Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by wilki »

Sat Jun 16, 2012:
Hi everybody.
After struggling with my car starting in the rain and cutting out and my previous efforts failing :cry: I realised it was more than just drainage issues. As its apparent water is my enemy I purchased a new dizzy cap gasket :th: .......... Made no difference :cry: :lol:

So my next thought was cracked dizzy cap as the starting/cutting out issues were getting worse. So I got a new Blueprint dizzy cap from A1 motorsports £25 :thumleft: So I set about replacing it and when I came to removing the "king" HT lead it felt very stuck :-k By this point it had started raining in a real kind of biblical fashion and I kept dropping my tools through the engine bay I was getting ticked off :-x I just ripped it out and the pin from the lead was still in the dizzy cap #-o
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and nothing was left in the lead #-o
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Oops :rolleyes: but looking at the dizzy cap I had an immense calcium build up.

Gave Mr T a ring and for £20 pounds I was getting a new king HT lead first thing in the morning:
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With a new lead in hand I tried again:lol: ......success \:D/ started so much quicker & smoother than before & the engine sounded much happier idling :thumleft:

With the cars reliability sorted I moved onto tarting my 2 up some more :D
Replaced my crank case breather filter with a nice shiny red one 8):
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And I invested in a set of Toyota mudflaps:
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I like these a lot, make the car look lower and finish the body off, will help keep it cleaner for longer too :D :lol:
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Moo
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by Moo »

Great read, nice car :thumleft:
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by wilki »

Cheers :D
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craig
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by craig »

Yup, car looks great bud :D
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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Wed Jun 27, 2012
Because the child in me is too strong......I've let myself do this
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"Hawaii 5-0 theme tune" :lol: :lol: :lol:
I know some people will be disgusted by this but it's all for a laugh and aint that what owning 2's are about, and most of all it just puts a smile on peoples faces :D
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craig
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by craig »

The EDF energy blob? :mrgreen:
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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indeed :D
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craig
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by craig »

wilki23 wrote:indeed :D


Our lass loves that little thing! She wants the actual one off the ad! :mrgreen:

Does look pretty cool in the window :thumleft:
wilkie senior
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by wilkie senior »

Well Dad is not going to be outdone by son


i have Brian from family guy, as someone said on the MR2OC forum, "i always think of a white dog that talks when i see your post Brian lol"

putting it on tonight for when we go over to skipton

Brian
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Post by craig »

Love it, Dad Vs Son for the best MR2 competition! :mrgreen: :thumleft:
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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Mon Aug 10, 2012:

Right i've had some staggered 16" Sparco Crimson alloys for months and months now. I finally got my act together and started refurbing them as JAE finally loomed close :lol:

So this is what I was up against
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The looked better than this until i washed them :lol:

So I got to work on refurbing them
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Brian helping out
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And finally got the outer rim sortted, took sooo much work to get these looking good again
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Then I got the rims sprayed and colour coded to the car
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The next thing was to clean up the centre caps
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And finally I fitted them and this is the result, sortted just in time for JAE, the night before in fact :lol:
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I'm well pleased with the result :D
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alan_uk
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Post by alan_uk »

That looks stunning mate love the colour coded wheels nice to see another rev5 owner
Magic Beans
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Post by Magic Beans »

Those wheels came up well :thumleft:

Is your dad the rep from MR2OC? Can't remember his name but had a good chat to him at JAE.
RickMcRick
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These wheels looked great, every credit to you and Brian!!

Magic Beans wrote:Is your dad the rep from MR2OC? Can't remember his name but had a good chat to him at JAE.


Yep, Brian :)
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Post by tonigmr2 »

Good skillz on the refurbing!!
synXero
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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:thumleft: :thumleft: Cosmos Blue!

You can see my Cosmos Beams here:
http://thrll.com/car/1997-toyota-mr2-12845
(you should join up to this site, good tool)

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I've been deliberating taking the mud flaps off my old white 2 and fitting them to this one... Have you any more photos?
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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Cheers for the positive comments guys :D
I think colour coading the spokes was either going to look good or really bad and i'm glad it ended up looking good, well I think so anyway :D
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RikH77
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by RikH77 »

it always looks good mate

i mean.......look at mine with the black d1's :lol:
wilki
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

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Indeed :thumleft:
You have a good point :lol:
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RikH77
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Re: Project - Cosmos Eagle (New owner)

Post by RikH77 »

can you and brian keep an eye out for a bomex or aeroware front skirt for me - colour no issue as ive got other bits to paint 8)
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