JLW's ( REV 3 GT spec Turbo, smg Tbar ) YVS Performance Built

[craig]

Great job mate, car looks great!

[JLW]

Great job mate, car looks great!

Cheers Bud, now focusing on performance and braking
in the next month or so. cannot wait to get it mapped on
aftermarket ECU. Really feel I have explored the limits of 260bhp.

[JLW]

Something I've been wanting to do for a while
was to create a "Mod List" so here we are, all of what I can
remember off the top of my head, excluding service items etc.

This will be improving and changing for the better soon with Brakes and
engine

E N G I N E:
. Phoenix Power side mounted intercooler
. Berk technologies De-Cat pipe
. Blitz Nur Spec R full exhaust system
. Greddy Type R Adjustable BOV / dump valve
. 8MM Magnecor Ignition Lead Kit
. TRD Sports Iridium Sparkplugs - Grade 7
. Apex Power Intake
. TOM's radiator cap
. TRD oil cap
. BRD gearbox linkage bushes
. Bosch "supreme power" battery
. SAMCO boost pipe hoses
. Ceramic coated intercooler pipes

C H A S S I S:
. Meister R zeta R CRD+ coilovers ( 3 way adjustable )
. TOM’S Front Strut Brace
. TOM’S Rear Strut Brace
. New drop links & bushings all round
. Eibach Camber Bolts - Front
. Full archwork roll by Arch Enemy

B R A K E S:
. Rev 3 Turbo callipers
. Chris Wilson "fast road pads"
. Miller's 300 plus Fluid

W H E E L S & T Y R E S:
. Front - Rota Torque's 17x8J et35
. Rear - Rota Torque Drifts 17x9J et30 ( 5mm spacers )
. Front - Yokohama AD08r 215/40/17
. Rear - Yokohama AD08r 235/40/17

E X T E R I O R:
. Full re-spray by DPM autobody in OEM "smg"
. Border carbon bonnet
. Aerocatch Plus flush lock kit
. Aeroware polyurathane front lip
. Smoothed front bumper
. Greddy Gracer side skirts
. Smoothed GT spec electronically retractable mirrors
. Phoenix Power rear spats
. TRD wing , with carbon end caps
. Rev 5 clear front light units
. Raybrig ( style ) Crystal headlight units
. UK spec front indicator delete mouldings
. Full 70% dark window tint by Auto Eclipse
. Osram nightbreaker 7000 headlight bulbs
. Osram Nightbreaker H3c fog light bulbs

I N T E R I O R :
. OMP corsica 330mm deep dish wheel / yellow stitch
. MoMo boss wheel adapter
. Corbeau Pro series XL in leather with yellow top stitch x2
. Corbeau Side mounts x2
. Rouge Motorsport ground rails
. Corbeau lumbar support ( drivers seat )
. TRD duration gear knob
. Sickspeed suede / yellow stitch gear surround
. Gloss black dash plastics
. JDM Toyota rescueman 3 security hammer
. JDM OEM toyota footwell flare
. Black rev 1 T-Bar headlining + tims and shades
. UK Rev 5 Leather Door cards
. Modified AC unit with Blue bulbs and backlight ( Peter G @ SBITS )
. Modified clock ( blue overlay )
. White 501 LED bulbs in dash

A U D I O:
. Edge 6.5” Front Speakers
. Edge 4” Rear Speakers
. Sony MEX - BT4000U Bluetooth Head unit

S E C U R I T Y
. Clifford Alarm System 3

S E R V I C E & O I L' S:
. Redline Mt90 gearbox oil
. Fuchs Titan Pro Race R 10w50
. OEM Toyota oil filter
. OEM Toyota fuel filter

[Magic Beans]

That's a lovely looking car

[JLW]

That's a lovely looking car

Thanks Pal.

All out on performance now !

[JLW]

So not the best thing to have to post, but at least it
seems there is a silver lining. Got back from a long days work
the other night, to get a knock at the door from my neighbours.

Turns out another neighbour that I can't stand and also a raging alcoholic
miserable B**CH reversed into the drivers wing and door along with the drivers front wheel then drove off hoping no one saw her , luckily
my other decent neighbours did !!
Not a single apology and stinking of booze she gave me her details for insurance,
I got right onto the case and told her insurer that it will go no where else other then DPM !!

Now for the silver lining , I was ridiculously belligerent and managed to get them to accept DPM's estimate without hassle
within 1 day of the damage being done.

Yes I have just spent literally 2 days on the wheels myself sorting out 2
small curb marks / polishing and sealing. However I always wanted them a lighter shade of Gunmetal / Anthracite.
So here is my opportunity to get them Re-Furbed ......Glass half full kinda guy

Thing is the car is due to be showed on DPM's stand at Players on the 18th
which gives us a rush to get the work fixed. But Daves onto it and it will be back to Mint shortly.





Thinking of going for their "Dark Anthracite" colour.

[androo007]

If I were you mate, I'd watch for her to go out one evening and call 999 with her reg plate. Chances are they will pick her up drunk.

I wouldn't be able to hold my tongue if that was me.

[JLW]

So dropped the car down to DPM and a couple of days later started to receive
photo's back of the work along with the strap line of, "got you a little present"

Outside of the Insurance claim Dave kindly blasted over the front lip
that looked as though it had been shot blasted with stones from
fast driving and stone chips


He also did the rear grill in gloss black, as this was something we thought
might look nice. Top man !



And then the photo's of the insurance work to be carried out came through.




At the same time the wheels had returned from Lepsons
from being powder coated in the "Dark Anthracite" colour they
offer. They look amazing and the powder coating is 100x better then
the original paint that Rota supplied them in !



The car was all back together, minus the Rota's as I had told Dave to leave
these of as I had plans to fit the below custom order... LOVE or HATE mod

[Draven]

How could AD08R's be hate.. they are awesome tyres

[JLW]

How could AD08R's be hate.. they are awesome tyres

Haha , no I already have the tyres mate, have so for a year now.
Amazing tyre and Ill never change. Thats a "Custom Design" .....
Tyre Stickers

[androo007]

Oh no! Tyre stickers hate. ...it's so American.

Looking superb, I love this car.

[JLW]

Haha , as I said... Love or hate.
I personally love the look, RWB cars are probably my favourite
modified style of car, so have alway's love the painted "Idlers"
stencil Sakai-San uses

I had it years ago on a stripped and caged mk3
2.0 zetec swapped Fiesta I built, and thought it looked boss. But that
was Type pen. These are permanent rubber adhesive stickers.

[Draven]

Oh no! Tyre stickers hate. ...it's so American.

Looking superb, I love this car.

Oo i see, no they look good.

[JLW]

For the last month or so I've been doing research into the best braking system upgrade for my car.
http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic. ... highlight=
Almost unanimously had feedback on here saying that
a "Big Brake Kit" is overkill, and can actually cause more harm then good,
if the breaking bias is affected adversely. So then it was, whats going to be the
best "disc & pad" combonation. After hearing so much Bad news about EBC
products such as their drilled discs and "yellow stuff" pads completely
disintegrating, I found out about the "Porterfield R4S" fast road and track pad.
http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic. ... c&start=20


Paul at TCB parts had already advised upon the "MTEC dimpled and Grooved"
discs and along with a set of "HEL" braided lines and managed to source the
Porterfield pads. For fluid he has recommended a GULF fluid that performs better then Motul RBF660
but for the same price, so thats being ordered shortly as I intended to do the braided lines after discs and pads due to funds.

I received through the parts from TCB whilst the car was at DPM, with
the intention of fitting on Friday the 16th.




The reason being is that I left for Paris for work on the 12th due to return on the 15th
late at night, and on the 18th was Players 10th anniversary car show that DPM Autobody had a stand on.
My car was one of 4 to be shown on his stand. It was going to be tight but we thought we could do it.

Typically the 16th rained all day, leaving me to swap the discs and pads, and fit the newly re-furbished wheels
on the day before the show. Started with the fronts and had no issue's. At the same time
I wanted to give the disc guards a coat of gloss black paint as
they had become brown and rusty over age. I had some of the "Foliatec"
brake calliper paint that I used to do the callipers last year so used that.
Gave them a good wire brushing and cleaned off with brake cleaner
then a lick of paint.






Re-Assembled and with new pads and discs and a liberal coating of copper grease in the required areas.




Then I repeated the same process for the rear's, but this is clearly when problems
started to arise.



During the fitting process of the new discs and pads I knew that the pistons had to be pushed back in on the front,
but had done this before with relative ease using just my thumbs ! , This time however it needed a G clamp
to get them to slide back in. This was nothing in comparison to the rear
pistons, I didn't actually have a calliper winding tool and had to leave what I
was doing and drive to a neighbours local garage to lend one.
Upon using the tool it became apparent that they were not in perfect order,
as it took all my strength to wind it back in on both sides. It got so bad on the
drivers rear that i had to use a lever bar on the tool to get the slots of the piston in the right location for the pads to line up !!

This should have been a warning sign of things to come, but I'm only a basic mechanic on my own vehicles.
Anyway car back together finally at 6pm ( started at 11:30am )
and it was time for a test drive.
A mate jumped in with me and we took it to the next village and back
doing a process that Paul at TCB explained would be the best to bed in the new
brake setup with.

1st heat cycle:
5 x 40-15mph slow downs with conservative pressure

allow to cool for 30 mins

2nd heat cycle:
5x 60-15mph slow downs, increasing pressure on each one. ending with
large presssure.

Cool down.

We applied the 1st heat cycle treatment, with lots of noises
coming from the brakes that seemed to be the coating of the discs
wearing off possibly. Then got back to the garages. This is where I possibly didn't
help by applying the hand brake ! , left the car for 5 minutes then tried to drive it down to the house.
As soon as the wheels made one full rotation there was large bang and a big sensation through the pedal,
leaving a white mark on the passenger side rear disc.
This we now think is because applying the hand brake with the pads still not cooled and being Carbon / Kevlar,
They stuck to the pads surface. The car kept on making a large knocking noise
each time the wheels would complete one full rotation that was made
100x worse if you applied the brakes.

No Players show for me was properly F++king gutted and
with all that we had done to get the car ready in time, felt I had screwed it all
up. That night Gazza & Paul were really helpful and mentioned it could be the hand brake cables.
so at 6:30am Sunday morning there I was removing them.
But it made no difference. Clearly in Hindsight and since speaking to people
it sounds like the rear callipers are binding and the extra spacing needed and much more bite on the new pads
have just shown up an issue that was probably apparent before hand.

Silver lining I guess is that now I know they were not perfect before hand.
So Sunday was now reserved for heavy drinking to waste away the sorrows
of missing something I had been looking forward to for a while.
Anyway I had recently met a couple of guys that started a company called
"Accelerated motor repairs" that did so after leaving Abbey motorsport
at a local car show. One of which has a Time Attack EVO 8 and the other
"20k's worth of MR2 Turbo" so Ive booked them in to re-build all the callipers if and fit the braided lines and put the new fluid in.
Along with new hand brake cables.
At least ill have the best braking setup I could have once its done.

[SonicSW20]

You'll be surprised at how good they are once the caliper rebuild is done - the stock brakes with good pads are very capable

[JLW]

yeah I'm sure they will be mate, at the end of the day I cannot imagine in 21 years, they have ever been re-built. So its about time.

[Draven]

Sad times,

those disks look epic though.

[SonicSW20]

yeah I'm sure they will be mate, at the end of the day I cannot imagine in 21 years, they have ever been re-built. So its about time.

Yeah, one of those things with MR2's.

As long as they are rebuilt properly with all new bits inc. new stainless steel pistons, and new slider pins, they'll last ages. Get yourself some Toyota brake grease - it's a bit thinner than the generic stuff. Not too expensive either. Once a year just pop the calipers off, give them a good clean, clean up the slider pins, and regrease.

Will get a link for the grease, two mins.

[SonicSW20]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Toyot ... 1784252750

[JLW]

Cheers bud, I'm just trying to figure out whats going to be cheaper.
either the company carrying out the work buys the £15 rebuild kits from
"Big Red" and re-builds each one.

Or TCB have quoted me a price of £341 for 4 fully re-built and re-conditoned callipers.
Its basically how long will it take to re-build my ones vs new ones ?