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Definately braided oil feed is a good investment, most aftermarket manis adjust the angle of turbo putting a strain on the feed which will kill it. They are prone to going with any manifold mind you, save yourself an engine!

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this is defo one of my favourite starlets off the forum looks epic

That means alot to me dude ! I love having nice cars and I love this car to bits! Appreciate every comment people makes and all criticism is taken as constructive criticism !

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Got pulled by the traffic cops lastnight for the traffic to say "you can stay in your motor young man, only stopped you to say that's an excellent looking starlet you own there. See you around"

Really nice copper

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Yea so my first ever big update on a car!

Decided to say fuck it and go tits out! Sent my hybrid away to liam_D at midland turbos! And what can I say! It was an amazing service from start to finish... As you all know I'm not 100% clued up with turbos yet so Liam had to perserviear abit with me and help me! Turbo was picked up, rebuilt and sent back ! And made very nice and shiny too ! Always a bonus! Came into abit of problems with the shaft though :( so was abit deeper into my pockets but he was very helpful and made sure it was sorted to 100%

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Felt like Christmas

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So clean !

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And again could eat your dinner off it !

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Yea so after taking me and my mechanic friend 7 hours to change a turbo haha ! (Rounded nuts and couldn't find the grinder) the hybrid is finally on and working ! The thing is absaloutley rapid ! Pulls like fuck, way faster than the standard turbo and I'm only running 0.5 bar! So it's safe

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Our place of work (my dads factory)

Jack found a grinder !

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Big empty space

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Then wee ran into a few problems, the turbo wasn't positioned right, not blaming anyone atall just a mistake along the lines somewhere so turbo came back out to sort this issue as nothing lined up as you can see and wee didn't want to damage anything

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But yea ! Now shees in and pulling like a train ! Next on the list are :

boost gauge

Front mount

Fuel pressure regulator

Wheels powder coated

Along with rocker cover

Sort out a few niggles of mine

And drive it like I stole it !

Any constructive criticism will be appreciated.

Hope you guys like it :)

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Just a wee update (an excuses for some pictures)

Waiting for some parts to arrive then I will update but in the mean time I decided to take a picture where I spend most of my time lol

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Also I decided to tint my fogs yellow like my old car 😃 I really like the look

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Thanks dude, I have bought a fmi so hopefully fingers crossed that's here this week at some point as the boy said he sent it today, so fingers crossed and some surprises aswell, also clutch is slipping so need that sorted too

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Update time ! Finally DVLA got there finger out ...

Think I have enough ? Haha

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Just making sure it stays put haha

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The finished article ! Will get more in the morning but I think the carbon pressed plates look sweet

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Yea guys so finally got a decent update, my clutch started slipping a few weeks back and it got to the point I was flat out doing 70 haha so I thought I better fix it, went for the exedy stage 2, 3 paddel clutch. Really nice not too bad to drive with but mainly it doesn't slip ... So win!!

But when the clutch was getting done when it was back together there was a bad misfire, turns out the plugs were fucked!! So they were changed but also the ht leads were fucked aswell so long story short my car is back and I'm happy and love it again 😃!!!

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