I guess I have enough to get a thread going.So I've had my supercharger for a couple of years now.
I drove it for about 9 months as my daily through an Autumn-Winter-Spring. She held up really well through all weathers and I enjoyed getting to work in the snow - easier than the Cayman I had before it thanks to the narrower tyres.Here she is in the snow.
...December 2010
Late April 2011 rolls around and we decide to do a driving holiday up to and around North Scotland.
In short we couldn't get the kit in the MR2 and we can't use the roof rack on a T-bar. I didn't want to take the better half's Mini Cooper S, so it was time for a new car 
it was a toss up between a 996 911 and an NSX. In retrospect I wish I'd gone for the NSX for various reasons but, the 911 won out (I think it was because this one ticked nearly all the right boxes and there weren't any NSXs out there at the time that I fancied).So, quite quickly this became the daily.
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And did 1700 miles around the country in two weeks.
Essentially its been a great car that gets a bad reception on the road and the parts and labour cost a bomb. And the sound...it's just terrific with the sports exhaust. She's used all my savings up running her for two years and 35k miles so she'll be off soon. But I've been saying that for a while! 
There's been lots of umming and arring and tooing and froing about what's going to replace the 911.
I wanted something that wouldn't be financed (so less than 5k) so I could save up for a decent deposit on a GT86 next year (or pay off debt for a new house...depending on who you talk to...). Eventually I remembered I had a garage full of MR2 and it couldn't be too much trouble to sort, could it? I mean...how hard can it be?!I'd already made inroads in to assessing the condition of the easily removable stuff and it wasn't looking too brilliant.
..Rotted rear crash bar only half fixed to car.
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And a front crash bar, oddly warped front bumper and no crash bar attachment bolts so I could just pull the bumper assembly off.
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A little filler blending in the splitter.
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Radiator support bar is pretty much shot.
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And why is it at such a funny angle?
Oh yeah, the radiator support bar has been driven in to something and has half come off the front of the chassis. not easily seen her but it took me a while to figure out why the radiator wasn't perpendicular to the chassis frame.
.New rad as well.
I think if I had the time all that rust would come off, because the rad support bars cleaned up OK in Deoxy. Gonna go for a modern fan wired in to the circuit to replace the two fan set up. I have a better cowl and fan assembly but would prefer the modern fan as there'll be more space behind the fan to dissipate hot air. I think it'll flow more air than the two old school fans and will do so more quietly - but can't prove that yet.Going around the car, there's what looked like a bit of rust on the offside rear corner, perhaps just a bit of discolouration from standing outdoors for a while.
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But no.
Some angry grinding later, we have this:
.And the nearside sill connector has also been on a bit of a diet:
.The top of the windscreen had free and easy access to water so that needs fixing and water proofing too
Turns out that the offside sill connector has been repaired
(to an ok standard) at the same time as welding over the drivers side aft floor bung and is still ok. The rust brown is just water staining on the sound deadening. I've painted the passengers floor up to the sill height in black POR15 and will do the same to the drivers side just to stop water getting under the sound deadening.
I set myself the deadline of making it to Japfest this year.
I've been trying to get there for 5 years now and I only live 10 miles away!The strip down has been in process for some time now but got really busy in the last couple of weeks.
I've got to keep the car running to get it in and out of the garage as the drive has a slope on it, and I've found out that you don't need any dash for the car to start and run!The interior and all the exterior trim etc are currently spread all over the house, and the car is quite bare.
The chassis will be taken away for two weeks for bodywork and paint from next monday and my next challenge is to get the engine/gbox out before the car leaves so that I can work on that whilst the car is away.
More posts on different areas to follow.
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