MR2 track/daily shitterrrr

[teknoboi]

The plan was actually to buy this worked starlet GT over in Sydney, but after organising freight, tickets, accommodation I got a call from the seller saying it was stolen. This 2 nights before I planned to fly into Sydney to pick up the car, and at the time I was in Melbourne. Still not sure if he changed his mind or it really got stolen, both nonetheless shit happens....


few weeks of just leisurely looking for a fun daily, i stumbled across this 1990 sw20 turbo, manual and an assortment of different colour panels. Bought in mid 2009 and been slowly.... yes i reiterate, SLOWLY working on it since! haha

My other car is mildly modified twin turbo aristo, so when i test drove the mr2, i was impressed with its handling.

It had a flat battery, and some multicoloured panels but we put a battery off another car in it and the engine started on first click. The owner had told me he hadnt started it for a couple months.


came with just a Kakimoto single exhaust

Heres a a few pic:
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panel beating begins, courtesy of my mate Rod's handy work
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Berk Technology Full 3" exhaust arrives!! Didnt get stopped at customs. WOOT!
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smoked/black indicators arrives
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[teknoboi]

few things that were done. GTR rims, gen 3 brakes etc
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Okay, i proceeded with trying to take the dump off to fit the berk dump v ....that failed just couldnt get to all the nuts! , so my mate and I ended up taking the entire, manifold-turbo-dump in one go. And at that time, a ct20b highflow/steel wheeled had come up for sale locally

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the specs of the CT20b highflow/steel wheeled are unknown, but it was rebuilt by ATS in melbourne with a T4 B2 or V2?
Finished installing the ct20b highflow in a days work, berk exhaust and greddy-copy intercooler kit in on the day too.

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finally a vid of her first start!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4hZb8dIgwk

after having to deal with boost cut all the time, i found this on trademe in NZ
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plugged it in and mucked around with the boost settings on the blitz, lag was a shit load lower and much more drivable under 2000rpm. Overall it was AWESOME!

whiteline sway bar
Falken fk451 245/45/16
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So, these last couple of months ive been finalising everything, got a fair few things coming from the states. I'll update once they arrive.
Specs are as follows:

Engine:
Ct20b highflow steelwheeled (T4 B2 or V2 spec?)
3" Berk Technology Full Exhaust
Greddy-copy Side mount with block off shroud and puller fan mount
Blitz DSBC
FZX Garage Tuned ECU
HKS Pod filter

Suspension and Brakes/wheels:
Front: Ohlins, 30+ way adjustable struts with lowered springs.
Whiteline adjustable Sway bar
Gen3 281mm front brakes(wilwood 4pot 323mm rotor on the way)
R32GTR rims(RE540S 225/45/16)

Rears: stock shocks with lowered springs FUCKED, some new ones on the way
R32GTR rims(FK451 245/45/16)

Cosmetics:
Gen3 Wing
Gen3 Tail lights
Aero side mirrors

Interior:
Gen3 steering wheel
Short Shifter with lowering plate

Audio:
Ipod Deck
Alpine 4channel V12 Amp
Precison Response 6" splits
4" pioneer speakers for rear fill


My inspiration:
http://mrtwo.mine.nu/uploaded/Mister2/20098819587_800px-Toyota_MR2_W20_002.jpg

[Slip_]

HAHAHAHA word!!!

that's my old sw20, miss that thing hard!!

[teknoboi]

WOW! fking small world? wait, did i buy it off you? or you were a more previous owner?

Anyways parts that are in transit are:
wilwood 4 pots superlights with 323mm supra rotors
Porterfield R4S pads all round
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Gen3 rear calipers, 281mm rear rotors(263mm are the current ones)
kirkosaurus engine mount inserts
camber adjusting bolts
new tie rod ends

[magic1]

HAHAHAHA word!!!

that's my old sw20, miss that thing hard!!

shame on you for the shit condition.

great build!

[HIKARI]

Saw this in person, going great!~

[Slip_]

Nope i was the 3rd since it was imported, though i think she got around a bit since tristan took it off me.

I got it off a guy called Imran back in 05, he purchased it off a chick from AFARCC who had brought it in from Japan solely for track work.

Awesome to see man looks like you got some solid plans!! best of luck with her, had an absolute blast with it, heaps of memories.

[Slip_]

shame on you for the shit condition.

great build!

lol

Taxi driver wrote it off you goon, tristan purchased it off me back in 06, patched it up and used it for a workshop hack, she's seen the rounds!!

edit, sold it closer to 08? pretty sure.

[teknoboi]

I got it off Tristan's old housemate, so I must be the 6th owner. Damn sluzza!
Thanks for the comment guys, I'm also an Antilag motorsport member now so I'll see some you guy at some of the trackdays etc.

[c.rusli]

the car is a whore LOL!!

aniway looking good! love they way youve done.. its gonna be awesome car!

PS: the inspiration car looks hot!

[SLIPPERY]

thats a decent showcase thread too....good amount of pics does wonders :)

Hopefully you dont hit any hurdles along the way

[Lonewolf]

Looks good.
You'll love the wilwoods, and nice to be able to use off the shelf rotors too.

Might want to run it on the dyno to check AFR's if that is a chipped ECU from japan, they often run nasty lean.

[Atomic_FD]

HAHAHAHA word!!!

that's my old sw20, miss that thing hard!!

lol... i knew it!

[teknoboi]

Looks good.
You'll love the wilwoods, and nice to be able to use off the shelf rotors too.

Might want to run it on the dyno to check AFR's if that is a chipped ECU from japan, they often run nasty lean.


definitely not running lean, its drinking about 14L/100km at the moment, and comes overly rich when it comes on boost. Before the FZX garage ecu, i was getting around about 10L/100kms.

cant wait to see how the brakes are, should be here in a week. I've also heard good reviews on the pads too, anyone else use Porterfield R4S pads before?

[teknoboi]

Wilwood superlite 4 pots arrived! Although 1 rotor is still missing, its probably still in transit! Will post up install pics this weekend!


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[duste]

Have these this many-a-time at Curtin, didn't realise it was turbo n shit though - very nice!

[HIKARI]

Mang, too much kesh.

Hey drop by Sunday or Monday night k?

[teknoboi]

duste: yeh, its getting coloured soon, next week is the plan.

kccord: Probably Monday man, busy as fk this weekend. Hopefully I can get the brakes installed on Sunday night.

[duste]

So "tuition free week" = "work on car week" for you too? Haha.

[teknoboi]

Thats right! hahhaha i have a huge list of parts to fit, hoping the rest arrive early next week.

-fit front and rear brakes, then bleed, and then bed them in
-fit engine mounts
-fit inner and outer tie rods
-fit kirkosaurus engine mount inserts
-fit camber bolts

oh and catch up on 5 units, maybe. heh

[cem1790]

nice man!

how much did you pay for the brakes?

[teknoboi]

The entire kit, with Porterfield R4S front and rear cost me just under $1600 delivered. With our AUD this high, it would probably be a tad less

[Kaido]

track cars doesn't have audio gear :p

[karnage]

wow, looks to be moving along really well. Can't wait to see the finished product

[teknoboi]

So installed the gen 3 calipers (22-V) with 281mm slotted rotors on sunday with a mate Sean. As you can see, we had to pull the angle grinder out to cut off dust shield. Then realised we needed a 3/8 hex key socket to fit my front wilwoods.
Borrowed a Torque Wrench from my mate Andrew up NOR, and a hex key socket from Shane on here, CHAMP!

Here are the results:
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So impressions? Took a while to bleed the system, used nearly 1L of fluid! It was Castrol Super Response DOT 4. Had a small drive to try bed them in. Considering these are much bigger brake system matched to a BMC suited to a smaller system, the initial bite isn't is to be expected. Which is not much bite till about half way, then when it does, grabs like a mofo! To solve this problem I think I'll probably upgrade to a 1" bore BMC from a 4Runner/Surf to have increased pedal feel and reduced total pedal travel.

[Sciflyer]

Nice one Wayno!

[teknoboi]

Cheers Phil!

On another note, this is what happened over the weekend.

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oh and its not PAINT, its VINYL, got sick of it being all multicoloured and primered so i ended up vinyl wrapping it for shits and giggles, should hold up for a good couple of months till i get it sprayed.

Looks shit upclose, but looks okay from a couple metres away. Not fussed with aesthetics as its a daily track shitter anyways.

[HIKARI]

Wow damn, a lot of effort in getting every single crevices.

[KyeBidz]

Jarman is going to be cutting!!

[Milhouse]

thats awesome !

vinyl wrap looks fantastic haha

[space]

Cage and wide body are missing..

[teknoboi]

if only uni bums on casual work get paid more... :D

[TJ]

looks tough on 32 wheels!

[Slip_]

Didnt come up bad at all!!

[mark]

spotted this outside shell servo today. looks great from the road i thought it had been resprayed.

[magic1]

spotted this outside shell servo today. looks great from the road i thought it had been resprayed.

same +1

[Drift_R32]

that vynal wrap looks awesome, whats the cost for the materials on that ? and how hard issit to fit ?

[teknoboi]

Its a bitch to fit, but that was my first time playing with vinyl. Probably easy if you do it for a living.

I bought 18m of 3M 180 Vinyl, cost about 25/m. Used only 15m, but im gonna redo the bonnet again. Apparently the 3M 180C is a easier vinyl to wrap with, but cost about 35/m. So it was relatively cheap, labour took about 8 hours or so with my sister helping me out, would have been a shit load easier if there was another. The flatter the surface the easier to wrap, any curves and what not, you'll need a heatgun/hair drier oh and a couple of squeegees and a blade to cut it up.

But this is a temporary, if you see it up close, you'll see my shoddy skills lol.

PS, cheers for all the comments guys! will be seeing you shortly only the track!

[Drift_R32]

haha nah i reckon it looks awesome..fuk the haters!, im sure it doesnt look that bad close up. does it stretch much on its own or really needs heating to stretch anyways ?

[teknoboi]

hahah yea, cheers buddy! It doesnt like stretching on its own, but stretches easy when heated, you dont need much heat. I just used a hairdrier and it was all sweet. Just gotta make sure not to over stretch it. then once an area is stretched you gotta heat it up again to relax the stress in it.

[magic1]

pics of sister?

[Lump]

looks tough on 32 wheels!
+1, cant wait to get mine on.

great work with the wrap too!

[duste]

Saw this at Uni today and decided to have a close-up looksie. As you said you really can see the wrinkles close-up, but it ;ooks amazing from a distance and you'd be none-the-wiser! :D

Much much better than the collection of colours it was previous haha.