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I still have the video of the kid driving away in my MS3.

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Originally Posted by Matsuda (Post 9194911)

Installed my carbon fiber gurney flap on my rear spoiler. Hard to photograph though

my inner ricer have to ask... any plans for a wing riser?

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Originally Posted by red kryptonite (Post 9194923)

my inner ricer have to ask... any plans for a wing riser?

the previous owner of my car still has his wing risers and offered to sell them to me, I'm a bit indifferent about them. I'm somewhere in the middle. If I do get them, I could be extra rice and wing mount my roof box with the suction cups I got...

do it!!! i want to be a poser and do the same with my road bike.

Chill with that salute.

I hunted down the source of the coolant leak, I thought it was the rad but even with it removed coolant was still coming out. So I pulled the crossmembers and managed to get eyes on the leak. After pulling a ton of stuff apart, I got this out:

https://i.imgur.com/1MDKibu.jpeg

Which leaves the engine bay looking like this:

https://i.imgur.com/0sFXj2x.jpeg

To get access to here for the stupid cap/hose:

https://i.imgur.com/ZiXg4CH.jpeg

Wow. It's actually just a rubber plug for a coolant port in the motor? I wonder what the original function was for the coolant passage.

Not sure of this is the famous hose from hell or just a random plug from hell. :lol

No, the hose from hell and the hose from hell on earth are up behind the turbo and oil filter. They are much easier to access on a Celica than an MR2. Regardless, I keep thinking that I want another ST185 until I see stuff like this.

Today was the perfect day to finally install an aftermarket steering wheel I had sitting around for the Miata. I tried my best to not break any tabs off of the steering wheel trim and I'm happy to report that I only broke one! :fullofwin:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...39841a663c.jpg

Holy shit, so BEEFY.

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Originally Posted by bcrdukes (Post 9195369)

Not sure of this is the famous hose from hell or just a random plug from hell. :lol

It's the other end of the hose from hell. Normally there's a hard line that runs from the oil cooler (with the famous hoses that are actually easy on the Celica) that goes under the oil filter and wraps around the engine and goes to a small hose that goes where this plug was. I assume that one is easy on the MR2 but buried on the Celica because of the transfer case. When the shop installed my aftermarket oil cooler they deleted the hard line and I guess used this plug to cap the nipple on the back of the motor instead of removing the nipple and plugging the port in the block with metal.

It looks like a huge mess but it only took about 1.5hrs to remove everything with normal hand tools, and a good chunk of that was fiddling around to get the other hard lines out without removing the turbo, so I can replace the missing one and go back to the stock oil cooler.

It looks like a huge pain in the ass, but I’m sure it was very satisfying to be able to diagnose and fix it. I love finding a problem and solving it.

It was at first, I couldn't see where it was coming from at all so I had to pull the crossmembers off and even then I could barely see it from below. Reaching from above I scraped the hell out of my arm just to get one finger on it. The trick with these is don't try to squeeze into awkward spots, most stuff comes out easily so just keep removing things that are in your way until it's accessible.

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Originally Posted by Badhobz (Post 9195385)

Holy shit, so BEEFY.

did u not hold his knob? he likes a good handful.

So i picked up this shitbox because of GS8, i was originally supposto install my supercharger for the C7, but thats been on the backburner ever since this POS took up the lift space.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ca84e081_c.jpg

Photo heavy dump, spoilers incase anyone is still using dialup

Spoiler!

Goddamn those seats and paint.

So when you are fixing the suspension and trim bits - how much of this stuff is available new/worth getting new?

Rims look like they were factory machined more than painted but that gets expensive

Damn those seats, looks so comfortable.

Bust out the old cassette collection and head down to the nearest Radwood show.

dude, you are doing it too fast

and is that a heat pump in your garage?

any how, nice job

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Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD (Post 9195595)

So when you are fixing the suspension and trim bits - how much of this stuff is available new/worth getting new?

Rims look like they were factory machined more than painted but that gets expensive

Parts are 50/50, cant find a coolant tank, easy to find the hood release latch, other interior bits non existent. Im doing a cheap "restoration" on this, trying to keep it under 1000$ for everything.

Correct on wheels, they are machined, but i aint paying 1000$+ to re machine them and clear.

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Originally Posted by yray (Post 9195599)

dude, you are doing it too fast

and is that a heat pump in your garage?

any how, nice job

I have adhd, patience is not part of my work speed

Yes, see post 457
https://www.revscene.net/forums/7172...-today-19.html

Where do you guys find these and why, do you like stand outside a funeral home?

Retirement homes are GOLDMINES, all you gotta do is suck on some expired hags toes for a few minutes

:suspicious: the old hag's children already sold off personal belongings and pocketed all the money the moment they started the process to throw the hag into the home. DONK be sucking toes as a fetish instead.

^this is why nobody hugged you