wannabe

No more goatse

Had a mate of mine do that with some version STi. 250kwatw, and he put HX Impreza stuff on it. Was hella lol cos it even had the HX badges and the 1.8 injected stickers.

My vote is for Falcon as well. Not the greatest on gas around town, but can easily lift up skirt and go fast. But I'm biased cos I get to drive one every weekend without paying for gas lol. Tis large though, but it is comfy

Sports is gay anyway.

Oh well, weekend meets for me then lol

Noo hopefully the next meet is a Wednesday night again, will have to miss this one

So um, I dont know how to build thread as I am doing this backwards/left my SD card at work like a fool.

Before I cooked the car's wiring, I managed to put the Impuls together and have a test fit of them. 

Token fitment picture sans tires.

Back when the car was driveable and clean! Much dustier now. 

The next incarnation of the car once I get some tires on these badboys

And one last overexposed by accident shot for that instagram-esque sheen. Herp derp

However, despite the initial elation of having the wheels back together again, the car gods/Toyota's shitty original wiring had other plans and disaster struck!

After completing my CT20 conversion (which will be detailed in the next post as my SD card is AWOL atm), my EFI fuse melted and surged all the excess electricity and black magic to cook my engine and fusebox looms. 

This is what happens when you MR2, those used to be plastic coated wires....

The looms were both toast, and then the hunt began for a Gen 2 engine loom as the current one was way beyond salvation. Unfortunately, MR2s being as rare as they are, what seemed like the most basic of searching proved to be a 3 month long hair pulling exercise of constant forum trawling and TradeMe (NZ's version of eBay) hunting to find a loom. Thankfully 3 months later, I found one that was missing the temp sensor plug and wasn't gold plated in price. 

Not exactly the easiest of work spaces. Made me miss Hondas so much!

Try squeezing your mitts into there to remove plugs....I had to. Such a pain/I should just get a carby....

And a token picture of the "new" turbo setup.

Thankfully the car is now running, but unfortunately, the previous owner has destroyed the threads for the front bracket mount to the gbox, and as a result this will need helicoiling, which is the only thing I can spot that would make it fail a wof. 

So in an attempt to cheer me up after the loom debacle and finally getting the car running, I decided to purchase some more wheels. They currently have a couple of fitment issues but they will be fixed in due time once the Impuls are on and the Panasports are in the process of being refurbed. 

Can anyone guess the wheels?

Sprint Hart CP-G. Sadly the fitment isn't ideal, but nothing a bit of messing around can't fix

Should be an interesting look when it is finally on the car. 

In addition to the wheels, I also purchased some winglets for the mad JDM rice factor. They will serve nothing but a cosmetic purpose to tide me over while I save up for my final body kit setup. 

A parting shot of the amazing Japlish on this wonderful bit of rice! The stickers have seen better days but I shall leave them as is. 

This weekend comes the initial try to obtain a wof, and some attention shall be paid to wrecking the other MR2. I have a few more interesting bits left for Mister, so there should be some other stuff to laugh about/point out errors. TY for reading

The arc hillies 123 man got back to me, for 195 50 15's they are only $120ea delivered, KRICKEY THATS CHEAP. I do wonder how good a semi slick, thats as cheap as a supercat, would be, ha.

Who is that from? Shareable? That is hella cheap/awesome. Personally I rate them but my car is slow and I suck at driving so my goals are a lot different than what yours seem to be. They are a small step up from a road tire I have found, but I just buy them cos they are cheap for what I need  

Hey guys I have an old cert plate pre the wheel requirements etc. Buy my car was certed with the standard wheels at the time. Will I need a revert if I intend to put flares and some wider wheels on it and still get wofs? Luffs

Will make another update tonight to bring things up to speed. And hopefully I did things correctly, should be able to start it today. Also on a side note, since my cert plate is old/pre the camber and wheel width rules etc, can I run big wheels and flares or will I need to recert? I have an idea in my head for the future/once I get this car running.

So continuing the thread. Drove up to New Plymouth to buy the new car. Cue KFC stop.

Cos brothers be hungry etc.

Then I got the car. Ridiculously low ks. Bit neglected and needed some TLC which I was more than prepared to give it. Gen 2, with gen 3 tails. Steel wheel CT26, 3 inch full exhaust and dp, and came with a bucketload of awesome spare parts too.

As you can see, it was looking a bit sad but nothing a bit of TLC couldnt fix. Add lots of polishing and an Autopista wing.

Also added a dished steering wheel (for rice and also cos my knees kept hitting the wheel) and a Blox gearknob cos I love heavy knobs.

Then I refurbed the Sebrings. From this

To this with some good ol elbow grease

Chuck on car.

Then I home painted the wing (which came out a$$ so I will try again this time) and added some Volk CV Pros.

Got some Impul R5s and refurbed them myself.

And then got bored and had left over paint so I decided to give my car some eyeshadow just so I could look fabulous while driving at night.

Right about then I had gotten bored of the stock CT26 and had managed to find a CT20B to go in its place. Cue the nightmare of working in an MR2 engine bay. Pics shall come later. But basically, I had the car running for 23,5kms after the turbo conversion was complete before it decided to pull an MR2 and set fire to the loom.

Haha the bolt in cage was a total crock. I bought it just to hoard along with a stash of hard to find MR2 parts. It was put on for a week then I removed it cos there was no point. I just was living out my teenage dream of being able to afford/find all of this shit, so I had to buy it lol. 

The tip to driving these cars is never take your foot off the gas just full POWAAA/weight shift to the rear for moar grip. Also, very curious about the 3VZ. Sounds epic. I shall update more later once I've had some food cos brothers be hungry/1.5hour trip home in the gales

So I decided to bite the bullet and crank a build thread on here after not much convincing, and also the fact that I don't have a thread anywhere else so lets have some laughs with this

So lets start from the beginning. Loved MR2s in my teens, and the Phoenix Power MR2s were my idols back in the day. Then one day when I grew up and could actually afford them (as in maintain and not just the purchase price) I bit the bullet and began the love affair.

Got a green gen 1 NA. Put some 15 RP01s on it. Went for a sweet drive. Otaki forks ftw

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Then got some coilovers, and wound it all the way down for max lows. 

 Got a sweet Cusco rice cage for some sweet rice factor. Then installed for the sweet street cred I didnt get.

 Then got bored, got some Panasport G7s and took off the bootlid.

 Then the neighbours mates drove into my door and didn't leave a note or anything. Dbags.

 Drove to a school.

Mates came round, had some lols at making a "wangan" plate.

Then

Then I bought a project that needed a lot of work.

 And bought some more wheels off Coldspark. Rays Sebring. Proceed to tidy up wiring hack job.

And sort out the engine bay.  

 Then got it running reliably. Slammed it. Insert 15x10s on it.

 Then got bored and got more wheels.

 Sold the green car not that long after. Still miss it, but then bought a much more exciting project.

Brief intro post done. Will update with details of the current project later. The older red turbo is now a donor for the Gen 2. 

I tried to hit VTEC, but then I realised I'm in a Mondeo. So I just left casually cos I was afraid of getting lost in the carpark.

I don't know how to frand, so I will come by myself and make friends thurr. I shall be in a poo white Ford

I shall have to turn up in the fail whale mondeo.

Hey seedyal, I bought a set of wheels and tires through ML last container shipment and shipping, fees etc was 240 odd to my door for 200 wheels. But apparently the pricing structure has changed now so may be cheaper? Hope that helps

Possum in the botans?

In

Knee to come. Finally able to make meets again.

I too are interested in those wheels but do not have 300ZX wheels to trade. Only have some 14 inch steels or some standard Camry 15s. Unless you want some 15x8s and 15x10s? lol. Looking forward to this build. Mate used to have one of these. I hated wrenching on it, but such a sweeet cruiser!

Should be there in the MR

My left rear one seized up and I had a busted bearing as well. Sounded like a whooop, whooop, whirr, whirr (lol best way I could think of describing it)

Hey mate, would suggest checking the rear brakes. If it has been parked up for too long, the rear calipers might have seized up.

This thread is excellent as I'm looking to get some new lips made up for my Panasports