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Mindless' Glanza Street Car build - DONE!!! (for now...)


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More slow progress. Here's what the dashboard looks like after a week of cutting and melting plastic parts together...



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Getting close but not quite there yet. The general layout has successfully been converted from RHD to LHD – just a lot of tidying up left then we're off to repaint or wrap the dash (haven't made my mind yet)



While waiting for the dash the rest of the guys are slowly putting all the other bits together:



Got the ABS pumped cleaned and hooked up.



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Aircon parts all bolted on. Also factory horn!



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All the reservoir bottles cleaned and hooked up too



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Picked up about 3 packs of these Password JDM 10mm fender bolt things. Thinking of replacing most of the visible screws around the bay with these (where sensible of course)



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Well the build sort of hit a speedbump of sorts. Amidst the mayhem of slowly putting the car back together I discovered that someone threw away my set of B-pillar, C-pillar and tailgate interior plastic trims. So needless to say I must to find replacements soon... If anyone knows anything it would really be a big help. Thanks! I'll post pictures soon of the other progress we've made.


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While we're trying to sort out solutions for the missing interior panels, the rest of the guys went ahead and finished up the RHD to LHD dashboard conversion. To be honest this was the trickiest part of the build and I was personally skeptical that we could pull it off. But by the looks of it – we did pretty alright. :) Here it is cleaned up and primed ready for vinyl paint. Can't wait to get this painted fitted onto the car!



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Thanks guys!



A few more updates on different fronts of the build.



I sent out the engine to be cleaned and have all seals/gaskets replaced. Also sent out the transmission so they can install an OEM LSD unit.




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overhauling kit!



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If you follow my other starlet build since our engine blew up – we ended up buying a fully forged unit from a friends aborted project. This meant that we had a lot of unused parts that were supposed to go into it – like an Excedy tri-puck clutch set and ARP Headbolts. So instead of these going to waste or selling them off, I opted to install these into the glanza's engine. At least I'll have a really fresh engine going into the car. Better to do all of these things while the engine is out of the car.



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Now, my build direction has changed slightly – instead of doing a totally stock build I opted to build a track inspired glanza (mostly inspired by motion's epic build). So I'm ditching the rear seats and I had a custom harness bar made...



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This next one isn't really an update but I'm a bit proud of how we solved this little problem. The car's front sway bar stabilizer links were basically shot, and the Glanza being an import has almost ZERO parts availability here and no dealer support. So what we did was we looked for a match. Turns out the local Toyota Camry's share a very similar design but didn't come with the lower set of bushings. Coincidentally I've just replaced my EK9's bushing set with an energy suspension bushing kit – and since I was already running an uprated front stab link we were able to fit the unused front stab bushings from the ES kit. It's always the little things that come together in a build that makes you feel good. :)



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Thanks for the support guys!



I was also surprised with how the harness bar came out, it was my first time to transact with the guys that make these. The impressive thing was that they didn't have any access to the car because they lived in a different city about 3-4 hours away from me. All photos and measurements were just sent through Facebook.



That said – I'm on the fence about the "harness guides" and may have them removed/grinded off.



Now on to a few small updates while we wait for the engine to arrive from getting refreshed:



Finally got the headlights on.


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Cleaned the front axles getting ready for installation



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Painted the front calipers


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Not long ago I was able to pick up this unknown JDM uprated rotor for the glanza. Slightly bigger in diameter and massively thicker than the stock rotors. We suspect it might be a TRD item because we got it in the parts bin full of TRD parts – but who knows.




Uprated rotor (Left) and stock rotor (Right)


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Stock rotor (Left) uprated rotor (Right)


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Things are going slowly at the moment so we're just keeping ourselves busy by doing the small chores. Hopefully productivity resumes when we get the refreshed engine and the wiring harness back...


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We went ahead and converted the stock seat rails to adapt to the set of Sparco seats I'll be using for the car. Temporarily placed the harness on the seats just to see how it looks.



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Of course there's always time for a quick "burnout" LOL



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@aaddzz123 I don't have better photos of the rails being converted other than this (it was kind of hard to take photos while the rails were being welded).



But essentially the main thing we did was strip off all of the reclining mechanism and then relocated the rear mounting points slightly (turns out Sparco mounting points weren't that far off) and re-spot welded them onto the rails.



This particular photo was for the driver side rails. We retained the seat height mechanism to be used as a "tilt" adjuster for the fixed bucket seat. Hope this helps! I'll try to see if I can get you better photos tomorrow.



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