Toyota Starlet GT Turbo engine!?!

Kur4mA

Hiya lads, I'm asking this for a mate who is wondering where the fook he can get an engine for a Toyota Starlet GT Turbo....his engine blew and its non-recoverable.

Any help on this appreciated... cheers!

Seth Brundle

Rid wrote:

...where the fook...

Oh dear, my image of starlet owners has taken a nosedive

unkel

PM Macker Eire - he will know

Gmodified

well for the starters you could put ad to buy and sell

dogz

nackers in dunsink duffy bros or a place called sunshine autos in ballymun will get ya a recon one

Stephen

have a poke around any breakers yards you can find.

Heathen

Rid wrote:

Hiya lads, I'm asking this for a mate who is wondering where the fook he can get an engine for a Toyota Starlet GT Turbo....his engine blew and its non-recoverable.

Any help on this appreciated... cheers!

Try IVI engines ... sorry i dont have their number off hand, BUT!! they have an ad in the back of the sun or the star paper every other day... you'll find them handy enough

- Failing that he can always check out www.toyotagtturbo.com, we sould be able to help him out there...

Later
Macker

Kur4mA

Thanks for the help lads, I'll pass on the info!

ZENER

There's a breakers yard near Balock (sp?) on the way to Balbriggan (Philip Christy I think is the owners name). I was there today looking for a few bits for a prelude, anyway the guy let me have a nose around the yard and I'm sure I saw a Starlet GT or GT Turbo there. It was a bit away so couldn't be sure which it was or what was left inside the shell.

I can give you directions if you're interested.

ZEN

IrishRover

When I needed an engine rebuild, I spent many frustrating weeks exploring several options.

First, I was going to get my engine rebuilt, but found engineering and rebuilding companies were so busy that they could afford to pick and choose jobs and weren't particularly interested in taking my money (thousands) because it wasn't one they were used to working on often.

Then I spent several weeks calling around various scrapyards. I did find one, but you have to remember that you're buying an unknown quantity when you get an engine from a scrapyard. You'll get no guarantees the engine even works, and you mightn't even get to hear what car the engine came out of or what happened the car it was in. If you can't put it in yourself, you'll have to pay someone to do it and it'd be wise to get a complete set of gaskets and belts, water pump etc for it before you put it in your car. The expense soon adds up, and pretty soon, getting one from a scrapyard doesn't seem like such an economical option - plus you won't even know if it works before you've paid for all that!

I was prepared to go to the manufacturer for a new engine, but found that equally frustrating. I'm sure if I had been looking to buy a new car or an engine for one that was less than three years old I'd have got on fine, but having to explain to them what one of their own engines was every time I called them didn't give me great confidence.

Just as I was beginning to give up hope, I was recommended a place in the UK called Vege. They are a company that do nothing but engine rebuilds (or "remanufacturing" as they call it as engines are as good as, if not better than new). They were polite, helpful and knowledgeable. They sold me a remanufactured engine for my car with no fuss. It was much cheaper than if I had paid for my engine to be rebuilt and way cheaper than a new engine from the manufacturer. In fact, it was probably as cheap as it would have been if I had got one from a scrapyard and paid for gaskets etc.

Vege had no problem shipping to Ireland and the engine arrived in only 3 days. Shipping was £180 sterling and it arrives in a specially made crate which you keep to put your old engine into for shipping back to them. They add an additional surcharge on top of the price of the new engine which you get back when you return your old engine. This is like a deposit, so that they will then have another engine to rebuild from yours and the process can begin again. You can have up to about 3 months to get your engine back to them and all you have to do is call them when you are ready as the return price is included in the shipping price. You also get a one year's parts and labour warranty with the engine.

They do thousands of engines every year and do ones for many different makes of car. Their list includes Toyota, so you may be lucky and find that they do one for your car.

Give them a call on +44 1246 272227 or email them on sales@vegeuk.com
Have a look at their website http://www.vegeuk.com where you can read a bit more about this company. It's very impressive.

I wholeheartedly recommend this company. I am delighted with the service I have received from them. They solved a big problem for me and saved me lots of money. I'm glad to pass on the information to anyone else it may be useful to.

madfortar

kyub wrote: »

Hiya lads, I'm asking this for a mate who is wondering where the fook he can get an engine for a Toyota Starlet GT Turbo....his engine blew and its non-recoverable.

Any help on this appreciated... cheers!

I Have a complete gt advance that was crashed all mechanical parts available.........

R.O.R

madfortar wrote: »

I Have a complete gt advance that was crashed all mechanical parts available.........

Does it have the flux capacitor to enable time travel? As this thread is over 4 years old, I'd be surprised if the car still needs a new engine.