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Interesting. I have purple spats and side skirts (which I hate!) and would dearly love to have them body colour (black). I'd just rip them off and forget about them if some of them were not hiding horrors. Rattle cans did spring to mind, how easy is it to get a half decent result like this?

Both prob shaft bearings, some nuts to hold them to the shaft and a left rear radius arm..

plain discs for the win! Pagid discs are nice, OEM toyota are good too. The pads make the real difference, just got stoptech on mine and they are much stronger than the old toyota pads. They get even better if you warm them up too. Still can't beat the carbotech pads for stopping though. Them paired with a nice plain disc is great.

yesterday... bled brakes after fitting replacement oem hoses at the front (not perfect but usable and powerful enough to stop hard when required!) Fix the funny steering noise, rack was lose due to a stripped bolt. Replaced the duff front outer CV boot Oil change for the rear diff, old oil was waaaay too old, it's been in that many, many years! Diagnosed the vibration issue, which turned out to be the rear of the 2 prop bearings Discovered some suspension damage and unevenly worn shocks, left rear, rear most arm is bent and rear shocks the left is soft while right rear is stiff. Checked the gearbox and engine to find they have a clean bill of health Madness of daft things, drove 358m and still had 1/4 of a tank! Car drives so much better now and is safe again, just got to fix these last few bits and it's golden

tip toe driving the poor thing to prevent whatever this vibrations is from ripping the car apart. booked in friday for the replacement cv boot and to inspect these issues. might not be able to fix them all on the day but at least we will know what's wrong. going to check the rear diff oil level this evening, there is a tiny leak at the input shaft so maybe it's gone a bit dry.

Bled the brakes again (after an afternoon of rear brake fitting yesterday) and still don't have a strong pedal.. the car that keeps on giving is chucking up more issues than I'm solving atm, should be good for thread updates though.

If you want to change the seats, bucket seats are around half the weight of the stock seats, at least 14kg to be had here. Not a cheap option. Could dump the misses and take the passenger seat out, good 14kg+ saving there Floor mats? get them heavy fuel eaters out! Cone filter instead of airbox, 2.5kg Cut sugar from your diet and walk an extra 20mins a day, might be some weight saved there. But then you could be a 0% fat road cyclist for all I know. Only wear race boots when driving, every kg helps so leave the doc martins at home. Run with the screen wash only half filled. Have to top up more quickly but it's another 2kg saved. Add all the ideas in this thread together and there is loads to be saved Just added them up.. 97.5kg of savings! about the weight of a larger passenger. SAS 7 AC 7 battery 10 spare 18 wheels 8kg half tank 20kg plastic trim 2kg plastic windows 3 seats 14 mats 3 boots 1 washer 2 airbox 2.5

Plastic rear quarter windows and rear hatch window can save some good weight.. plastic4performance.com lighter battery can help and isn't as expensive, something like this https://www.braillebattery.co.uk/index.php/braille/product_batteries/b129 at around 150 quid

There are lots of things you can remove to save weight, you have to inspect every single component and asses it's use, design etc. Rotating weight has a great effect on MPG, so light alloys will help for example, these also make the overall weight of the car less so it's win/win. Don't be tempted by light wheel nuts though, these are a daft idea and a safety issue. plastic trims and covers that are just there to tidy the engine bay up can be removed, not things like fuse box covers but the plastic wit the VVTI logo etc. Taking this critical look at each part doesn't save much weight per part, but the numbers build if you keep going and look at everything. It can get out of hand, the ultimate would be to strip the entire chassis and only put back what's needed, including trimming out spare wires in the loom, removing stuck on floor tar etc. But less drastic savings can add up. I intend to do this for my gt4 as it's very nose heavy but I'm not really looking to strip it out at all. My MR2 has had the full drastic treatment and saved huge amounts of weight.

55L of fuel weighs 41.1895kg. Petrol is around 748.9g/L, different octane changes the weight slightly, some race fuel we used was 747g/L

Got the last part of the brake puzzle, the rear discs. Just got to book a day off to fit them now. Oh and bleed the bloody things!

was a shame as I paid to have new boots fitted to that driveshaft in january. wondering if my noise is now that join when turning. no sign of the old clip. had to repack the join as best I could and fill the boot up. didn't seem to hold the edge of the fitting very well. Would rather not have to replace the boot again. it seems in good/new condition but the tension in just the boot was enough to pull it off the cv end. really needs a proper fix before something dies there. I have little faith that cable ties will last long.

fitted front brakes, repacked the FR outer CV with grease as the clip had come off the new boot and sprayed the grease everywhere. Need a new metal clip for that! tried for an hour to bleed the brakes but the pedal isn't great. ran out of time so will have to take another stab at it tomorrow Didn't take many snaps.. but oem everything and some rebuilt calipers

Failed to change the brake pads and discs, not normally a task that is too hard. Sadly some stuck pins in both calipers had other ideas. Didn't even get to the rears! Anyone got some GT4 calipers for sale?

Just picked up a new center dash trim. This is to replace the broken air vent and get rid of the alarm flashing light that's put a hole in the dash, plus some cheap phone holder that doesn't work.. 20 bucks well spent. That along with the UK right hand vent panel with a fog button, should tidy it up a bit.