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Installed some new carpet from autodec, could do with some more work to get it fitting nicer.

Made up an adapter plate and modded the intake manifold to suit the weber carby. Had an attempt to make the inside all smooth which worked well, just need to get further in.

The rear springs got a bit of a "trim" so it sits a bit nicer now. Still want it lower so I'll try sort some shorter shocks at some point.

The clutch has decided to give out all of a sudden, so I went and bought a new one (thanks Mark!). Will try and get it in this weekend.

The 4K that is at the engine builders is now getting bored out as big as it can go, since he found new pistons for very cheap.

Hopefully they start on it soon!

I have made a start on making my own extractors, I drew up a flange and got it laser cut at work. Now to figure out how to do the rest of them.

The rear lips came up pretty good with a sand and polish. Would come up better if I could remove the bolts but they're stuck.

Bought a Weber 28/36 too.

Did some photoshopping of the wheel colours, drip rails and window frames to see which ones I liked the best.

Still no idea which I prefer. Open to suggestions.

Also how would I go about lowering it another 30-40mm? It already has cobra springs which I think are just lows.

Cut or compress them a bit with shorter shocks? Or get some superlows? Adjustable coilovers are out of my budget atm.

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Woo! Wheels finally arrived from Japan. They turned out to be 13x6.5 instead of 13x6 which is good.

Gave them a bit of a polish and some new nuts and bolts. They didn't polish up as good as the other pair because they have a clearcoat on them. Will have another go removing it at some point.

Was going to paint them all gold, but I think I like the red a bit more, because it's darker and has more contrast with the polished bits.

Just need to lower it a bit now.

Great looking Starlet, good to see you can still get TGP water pumps, approx how much $ was the pump? BTW I put a 28/36 weber on my mildly worked 5k and there was a significant improvement over the stock carb.

Cheers, the water pump was a little under $100.

Such a sharp looking car, could I suggest painting the trim on the drip rails black?

Was thinking about doing that, since the plastic coating has faded and is cracking off at the end.

How did you do yours? Just peel off the plastic and then paint it?

Second pair of starsharks hasn't arrived yet, hopefully this coming week.

Gave it a polish today, came out pretty good.

Also repainted the bumper end caps and fender mirrors satin black since they look average in gloss.

Doing that I discovered one of the front end caps is actually a rear one, so is slightly different.

So if anyone has a good r/h front bumper end cap they don't want, i'll take it.

What pads did you get with them? I found the polymatrix B compound the best. The street compound is rubbish even for driving on the street funnily enough.

Should go much better now!

I only got the street pads. Didn't have enough money for the polymatrix ones haha. Will get some soon though!

Whats on the 26th? Road and Track is on the 20th then Trackday Xperience on the 27th iirc

It is the Constructors/MG car club trackday. A few co-workers are going, that's why I wanted to go, but found out more about it today. It sounds like there isn't going to be much track time so might give it a pass since I need to save some money as well.

Any chance you could give me the p/n of those calipers looking at 4 pot options on my ae 92 and am curious of the size of the 4pots hes using

I'm pretty sure these are the ones:

Not much of an update, but gave these a bead blast and they came up pretty good.

Will just leave them with this finish, as I really can't be bothered trying to polish them. Will be too hard to get an even polish all over.

Gave the block and pulleys a coat of black engine enamel to tidy them up a bit.

Started to polish the cylinder head cover and timing chain cover. They look a bit nicer, but will give them a bead blast at work and then another polish to get them looking better.

Might take the head and camshaft to an engine builder this week and see if they can do some porting and give the cam a grind.

Would a 30/32 DMTE Weber downdraft carburettor suit a mildly worked 4K? Couldn't seem to find much on google about them

I think the cause of my one falling out was the pads being quite worn which I didn't realise. Rotor thickness seems fine. Would have changed them before going up to Taupo. The other side had about 2mm left in it.

Cool ride mate. Who's doing the cert, Marty, Danny or someone else?

Danny is doing it