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Never seen one of these, dont think we got them in Ireland. This one is the meanest thing I've seen in a while - it's given my pee-pee some kind of rigamortis.......

Looking good, those celica supra's are pretty key

Got a little bit done on the GT this last while but i'm still trying to find a driver's window. Got the new gearbox to go in and i have to get the wiring done over cos i'm a spa when it comes to electrics. Getting some goodridge braided hoses for the brakes now and some ebc pads and i have to look at changing the rear drums cos it'll be fairly over-braked at the front now with the disk/calipers upgrade. The winter weather did the paint work no favours either - its all bubbles under the paint in the entire front of the car. The previous owner lost a wheel at speed at some stage in the past few years and i think he had a quick spray over done which might have had water under the paint and it froze and blistered? Perhaps? Anyway, i've been toying with the idea of a colour change since i bought the car as i'm not a fan of red cars (although i currently own three - it just worked out that way!). Thinking of a dark blue with some candy in it?

Started making a few brake upgrades. I started with the original GT skinny discs and baby calipers as below: Then a fella off noskooljustcool juiced me up with hub adapters and redrilled Brembo disks which now give me these vented,wider, larger diameter disks: I got some SRi Cavalier calipers today and tried them. All the mounts are perfect so with a little trimming of the backing plate they fit and look perfect. It was very late when i was doing this so i have one caliper to fit and one disk to fit, neither on the same side!! Cleaning up for painting: And it looks like this in place They're a massive difference to what was there originally so here's an original and an SRi comparison with a pound coin used for scale: (Yes that is a mousetrap being used to keep pads apart)

Thanks lads, they didn't get the car the little pricks, they just made a mess of it. Thing is, the starter is dead and the replacement was in my house! Plus, there are no brakes at all so if they had started it they would've killed it on the first corner. They didn't take anything out of it either, I had loads of tools and stuff and it was all left - thank god cos I've no money after buying the feckin car in the first place!!!! I reckon his balls would look well hangin from my exhaust when I catch him

Some dick did this to my car, i've already dug a hole for him.

Drove home from Dublin night before last to some amazing tunes - all courtesy of my gearbox! Its been on a bit of a decline for the last few days and i threw it up on a mate's lift this evening to look closer. I figured from the sound of it that the idler bearing was dead and buried and on top of that the box was almost completely dry so i'm running ep-90 gear oil now and hoping i can scrape by for another few days before it completely disintegrates......dont get me wrong, im partial to a bit of metalflake paint but not metalflake oil. Now the task of locating a decent Manta gearbox...........

Made a little hay while the sun shone today. Got my door fixed so I can now open it from the inside again instead of the embarrassing drama of winding the window down to let myself out (thought I was gonna have to Dukes of Hazzard it a few times!) . Also got my horn on ALRIIIIGHT Yeah, its only a minor difference but somebody had fitted one of those Ahooooooga horns so it had to go. The shame of hitting the button beforehand And then I started spraying the wheel centres black. Before and after shots coming up but excuse the after shots - the neighbour had pulled in and I couldnt have been ar5ed moving the car for a better angle - 3 hours sleep and up since 5am will do that to you. to this:

Oh man, those wheels are god awful! What type of motorbike are they off? I know what you mean about pricing, even for me its a curse as i have to factor in shipping costs to Ireland - nowhere in the league of your shipping costs but still valid. Ah well, i've just gone and bought 2 14"x7 slotmags for the rear end of the Magnum and its only cost me £21.99 to get them home!

Is your 4x100 selection that bad over there? Most 90's> vauxhalls, renaults, VW's have 4x100 PCD so the aftermarket does a good range to suit all of those. My GT and the Magnum are 4x4" - close but not quite right so wobble bolts are required. Got a stereo head unit and some JBL speakers to put in the car, the previous owner had some 6x9s in the parcel shelf but that means you cant get a spare in the shelf below so they've gotta go. Im going to replace them with speakers in the lower spare wheel shelf panel - there's not a lot of room in these cars for adding bits i assure you! Cant complain about comfort though, its a great little driver on the open road - just a bit warm in traffic

Got some work done on the car over the last two days but still have niggly little bits to clear up. Got my clutch adjusted to a usable level but haven't quite got the brakes up to scratch. Problem is that one minute i have a really good pedal and then the next I could have next to nothing - not very reassuring at all! So still working on that one. Also drove home from work some 100 odd miles in the very early hours on wednesday morning which gave me the opportunity to see how the car held up on twisty roads as well as the straights and to say it was an interesting experience is an understatement. The tyres were squealing, the body was rolling, understeering, tramlining, front tyres scrubbing the inner arches on anywhere near lock.................so today i got the 70profiles replaced with some 60's which have made a vast improvement and look much better to boot. A go on the alignment lasers also improved matters as it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off. While up on the lift i found some kinked hard brake lines that need to be replaced but generally it all seems ok underneath. Found a few leaky fuel hoses fromthe pump and fixed those and i have eradicated the fuel smell from the cockpit now so im happy out and i dont hear Obi Wan Kenobi telling me to drive using "The Force" as much!! Also looked at a few wheel alternatives: The stretch on these from above: Thought i took a photo of these alleycats too but cant find it now so here's the car they were on: I leave it to your own opinion but i'm sticking with the revo's still but haven't gotten around to polishing/painting them yet. The next thing on the list was the exhaust. As cool as it is having a loud car, its not appreciated by my neighbours/housemates/girlfriend/Jesus/police/wildlife/etc at 5am so i had to remedy it. Brought it to the local exhaust manufacturer and it started out looking like this: And a lot of cutting and swearing and pushing later i had gone from a single very small (and apparently empty) middle box to a front resonator and better rear section. But my wallet did take a bit of a pounding i must admit. Sound is still cool but its more bearable now and i can have a conversation in the car now too Next on the list was the windscreen rubber as it was leaking like a pensioners pants and everything inside was getting severely ruined by the ingress of the lakes at home. Its now been sealed and hopefully that'll cure that problem. Also acquired a normal sounding horn as the Awoogaa one was just embarrassing, fitted a new wheel bearing and hunted the cause of my lack of fuel gauge reading (still evading me!) but overall a good bit of work done. I'll be a bit happier driving it back in the morning anyway

Got my fuel smell remedied it seems. Was away for a fortnight there and the car has had plenty of opportunity to clear itself out and it seems to have worked. Plus the fact that i overfilled the tank again about a tenners worth of petrol came out the vent pipe! Just trying to fix a few niggles today and tomoro - brakes and clutch need fettling and a few cosmetics. I may opt for set of 13" superlites with a 2 1/2" polished lip - should be getting a go on those on wednesday or thursday so i'll throw some pics up then but for now i'm gonna do a quick polish on the revos and spray the centres

Yeah, that's the idea i was thinking of for the wheels.....it'll make the rim more pronounced i think. I'll have to see what pops up in terms of decent wheels but then 4x100mm will fit with 'wobble bolts' so that opens up a bigger world of more modern rims and, more importantly, wheels that are still available to buy new. Heading off for a week now, was supposed to take the car but the smell of fuel is so bad that the boss lady said no way.....kinda gutted as going to be going on some great driving roads. Ah well, it wont be the only time i'll have to drive it i suppose

Yeah, 4x4" exactly. Seen some Bassets rims in the States that are available in a slotmag form in 4x4" and are available in widths up to 10". Not expensive either but I'd have to factor in shipping fees. The tyres need changing on the fronts for sure, they rub on lock and rob honest - they're 70 profiles for god's sake! With the wheels that are on it I was think of polishing the lips properly and spraying the spokes black to give dish a chance?

You're spot on with that buddy, five spoke Revos indeed. Not exactly sure on the compo's either and to be honest when I seen them against the Magnum they looked so right so that's where they can stay. I'm defo thinking of going banded steels for winter use though! The dials are available new and i might replace them altogether cos the white ones are making me sick, I've even spotted a few sets on German eBay. Plus i have to replace that shite steering wheel - I might have found an original one actually. We didnt get the GT in Ireland either so parts aren't exactly readily available here

I spent ages typing a reply then my iPod lost its wifi and wiped it so to summarise: Fuel, yes they are and 4x4" Kyteler, thanks and 4x4" Can't be arsed at 2.20am rewriting it all!!

No i wont change them Snoozin, i'll try to add something before there as its straight through to that point. I was gonna take a video of it tonight on my way home from town so you could hear the noise from inside when you put the foot down at all. It is loud. Actually, its as loud as the fuel smell is strong!

Spent too long today trying to figure out where the stock location for the breather pipes for the fuel tank is. Plus - its small and cool (i think) but its a bastard to work at the fuel system seeing as there's no boot and you have to crawl up into its arse from the inside. After much sweating and swearing i got the new pipes extended and out so now i'm hoping the smell will begin to leave too. I also painted up the front lights as they were black once you popped them which looked gack. Now at this point i would like to introduce my Compomotives to the story so we're going from this: To this: And these are the side shots: You need to squint a bit before you get it and in fairness i dont think the pictures do them justice. Thoughts/Opinions? They are having the lips polished, remember, and will feature gold centres. 13x6.5 fronts and 14x7 rears

As requested here's a quick video:

Thanks for the comments guys I'll get a vid of it tomoro for you, its 2am here and the neighbours are freakin out about it during the day never mind at this hour! Its only got the rear silencer!

Here's a thread for thoughts and opinions on the GT Spent a while today cleaning the shit out of it. The car has been sitting up for 15years and has managed to collect its fair share of shite inside. Gotta take care of some bits over the next while as the brakes need overhauling as does the clutch and some of the dash wiring is inventive. Most annoying though is the ridiculous smell of fuel inside - went looking for an obvoius cause this evening nd found the vent pipe from the tank existing directly into the passenger compartment so that will be remedied tomoro with some new pipework. Need some new bits but have to order them from the US or Holland i think - either way its mail order

After looking at several shitters I took the plunge and bought this bad boy. Left home friday around 1130am for a flight to collect it and landed back in Dublin approx 630am Saturday after a cannonball run home with no tax across three countries!! (Heading for the ferry home) Obviously the adrenaline was still coursing through the veins by the looks of the shakey shots but get over it! Took these few on the morning of my return before hitting the pit after 24 hours of travelling Its got an Opel Manta 2.0 injection engine and corresonding 5speed gearbox. Few other manta bits in rear suspension plus a few snazzy chrome items here and there. Its does need an overhaul when I get around to it as its not really been moved more than 200miles in approximately 15years!! It just covered around 400miles and only problem was I didnt check the water level when starting up this morning. Exhaust is too loud though ( I know, I know bring on the hate mail) so I have to remedy that with another silencer somewhere in there. Don't get me wrong, it sounds great and all but I cant hear a thing. Interior has had white dials fitted. Terrible. The calibration is all over the place and the dials are not marked correctly. According to the speedo it is currently doing ten miles and hour as there is no zero!! Plus, fuel gauge is bust and a few other niggles but all in its in grand shape. Needs a damn good clear out inside and after a bit of a servicing I intend to remedy some of the shite mods and possibly polish those lips and black out the centres??? Do I really want to start polishing more wheels?? I've offered up my polished Compomotives and they look pretty cool plus they're a bit wider on the rear too. And I think it could benefit from a bit of a drop but i'm not going as low as my GT6 as this is gonna be a daily driver. Plus a tyre change up front cos it rubs on lock at the minute. Plus a spare wheel. Plus a, and a, as well as a ................................. ;D Dicussion Thread here: http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=14927

Man that is a cool little bus, we never had anything like that over here. 13" superlites would be cool as.......gotta be metalflaked surely???

Ok i was out with the sandpaper and polishing mops again yesterday and i did this: Sanding: Then started with a mop and compound to get this: I'm spraying the centres gold (not metaflake though, just straight gold) so only three more to do now......i've no fingerprints and down to the bone on one finger as it is

Some nice work there buddy, the engine bay looks real good in black. That engine should make a huge difference for you too