Black 2002 and 2001 MR2 - Tommy Zooms / Hachiroku track car build

[tomaky]

Its the roll that kills it the most for me even on a NA so on the turbo i need it to remain planted to hold the speed.

[tommyzoom99]

Absolute cracking looking car is this. I love the purposeful, practical nature of everything that's been done & it's a credit to you mate.

Thanks buddy, comments like this always mean alot to me and my mate who have put hundreds of hours into building our perfect roadster and i think we have a good compromise for road and track without losing the essence of the car.

Its the roll that kills it the most for me even on a NA so on the turbo i need it to remain planted to hold the speed.

yeah totally agree the roll is a killer round the bends, the lazyness from the handling has gone and feels so much more responsive especially when changing direction,the car feels like it grips and goes so much better on power to due to the anti squat improvements from the suspension. on track now i reckon it will be a bit of a weapon.

cheers tommy

[tommyzoom99]

HI All

a small update just been doing some fine tuning around the car now, some stuff has been done a few months just not updated the thread

the bar that held all manner of bits of the soft top and wind deflector we took out and ground all the tabs and bits off to make it smooth then painted it black and put it back in as it didn't look right with all the bits on.





also got a stack water temp gauge to match the other stack gauges as we had a odd TIMs gauge for the water which has now gone  s:) s:)  and also got a new gear knob





also brought a pedal set with a large throttle to make heel and toe easy on track only used the throttle out the set which only cost a few quid from demon tweeks.



cheers tommy

[tommyzoom99]

few pics from a very nice day testing the car up the evo triangle





cheers tommy

[Jrichards20]

I absolutely love this! Exactly what I kept thinking of doing but everyone keeps telling me I will miss the softop.


Rest of the car is looking really good. So jealous, definitely my inspiration to get mine looking a little like this  s:) s:)

[tommyzoom99]

I absolutely love this! Exactly what I kept thinking of doing but everyone keeps telling me I will miss the softop.


Rest of the car is looking really good. So jealous, definitely my inspiration to get mine looking a little like this  s:) s:)

cheers buddy, well there lies your problem stop listening to everyone else and do what you want its your car after all  s:) s:)

cheers tommy

[hachiroku]

Quick vid from Evo Triangle   s8) s8)  

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[loadswine]

Excellent! That sounds really slick and fruity!!  s:) s:)
Quick question, was there much adjustment to the valve timing on the map, to allow for the cams and PPE manifold, working together? I only ask as I have the PPE and stage 1 cams and hope to get mine mapped, when I can get my Apexi PFC fixed.

[tommyzoom99]

Excellent! That sounds really slick and fruity!!  s:) s:)
Quick question, was there much adjustment to the valve timing on the map, to allow for the cams and PPE manifold, working together? I only ask as I have the PPE and stage 1 cams and hope to get mine mapped, when I can get my Apexi PFC fixed.

HI Loadswine

cheers buddy i do love the sound of it especially when it hits the soft limiter in second.

to be honest i dont really know much about the mapping side of it, it was done by a pro who specialises in DTA ECUs we run DTA S60 pro, he is well known around these parts to be a great mapper/tuner, but i imagine due to the higher comp ratio pistons (12:1), cams and manifold it would of all been changed, by the end of the day he a built a map from scratch and said we were limited only by fuel to get more power, thats about all i know really, sorry i cant be more help

cheers tommy

[loadswine]

No problem Tommy, I was guessing he built the map up from scratch.
It certainly looks to be very effective in practice. I look forward to your next vid clip matey!  s:) s:)

[suj]

Great build and read  s:) s:)

We just did the Evo triangle and many detours recently, was so good!

[tommyzoom99]

Great build and read  s:) s:)

We just did the Evo triangle and many detours recently, was so good!

Thanks for the comments buddy

yeah the evo triangle is such a good bit of road and there are many others around it like you say, i spent a whole day up there  testing the car and a full tank of fuel last weekend   s:lol: :lol: s:lol:   its just so tempting especially as i only live 30 ish miles from it.

if you go again and dont mind another 2 tagging along let us know we'll come along for a blast i dont need much of a excuse to go up there  s:) s:)

cheers tommy

[suj]

Great build and read  s:) s:)

We just did the Evo triangle and many detours recently, was so good!

Thanks for the comments buddy

yeah the evo triangle is such a good bit of road and there are many others around it like you say, i spent a whole day up there  testing the car and a full tank of fuel last weekend   s:lol: :lol: s:lol:   its just so tempting especially as i only live 30 ish miles from it.

if you go again and dont mind another 2 tagging along let us know we'll come along for a blast i dont need much of a excuse to go up there  s:) s:)

cheers tommy

Agreed, we spent 3 days driving round (unfortunately I was a passenger, as I don't own a cool car / MR2 at the moment, looking for one). Wow, you live so close!!!

Yeah sure, we are going for another roadtrip in a month or so, but it looks like the Peak District is winning, but I might be organising another one with another group of mates in Wales, so will drop you a PM if we do  s:) s:)

What's next for your car then?

[tommyzoom99]

Great build and read  s:) s:)

We just did the Evo triangle and many detours recently, was so good!

Thanks for the comments buddy

yeah the evo triangle is such a good bit of road and there are many others around it like you say, i spent a whole day up there  testing the car and a full tank of fuel last weekend   s:lol: :lol: s:lol:   its just so tempting especially as i only live 30 ish miles from it.

if you go again and dont mind another 2 tagging along let us know we'll come along for a blast i dont need much of a excuse to go up there  s:) s:)

cheers tommy

Agreed, we spent 3 days driving round (unfortunately I was a passenger, as I don't own a cool car / MR2 at the moment, looking for one). Wow, you live so close!!!

Yeah sure, we are going for another roadtrip in a month or so, but it looks like the Peak District is winning, but I might be organising another one with another group of mates in Wales, so will drop you a PM if we do  s:) s:)

What's next for your car then?

sounds good buddy you wont regret getting a 2, especially going for a drive up the evo triangle they really go well up there.

as for whats next on the car, when we had it mapped we were limited by fuel to get more power, although i dont think you could get much more out the set up, maybe 5bhp-10bhp, so im going to put some 2zz injectors in it and a new carbon airbox type air filter from that car builders website (cant believe how cheap they are) then get it mapped again and see if we can squeeze a few more ponies out of it but not expecting much really.

cheers tommy

[suj]

sounds good buddy you wont regret getting a 2, especially going for a drive up the evo triangle they really go well up there.

as for whats next on the car, when we had it mapped we were limited by fuel to get more power, although i dont think you could get much more out the set up, maybe 5bhp-10bhp, so I'm going to put some 2zz injectors in it and a new carbon airbox type air filter from that car builders website (cant believe how cheap they are) then get it mapped again and see if we can squeeze a few more ponies out of it but not expecting much really.

cheers tommy

Yeah really looking forward to it, just taking my time to find the right one (as it will be my daily).

Sounds good, so are the current injectors running at very high duty? If so then even if you don't gain a lot of power/torque at least they will be running at lower duty % which will be good.

[tommyzoom99]

sounds good buddy you wont regret getting a 2, especially going for a drive up the evo triangle they really go well up there.

as for whats next on the car, when we had it mapped we were limited by fuel to get more power, although i dont think you could get much more out the set up, maybe 5bhp-10bhp, so I'm going to put some 2zz injectors in it and a new carbon airbox type air filter from that car builders website (cant believe how cheap they are) then get it mapped again and see if we can squeeze a few more ponies out of it but not expecting much really.

cheers tommy

Yeah really looking forward to it, just taking my time to find the right one (as it will be my daily).

Sounds good, so are the current injectors running at very high duty? If so then even if you don't gain a lot of power/torque at least they will be running at lower duty % which will be good.

yeah take your time find a nice 1 preferably a facelift that dont use oil and has a solid subframe and you should be sweet.

i imagine the injectors are maxed out i dont know much about this side of things, give me a spanner and i can pretty much do anything mechanically related but when it comes to this type of stuff i have much learning to do, all i know is what the tuner told me which is we are fuel limited for more power and thats all the injectors had to give.

cheers tommy

[inside]

Car looks great in that video, really mean  s:) s:)

What kind of front splitter is that? Would love to get one of this myself.

[hachiroku]

Car looks great in that video, really mean  s:) s:)

What kind of front splitter is that? Would love to get one of this myself.

Thanks for the kind words  s:) s:)

You can get the splitter from Luxuryparts, although we were lucky enough to get ours from a member on here.

[Logan]

Sent you a pm mate, sounds brilliant in that video!

[suj]

Spotted your car today at Oulton Park mate, a friend noticed it and made me come find it, looks properly awesome.
 
We did a road trip round the Peak District yesterday (I took the MR2, it was so good) then Oulton today, hope you enjoyed it mate.

[tommyzoom99]

Spotted your car today at Oulton Park mate, a friend noticed it and made me come find it, looks properly awesome.
 
We did a road trip round the Peak District yesterday (I took the MR2, it was so good) then Oulton today, hope you enjoyed it mate.

Cheers mate, we managed to get quite a good spot really, all though i was no doubt hiding out the sun most of the day it was so hot, i did see a few other mr2s there dotted around.

i bet it was nice around the peak district on the weekend with the weather we had especially in the 2 on the b roads  s8) s8)  .

cheers tommy

[suj]

Cheers mate, we managed to get quite a good spot really, all though i was no doubt hiding out the sun most of the day it was so hot, i did see a few other mr2s there dotted around.

i bet it was nice around the peak district on the weekend with the weather we had especially in the 2 on the b roads  s8) s8)  .

cheers tommy

Yeah we were sitting like infront of where your car was, as my mates brother was camping all weekend, so saved us a good spot. Yeah there was a few MR2s about we noticed too.

It was amazing, just loads of cyclists / traffic that took a little away from the fun, but nonetheless was fun.
PS now you got me looking at your Rotas....THANKS MATE   s:lol: :lol: s:lol:

[tommyzoom99]

its a pretty good spot to watch from really round there,we got there very early to get a spot on the hill,

yeah we have the same problem going round wales theres always so much traffic in the summer.

cheers mate i think they suit the car well, i do like rotas and they can be had a reasonable price.......im probably not helping am i  s:) s:)

anyway took a load of pics from oulton so here a few, might as well post them here seeing as the mr2 is in some of them

love this car




spotted this beaut as well i do love car park hunting at oulton











1 of my fav of the day





mayhem





cheers tommy

[suj]

its a pretty good spot to watch from really round there,we got there very early to get a spot on the hill,

yeah we have the same problem going round wales theres always so much traffic in the summer.

cheers mate i think they suit the car well, i do like rotas and they can be had a reasonable price.......I'm probably not helping am i  s:) s:)

anyway took a load of pics from oulton so here a few, might as well post them here seeing as the mr2 is in some of them

Yeah was a great spot to sit on, great view of most of the action and the screen for the other bits.

Yeah it was really busy, so we didn't end up doing as much country road driving, but I guess we don't get many amazing days like that, so everyone was out (and it was the Peak District).

Yeah exactly, VFM is really good, what's the spec of your wheels (size, width, offset etc)?
Thanks

[tommyzoom99]

yeah great value think we paid £550 brand new from driftworks, they were a bit awkward to get hold of in the sizes we wanted  as they are staggered but they were very helpful and got them for us.

The wheel sizes are 15x7 with a ET20 Offset for the front and 16x8 with a ET20 Offset for the back.

But do note that the archs will need rolling out if you want them to fit in there properly otherwise they stick out a bit with these widths and offset and rub the arch. we just got a tool from ebay for 50 quid and did it our selves very easy to do.

Also ours are pretty close to the calipers (2mm) but dont touch and didnt require spacing, but say if you get a different design with these offsets and widths they might need spacing out im not sure, we brought 3mm hubcentric spacers but never needed them, there pretty cheap think we still got them in the garage somewhere.

cheers tommy