Thứ Tư, 31 tháng 10, 2018

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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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