What did you do to your car today?

[siren676]

Always a plus when the fluids stay in Man they're so jacked when they are bare!

Yeah for some reason mazda put in taller springs in throughout the years, the height issue will be sorted shortly,
just need to send 1 of my coilovers off for testing to make sure its still usable after the crash

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Got a couple of upgrades done on the Aurion today

First thing was the installation of some Euro plate style license plate surrounds and the second was applying some pre-cut tint film to the lower sections of the tail lights.

Here's some photos of the process and some before vs after shots:

[Kiwi-Corolla]

More pics:

[Kiwi-Corolla]

I wasn't 100% happy with the new plate surrounds, so I decided to wrap the rear one in some gold carbon fiber wrap that I had left over. Seems to take the blandness off and makes it a little more interesting.

[Boosted_162]

Bought an EP91 Glanza V. Was cheap and needs work. Picked up sunday, already rebuilt rear calipers as they had completely seized and didnt work.

Just need to replace waterpump and cambelt etc, and a few parts to tidy and it should be a good little daily

[Dell'Orto]

Made it go

https://youtu.be/FIBqrXT8EU8

[Boosted_162]

Weight reduction stage 3:



Removed the non working alarm, non working turbo timer and stupid pedals. Also swapped drivers and passengers door locks as drivers had been screwdrivered.

[siren676]

Yesterday had a spare head arrive for the starlet so i can start doing some n/a work on it.

Also had a lightweight flywheel made up.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Gave it a little more stopping power:

[GDII]

Brakes look good. I've had a set of those rotors on the front of the MR2 for about 7 years now. The steel appears to be softer than stock as they have worn down a bit but I guess 80,000km will do that. I get a bit of a rumble sound with very hard high speed braking but that's the only thing I've noticed. No vibration in the steering wheel.

I see you only painted the visible parts of your brakes. I wondered how you only used a small amount of paint. I painted every surface of mine with 4 coats and used 2/3rds of a tin but mine are off the car. I must get some better photos and put them in my project thread. Waiting on funds for new rotors, pads, brake clips and fluid. Maybe some braided hoses too.

[KwS]

I get a bit of a rumble sound with very hard high speed braking but that's the only thing I've noticed. No vibration in the steering wheel.

i suspect this is normal for drilled/slotted/dimpled rotors. Had a few cars with them now and they were all slightly noisy when braking hard at speed.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Brakes look good. I've had a set of those rotors on the front of the MR2 for about 7 years now. The steel appears to be softer than stock as they have worn down a bit but I guess 80,000km will do that. I get a bit of a rumble sound with very hard high speed braking but that's the only thing I've noticed. No vibration in the steering wheel.

I see you only painted the visible parts of your brakes. I wondered how you only used a small amount of paint. I painted every surface of mine with 4 coats and used 2/3rds of a tin but mine are off the car. I must get some better photos and put them in my project thread. Waiting on funds for new rotors, pads, brake clips and fluid. Maybe some braided hoses too.

Cheers. Good to hear that you're still getting reasonable life out of them after 80,000km. I've noticed a bit of rumble when braking today too. It's not much, but it's definitely there. One other noise I've noticed is a very faint 'ticking' noise when the brakes aren't being applied (gets a tiny bit louder when you brake). You can only hear it with the windows down and radio off, and usually only when going past some trees etc where the sound can bounce back. It's similar to putting a baseball card between the spokes of a bike, except really faint sounding. I've done some research online and apparently this is very common with slotted/drilled/dimpled rotors. Maybe it's the air cutting past the slots? Who knows.

Yeah I only painted the visible parts of my calipers and only did one coat. The paint was pretty thick so 1 coat seemed like enough at the time and it's held up pretty well (although I will have to touch up a few spots that I chipped today when doing the brake job). Would be keen to see some pics of how yours turned out. Was considering braided lines on mine too, but they require a cert to be legal so I can't be fk'd with that, lol.

[GDII]

Thanks KwS. That's what I thought which why I didn't say it was a problem, rather just an observation. I'm happy with them anyway. The Ferodo Excel pads still have heaps of meat in them. I'll be getting something a bit better with the bigger brakes when I get the chance.

I'll try get some decent photos of them, maybe tomorrow. I also painted the handbrake bracket but it's black. I completely rebuilt them with new seals and boots too. I didn't think you needed a cert for some brands of braided lines, I'm pretty sure some need it as they don't state cert not required but I could be wrong about the ones that don't appear to need a cert.

I'm getting a similar sound in my car but it's not like a card in the spokes, it occurs only once per wheel rotation. Can only hear it at high speed in the same situation as you which makes me think it might not be the wheel or brakes. I've had the whole hub and suspension out and made sure the dust shield wasn't touching the rotor when I put it back in. I didn't take the hub out for this reason, that was for all new suspension components. It's done it for as long as I can remember so maybe it is the rotors making this sound due to air flow. I've not read about it before but never looked in to slotted rotors making sounds like that when not braking.

[Boosted_162]

Me and my mate (mostly my mate as hes the mechanic ) started doing the cambelt. Crank pulley was a mish as there was heaps of thread locker, got it out to find the pulley has welded itself in will come back to it with some heat. Cambelt and waterpump should be here on monday from Mark



Then went to zebra, and got one of the spotlights and a new seatbelt stalk. There was no headlights so found some on TM to get

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Fitted some new wheels

[phoenix]

^ New rims look heaps better. Although they also look like they'll be highly allergic to gutters

Changed front shocks on the Estima yesterday - let's play 'Spot the shock mounts':



On the positive side, rattle gun + spring compressors made short work of swapping the gear over to the new ones.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Cheers man. Yeah curbs and I are going to stay a long way away from each other

Ohhh 2GR in the Estima. Looks like the shocks would be a pain to change due to the way they shoehorned the engine in there, but what do they go like performance wise?

[Dell'Orto]

Pulled AW motor tonight, will whip the head off and get it down to Custom Works tomorrow to get the spark plug remnants removed, and helicoiled. 2 weesk to get it running!

[iOnic]

Went racing



There was a Toyota out too. Ran single digits backing off early.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Threw some negative front camber at it.