![]() It’d embarrass most things off the lights and It never gave me any jip. apart from the odd drag race around town. I kept the car for 6 years and in all honesty I never really thrashed it. I think the car was on 56,000km at this point and it was totally standard, even had the warning flair in the passenger footwell. I got it back home and the very next day took it to a local motorsports place and had the clocks changed to mph and the speed limiter removed. I had a little play with a Clio 182 on the way back but felt a bit of a tit when I hit the speed limiter at erm 71mph □ I’d been looking for one of these for ages so I was buzzing when I finally got to pick it up and drive it the 200+ miles back to Suffolk. I got the car imported from Japan in 2005 it was sourced by a guy in Bradford who imported cars for a living. ![]() I was reminiscing with a mate the other day and I did a google image search for starlet turbos and was shocked when one of the first pics that popped up was my old car, which led me here. ![]() When did it come in the country and has it always been standard etc? Any old pics I would love to see! Thanks for getting in touch. Hi mate, Wow can’t believe I’ve jus read that, seemed nobody knew anything about this car so it’s nice to hear! Can you give me a bit of a rundown on the car as I know 0 history. The list goes on haha, and the car only gets worked on at the weekend so. I still need Exhaust (downpipe also), Engine mounts, Power steering blanking off, Inlet manifold cleaning and painting, AN Fittings welding to the rocker cover, External Wastegate, oil filter/oil cooler setup, a few intercooler pipes making. To say I had only a bottom end assembled just the other day, I feel like the motor is ready to go back in the car and the key turning, which would be nice but in reality I'm a long way off. Towards the end of the evening we had gotten all the hard stuff out the way (timing mainly), I thought had have a quick look at how the turbos going to sit, fair to say it looks amazing and it motivates me to finish it more and more so I can make some booooost! The last hurdle for the turbo now is the manifold flange doesnt fit, ( I did take this into account when buying but spoke to several exhaust companies who have confirmed they're able to change the flange on the manifold for me). Here are the pics of where im currently upto with the engine Last but not least THE SNAIL HAS ARRIVED! Then after many attempts i got the engine timed up correctly. Torque head on, torque cams and cam caps on.įit oil pump & Water pump, then apply cambelt. Got the bottom end ready for the head to go on, So after getting my engine back last week Ive made some nice progress over the weekend, Now ive put a deposit on a genuine GReddy TD05-18g off Martin brown which made 404hp! Been recently rebuilt with and fiddled by turbo dynamics, billet wheel the lot, so the turbos an absolute belter!Īt the time of making this post,(08/11/19) this is where my car currently is Sent everything off to Stanwood engineering in Doncaster to get everything machined and assembled as well as the whole rotating assembly balanced, and the block notched to suit the pec rods.Įngine and all other parts have returned from the engine builders! Time to crack on, although im in no rush. Just things like this makes a starlet stand out.īought PEC rods, Wiseco pistons from the states, and everything else needed for the engine to run the power I want,ACL bearings, arp bolts, Stage 4.5 Competition Clutch, ID-Workz 5E Lightened Conversion Flywheel, and a Fensport Lightweight Crank pulley. The more I got into it, and the more research I did, the more I’ve been changing parts, Ive now got my heart set on a link monsoon, possibly going Coil On Plug, Scrapped my old exhaust to have a true 3" turbo back to make good power. Not that i have a problem with this, just spending that bit extra can transform the car IMO. I was going to do the generic ‘td04, Forged, emanage blue’ build, which seems to be all starlets are nowadays. ( I will now be running a GReddy TD05 18g, see further down for info) Managed to get a wepr top mount kit ordered from Sacha, found 2 knackered td04’s and sent them off to midland turbo to make 1 good one (hybrid billet etc) Then took it off the road for winter and it was then I decided to build it, (forging etc.) managed to pick up a bare 5e block with some rare 5efhe cams! ![]() Ran it for a year just pottering around and enjoying it, couldn’t believe how pokey it was for 130hp. Bought completely standard, barring shocks wheels and a catback.
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