Well the car is back on the road.






All up it cost about $1400 that was for parts and getting the head, radiator, injectors and starter motor reconditioned.

Im still running it in but it feels allot more solid than it used to.

Cars running strong after about 2000k's since rebuild, not even a puff of smoke to be seen.

put some new rear tie rods in from twosrus, very tidy things.


then swiftly went to dirty them

Down and dirty Adub, vcool.

Well after that muddy event i had to dig out about 18kg of dried mud from my rear suspension and about the same from the front but.....totally worth it for the fun value

some dirt pics:









Also at a recent Autocross an ex works Mk2 BDA escort was running, was used by colin bond to win 1978 arc, sounded amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchL9T8X9Jo

That looks like awesome fun.

certainly does





just one thing though
those rod ends wont last long with the driving that your doing
you need to protect them from the mud/dust/dirt
or they'll last only a few months.

Need a covering boot for them.
even if you use a tennis ball or squash ball
with 3 holes cut in it for the rod to enter and the bolt to pass through.
you would gain a huge amount of lifespan for the part.

after owing the car for 2 years i finally got rid of the knocking that was coming from the front of the car, i had replaced suspension bushes, sway bar tie rods etc and couldn't seem to get rid of it.

Replaced the bush that sits between the steering rack and housing - bamm knock gone and highway speed steering wheel wobble gone :D

2hardtop: defiantly would need more protection but i don't do the dirt events often and that weekend was a rare boggy one(usually more soft dust than caked on mud). will keep an eye out on it though.

Have done a small brake upgrade before heading to my next trackday:

updating my thread with some incar videos:

Autocross 1 - mr2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwk5wfFFeAg

Autocross 2 - Dads Ae86 + my mr2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u_vP5SD8I

Gday, I am looking for one of those engine props, had one on my AW11 a couple of years back. Now that I have just bought a neew AW11 I am looking for a prop again, can you help me ???