I have been posting random questions on here for a while now but thought I may as well post a build thread as I pretty much have daily questions on this car!

I have been into cars ever since I was handed my driving lisence, this one is one of the better ones I have had, for the purpose anyway, it really does drive tight as a drum, goes well and its bags of fun. The closest thing to a go kart that I have owned, the polybushes and R888 tyred coupled with the Mk1 chassis and lack of computer aids and the V6 are an incredible package. Bags of torque and usable power, very, very predictable on the limit – very much point and squirt.

I am fairly new to RWD, even though my road car is an E46 M3, I love the MR2 though. I have come from a long line of Honda Tyre R’s so its nice to have some torque in my life. Bearing in mind I work in an office for a job, albeit as an Aerospace Engineer but all my mechanics skills are home self-taught. I am not a pro!

Anyway enough of the excuses, a bit about my current situation. The car has been on here for a while. It used to belong to a 'Moustachio'.





I bought it back in May and have lavished quite a bit of time saving the poor tired bodywork from the tin worm. The car was by no means bad, in general it was pretty solid, but had some rust around some of the usual areas such as the bottom of the B pillars, rear arches and the T bar above the windscreen.





Now I am no stranger to rust, I come from the ‘land of the big H’ and my old cars are no strangers to rust, integras and Mk2 CRX’s are notorious for tin worm so I knew that if you could see it on the surface, what is below the surface will only be 10x worse. So the only way to go about this was to chop it out and start with clean metal.
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Out comes the recipricator.







After I had chopped out all of the rust I set about welding in new metal. I am not a pro welder but a bit of time with the machine, grinder filler and a bit of paint got me to this.









Now the paint on these isn’t perfect. This is a track car, all I wanted was a reasonable finish that was black. This car is intended for the track, it was never going to win any shows. Function over form. They are black and the car is no longer rusty - so they pass the test!

The Underside of the car was checked over for rot and I think you will agree its pretty clean for a 28 year old jap car!









And the front really close to the floor as the back was on the ramps. Looks pretty cool, the bonnet will be getting painted soon by the way!



After the welding and paint came the interior, I will be tracking the car a bit and spirited road driving so I wanted some firm seats and ‘because racecar’ detail….

So in went seats, harnesses, a flocked dash, and a few other buttons switches and a steering wheel









It also had some wiring gremlins which I had sorted, apparrently the main wire for the COR was earthing in the loom within the door and causing me problems. So I had the wiring tidied.



After this was all fitted it was time to take her for a test drive.



So I did, I went on a few in fact. The car needed a few tweaks, wiring sorting, rad fans needed wiring up, an oil change, boost leaks, a new IAT and other minor details.

Now there aren’t many places I could have put this, and I wanted a slightly aggressive fitment so I decided on a wing mounted arrangement. I would run my lines though the firewall and through the boot lid, slightly external to a wing mounted cooler. Loads of air back there.

ZG Flares Over fenders arrived from the states – yes I know I know. I fixed my arches and now im going to chop them up! DUH





Also it keeps overheating, dunno why maybe head gasket?
Is there anything else you guys could think of?


Any opinions welcome.
Cheers.

Ash