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Vitz (It's really a Yaris) project

Hi all :) well your probably wondering why im actually on here, with driving a competing car etc... but theres a couple of reasons i am.

firstly, is to say hello to a guy I see around in Nottingham in a rather nice K11, which i have done, and secondly for a bit of help for a mate who owns a K10, which isnt in the best of conditions, nor does he live near me, but id like to help him nonetheless.

well also, i drove a K12 as a courtesy car and it was horrible, i wanted to die, however the engine wasnt too bad, and the CD player was nice (11-plate N-Tec)

so here goes!

(pulled up bits from YCUK so sorry it wont kame much sense, but the pictures are nice!!)

As its a first car, dont expect me to be doing much, first things first is gonna be a de-badging, jap plates (i think its japanese import from the front bumper recess) and maybe some stickers, not much tho!

then I HAVE to get rid of the steels :/

heres a pic of it, I think some friends who have SLR cameras are gonna come round tomorrow or something
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what do you lot think?
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debadged the reat TOYOTA and the D4D badges, gonna keep the Yaris badge and the T-Spirit badge maybe.

They will go for sure when i get vitz badges.

Status:Error sticker looks goo,d re-did the dash and gearknob propperly, and the fuel filler cap got carbon'd!

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UPDATE

had a crash:

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big update!

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apart fromt hat some little fook stole my badge last night!


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a whole 9p all in for the deceptecons badge!
well kids, if i were to put it on jap wheels, id loose my arches completely, and i love the steels, and the way it sits on them!

air filter was basically a cobbled attempt because i was looking for a MAF adapter, but realised that my airbox's MAF sensor piping is not part of the airbox itself, i just cut it off with a hacksaw. then the filter was too big, so we sized it up with electrical tape, but on the test drive my filter pretty much fell off, so me, Symo and Aidan did this magical thing where we used some IKEA shelving, a Trust Greddy pipe and some cable ties and made a full fitting air filter kit.



works a charm, gives some great turbo whistle and intake noise and also cost me less than a tenner, stick that up your typhoon and hydrolock it!


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tuck

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lows

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hard

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as it sits now!
i hope you all like :)
 
its the 1.4 Turbo Diesel engine :)

its only £30 a year tax too :p

its on about 1.2 bar as well so high boosting, Toyota CT2 Turbo :)
 
Just one thing, i really really don't like eyelids, blacked insides would work much better on the headlights.
 
VitzJoe said:
its a nice fomat im really feeling the forums coding :)

YCUK is brilliant and we have a couple of micra owners :p

Ycuk is a nice friendly forum, I've had help form you guys with my partners yaris
 
hi, not been here in a long time, and i have news about the yaris, it got put back to standard as money was needed, then i blew the engine up a couple of weeks ago, and you will be glad to see that i am looking at a cheap micra :)

gonna view a few around as a little runner till i can get my yaris back on road and then maybe convert to a track car. :)
 
never had a micra before! going to a seized car auction tomorrow maybe pick one up you never know! who know i may be converted ;D
 
I really miss my Micra, they are truly outstanding cars.

The first pictures you posted on this thread do not work for me mate
 
Yeah mate they got lost when my thread got deleted off YCUK and I can't find them again :( but it's looking sorry for itself!


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So I'm rebuilding the car after some altercations with a dodgy recondition work, so I can't fix the engine just yet.

Recently, I've had a massive fascination with the whole USDM scene and culture, its not really done over here much, so I think would be something nice to do, coupled with some jap and uk styles
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Firstly, I spent some money on a runaround getting me my 50 mile round trip on something that's not a bus, a 1.0 Micra k12. Not ideal, but for the price I got it, and market value of these, it was something I was very interested in, plus it was jap and I like jap.

Then I spent ages moping about over the Yaris, and how the Micra was breaking my balls in petrol! Seriously! My journey to work is a variety of fast village roads, dual carriage way, and city driving, my Yaris did around £5 for 3 trips, the Micra does nearly double!

Then I quit smoking and found money I never had before, and started easing myself into a project I knew was gonna take a while.

First started off swapping the indicators with the sidelights. Mine is the Phase 2 Yaris, with the teardrops, which are sidelights, so I used some bullet connectors and resistors (so I can always revert) and swapped them round. Nifty!

Then I bought a 4" jap cannon back box and a new clamp (mostly just for a massive joke) and fit that to it, looked daft, and I had to buy a driftworks extended hangar to get it to fit, I'm thinking of having it reworked with a cherry bomb so it doesn't look stupid.

Then I more recently bought a head unit for the car in eBay for a tenner, which was pretty rad, and also the only North American rear bumper to leave North America
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Here are some photos
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The front
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Next on the menu are a pair of 15x7 et20 Grid v's in bronze, for the front, and later on I will buy 15x8 et0 for the rear, I wanted a staggered setup, and for future use it being 4x100 I can use it for my next cars, which I want either an e30 or a glanza v
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