My 2001 Silver MR2 - Mr Stev3's track day now sprint roadster

Anonymous · May 11, 2015, 20:55

Id like to try it too. About 3hrs from me.

MrStev3 · May 11, 2015, 20:58

3 hours ain't to bad :-) :-) :-)

Anonymous · May 11, 2015, 21:30

I'm up for it

JoeCool · May 12, 2015, 17:26

Quote from: "tomaky"For me i think your first track day should be in a completley stock car, that way you learn the car as its all completley diffeerent to road driving, you then get a idea of what aspects of the car you then want to change to improve the car to your driving style, like at the moment I'm loosing the front before the rear, so I'm going to uprate the front arb rather than both to see how that changes things.

Do try letting a few psi out of the front tyres before doing anything too drastic to the suspension. It's amazing how much difference it can make to the balance of a car. My Mk1 felt like the fronts were pawing the air, dropping them from 28 to 25 Psi (IIRC it was a few years ago) firmed up the front end completely and it got it's balance back.

tomaky · May 13, 2015, 12:25

thats what i did last track day done 2 on the triple 8's had more of a play this time to very similar affect. Partly my fautl ive staggered 10mm prob should have matched. Will have another fettle if i ever get another day booked, could be july.

MrStev3 · June 15, 2015, 15:22

Well its been a while since ive updated. the car is now scrapped..........

na just kidding s:bounce: :bounce: s:bounce:
Basically the car was booked in for a cage, as the date neared I tried to contact the garage who were doing it and go no answer so I popped down and it was all locked up. I carried on over the next week ringing and popping down and nothing. so late afternoon a few weeks back I popped down to find that it was being cleared out. The boss who I originally booked with wasn't around. When I asked what was going on they said they were moving but couldn't or wouldn't tell me where too nor when or if my car could be done.
I was a little bit annoyed because surely if they were moving they could of told me 30 days before when the booked me in and the fact now I could get no info out of them seemed suspect to me so I walked away.

A month of doing nothing to the car but readying it for the cage was wasted time so called P&p and booked my cage which should be with me beginning of august. Huge props to these guys

I have a huge pile of parts but with work and little time my living room is looking like a tuning shop.

Also I sold my impreza my03 a week ago as it sat there and only did 900 miles in a year so that's gone to someone to enjoy as it should be, so 10 years of imprezas is over but to be honest im not too bothered as I use a new focus diesel for work and its more than sufficient but I maybe tempted to get a little mr2 to go for evening spins in over the summer as ive been left with a £4500 budget now its gone.

Anonymous · June 15, 2015, 15:31

Glad to hear you are going for the P&P hoop. they have done ok out of us lot!
Keep cracking at it...just think...it could be worse!! s:)

s:)

MrStev3 · June 15, 2015, 15:53

Quote from: "Meeerrrk"Glad to hear you are going for the P&P hoop. they have done ok out of us lot!
Keep cracking at it...just think...it could be worse!! s:) s:)

I know it could be worse and to be fair in not gonna complain as you've had it far worse and now it looks like you won't be coming to Wales and I had a sheep ready and everything
Hope you can get sorted soon though mark I really do

Anonymous · June 15, 2015, 15:55

I will come to Wales but it probably won't be for the day we discussed unfortunately s:(

s:(

MrStev3 · June 25, 2015, 20:52

Parts pile getting bigger every day

Plenty more on the way haha it's like Xmas

lamcote · June 27, 2015, 21:26

Quote from: "tomaky"For me i think your first track day should be in a completley stock car, that way you learn the car as its all completley diffeerent to road driving, you then get a idea of what aspects of the car you then want to change to improve the car to your driving style, like at the moment I'm loosing the front before the rear, so I'm going to uprate the front arb rather than both to see how that changes things.

Stiffening the front anti roll bar increases understeer, to decrease understeer you need to stiffen the rear.

tomaky · June 27, 2015, 22:13

Have to agree i did some research myself s:)

s:) about to go turbo the intention is to go coil overs as well and work from there s:)

s:)

Anonymous · June 27, 2015, 22:44

Quote from: "lamcote"
Quote from: "tomaky"For me i think your first track day should be in a completley stock car, that way you learn the car as its all completley diffeerent to road driving, you then get a idea of what aspects of the car you then want to change to improve the car to your driving style, like at the moment I'm loosing the front before the rear, so I'm going to uprate the front arb rather than both to see how that changes things.

Stiffening the front anti roll bar increases understeer, to decrease understeer you need to stiffen the rear.

Or soften the front s;)

s;)

lamcote · June 29, 2015, 00:26

True, but given the comment was that the preferred solution was to "uprate the front arb rather than both" my suggestion was to uprate the rear instead. I'm not sure if you can really soften the front arb without removing it altogether which is probably a bit extreme?

Anonymous · June 29, 2015, 06:32

This is true

MrStev3 · June 30, 2015, 16:11

So a few little new parts going on

New cat as the old one was toast

New cobra quad

I was going to do just the "o" ring but bought a new unit

I will stick some better pics up soon

tubbytommy · July 11, 2015, 16:59

is the old exhaust for sale s:)

s:)

MrStev3 · July 11, 2015, 18:27

Sorry tommy it's sold

Anonymous · July 11, 2015, 19:10

Any progress with the car ?

MrStev3 · July 11, 2015, 19:21

I will update
Test fitted cage today
Will try and fit tomorrow
New cat on
New exhaust on
New denso car sensor on
New harness here
Making centre console as we speak
New rear caliper here
Ordered a new helmet too
Money is leaking like I've got sterling diarrhoea

MrStev3 · July 24, 2015, 21:39

Update time

So with work being so busy it's been hard to find the time to get the car to where I want but here's some progress now having the ppcage fitted, new Trs 4 point harness and the new exhaust fitted

So dropped it in when it came just to have a look

Then over a few days here and there got it in
Sorry I didn't take many pictures of the stages

Very pleased with the cage and would recommend
Set me back more than I thought but excellent

And now a finished bum shot with new quad cobra, cat pipe and sensor plus gaskets or as I call it £700 of pain

mr mr2 · July 24, 2015, 21:44

That roll cage looks the part very smart

Anonymous · July 24, 2015, 22:17

Nice ! Did you weld the feet. In?

MrStev3 · July 24, 2015, 22:21

My father did the welding :-) :-) :-)
I'm not skilled in such things
The plates didn't quite line up with the feet so adjusting had to be done but after all the test fitting and marking my father fired up the welder and welded those bad boys in
Sprayed some paint over to stop the weld rusting , I know its black and the car is silver but nobody will see it

MrStev3 · July 27, 2015, 16:17

I've been working my butt off for a while now to get the car to meet the regulations for the toyota sprint series
I'm in c pro class and have paid up up and signed on
So August the 16th I'll be at croft for my debut round
Can't wait
I have a new helmet, race suit, boots , fuel equipment , fire extinguisher etc
Really excited
Everyone in my group is 2zz apart from Pete he's in his winning and awesome zombie mr2 mk2