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[mjrstar]

Discuss away.

Also after your thoughts on just making it into a dedicated race car and turfing the 1G in favour of something else?

[Ned]

i love it, but you already knew that

[kyteler]

I like Bug-Eye Starlets and although that bulge on the bonnet is for the turbo because it's not able to go anywhere else... it looks horrific. Still though, a straight 6 in a Starlet is fucking magic

[ryanfels]

i say cut a bit more firewall and add a 1jz!

[Ned]

Just give me your car, and i'll give you my bug eye shell so you can start fresh

[mjrstar]

I like Bug-Eye Starlets and although that bulge on the bonnet is for the turbo because it's not able to go anywhere else... it looks horrific. Still though, a straight 6 in a Starlet is fucking magic

The bulge is far from ideal, I'd love to go to a smaller twin scroll turbo on a low mount manifold and fit the spare mint bonnet i have stashed.

The problem with the car on the whole is that it's been built to work rather than look pretty, which of course i am now regretting.

I guess mounting the turbo in the boot might make it a bit laggy.

[Testament]

run no bonnet/outlaw style??? I guess MSNZ probably frowns upon that.

[LOW'N'SLOW]

Awsome! what barand and full profile are those tyres?

[SHGWAG]

Seen your build on Toyshovel, interesting read. Would be one of the most unique kp60s in the country IMO.

I'm with Ryan on the JZ action though.

[thegreatestben]

Love this car, as you already know.
Such a cool little beast. The 1g is cool until you kill it, seems like a lot of hassle getting bits for them.

[mjrstar]

Awsome! what barand and full profile are those tyres?

Tyres on that one are 205/50/15 dunlop 02G (mediums). they were the control tyre for targe up until 2 years ago when they switched to 03G's.

I have a set of both 03 and 02's for my *cough* evo *cough* they do make for a nice sticky road tyre if you can put up with the high wear rate and uber road noise.


as for finding bits to repair 1g's well yeah it seems like it's up there with rocking horse shit, although with some 4k big end bearings, 3s mains have got that part of the equation sorted..

[Toyota Drifter]

Stick with the 1g it's cool as it is somthing differnt

[d.p.n.s]

this will be a pure beast!!!!!!
i love it .
keep the updates coming mate.

dan

[EURON8]

Im after some info on that front facing plenum.

Dimensions?
where ya get it?
cost if there was one?
etc.

Need something along those lines for my van.

[mjrstar]

The manifold is around 3 litres, it uses the original non tvis inlet runners cut off and a folded up plenum. Pretty sure it then has a 7m throttle body.

No idea what it would cost to build sorry.
I have probably got a few more pics of it somewhere..

[mikuni]

Looks good at that height. Just takes the jacked up look away while still looking functional. Will be interesting to see how the handling changes too, although you do have RCA's in there.

[mjrstar]

( i think the rca's are around 45mm) the current height sees the bottom arms/steering rack ends pretty much horizontal whereas they were angled a little upward before. So I may have possibly reduced bump steer, time will tell i guess.

Getting it closer to the road was more for the look than trying to find more handling/grip, some aero aids are probably on the list if i get serious about handling.. not sure if i can be bothered with that in all honesty.

Does anyone know if those TRD duck-bill spoilers actually provide any downforce?

[mikuni]

From what I've heard just a front splitter and something to disrupt the air flow over the hatch would make a huge amount of difference on a hatch. Not sure about those duck bills but they were developed for race use in an unlimited aero class as far as I know, so should achieve something desirable. Plus look wicked.

And yeah, was just wondering about the handling as in the feel of the car, because mine is very heavy with 15's on it, wondering if raising it abit at the front would perhaps lighten it up a bit for some reason.

[mjrstar]

I'm pretty sure I had heavy covered when the 1G was dropped in.
15's are a must to cover the brake package..

when you say "heavy" are you talking steering or more to do with the increase in unsprung weight?

[mjrstar]

Still waiting for turbo bits, in other news I eyed up a set of evo 1-3 rear coil-overs, it looks like they could be made to fit without major dramas.. i'd have to beef up the diff mounting and find a bit of 5'' tube to weld in to attach to the top of the suspension.