not sure, definitely not standard boost though. It has an LSD box (and no, advances DO NOT come with LSD boxes as standard!!!) and it has a momo interior, which all advances do have as standard. It also has a 3" jperformance cat back and a bailey dump valve. Here are photos of it the day i got it tested and taxed Relocated the air filter to the front bumper and got rid of all the pipes, and I purchased a bonnet off aaddzz123 a week ago (the one it came with was horrendous) sticker bombed hello kitty stuff everywhere, i know sticker bombing isn't to everyone's taste, and it might be coming off again soon, but i would like to say i make all the stickers myself and vinyl them on because i am THAT cool you want random shit making into stickers/sticker bomb sheets- you come see me Fitted a hks trubo timer as well, it seems to be possessed and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't lol. I know it's on stilts, but right now i can't afford lowering springs, and to be fair there are other things i'd rather spend my money on like oil change, gear box oil change, cambelt kit etc. Plus there isn't any sense in lowering it this time of year, the snow gets really bad round my little village and i'm not ploughing the roads for free! Would like to say a big thank you to my better half, Sam. Most of the involved mechanics and knowledge come from him, i'm not daft i'm just not a mechanic, and i owe alot to him. And that's as far as i've got with it so far as funds are running abit low at the moment, collecting a load more bits over this weekend though, so will update soon!

hey guys. yea according to my boyfriend your on the right lines. start furthest away from the master cylinder. dont worry about having the engine running. if you can try and remove as much fluid from the master cyl reservoir as possible. use a syringe or something to that effect. then put your new fluid in the empty reservoir. go the passenger side rear of the car and crack off the bleed nipple. (yes he said nipple) using a 8mm ring spanner and a piece of hose (vacuum hose maybe) submerge the other end of the hose into a container with brake fluid in it. get an assistant to press the brake pedal. when the pedal is fully depressed close the nipple. then get the assistant to lift their foot off the brake. then open the nipple again and ask the assistant to depress the pedal again. carry on doing this process until the fluid runs clear. dont forget to keep topping up the reservoir. carry on doing this for the remaining callipers working from the furthest away from the master cyl. stick to this method and you should be fine.

hey guys. my boyfriend has recently stripped and reconditioned my spare set of callipers. he said that when you put the new pads in be sure to use the hand brake to adjust up the pads. there is a dog bone shaped thing inside that keeps the auto adjuster together. if the auto adjuster is stiff or seized the auto adjuster will fall to pieces if it is forced out by fluid pressure (foot brake applied). be sure that the piston winds back far enough to put the new pads in and line up the little bobble thing on the pad with the groove in the piston. if your piston does not wind back in chances are the auto adjuster has come to pieces inside. hence strip and re assemble the adjuster. be sure to wind the piston back in clock wise and push in at the same time. hope this has been of some use to someone. il see if he can get some pics of the calliper in pieces and explain better what happens.

LOVE this car, it was this GT that made me decide to bite the bullet and buy one fantastic job!

sorry dan only just seen this, yeah gonna have to get sam on here lol. i picked up a boost gauge and turbo timer from a guy who breaks nissans in derbyshire (went with sam last week to go grab some bits for the almera build) so i've got a boost gauge, it's the vac pipes that are the problem, they're old and split and generally jaffed so soon as i come across some spare lying around i'll have it done, i'll ask loftus if he has any lying around lol. shall see you tonight if your off to ketch!

awh bless ah awesome, i'll definitely be there then, be nice to put some more faces to names and see some sweet starlets

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone nice to finally own a starlet Need to organise a meet in Cleethorpes/Hull picking my new thermostat up in morning woop

thankyou . yeah picked it up off a friend of a friend- been sat in a garage for a year, got it taxed and tested last week. straight swap for my y reg clio aswel it's abit rough round the edges, bonnet is chipped to hell and rust patch on front wing but other than that sweet as a nut hows your gt going?

was yours the gt that was stripped out? if so then yeah- finally got myself a gt

no worries i'll sort it out

It's photobucket being daft, they're appearing that size even when i click on them on there

That's what i've done- copied the img code off photobucket but for some reason theyve come up tiny lol

Hmm see if this works...

Just reading through it now

as soon as i figure out how to post photos i'll put some up (of the car lol)

only had the car a week, gonna get the boost gauge in soon as i get some hosing and see what its actually boosting then go from there but part of me thinks it will be boosting at least a bar hence it having a fcd fitted, i've set the fcd back to normal for the time being. it's running cold aswel- ticks over at the right temp after a few mins but cools off while driving so i've ordered a new thermostat- thought i'd try a new thermostat before anything else? should be here any day

Hey everyone! my name is Charlotte, i'm 20 and i'm a student studying Physics at university of Hull. I also work part time in a butchers. I am now the proud owner of a 1995 GT Turbo Advance, standard apart from 3" jperformance exhaust system and decat and hks fcd, oh and had the air con removed and think it's probably boosting around 1 bar but not had chance to get the boost gauge on yet to find out. drives like a dream and slowly but surely i will be making it my own- limited funds, perks of being a student . Looking for a few bits for it- bonnet, o/s/f wing, handbrake cables and other stuff- if you think you can help me out pm me or read my post in the wanted section Thanks