daniel_g

I took that pic from my old GT red hose kit was the shit lol.

Be good for roasting marshmallows

Zisco mild steel top mount TD / VF manifold heatwrapped.

PCV valve ? Piston rings ?

Hammer And run the cables off inside the car at the handbrake to get them a bit looser

Throw the engine through their front window and set the place on fire

For EWG people swear by Tial and Turbosmart. Not gonna lie i have a 60 quid ebay job lol. Will eventually upgrade to a better one but just needed a cheap one to get the car up and running. Isnt on the road yet so no iisues there. Wouldnt run one permanently. As for EBC i had an Apexi AVCR on my old GT and it was the fuckin business, other people use Greddy, HKS etc. They all do the same thing

If you dont really wanna go down the 'buying hundreds of mods' route lol, then either restrict the air intake or the exhaust, this will stop the engine breathing as freely, but will also stop it overboosting. Beat bet for you is an exhaust bung.

Ahh i get ya. And external wastegate and electronic boost controller.

Try and put the filter back in the standard position if you can, see if it makes a difference. CT9s are shit at controlling boost, they are just too small, even the hybrids. An EWG setup and a good EBC and you should be ok though !! But in this cold weather it is normal to get a bit of boost creep / spike.

Also if its been sat for a while id take the rocker cover off and spray / pour new oil over the cams etc

You'd have passed if you dropped it into 2nd and boosted past her haha

This is pretty standard with doing breathing mods to a starlet still on CT9, especially in this freezing weather. The wastegate penny is tiny on CT9s. You can try port it out a bit. Or put the stock air intake back on see it that helps. Or best bet get an external wastegate turbo kit. Could maybe even get an exhaust bung in the back try restrict flow. Ive seen other cars use a ring in the exhaust to stop it boosting too high, but havent seen anything like that for a starlet yet.

Thats the idle control valve, they dont do an awful lot tbh.

Check for continuity / resistance between the sensor wiring and back up to the ECU. Checking at various points along the way. The wire itself should have some sort of shield on it that gives it an earth.

I still cant quite make it out lol, ahh right haha yeah dont wanna inform him he might have a 4wd starlet haha. If you ask him for a pic of the vin number and if it reads EP95 then youre onto a winner

Get a pic of the exhaust, they sit funny on 4paws. Or just have a look underneath it. Cant tell from those pics sorry :/

Yes, a fwd and a 4wd

By the looks of it the 1.6 4wd with the E55F gearbox has a newer style 4wd system with a rear diff in a housing with a pair of driveshafts, all mounted to a rear subframe. Whereas the system in the starlets and the EL55 corsa is a older type system that uses a big rear axle with halfshafts. This is the starlet system, pics from my EP85

The cars i listed before like the Toyota Corsa and the Corolla 2 i think they are called, if you find one with 4wd, they can come in a 1.5L 5EFE engine then that should have the C50F gearbox and that will bolt straight onto a 4EFTE engine with no adapter plates needed. May aswell hunt around for them, think the chassis code for them is an EL55. This is an auto version https://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/toyota/corsa/15600873/

Ahh 5dr autos yeah not much of a market for them. Depends how much you want the running gear to justify importing the full car, then youd still have the issue of needing a manual gearbox and transfer box. See something like this is near enough ideal for a donor. https://www.tradecarview.com/used_car/japan%20car/toyota/corolla+sedan/15601036/ A 4wd Corolla, E55F gearbox, so youd get the running gear you need, gearbox, transfer box, rear axle etc. Only issue you might have is that because its mated to a 4AFE engine the bellhousing wont bolt up to the 4EFTE engine, but you could easily have

What sites are you looking at ? I havent seen any for ages but just been looking at Trade Car View. That is bloody cheap, how much could you land that here for ? You could make a few quid importing 4paws man loads of folk were after them. And yeah man if i hear anything i'll let you know

If you spend a bit of time digging up the old threads in the 4wd section of this site theres lots of good info in there And nah im afraid not, all this stuff (if theres any left) will be in Japan, so youd need to contact someone who knows someone over there haha. I was speaking to a guy in Ireland recently about spare 4wd stuff he has that i was trying to buy, but he stopped replying and dropped off the map lol. Gutted.

So no holes in the C pillar then ? Thought as much. Ment C in my original post by the way not B lol.

Well not limited as such, anything is possible so to speak, its just a really unexplored area tbh. The gearbox is a C50F box, the front diff is specific to that box, maybe LSD internals can be fitted in it, who knows, i did read some old threads on UKSC about people in Japan trying to retro fit Cusco and OEM AE92 LSDs into them, pretty unclear if it worked. As for the rear diff i dont think anything has been done to that apart from a couple lads in Ireland welding em up and making them RWD. Ive heard of people in Japan swapping out the whole rear axle for a AE86 one instead, but thats on RW