hey every one. 
 
Still alive and kicking . barely . 
 
Since the last update , nothing much has changed or been done on the adub. just more stuff breaking 

as you can see there's a couple of things that i still need to get before it gets registered or sees another track day . My aim is to get it ready before circuit club's next track day in October and maybe the mr2 nationals. 
 
in other news I've started my own blog : www.wideopenthrottle.com.au   . I'll be updating the blog with the track hack and anything else cool in the automotive world and local car scene.  please 'like' WOT (wideopenthrottle) . it would be awesome if you could!  
Feel free to leave a comment or suggestion on how i can make the blog and my articles better.     
 
i also went out and bought a new digi cam ( lumix gf2) for WOT and to keep this build thread alive ,( i was never happy with using my phone camera) . Hopefully now i'll be able to get some half decent pics of the adub and incar footages. 
 
some i took today . 





if there are any photogarphers reading this , feel free to throw some advice my way . 
 
back to the track hack .. last circuit club day back in July  the mr2 performed perfectly without a hitch .. that following Saturday after its shakedown track day , i went to turn it on and reverse it out to warm it up as part of my regular weekly routine... i noticed a little puddle of coolant on the garage floor . looking under the car  it was obvious where the leak was coming from. so last week this arrive : 
 


 
also my speedo cable decided to stop working on me.  
Looking for one of these bad boys was a mission. Thankfully Yahoo Japan and Jesse streeter came to the rescue and sent me one of these from the mother land. 
 
low k ( aporx 30,000 on it) . fingers cross it works ! 

 
since I've had the car running the check engine light has constantly been on. shorting terminal TE1 and E1 i found that it was my knock sensor. BUT the adub actually revs fine and drive fine with no power loss . so i'll be changing the knock sensor out with the ones below and checking the timing again .   
 



 
work will be slower then normal ( i dont know if it can get any more slower ) due to some F***Ing idots stealing my whole entire tool box from the front of my mates house . long story short i was over there helping him with his many projects and got a call last week that my tool box got stolen .. he has offered to pay me back for the tools . so its all good .. the tools werent very expensive ( nothing like snap-on stuff) but its just very annoying because ive had those tools since forever ( im a little attached to these guys) and more importantly everything in the tool box had its own purpose and was used frequently . PLUS some of the it was a gift from my GF so .. im majorly pissed and devo.  
 
today i went shopping for some new tools .... but it just didn't feel right, because i guess i wasn't ready to let my old ones go and because they have pulled me out of some really tough situations, now some dumbass is probably selling them for crack money . 
 
GAAAHHHHH....
 
this is what i got today 

 
gear spanners. once you go gear spanners i dont think you can ever go back to normal spanners .( tho i will admit normal spanners do have there own use, so i will need a set too) 





 
breaker bar ,  if i ever find out who has taken my stuff this is going to be the last thing they see 


 
 and allen keys 



 
still need a tool box , some more spanners, some long ring spanners , screw drivers and some drill bits. Im sure there more im missing.. but im just gonna have to build it up slowly.  
 
and to finish off .... this epic post ... my new favourite thing in this car . 
 
My signed WTA 2011 Nardi . 

 



Signed by: Eiji “Tarzan” Yamada, Eric Hsu , Anda “Under”Suzuki, Sasaki-San, Mitsuhiro Kino****a
 
 
 
 
 

gah .. i need sleep. 
 
i'll try again tomorrow. 

I need a new Exhaust, 
Something that I have put off for a while now is the exhaust. Now  the MR2 is getting close to being road register-able, its time to pull my finger out!

 

Beginning of this year I bought a cat back exhaust to replace the O.E.M one. After some time fiddling around with it I came to the conclusion that it needed modifying and what I bought was meant for a Non Turbo MR2.
 

 


So yep, I have been pretty annoyed with myself, until two weeks ago which I sold it on Ebay ( for half the price I paid). And with that exhaust gone and knowing someone has put it to good use, I’ve gotten the motivation back to try again.
 



Since selling my fail exhaust purchase . I have trolled through the MR2 forums, Yahoo Japan and Youtube for ideas. Most MR2 owners either go down the route of buying a bolt on system  from the likes of HKS, Fujitsubo or 5zigen or go the custom setup. As much as I would like the bolt on option. I just don’t have the funds, so I will be making my own. Last night the old exhaust came out and measurements were taken.





 

all good ... no hard feeling .
 
these things happen. 
 
i've run out of time so the track hack is currently at the workshop getting the exhaust done . 
 
more updates soon . 

F***ing yeah!!!! 
 
exhaust is done ... and it only cost me the same money i sold the old one for ... 
 
pictures tonight ! 

 
  

Spent Saturday Working on the Track hack.
    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hey man . yeah for sure . 
 
saw your car at toyotafest ... exhaust looks the money on your car! 
 
update: 
Spent most of the Saturday and Sunday mowing the lawn… also managed to squeezed in some time to work on the Track hack.
 

 

 


The AW11 track hack’s speedo stopped working a couple a weeks back. After ripping the dash out only to find out that the problem wasn’t the speedo cable ( GAH!) but a missing plastic gear, I put an order with  Kbox  in Canada and 3 weeks later the above rebuild kit was in my mail box.
 
Another part of the track hack that needed attention was the gear boot. It was old, ratty, and had some crappy sticky cheap-ass vinyl spray all over it..ewww. As a temporarily fix I flipped the it inside out, but I just couldn’t cope with it anymore. So in the bin it went and a new leather gear boot from Ebay was order. Wait time was about the same as the speedo kit and installing was simple and straight forward.