Jakes track inspired Glanza

[nest]

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

[Starbuck]

Nice build.

[Asad]

sweet build mate, best colour imo.....how did the bottom end go?

[LeeroyV]

coming along nicely even with the set backs

[shorty]

Haha bout time jake! time to build a proper track car ;)

[Idrees]

I like where you're going with this, I love how the OEM splitter makes the whole look so many miles better.

[nest]

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 ;)

[shorty]

You know it ;)

[templar2007]

Lookin good so far mate bad luck on the bottom end tho

[nest]

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

[200bhp starlet]

nice build mate

lewis

[nest]

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.

[nest]

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 ;)

[ryan lang]

loving this build mate wish i could go into as much detail with my car

looks like your crash bar has taking a bump though

[nest]

loving this build mate wish i could go into as much detail with my car

looks like your crash bar has taking a bump though

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