mixmasterlex

Those wheels are going to look so good. God I can't wait till we can pickup an mx5. One down here I'm hopefully going to test drive this weekend.

I love these things. Orange dials crack me up. So 80's. Good writeup of current progress too.

Vids of boostings?

Loving the height

fuck that last pic looks toughcone.

wtf are your pipes doing?

Nice. I'd feel bad giving a ticket to something with pedals

It has a fucking windscreen wiper. Awesome.

Just getting the hang of bringing the wheel up and holding it in 2nd. Feel super cool. Have fallen off a shitload of times now, but never had more than a scratch. Tried a few wee jumps, but sounds tame compared to what your doing. Should really sell mine and get a proper motox bike/2smoke roadbike.

Going to put the 3A-U in it

WARNING. Sustained use of 3A-U can result in death by bordem.

The widebody one on trademe is beyond words. So sweet.

G-sus, tittie fucking goodness.

Yuh will do. I'll stalk him next time haha. Was keen for it, but pics of starions in pics thread are making want one of those hard..

So turns out you didn't buy the one from Queenstown I was thinking of. Guess there were two down here!

Old man is rolling a turbo one around. If I see him again I may offer some beans for his wip...

So is this bitch rolling now? Nice sneaky bum pic.

quack do a skid quack

Shit! A recip cut through that! Bloddy hell... I've only used mine to cut wood etc. If I ever need to cut the front of my car..

^ Totally. Starlets done right over here are so few and far between imo. It's looking real good man.

Exciting times man. Looking forward to the update.

lex, 'tis a clutch type TRD one. kinda wonder how tight it is actually, may find that it needs shimming.

I wouldn't spend more than 4.5k here for a tidy manual SC (hardtop), unfortunately these days people ask way too much for ones that are quite honestly junk, or worse, automatic (check trademe to see what I mean). But in saying that, I'm prepared to spend a lot more than that to bring one over from japan myself.

The guy I bought mine off was really honest and pleasant to deal with (did I mention he was a cop?) but during the time I spent shopping around I got a rather bad vibe from a lot of the other jokers selling these things, they all seemed too full of themselves and eager to conceal their vehicles' flaws behind a wall of "I am an enthusiast. I do not consider this patch of rust to be a concern." or worse still "I paid $1200 for these bags which my t-tops store in, and I spent $750 fixing this dent that my wife put into the side of the guard, my asking price on the car reflects this."

Yeah I know the one on TM you're referring to. Would pay a bit for it if it were manual, but fuck getting an auto one. Agree that they are the kind of car that attracts those weird "it's worth moonbeams" sellers. Will just be patient and keep looking for the right one. Not in a rush. TRD LSD's in these must be pretty rare...

i think you need to do a fucking diesel powered skid and get some femmes in the back

This ^

That one with the blue bumper you posted is cool. Loving the twin stack headlamps. Looks pretty tidy!

As for how much I paid for this AW11. More than 2, less than 4, very reasonable. I'm still not quite used to the way the LSD behaves with the stock suspension setup... even though my mate drove it around Taupo and said it was fine. the only way to describe it around corners is incredible power understeer followed by a gradual shift towards neutral handling, resisting the urge all the while to lift off

Cool, we are looking at spending around 3k for her one I think. (by her one, I mean the one I will take up coronet road everynight after work for rapetime).

When I have driven Adubs in the past (only driven a few of them) I found that you really had to shift the weight to the front to avoid that understeer you talk about. Braking late and really flicking the front in. If you can get used to getting the weight up there I'd say that if you are on the power at the right time that back should follow around nicely, with or without and LSD. Is it clutch type or viscous? If it's viscous then i would think it's only really going to have an effect when accelerating hard out of a corner? I'm talking shit. I don't think I explained that very well...

Anyway, love the car.

Also, what did you pay for this if you don't mind me asking? Cheers.

God I want this. If anyone knows of a tidy aw11 for sale in the south island, hollllaaaaaa. G/F is getting rid of mera for one. CHOICE.

Needs under-belly neons.

Stink bro...

What is the expected power from this motor?