Fast Japanese Pocket Rocket Starlet

Fast Starlet...

Weight: 800-850kg

Power: 150 kW

Top speed: 230-260 km/h

Toyota Starlet 1998 EP91 Glanza V Replica
Engine: EP82 4EFTE


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Changing tires on a car, Toyota Starlet, using tools in the car

Hi!

Time to change the winter tires to summer wheels.Summer is approaching here in Sweden, yeay..  Did a video of it. Hope you like some Starlet material. :)

Changing tires on a car, Toyota Starlet, using tools in the car



This is some kind of tutorial of how I change tires on my Toyota Starlet (EP91)

Disclaimer: Do this at your own risk! I'm not in any way responsible for your actions. You got to do your own research, and come up with a safe way to change tires. Some people will probably say this is not safe..

Here using original jack. Like, you know, if you got a flat out on the roads.

I like to minimize the amount of tools i need. I’ve used the original floor jack on all the cars during the years and have had no problems with it, some say it might be weak and you should get a better one, your choice. Just make sure you’re on a flat surface ant that the can take the weight of the jack (with a car)..AND.. make sure you put the jack on a safe place, and put it in the correct place on the car, otherwise the car may break or even fall down.
Put an extra tire under the car when you've lifted it, and never go under it! Dont do this on a windy day. The car might fall.
If you want, invest in a real floor jack

If you don’t know what you doing you might need a torque wrench. I don’t. After a while you get a feel for it.

Marcus Toyota Starlet update

A little while ago I wrote a post about Marcus Starlet. He has now made a lot of changes! Among other things, lowered the car, put on new wheels, put in a brace bar. Changed the intake manifold (tubular Toyota Corolla). He is kind enough to send us some pictures for us Starlets fans.

Nice to see a styled Toyota Starlet on the roads in Sweden! :-) Looks good!

Here´s what´s been done

The intake manifold is mounted
Coilovers are mounted (some adjustment remains)
Other rims, 16 "are painted and assembled
A brace back, "Brace bar". Sitting between the C pillars behind anyway, although it is varnished and mounted.
The brace bar and the wheels are in the same color, turquoise :)
Japanese shock absorberis are mounted. Rebuild from from the rear axle and the back. Original is the 1.5 " exhaust, silencer had a connection of 2.5" and 4 "exhaust.

Other plans
He´s trying to save up for a wing which costs about 2000 SEK in England.
One of his next plans are to do an air intake in the hood. He has the stuff at home, but have to buy paint and varnish before the hood is cut up. It is for the open air filter to get more direct cold air.
New brakes are to be mounted in the front, both the discs and pads are at home.
External tachometer to be assembled, waiting to get home monitor that I ordered on Ebay and sent from China.

A new turquoise Bracebar in the rear. And a big exhaust!

Looks like Marcus matched the brace bar with the rims. Is he using electrica tape as the rubber? :) Low profile I must say. Seems he found some other rims than he showed earlier. Looks nice!

Here the car overview. Some nice big wheels and pretty low ride. . White indicators (ordered these from Ebay).

Brace bar from inside.

Rear of the car. Rear wiper seems to be removed.

Ground clearance and exhaust pipe.

Sideview. How close to the ground can you go? :-)

Tubular intake manifold from a Toyota Corolla, a black one. Havent seen them before, perhaps he painted it.

He will install an tachometer next. This one.

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Nice work Marcus, keep us updated!

Marcus Toyota Starlet

Got an email from a Swedish guy named Marcus, he had found my Starlet site and it turns out we are pretty close (mileage that is). He seems to also like Starlets and I asked him if he could send me some pictures of his Starlet so I can show it here. Marcus was kind enough to that. Here some pictures of his nice Starlet.

A little background first:

Marcus has now bought a Corolla tubular intake to assemble on the car in the spring / summer. That gets him some more horses to play with.
He has no garage to keep warm in so he would love to have some warmer degrees when he´s fixing with his car. It´s pretty cold here in Sweden as I write this..

Marcus has installed an open air filter, and also some for white indicators from ebay. And he´s also put a massive front of extra headlights on the car.

He has also obtained second-hand 15 "alloy wheels to be painted and is also thinking about buying a 40/40 lowering kit eventually.

Has he replaced anything on his Toyota?

He has not had to buy anything except a right front strut who he got an remark on in the yearly car inspection (mandatory here in Sweden) last fall, then he has changed his windshield (insurance) and a manifold gasket. I dont know how long he´s own his EP91 though. If I remember correctly it has run about 150 000 km.

He says he is often on the ukstarletowners site checking for tips and tricks, he also found a post from me there. Here are some pictures of his Starlet.

Five extra lights, I guess he see better than most in the dark.

Snow here in Sweden now.

Sideview, I think he has removed the plastic protectors on the door.

Night view... Looks nice, Is some of them leds? Havent seen those before..

An open air filter to be assembled on the car.

He ordered these from Ebay. White indicators.

White indicators on the Starlet.

Open air filter assembled on the car. He will change the intake to a tubular one, se next picture.

He´s bought a tubular intake manifold from a Toyota Corolla, to be assembled when the temperature gets warmer outside. Hope to hear from him again about it.

Marcus also found some 15" alloys wheel to be mounted later on. Looks nice. Dont know the name on these?

Marcus also have an starlet EP70 as he´s doing as a long term project. Expected to be completed for car inspection survey in 2018, when it also becomes tax-exempt.

Thanks Marcus for information and your pictures! Keep us updated.

My first Toyota Starlet, Year -84 (KP60)

Perhaps you may wonder why I have a soft spot for Toyota Starlet? Well it is because I earlier had an KP60 version of a Toyota Starlet. The one with rear drive.

I bought it for 6000 swedish crones about 15 year ago. I only had it for a couple of years (before scaping it), but I had no problem with it (except rust!). It was very fun to drive in the winter! Very reliable!

Here are some pictures of it:

I really liked this car. Simple and rear wheel drive. The rear shock absorbers froze in the winter and it was slamming and behaving very hard :) However in the summer, no problem.