It was actually a car of a friend who recently passed away.
He used it for autocross, it was his autocross car for a few years.
And then I guess he got tired of it.
Mutual friends were telling me na sayang 'yung car kasi it was just on the side of the road.
Previously, I've owned a 1990 Toyota Starlet, which became my race car.
So I was planning to acquire another Starlet, because I missed having one as a road car.
I bought the shell without any engine, I shipped it here from Mindanao.
The actual build took just about a year and a half.
I bought the car already about three years prior.
Shipping it from the South was a little bit difficult so that's why.
It's from CDO, basically.
The biggest challenge was finding the parts.
Mainly because it was a race car, it was stripped out already.
While it had some of the interior parts, they weren't really in good shape.
So what I did to solve that was I was able to buy a half cut.
Fortunately, the half cut came with two doors and the rear hatch.
So I just put it there.
All I needed to do with the engine was bring it to Autotech, have them refresh it, new
gaskets.
I bought an overhauling kit.
I think I upgraded also the head studs just in case I wanted to increase the boost.
So that it wasn't leaking motor oil when I dropped it in.
We decided to redo the conversion, actually.
So what we did was, because we had another firewall from the half cut, we kind of jigsaw-puzzled
that.
We cut it up, and then we mirrored it.
What we also did with the dashboard, the right-hand dashboard, we converted to left.
I have a really rare part here that I guess I was lucky enough to find.
It's an ARC blow-off valve, specifically for the engine.
So it bolts on to the stock intake pipe.
It's a trinket, since ARC is discontinued.
They don't exist anymore.
I was able to find an ARC blow-off valve that's specifically for this car.
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