So it's snowing...

Happy New Year folks!

See that white blob on the left? That's the MR2! lol!

Air Intake!

Forgot to mention (no picture either!), threw in a new Air Intake.

The old one was pretty nasty, and was held on with the old ghetto brown silicon couple (complete with AC Idle Up inlet, too bad I don't have AC). Threw in a new red threaded silicon couple and a spiffy chrome blue Air Filter. Looks like a million bucks.

Back in school for 4 months. The car will have to wait. :(

Lol..

Sorry for the lack of pictures. Time is running out and the camera has been taken south for school.

Drained the tranny fluid.. YUCK. 40% of the fluid was tranny fluid.. the other 60%.. not quite sure. I think it looks and smells like ATF.

Anyway, replaced the fluid with cheapo Canadian Tire 75w90, and 90% of the transmission noise went away. Took her for a spin with my dad. (could probably solve the problem with Redline MT-90, oh well.)

No problem doing anything in the car now, very little noise, cruising at 4000 rpm doesn't bust your eardrums either. Car spins on a dime (when we wanted it to) and turns sharp.

Power is smooth all the way from take off.

I leave for school on Friday at noon. Guess that means I'll get to enjoy the car for a single day (not even a full day!).

Still to do... but not urgent:

• Distributor rebuild
• Redo Interior
• Fix doors & locks
• Gut interior & weight reduction????

Woot. 8)

It lives! Really!

All shudder and shake problems are gone! The car is 100% except for the now audible transmission noises. Damn.

Took a peek under it quickly without a flash light. It almost looked like the fill plug was loose and the fluid was leaking past it. I'm off to Edmonton, but will work on the tranny next week. I hope it's just low fluid!

I'd love to pick up some Redline MT-90, but I don't think I'll have any luck with that. Hrmmmm.... 8D

Oh oh oh!

Three wheels polished... and the insurance inspection is complete. Possibly selling the Lexus tomorrow.

:)

MR2 will be getting out into the road soon! Thank god!

You've gotten better at polishing Aluminum (5)

MUCH Shinier!

Only microscratches this time! None of that hardcore sander swirl! (I still used an electric sander this time around! lol)

Remaining work until it's on the road:

-Insurance Inspection

-Rim Painting (25% complete)

-Rim Polishing (50% complete)

Remaining things to toy with:

-Redo interior (Remove carpet & replace with truck bed liner, redo doors, new seats?)

-Make engine valley cover

-Redo air intake (parts otw)

-Redo vacuum lines (parts otw)

-Rebuild distributor

-Replace tranny fluid

-Oil Change

-Upgrade to HIDs

-Convert yellow signal lights to white plastic w/ yellow bulb

Shining Rim!

Ahhh, the damage caused by a sander... That will teach me to not do a complete finish in 1500 grit.

Sexy, no?

Side by side comparison. Much better!

Look, despite my shitty sanding job, it shines!

Oo oo fresh paint!

Well, I got lazy. Didn't finish my sanding with 1000-1500 grit on the wheels. Far away they look like, AWESOME. Close up, ass.

Anyways, one wheel done, cheers! :)

Beauty!

Not Bad eh? She's STILL not done, but hey... I think it looks pretty damn good. I'm off to polish the wheels... ta ta! (PS, it's got 3-4 weeks of dust and crap on it, it hasn't been cleaned for any picture yet)

Throttle!

So the MR2 cable has 9 spun wires holding it together, mine only had 1 of those wires left! (YIKES!) But she's all better now!

The new throttle cable is in place! Picked up the cable for about $8 from http://www.flanderscables.com. Cut the old cable out, put the new cable in, took the old ends and put them on the new cable. Some crafty soldering (thanks Dad!) and two extra end clamps for 'security', and wala!

This cable is slightly larger then the old one, but only by a very small amount. Throttle feels crisp and everything was set perfectly. (ie: Pedal to the floor, engine at WOT, no overly excessive pull on cable)

Soooo. That leaves me with the front air dam, and 1 coat of clear for the rest of the car. Then it's just nit picking over the interior.

Oops, almost forgot to mention, Toyota wanted $275 for a new throttle cable. LOL $8 fix, and I 'could' have done it with $5 worth of cable! Guess this 'Do it yourself' stuff really pays off! hahah

I'm off to paint the front air dam. Chow!

Ok Seriously..

I want to do some work.. Stop it clouds.. Go away. Stop this silly rain!

Oh, first coat of Red on the front air dam... Waiting for rain to stop so I can do the 2nd/3rd/clear.. Lol.