Cant wait to see your thoughts on the EFR, I would like to go with an EFR on mine one day as I think it should be a very responsive turbo as well as being very capable of producing good numbers.

Yup, made up a drain pipe... the way the manifold sat when the hose was dummied up I wasn't happy with how it would drain so opted to use pipe instead so that it was always going downhill, couldn't do that with the hose.
 
Actually had to redo a fair bit due to that manifold as it wanted to foul on everything haha, dipstick tube, drain pipe, oil cooler fittings, even the oil/coolant bypass initially fouled... but got there in the end and then heatshielded everything for good measure... so yep... that was fun making a custom dipstick tube and dipstick lol

The EFR is a twinscroll so Vband is out, But i've got a high quality MLS gasket there so "Hopefully" it'll stand up to what get's thrown at it...
 
It's on 258rwkw on 16psi and we only went to the factory 7200rpm where power was still going up. What will it make once cams dialled in, higher redline and 30psi... not sure? 
 
comparing it to the CT20, the dyno run with the CT20 was on 6psi by 2800rpm and the 16psi by 3500-4000rpm as I recall. I dont have the info with me but from memory the EFR was on 16psi by at least 4700rpm, probably sooner. Launch control , anti-lag and shift cut not yet set up either so got that up the sleeve too 
 
It'll be road reg, actually just waiting for the engineer to do the IM240 test on it and sign it all off, But I love doing hillclimbs and track runs, you can push yourself so much harder than you could ever safely do on public roads.

That would of been John and David heading south

MR2 Trackday Challenge 2016:
 
Sorting out the clunky noise which turned out to be the wrong type of gearbox oil... I had 75-80w GL5-6 Oil and after changing to 75-80w GL4 gearbox oil... and some penrite limslip additive, the clunk went away in about 10 seconds, so was happy with not needing to pull the diff apart, I was finally able to make it down to wakefield for the trackday challenge.
 
After a rather exhausting trip made it down to wakefield and even with what ended up being over 11hrs of driving starting at 9:30am, I was extremely excited to finally not only give my SW20 it's first drive since the rebuild. On top of that It would also be it's first time competing on a full circuit and with other cars, also the first time it's seen all it's brother and sister MR2's in their various guises since a group from QLD came to coffs to say hi back in... 2006?
 
There was alot of excitement on sunday night as everyone was anticipating weather and how awesome their driving was going to be amidst all the general banter of the BBQ where everyone was either catching up or introducing themselves, even well into the morning hours of monday. I'm not sure I slept, as I remember waking up several times before the sun was up and when It was and I saw the first car was able to access the pits, it was game on.
 
As soon as Drivers Briefing was out of the way I think I was halfway ready before my group was called up for the hillclimb stage. Went and lined up with everyone and did our scouting lap, get the tyres warmed up on the way down, I'm thinking, "Yeah, I got this". 1st run was a quick scout and the car felt good, that boost was giving a serious kick even at 14psi. There was one low speed corner where you turn off the track onto the hillclimb part but it flowed nicely. 2nd run was my good one... launched great... 2nd gear was great, on 3rd gear my car decided to disconnect the intercooler pipe and end my fun for the hillclimb till I got back to the garage.
 
With the pipe inspected and re-installed and tightened "That much" more I was ready just in time to do the clubman sprint. I quickly found the limits of grip with the cheap street tyres I had on there and after locking up, nearly having a lose on the last corner... actually running out of traction and finding the sand I decided I better put the semi-slicks on, as I had tyre smoke waft in through the cabin... More concerning was the smoke coming up from the engine bay as I pulled into the garage ... Molten plastic on the downpipe? but theres only an engine lid above it? Oh wait... here's an untrimmed partially melted zip tie... right, not sure how you got missed but let's fix you up and scrape that crap away.
 
The Semi's had a whopping 10 - 14 psi in each corner and pumped them up just in time for the Tarmac Stage. Tyres felt a ton better and was alot more confident but left my brakes wanting for more stopping power, I think the EBC's are getting ditched for the project mu's next time. After a warm up/orientation lap I went to have a crack and... surprise... the other intercooler pipe says no. It really didn't like that change from 2nd to 3rd.
 
Fixing up the other intercooler pipe and checking out everything else along the intake... I was right to go and suss it out in the passenger session... not competitive, but need to make sure it's good for tomorrow when the full track is used... car was feeling good and finished up the day confident it was good for Tuesday.
 
At the end of the day everyone lined up for that awesome photo along the main straight and some group photo's all sweaty and weary from the day but overall everyone was happy to have made it through the day, though I think few weren't scarred from some drama from the day be it minor and stupid (zip ties on downpipes) or major (breaking a wheel and moving the suspension points on the chassis... or a dead alternator), though there were plenty of heat related issues as well.
 
The Night was enjoyable with pretty much everyone at the bbq. I've never seen spontaneous evaporation but pretty sure most of us didn't feel the first drink go in, let alone hit the sides for the heat of the night.
 
 
 

What a story teller you are haha! Good read 
 
No wonder I got a bit of a shock when I saw your engine bay at the event...it turns out that I somehow missed this build thread entirely until yesterday. 

Having had a look over the car after the trackday I've found myself with the car apart again to sort out some of the issues that showed themselves at wakefield.
 
Thankfully most of the things that caused me concern were non events.
- I did have the fuel pump fail... again... That makes 3 faulty fuel pumps now from 2 different manufacturers... thankfully it's the external one so nice and accessible.
- Engine bay heat was pretty nasty as demonstrated by my twosrus engine mount... thankfully its a solid unit but the melted urethane has stayed all gooey. Pretty sure that stuff melts at like 400-600 degrees celcius so it was pretty damned hot. Will be making up a heatshield for it and those 2 bolt's are looking like a great spot to mount it to.

 
Also to keep the engineer happy and ensure it's fine for emissions I've proceeded to wrap the manifold and downpipe up to the cat converter.

- Modified the cylinder head a bit to allow quick removal of the manifold.
- Noticed the locking tabs that hold the turbine housing to the turbo cartridge... of the 6 of them 2 had come loose and 1 was completely gone... they are getting loctite this time.
 
With the bad news out of the way I've got the whole exhaust out so have been able to fit the AFR sensor to the exhaust to finish off the install of my shiny new gauges. Still need to locate where I can tap into for oil pressure... Boost is easy and now reads up to 45psi ;)