Go Go KP

Toyota Starlets climbing the hills in Japan.  Takumi no where to be found.

Farewell Red Lion

It's been about a year since Red Lion showed up on my door step.  Incomplete and needing little bit of TLC.  But now the work is complete and the owner is now ready for it's return.  It'll be missed, but now this gives me some space for another project.

Maiden voyage

Red eye, has finally taken it's first steps.  Revived with a transplant much better than previous.  It's almost ready to venture out into the real world.  But it wasn't without it's hiccups.

Red Velvet's axle

The next phase in the Red Velvet project is the installation of a 6.7 axle, same axle that's equipped in the Corolla GTS.  We could have stuck with the original, but the owner will be taking it out to a couple of autocross events.  Being he's a local champion, I'm sure he'll do well.

Long time Red Velvet

 It's been a while since I last updated the little Toyota Starlet aka Red Velvet.  But with the holidays and work, I just didn't have much time.  But recently I just received a boat load of time.  What better way to spend it.

Second chance, because TRD

Usually when stuff breaks, it gets tossed.  But if it's TRD and you're a filipino, it's your duty to fix it.

Red dog do you read?

The red starlet is still here baking in the socal weather.  Still quite a ways from being completed.  I still have many things that needed to be done.  Though I was able to tackle a them the past couple of weekends.  Like making a hole for the relocated transmission shifter.

More starlet

Missing a piece

Created a transmission mount for the Red dog, it ain't the prettiest but it'll hold it's own.  You'd think the kit to mount the engine would include the transmission mount.  It's like cereal without the milk.  Gotta go out to the barn and get it yourself.

Relocate the battery

 For the old KP Starlet, the battery is located on the passenger side of the vehicle (its the black plate on the left).  Since I'm using the factory u.s. spec 4AGE fuel management system (satisfy the smog nazis in the great state of commiefornia).  The air flow meter would be sitting in the original battery spot.  Rather than have it mounted in the trunk and lose space, it would be better that I use the real estate that's on the passenger side.

Red's fuel system

 Setting up the fuel system for red October is pretty straight forward as long as you got a plan in hand and all the proper parts for installation.  Since i've done a few of these already, I knew what to do already. 

drift starlet

The gnarliest drifting Toyota Starlets i've seen.  And it isnt' from Japan.

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Clutch for red

One thing the red rooster has in common with some of the older Hondas, is that they both use a cable type clutch setup.  And just like the honda crowd, when they wanna install the twin cam engine into their chassis, they need to convert to a hydraulic system.  Unless you have the luck of the irish and get your hands on a rare bellhousing that bolts to the 4AG while retaining the old cable setup.  I have no such luck, so hydraulic it shall be.

A bouquet of connectors

Not sure what's going here, but it'll need to be corrected before it leaves the orange grove.  The surprises keeping coming on ol' red.  But as always keep calm and carry on.

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Mimic the line

 Next round for Red Robin is to work on the line.  The fuel line that is currently equipped with the car is dinky, meant only to supply a lowly 1.3 liter carbed engine.  Since the owner wishes to see triple duty of street, track, and maybe a little bit of show.  An updated line will be required.

Where to start

Now that I have Giant Red Star parked and have gone through what needs to be done, I come to conclusion it needs everything from the ground up.  But at least the engine is in and a hydraulic setup is done.  Too bad i'll probably need to pull the motor, and the clutch is only 30% done.  sigh.  Where shall I begin.