Well to pop my cherry in terms of content related posts, I figured it would be a good idea to introduce my 2 current works in progress. The green car is a Gen 1 1990 SW20 with a 3SGE, while the red is a Gen 1 1990 SW20 with a 3SGTE. Both hardtop, both Gen 1, what a score!! For those who don't know, the Gen 1s are the cars that gave MR2s their notoreity for "snap oversteer" before they were toned down by Toyota in 1992 to understeer more and ran more toe in amongst other changes.
A scenic drive to Otaki Forks along some really nice twisties and a brilliant gravel road!
At this stage, I hadn't done anything except a service to the car and slapped on my Enkei RP01s. 15x7 +35 running some mega balloon tires.
The turbo with some totally tasteless bits on it. Pet peeves were the massive misfire, the shoddy wiring, the weird positive camber on the right rear, along with terrible stickers and my rear light mid console being painted silver. Poor car was in a right solid state before it came into my hands.
As luck would have it, after the car's first wash and wax (both in my ownership and what would seem like the first time in a very long time judging by the grime I removed), the car refused to start or idle properly. After much swearing, cranking of the engine and taking lots of deep breaths, I decided to persevere and strip the car down to do it some justice.
Before I continue with updating my progress to our current date, I must confess, I am a bit of a wheel whore. Currently, not including standard rims and associated steelies, I actually have 19 rims (yes lol five sets but sadly one is a set of three). Sometimes I find it relatively therapeutic to run some different wheels on cars just for a change, or going to the shed to admire and dream at the future specs of the rims.
But onwards with progress. After some messing around and faffing about (as MR2 parts are sadly hard to find and command a premium here in NZ), I managed to find a pair of Tein front and D2 rear coilovers for the cars. Sadly the fronts are boned in a major way, so what else was there to do but slam it. Naturally, they were wound all the way down and I chucked them in the NA for a bit of a giggle. BOOM! Rode like ass, was literally 2cm away from my driveshafts but man it looked good.
In my time waiting for suspension and just my token hoarding in general, I found myself an SW specific bolt in rollcage and I test fitted it and ran it for a week for some shits and giggles (not bolted in of course, as it was a fully adjustable cage lol)
Stay tuned for more updates as a lot of progress has happened, so here's some teasers.
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