I will have a spare 3sge gen 3 engine shortly ;-)

So after further investigation, turns out it isnt the head gasket. It was due to simply the extremely cool temparatures. an intermittent ignition lead and one of my co workers thinking that pouring the reminants of his water bottle into my exhaust would be "funny"

I have been making some progress with getting the v6 prepped. The tuner is doing me an amazing price on a custom loom and ECU, so I dont have to worry about that side of things. Uni has sapped me on time so hopefully over the holidays I will have some more time to focus on that

I managed to get a turbo box, and a friend pulled it apart for me (well I helped a little :P)
The box had some pretty bad water damage, it was nearly completely full of water at some point in time. Never the less, i still salvaged a case, the shifter components and a good factory LSD



My plan with the gearbox is to get a camry box and install the internals into the mr2 box. This will give me long ratios and a LSD
 

Whilst procrastinating an assignment the other day, I made some more progress on my prototype engine tyre rack. This mounts to the strut tower and protrudes out where the side panels would be. A rack then slots in over the top and will eventually have a bolt that goes through the assembly to secure it there.






I will need to make it a bit more basket shaped, as at the moment the wheels dont sit in there too well. I also need to look into the legalities of this. Not sure if it comes under roof racks or what :P

I also got a couple of the original sales brochures. Very cool!

I like the optional Recaro seats in brochures

That idea could be easily adapted to make a bike rack too which would be verrrryyy cool.

I will keep you updated on the racking chris

Went out to QR today with a couple other Mr2's. I had an amazing time, learnt alot about driving and racing.

Stole these pics from Aaron :P





Todays driving really showed me that it isnt the car that matters, but moreso the driver. One example is the Excel cup cars. they only have 90hp but they destroyed me through the corners and we were about equal in acceleration. After a while I drove harder and harder until I could eventually keep up with them for two laps but it was pretty exhausting!

Another example is a fellow in a HSV clubsport who wanted to race me on every straight, but when it came to the corners I was able to grab the inside and take him 

TLDR;
What I learnt today:
-I dont need that much power. I did find that my car ran out of puff at arround 6200~. A quick change to the next gear solved this issue
-Planting your right foot can save your ass
-180km/h is very very fast :P

Overall car performed flawlessly. 
Cannot wait for the next track day!

I knew this would happen at some stage, but didn't think it would be this year

I will just leave this here...

Oh sweet, you've got a lathe...  The bike is also cool.

Not my lathe! Bike is stashed at a friend's place haha

Keeping it from the folks eh?

You could say that haha....