1996 Toyota MR2

[pablo]

Cars looking good Dan. Have you actually owned a car that you haven't tracked
Wouldn't mind getting Stu to do the Explorer.

[Daniel]

Looks lovely I has a GS300 in that colour and I would agree it looks stunning when polished and in the sunshine.....now stop slacking Dan get a job and get some more mods done

All in good time John, all In good time. Me and dad have been setting up a company so it won't be long now until it's all up and running properly.

Cars looking good Dan. Have you actually owned a car that you haven't tracked
Wouldn't mind getting Stu to do the Explorer.

Thanks Paul. Nope, all of them have seen the track at one stage or another. Tell a lie, the Supra didn't but I did use it at the Marham auto test.
You should, the process makes a whole world of difference!

[john B]

You may have well tracked the Supra for all the stick you gave it at Marham mate......I can still picture the torture you put it through and smell the tyresmoke...

[Daniel]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the amount of slinging that thing got. Managed to break off the centre cat pan. (no idea how)

[john B]

I think I know mate LOL

[Daniel]

Not saying anything.

[Monster]

Not saying anything.

[Daniel]

Well it's been a couple of months now since my last update, and I can report that the car has been behaving itself! Still a bit of a shock as the blue one didn't go a couple of days without something needing attention.

However I do have one minor but important issue that needs sorting out.



Reminds me of 2008 - 2010 ^

The clutch slave cylinder doesn't have a heat shield! I noticed on my 20 minute stint at Snetterton that the clutch went all limp and shitty after just a couple of laps.
So my guess is that the pipework suffers a fair bit from heat soak since the exhaust is right next to it.


You can just make out the piece of shield left under the bolt heads.



Once I managed to squeeze down in the engine bay and slacken the bolts off, this is all that remains of the heat shield. I popped into Dingles Attleborough last week and bought another one, but it has to come from Japan!




But the fun and frolics doesn't stop there. Obviously you can't help but have a nose around underneath the car once it's up in the air, and I came across this;



At some point its obviously failed the MOT and had a 'quick' fix. Both the exhaust and cat flanges are missing and welded together. Nice. I'll replace both the cat and silencer at some point, but for now they aren't leaking/failing so they'll stay.

[russ979]

Would i be right in remembering that we spotted something a miss with the exhaust system? I am sure it was the exhaust that didn`t match up to the standard of the rest of the underside of the car?

[RX7]

Most of the stuff for the Rex from Mazda comes from Japan mate unless on the rare occasion they have one in the parts store in Belgium. Its not that bad in terms of timescales.

Thats a pretty crusty exhaust but yeah if it's working now then great. Guess it depends if you are keeping the car longer term.