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Put a tea spoon of oil in each cylinder and retest. If compression raises then you have worn piston rings. What mileage and boost have you. Genuine toyota headgasket £30, Toyota rings £70, valve stem oil seals £70. Thats her rebuilt, job done. Also a leak down test ie blow air into spark plug holes will tell you if youve a leaky valve

Warm your car up until it idles normally around 750rpm then join pins tei and ei on the dianostics port under ther bonnet with a paper clip. Your idle should rise for a few seconds then settle again. The sucking noise is your cold start idle valve opening then closing. If you heard it, its working, if not you'll have to unscrew it from bottom of throttlebody and clean it out with some WD40 and a matchstick. Now with the pins crossed with a paperclip your timing is no locked, stops ecu from adjusting it. Attach timing light to Cylinder 1 plug lead and to battery terminals. Point strob light at

Yes quite a few 4efe will have fte stamped cranks. My other 4efes had 4e on them but this one outta a 1999 SR has fte cast into it.

My clutch bust the same way last week. The springs look like 10-20 little earrings and the friction plate wasnt attached anymore. I couldnt select a gear cause the scrapnal was stopping the clutch release bearing and fork slide in enough to disingage clutch. Be sure the cast sleeve the release bearing slide over inside bellhousing isnt damaged, cracked or flared. Mine did all three. I think on C52 gbox it is a removeable part whereas n/a box it isnt. Check out this mans thread. Looks easy enought to split a box :surrender: http://www.ae92gts.com/ae92gts_trans_rb_1.html

Your spring is creaking, it should go away, or it could be the rubber seat which the spring sits against. WD40 top and bottom of spring and see does it go away. Also if the man was dumb/lazy enough not to tighten the balljoint nuts I'd pull up to another mechanics and ask him what the creeking is. You might think I'm over reacting, but a few more miles you would have crashed and died. And he'd would be up for accidental manslaughter or whatever. Woooooooooooo!

I ordered an oil seal from toyota for a 4efe only to discover it was the wrong size. Terrible news at 4.30 on a saturday nite. It turns out my 99 SR engine has a 4efte crank meaning I needed a 4efte rear seal. I thought the toyota seal to local autostore and got a universal oil seal the same size only 75mm centre bore instead of 80mm So normal 4efe crank seal has 80mm centre bore and 4efte has 75mm centre bore. Dont quote me on this Im just sharing my saga. Seal from toyota was £40 and I bought both sizes from local autostore for £10 each just to be sure. Pictures and part n

Some 4efe have fte cranks so you need a fte rear main oil seal too. 4efe has 80mm centre and fte has 75mm centre bore. As I discovered to my horror when I fitted a late spec SR engine to my sportif. If anyone gets caught out by this you can take to toyota seal to any good autoparts store and get a universal seal with the correct centre for about a £10.

Yokos all the way in the dry. Cornering like a R35 hahaha. Our you could try out the Toyo Prada's for the craic, could change your life.

How much camber are you running there?

The two big bolts on the bottom of the shocks are your camber bolts. There is a little play in them, just loosen them a little and push back in for your camber. Must corner garages AND big brand names never set your alignment spot-on so you'll be back in 6 months for new tyres. 4 wheel laser alignment computers are only so great because you get a printout which confirms your settings.

Im getting Meisters soon and was very impressed with the testing videos Meister have posted on TGTT.com They took a set to Porsche UK Motorsport place and had them tested on a 'Damper Dyno' They also have a good after service prices. Bout £80 per bust shock and £25 for replacement springs,£110 per set of topmounts. All work carried out in the UK, no posting back to Twaian sp?

Apex springs are a tried a trusted set for sub £150. 30mm-40mm lowered and good spring rate, you certerainly wont hit the bumpstops. I had Kilen reds one time they sagged after 4 months and had to be replaced with apex. And thery are good on tarmac country stages. KYB gas OEM replacement shocks up front and KYB adjustables in the back. £100 up front and £50 for the rears (per pair)

You havent tightened the 4 nuts under the bonnet holding the topmounts in. Take off the wheel and put the jack under the wishbone. With bonnet up get a strong fat assistant to push down on the front and you stand beside it and listen/look for movement. The 2 big bolts on the hub/bottom of shock need to be as tight as your wheel nuts. Also theres a tiny bit of play at these bolts before you tighten them up and this affects your camber. Loosen them and push hub back in you'll feel the play and tighten up. Or better yet take to a mechanic and then get your alignment done. Any decnt mechanic shou

1 degrees of NEGATIVE camber, you maybe need to get camber bolts. 0 degrees toe in or out (wheels totally paralell) and get an adjustable panhard rod for the rear so you can get the back wheels to line up perfectly with the front wheel. All can be bought from whiteline.

If its 2.5litres use 2.5litres, if its 2litres use 2litres. Follow Jays how to guide and use the gear oil fill level bung to make sure you have exactly the right amount of oil in it

See what you mean enzo, but we only have the 2nd gen 5efe here and the 4efe, so the heads are the same, headgaskets are the same between all 2nd gen 4efe, 5efe and there the same as the 4efte's. The 5e has a tiny crowned pistoned, the 4efe has massive crowned piston although compression is the same because 5efe starts compression from an inch lower in the bore. The 1st gen 4e n 5e wont mate up to 2nd gen so wouldnt count them in this thread.

@ quiet-achiever could you please weight the celica calipera and discs and compare them to the starlets, I found a set in the scrappy but my god the disc was a tonne weight

4efe - 9.8-1 5efe 9.6-1 4fte 8.2-1 they us the same heads, same headgaskets so difference is in the piston crown or lack of. Skim your 5efe head or use trd 0.6mm gasket same thing. My 4efe turns the guage til 220psi or so if that helps, although so did my 5efe thats weird?

Amen to that Enzo, Finally a N/A tuner thats not going to get shouted down at every turn my the fte boys. This is a N/A and TURBO site remember. So N/A tuning is always up for disscussion its just a pity any new wee member gets shouted down and intimited off the forum. Am I right, what do you think starletRick?? lol At Johnnygt, Ive had both 4efe and 5efe, the 5 is great youd love it but this a harder to get, highly over priced and dont rev the way the 4e does. Enjoy and maintain your 4efe for now, inlet and £50 backbox are a must but leave the engine alone after that until enzo start

Read Jays how to change your gearbox oil thread. Do not put 2.5 litres in, because if theres 1/4litre hiding in the gearbox then you will overfill it. When gbox is fitted to the car you must remove the front oil 'level' bolt and any excess oil will run out. If you never done this and are reading this now you should do it now. Just follow Jays thread. http://www.toyotagtturbo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55 Click on the photobucket thing to see the pictures

If it has a aftermarket LSD tell him about the jack one wheel up and try to spin it, if you have lsd it'll stop after so many turns etc.?

Yes Gary these are ratios Jay took from actual Toyota material a while back but wikipedia and everywhere on the net is different. We are a big enough community now that we should start sorting out our facts. Theres loads of stuff misquoted about starlets but Im starting with gearboxes. If these ratios are correct it means Paseo gearbox is a performance upgrade for the N/A starlet. Same ratios in 1st 2nd 3rd with short final drive gives excellent lift then 4th 5th are taller giving 5mph more top speed and a lower RPM at 70mph cruising the motorway.

Gear ratio data All figures are taken from official Toyota source material that is sitting on the desk beside me here. I apologise in advance if I have made any errors. Taken from Jaystarr thread on tgtt.. 1996 UKDM 4EFE (C154?) 1st : 3.545 2nd : 1.904 3rd : 1.310 4th : 1.031 5th : 0.864 Differential ratio : 3.722 EP81/Corolla EE101 EU model (C150) AND PASEO EL54 1st : 3,545 2nd :1,904 3rd : 1,310 4th : 0,969 5th : 0,815 Differential gear ratio : 4,058

Ep91 N/A Starlet has a C154, Paseo has C150. Can anyone confirm to actually gear ratios for either of these boxes? Please dont quote google or wikipedia, I've seen them all, Im looking someone with them on paper, offical toyota stuff if possible.