Snoozin's 1981 Toyota Starlet KP61.

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Toyota Fest later this morning. Can't sleep. Too amped. Finishing touches to the detailing this evening, then I sat and looked at it for a bit. 

Man, I am super into this thing. 

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SOme more things have been done, including all-new loop pile carpet and a nice alloy sealed battery box in the boot but that's not even important.

What is important, is the gearbox, which sucks.

Downshifting is impossible without a big ol' rev match and double clutch to get it from 4th to 3rd, then from 3rd to 2nd. As the car makes a little bit of a racket, it's quite obnoxious. So I sat down with Earle McFarlane (he's had many many experience with T50s and rebuilding them) and ordered a whole load of parts from Japan.

They came in this box. This struck me as odd. Amayama orders are sent to an NZ warehouse then dispatched from there, so I'm guessing this happened locally.

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And this is what's in it.

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We have;

Synchros for all gears

New selector hub sleeves

Gasket/seal set

Selector hub shift keys

Clippy springy things for above

Bearings a go-go (all bearings I could possibly get, we need to get the 2 countershaft bearings locally)

Some good low km selector hub centers are en route from South Island.

Next, I will rebuild the gearbox - well, Earle will rebuild it and instruct me to do some of the easy bits.

Then I can finally aim for some twisties and give it a good drive, assuming it all plays the game. Looking forward to pissing around with brake bias, making all that stuff work etc.