10th Anniversary Edition - Turbo Project

[Rory]

Yeah - they are Rotas - 17x8 et 35 front and 17x9 et 35 rear. I cant remember exactly what they are but they are different wheels (by name) front and rear. The rears are deeper.

[Rory]

Just checked - They are Rota Torque on the front and Rota Torque Drift on the rear.

[RikH77]

Looks great Rory,

What suspension is the car running? Ideal height I'm after..

[Rory]

They are BC coilovers. The BR model. The ride is as comfortable as stock. Very good suspension setup. I did have them set a lot lower on my prev MR2. Ive had stock suspension, Tein super streets, tein s tech springs and now this BC setup. The BC is the best so far (in my opinion)

[RikH77]

Thanking you

[Rory]

Few jobs done today - Wiped over the engine bay to get some of the bodyshop dust off. Lowered the front approx 10mm further as it was sitting too high IMO. Ill book it in soon for full geo setup at wheels in motion. Also fitted a pretty smart headunit. On offer at halfords last weekend. £180 reduced to £59.99. Full bluetooth streaming from my iphone. Not the best engine bay shot due to the light. Ill try and get another one after ive cleaned it some more.







Also a shot of it in slightly lower light. Really pleased with the colour. It looks amazing in lower light levels (Also note it sitting slightly higher on the front as this was pre lowered) My other toy is in the backgound

[glen n]

The car is looking brilliant! How long did it take to clean the engine bay? My whole car is covered in dust inside and out,I'll be starting to rebuild it all on Wednesday and then start the clean up operation

[Rory]

It wasn't that bad when I started to be honest and isn't show clean now. I spent half hour with and oily rag and I reckon if I spent another hour or so it would look pretty tidy. There's a lot of engine parts painted silver anyway so they just wiped clean.

[craig]

Looking good buddy.

[Herts66]

Looks great - colour suits it really well.
Admiring the painted throttle boddy - wish I had done mine now!

[Rory]

Painting the throttle body was easy. Just take it off and use a combo of brake cleaner and a dremmel with mini wire brush attachments to get into all the little areas

[Rory]

Insurance all sorted. Got a great deal with the guys at sky. All mods declared with an agreed value.

[Rory]

Small mod for today - Not sure if I like it or not.....

Before



During



Finished (dirt on the lens and not paintwork imperfections)

[craig]

Decals look good mate.

[jimGTS]

I like it, matches wheels

[Rory]

Popped over to pacific works this morning. First time since getting it back from the bodyshop. Picked up a couple of blanking plugs for the front windscreen scuttle panel. I think I'm going to take the whole thing off again and spray it black at some point. I'll probably redo the windscreen arms at the same time. Also picked up a pretty tired looking apexi power intake from Luke.... Going to see if it will clean up. It cost me nothing so worth a try. Thanks Luke

[Rory]

Full geometry setup this weekend at wheels in motion. Surprisingly it wasn't generally way out. Rear tow was way out though. Can't recommend a full ego setup enough. It's worth the money any day. Also gave it a wash and hoover so it's immaculate again.

Apexi power intake cleaned and painted up ok. Pictures to follow

[Rory]

Also fitted 4 new speakers, disconnected the rear stock subs (can these be removed easily??) and wired in a bass tube/amp that I had kicking around. Low cost ice actually sounds pretty decent (for an mr2).

[Rory]

[Tubster]

Do you have any photos of installing speakers? I want to rip my stock ones out and put some decent ones in.

I had an issue with a whining noise coming from the stereo system but fixed it by re-attaching the aerial (can't believe that was the cause!), but the standard speakers on a rev 2 are just, well, rubbish.