broly = black sw20 3sgte hardtop
Hi All,
first post.
Bought this MR2 in the photos a few months ago, bought it sight unseen from melbourne. previous owner on here?
i do a lot of sprints and a few hillclimbs and sold my mx5 not long ago to buy this. i wanted a rear engine experience.
so this is it for the next 2 years of track abuse.
Shes bit rough in the paint as the clear is failing but honestly not too bad. everything was mostly was stock except cusco strut braces, straight through exhaust, I had to have the dash lights fixed and do overdue general servicing, ive thrown out the audio rubbish, ive fitted teins, velo race seats, new brakes braided lines, new simmons with nt01s (simmons because they had the offsets i wanted in stock and cheap, i fitted a greddy boost controller, running 10 on low and 14 on high. km on the engine are unknown, so a rebuild sooner or later is expected.
Great car, handles amazing now, i like the way it starts to slide and i can power down and it seems to squat and the rear grips more and can powersteer out of corners. steering is light and so precise, not a hint of understeer. i can confidently power the whole way down through the kink in the straight at lakeside. only thing i dont like is the brakes! where is the feel? they stop me but damn i feel like i putting my foot through the firewall, i bought a cusco brake stopper on ebay so hopefully that helps.
hello everyone i met at noosa hillclimb i think you said this is the forum, i joined your qld club johnny!
it was nice to meet you all.
some bad news is, I think i have leaking oil seal in the turbo, yet to be diagnosed 100%. doesnt smoke at idle, but lets out a puff after a gear change from high boost, you can see some smoke from the pipe in the below photos. im checking the intercooler piping for oil deposits when i can.
https://www.trapnellcreations.com/p890207352 i bought a kei office front bar and kei office side skirts which are waiting to be fitted and will repaint the whole car eventually.