Goodies!!

To take advantage of the strength of the aussie dollar 0.96 US cents at the time, i would have to make a Mini order. It wasnt that i needed these parts yet but one excuse was that i did want to check the clearance of the brake master cylinder and clutch master cylinder against the intake manifold of the new engine. Impatient of me, i had asked my friend Alan if i could borrow his old master cylinders which would do the job at the time.

My mini order was going to be through Minisport this time. This is because they make their own Alloy 4-pot calipers. A beautiful item which comes in several different colours. There were a few items i had to include which were swivel kits, a lowering link and of coarse the master cylinders. Not all of these were important but it is always better to buy more at once to save on the shipping.

I decided on red calipers.

Amongst all these purchases, i actually needed a Oil relocation kit. When placing the engine in the subframe i needed to take note of whether there was sufficient room for the oil relocation adapter because there surely wasn't enough room for the oil filter itself. I don't know how i did it but i lucked out. Whilst hunting through the forums on several different Starlet / Toyota sites, i found a guy that was selling one. The post was a few months old but it wasn't hard to email and ask. Quite simply he emailed back and also sent pictures. The price was $85 shipped to Perth. Sweeet!!

The build quality of it is brilliant, and unlucky for my friend who also needed one, it was the only one left. He couldn't even point me in the direction of sourcing another. It was only for the adaptors, but we have plenty of hoses laying around and plenty of hose clamps so it wouldn't be very hard to rig something up later.