Awesome work mate. Aintree Saturday 27th April if you fancy it. Bookings opened today. £160 session event.

They're very chilled on noise limits as well.

https://www.liverpoolmotorclub.com/track-day-information/

Quote from: JB21 on March 24, 2024, 17:36Awesome work mate. Aintree Saturday 27th April if you fancy it. Bookings opened today. £160 session event.

They're very chilled on noise limits as well.

https://www.liverpoolmotorclub.com/track-day-information/

Thanks mate but I'd rather do a few more local days to start with then will probably head over to Oulton in the summer so will have to a sort a day with a few of us?

Dan

Little update on the MRX.

Went for the MOT on Thursday and pleased to say passed with no issues, had a good look underneath on the ramps too and was pleased to say very little rust too. Had thought I may need to do some sills or something soon but thankfully not!

Was nice to drive the car again, felt quite sharp and exciting which is good! Have got the annoying k series leak from the rocker cover so ordered a new gasket and will pop that on.

Ordered and fitted some pull handles instead of the stock tubing, gives abit more space and personally think it looks better too!



Next I had been deliberating about a wing I had seen, its the SW motorsports one designed for the TT Cup racing series...I saw it and quite liked it, thought if its been designed for a TT they had a similar body shape/size so should be functional.

I bit the bullet and ordered one, test fitted it with the bumper off to help work out where it would be best.





Then mounted up properly, I'm quite please with it, seems to fit well, blade looks to be at a good height to the roofline and width of the car and is just big enough without looking TOO big and silly.





The keen eyed of you will have also spotted I've put a more normal rear bumper on too, albeit scabby condition I picked it up cheap and wanted to see if without the cut at the bottom it looks better...got to say I prefer it so thanks to 'Superart' for mentioning it.

Have picked up a TRD style rear lip to go on the bottom too so will get that sprayed on fitted.

I had a go at wrapping the wings...is abit fiddly, bit of heat helped alot and a second pair of hands would be really useful. However am not going to call it a day on the wrapping idea, the issue is I'm sure a professional outfit could get a lovely neat finish on the edges and underside of the panel, but me in my garage not so much. I know what I am like and I wouldn't be happy with the finish and the underside of the panels been different colours etc

Have a different plan now which will pop in a few days when I know more!

Dan

Next mini update...

So with the wrapping idea falling on its arse what was the next plan? Well one Thursday night I was scrolling Facebook market place and found what looked like a nice Black MR2 needing a few bits doing to it that was 3 miles down the road. Needless to say at 8am the next day I was looking round it and two days later it was back on my drive!

So the plan is to take all the black panels off (Have always liked the cars in Black), switch them onto mine, then I'll paint the hardtop, door shuts, engine bay etc to match. Then either keep the other shell as a spare or maybe for a future race car.

The new car;







Then starting to switch the panels over, I was really pleased at how clean from rust the car is!







How its sat now, Looking forward to having the rest of the panels on at the weekend, super excited about it as I have always not really liked the silver .






Many thanks

Dan

Got the last of the panels switched over, and also got the fibreglass hardtop, front and rear lips and side skirts back from the painters.

Really pleased with how all the panels look and the paintwork is in nice condition apart from the bonnet which the lacquer has faded. Will be getting this re-painted.

'Balanced' the lips and bits up so I can see what it will look like to get some pictures, will fasten and bond them up this week.

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Have also got a spare bootlid which is been sprayed black so I can just run the car without the wing on the road and then switch at the track...think it looks abit much on the road and dont want to get the wrong attention!



So next I need to paint the door shuts and few bits of silver that are left and the colour switch is complete

Also have been working on making the old shell into a nicer car which my Dad is going to use which will ne nice for him.



Just need to find/get some lowering spring and hopefully a maroon soft top to finish it off for him.

Dan

Car looks great, well done.

Love the wheels especially.

Quote from: Danny Scarbro on May  6, 2024, 13:16Just need to find/get some lowering spring

be aware of possible rubbing

Quote from: Alex Knight on May  6, 2024, 21:57Car looks great, well done.

Love the wheels especially.

Thanks Alex, was considering painting the wheels Silver to lift the car slightly but unsure....The famous 2 Black track Mr2's with Silver Enkei's just look so damn great and have been the inspiration to the black switch!

Dan

Quote from: Petrus on May  6, 2024, 22:20be aware of possible rubbing

Thanks for the heads up, I have read that some are worse than others and the Tein's are abit of a no go. Seems the H&R ones are the best option for ride height and comfort? Unless you have any advice Petrus?

Dan

Quote from: Danny Scarbro on May  7, 2024, 16:08Thanks for the heads up, I have read that some are worse than others and the Tein's are abit of a no go. Seems the H&R ones are the best option for ride height and comfort? Unless you have any advice Petrus?

Dan

I ran Tein springs on my car with Koni adjustable s it was brilliant all rounder, not too low and with the improved damper handling and ride were much improved, tried on stock dampers first but felt a bit underdamped.

Quote from: Danny Scarbro on May  7, 2024, 16:08Thanks for the heads up, I have read that some are worse than others and the Tein's are abit of a no go. Seems the H&R ones are the best option for ride height and comfort? Unless you have any advice Petrus?

Dan

Bronze on black is as good as it gets IMHO.

Quote from: Danny Scarbro on May  7, 2024, 16:08Thanks for the heads up, I have read that some are worse than others and the Tein's are abit of a no go. Seems the H&R ones are the best option for ride height and comfort? Unless you have any advice Petrus?

Dan

I´d think twice about lowering and méasure the space the tyres have three times (vs the inner edge of the wheel arches and do not forget the inner splash guard  protrusions ).

On real world roads both the OEM ground clearance and tyre clearance are not overly ample imo.
Secondly lower springs = stiffer springs and weirdly enough the after market lowering springs do not have the same front vs rear spring rate balance as TRD ones.  And this doés affect handling!

Since in the UK it is not much of a challenge to find custom spring manufacturers at reasonable money I´d look at thát.
Go mínimally lower if you must, thus ditto stiffer and dó keep the OEM/TRD front/rear spring rate balance in the picture.

FYI:
https://www.spyderchat.com/threads/spring-rates-table-for-lowering-springs.104465/?post_id=1511633#post-1511633

Great work! Fantastic to see all of the effort put into this!

Random question - how is the throttle cable linked to the K20a2 throttle cam (the one with the spring that you blip to raise the revs)?

I just removed the TB on my own K20 MR2 and cleaned the IACV and calibrated the TPS, put it back on and realised the end of the cable doesn't fit! If you have a better solution then it'd save me removing it all again to drill a larger hole!