SUBAZUKI JUSTY GTI AWD

This is looking mint pal

Bit of progress


Justy weighed down with gear to pod


Justy got some nice attention at USC, favorite comments got to be 'thats a swift that is' no its a justy but I will forgive you if you didnt spot the AWD stickers


Evil little car

Still got loads to do but its primarily working for now

this is quality. thought about those jdm style pop rivet on arches? and some hench spacers or widened wheels?

Nice one kal glad you like it, ive got some mini arch spats in the back along with 32mm spacers, ive got some big arches to go on with alloys but tyres are fecked atm

Small update, I really wish I could sort ecu to accept that it will have boost, turned the fuel pressure up again and its helped boost but now bogs a little more and obviously fuel usage is stupid now but it was built to go psssh!! LOL


Jacked up ready for new clutch, gearbox and lightened flywheel after a unfortunate failure


New shiny parts, lightened flywheel - minus around 1kg but proberly lighter with lighter black diamond stage 2 kevlar clutch


Favorite car pic (looks nowt like a justy)


New bigger exhaust, not ideal but needs must

Hating bedding clutch in also got a intermittent water leak thats hopefully cured but ive had to run k seal, hating it but needs must

Il hopefully have more going on soon, and cant wait for some snow

I live this car, it's git to be the best budget built diy project so far, well impressed matey, can't wait for the snow now  

Some 1 needs to give you a lot of money so you can open a garage doing custom builds! could be tanks monkey garage!! Id hire you tomorrow without a second thought if I had a place!!

Recently alots changed, lack of funds,job etc have made some differences, theres only so much cheap jobs on cars you can do with your time. Been a while since ive posted progress, things have changed again, although the 8v turbo is working well, it isnt in top form it needs a ecu mod thats gonna cost money so ive made the decision to swap for a swift gti engine again but this time turbod

Few toys I got other day courtesy of a nice chap on eBay and big ryan for the collection service



All my new bits




Head during cleaning



Hoping I can use this turbosmart dumpvalve

Plan is to build this turbo and proberly rebuild my gti lump out of the 2012 green beasty over winter depending on funds

USC 2014 will hopefully be epic!!

Manifold choices???


Head cleaned up, wonders of wire brush and a drill


Gonna be a twat timing up I think

This looks awesome, wish I could stockpile a load of parts like u and build something sick lol, can't wait to give u a hand getting stuck in to a 16v build, and yeah that timming looks like it's gonna be funny, on Dori. I used the dowl pin as a reference point to work original timing and then worked from that, but can't see em on your photos, :-( I'll have to pop up to yours and have a play day lol ;-)

Been a while so heres a update, nothing much has changed


Doing top mounts in great weather


Well thats proberly the problem I was having


New wind deflectors


New brakes!!!!

Thats about it for now until I get paid from work

I do love this little beasty, inspiration to us all to get out in thus weather and get on with maintaining/ modifying our motors, cheers dude an I hope your work start paying you ;-)

Bit of another update, time is slow and with a lack of funds not very much has changed


AWD works at least (click for video)


Warm way to change water-pump in the cold


New VS Old


She decided to not like the timing spring fitted so kindly ingested it knocking the timing forward 60degrees


A ride on tow came as a result, I really think DIY should get a truck or at least the awesome dollies this guy had!!!     


Caliper re-build time

I now have a few new toys to hopefully build a powerful enough engine that is reliable too

including some more injectors, a Greddy E-MANAGE Blue ECU, hard boost pipe made for the job and HKS recirculating dump valve
Along with the masses of knowledge obtained hopefully this will be a reality soon depending on the budgets

YES!!!! Ha ha can't wait to see this running Big power :-) mint, well done mate

Not much progress but hes a few bits thats been done   


Head, intake and turbo manifolds are all port matched (got bored =) ) and they are all painted up


Turbo T2 manifold


Rocker all painted up


Twin core alloy radiator



Radiator all painted


Throttle body ported out a little to match inlet a little better (every little help)



Throttle body all painted up

Not alot happening and im unsure when this build will be done, I may have to tune the 8v turbo already in for now with the lack of funds
Nobody knows where any my cars can end up   

Ok so not posted an update in a while and things have changed alot

So its staying 8v for the time being
And with college and other commitments progress is a little slow hindered more by cost



New stickers look well


Think ive found my window issues


Frames are in and ready for the sidemount fibreglass seats to go in


Looking very bare but light!!


Another 2kg out. Wish dieting was this easy


New brakelines are ready to be fitted


Passenger kick plates in for the arse twitching moments


Fibreglass seats are going black


Drivers seat and harness is in!!


Nice race engine mount, going to vibrate like a twat


Nice small dump valve, biggers better right???


Quick release bumper


New console


All lit up

So thats about it for now loads has happened but slightly on a sideline to the original plan but adaptations to plabs were expected

Awesome good work, can not wait to see how it pulls now keep it up tank

Cheers jared not going exactly to plan it was supposed to be 200+bhp by now but just having to go with the flow
Few more bits


New gear knobs here


Wheels are washed and polished,  look much betteer


Manifolds finally lagged up, got my turbo blanket to go on once wastegate finally comes

Hopefully get me disks and rebuilt calipers on with my greenstuff pads, also got me braided lines to go on too

Small update of this week

Soooooo


Wheels repaired (thanks shrek)


Wheels painted


I think its lagged up well enough now, got a kingua adustable wastegate now (4psi atm) hopefully heatsoak should be sorted now


Brakes ready to go on


Brakes are on after some great grinding and swearing, got me nice orange braided lines on too

Shes coming on nice now. Needs some road testing now to get greddy tuned up

Tell you what tank, I wish I was as good as you at putting build threads together, this thread is awsome, well done but, the justy is epic mate, I know you've done even more work on it since these last photos aswell, can't wait to see this at pod :-) awsome

Final update now and its a big one


Wheels look well with the white carbon centres in


Really cool marvel seat covers


Seat cushions fitted and looking well, cheers ryan for the manly sewing skills


New front lower brace made, much better than the old angle iron one



Lower brace all fitted


New pedels are in


Nice straight through



New lights are on along with CREE led headlights


Slightly bright!!!


New intercooler airdam


It glows!!!

Just needs to get insured and tax now hopefully

well bit of an update, things are still slow with the justy as always,
it made it to pod but didn't do as well as expected but after all its a homebrew 1.3 8v turbo

looks a little different to when my brother took it last time!!!



it did us proud in the flameout contest though, it came 2nd in our opinion. next year we will beat the long term winner


she looks so well I cant wait for it to go as good




New roll cage reinforcements



new rear tie bars, really seem to make a difference but needs alignment now to get the best out of it


New external fuel line and filter setup, god im glad I've finally done it, it actually smells of car now instead of leaching petrol coming through the porous rubber lines

now to just continue getting the other engine parts and begin building, fed up now of no progress

Coming along well dude, always enjoy looking through your build thread, this little just has come a hell of a long way, looks awsome, a proper diy beasty, nice work matey, I've decided to make sure I get more photos of jeep n golf for build thread, always enjoy looking through build threads :-)

yet more pictures  



new droplinks all round with polybush attachments


I must say the look the part and the old ones although still fine were a little tired


polybushes are her for the front arms just need to save up for rear ones now!!


new bang, bang, pop FLLLLAAAAAMMMEE box is here


never thought the t'old justy would see 140K still going strong




SNOW up to its axles and still going. proper trooper, boost is so fun in the snow too


to all those who are surprised I have a winch, it does work properly

More to come soon hopefully depending on time and funds

Well things are moving a little now, ive decided to finally rebuild the rear axles so two arms are on order, polybushes have arrived and things are happening.



Loving flames now, makes me strangely happy it overfuels



Rear worn bearing removed surprisingly easy with a little hammer persuasion,  no press needed today



All stripped, cleaned and painted up, just wish paint would dry quicker with this lousy weather so I can get it rebuilt ready to go bak on

Not too sure how much longer shes out on the road for so hopefully more big news soon