MR2 Progress Thread (pics inside)!!

Great progress.:bigthumb:

Those black wheels are cool! It's nice to see something different for a change...not always white, gold or chrome :D

Anyone know sumthing i can use to polish my HKS mufflers?:confused:

Good car and do you paint the Black trim???

good paintjob. I really like mr2s

Yeah, i will paint da window trim, i just need to get sum paint and a smaller brush.

Looks good. keep up the pics. hey i got a ? for ya...i bought some 9/32 and 7/32 alum pipin yesterday before isaw this thread but mine dont have that much space around the 7/32pipe when its in the 9/32...so i had some other pipe that i dont know what size it is but it slid right in the muffler... heres a pic of it tell me if it looks good or not if not ill redo it better its for my skyline. http://www.rankmyride.com/data//4/2/2721//.large/washodown_003.jpg http://www.rankmyride.com/data//4/2/2721//.large/washodown_004.jpg

I cant really tell, some close up pictures would be good. Me and MR2Racer have something we do to make it fit correctly, but we cannot tell u, cuz that would suck for us, cuz we wont make in business on our exhausts.

i can try for a better closer picture but i doubt itll comeo ut good since my camera doesnt have a macro mode.

Well, it looks alright, from what i can see, but the tip looks too big for the canister. It just doesnt fit look right.

well i tried to rip it off earlier and looked like the whole exhaust system wanted to come with it...so oh well..im gona put some CF decal on the canister maybe that'll make it look better.

I LOVE the rims.:bigthumb: Very nice, but one thing, they already look like a Ferrari, why did you have to paint it red too?:wink:

454SS: like the muffler. :bigthumb: Its just perfect.

thanx i follwoed Honoturtles muffler building thread cept i ddint use styrene pipe i used aluminum pipe.

Originally posted by 454SS
thanx i follwoed Honoturtles muffler building thread cept i ddint use styrene pipe i used aluminum pipe.


I was reading that and I made it out of styrene. I'm going to try aluminum once I get a little better at it. The pipe ones kind of suck, so I'll practice on them, then do aluminum.:smile:

mine probaly came out good cuz i used a pipe cutter thank god it looks good and not sloppy.

Are you gonna finish this model?........like before I start losing in the cartilage around my spinal cord and hip area, and gradually my bones are so brittle Im crippled?

Dude, your only 13, you still have like 60 years ahead of you before that happens.:biggrin:

Originally posted by EMAXX
Dude, your only 13, you still have like 60 years ahead of you before that happens.:biggrin:

I know, that's why I was saying it :tongue:

haha. I like using aluminum. It looks really good soo far. Nice.:bananasmi

if anyone needs to know the aluminum piping im using it is: K&S Engineering out of Chicago, IL round aluminum tube..im using 1/4'' for the tip and 9/32'' for the canister.

Jeez................ Finish this damn model Henry! Im getting old and tired waiting for ur sorry a**!!! :chair:

Jeez................ Finish this damn model Henry! Im getting old and tired waiting for ur sorry a**!!! :chair:
:lol2: :lol2:

Good work for it bu why yooour car have the same problem the rr wheels are not a there place????? :bananasmi

Good work for it bu why yooour car have the same problem the rr wheels are not a there place????? :bananasmi

I dont know whut the hell u just said... :lol:

Good work for it bu why yooour car have the same problem the rr wheels are not a there place????? :bananasmi English Mouthafucka, do you speak it?- Pulp Fiction.

Good work for it bu why yooour car have the same problem the rr wheels are not a there place????? :bananasmi

To Quote TheSyndicate:
You aren't making sense :disappoin

Yeah, :wtf: are you trying to tell me?

More pics:

And the wing:

man I love the taillights the Japanese versions got. So much nice then the ones we got. Great work so far.

Ive finally cut out the hood. All i need to do now is sand and repaint.

If you are going to treat the bonnet to the c/f material decal, don't forget to shave the spray nozzles and polish the plastic piece for better adhesion. :smile:

I just masked my rear end of the car, because i'll only be needing to respreay the front.

I did this kit a couple times. I bought a 91 MR2 back in 1990. I drove it for 10 months before I ever saw another one. I was one of the first people in the US to buy one.

I sold it in 1999 to buy a 69 Mustang, which I still have. But that MR2 handled like no other car I've ever owned. I can also say that my uncle owned a 95 Lotus Esprit. The MR2 handled equally as well as the Lotus...and with the turbo, the Lotus was not really "a lot" faster. Yes is was faster, but not 70K faster LOL.

Jeff

With your thread you remember me that I've got a Mr2 (18 inch profile version) with a own bodykit & a headlights conversion kit.

The front:

http://users.skynet.be/tuningcars/Toyota/Mr2/MR2-Front1.JPG

I've modify the spoiler since this pic :p

The body kit looks really nice, was it custom? How did u make it? My friend MR-2Racer wanted to make a custom front lip too, but had no time lately for those big modifications.

The body kit looks really nice, was it custom? How did u make it? My friend MR-2Racer wanted to make a custom front lip too, but had no time lately for those big modifications.

The spoiler was available with the MR-2 in the 18 inch profile serie. I modify the front with a little lip & I cut the middle area (grill & lights).

The side skirts (in black on the pic sorry not yet painted) & the rear bumper are full custom.

http://users.skynet.be/tuningcars/Toyota/Mr2/MR2-Side1.JPG

My lip will look sorta like this one, same thing with the rear bumper, but my sideskirts will be my own design.

My lip will look sorta like this one, same thing with the rear bumper, but my sideskirts will be my own design.

Its called a body kit dood, not a lip. :loser:

i meant that it will look like that stupid.

Come on guy! My Grandma could've walked to your house by now, taken pictures with a disposable camera, walk back, get them developed, walked to BestBuy and got a scanner, walked back to your house, hooked up the scanner, Scanned the pictures, Posted them on AF, and walk back home and make me a batch of Chocolate Chip cookies by now!!
Mmmm... cookies!!!

I just primed the hood, i would post pics, but af is messed up right now so i cant.

The TRD Kit? NICE!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished making the custom MR2 sideskirts, but AF wont let me post pics, so i guess you'll have to check out our website later to see the pics, the sideskirts will be sold on Scale Tuning Workshop along with the TRD front and rear lip for the MR2.

Im working on the TRD kit, here are the front and rear bumpers, front needs a little more work, i havnt had time to work on the sideskirts.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/uploads/70917/PB020013.JPG
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http://nwwo.com/shorty/store/Pb020015.jpg
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Looking nice Henry... Keep up the good work.:smile:

Looks good so far.

NICE!! Extra nice.
I was wondering what kind of putty your using. I'm using this quck type or something? is that good?

NICE!! Extra nice.
I was wondering what kind of putty your using. I'm using this quck type or something? is that good?

He is using "MY" putty, Tamiya Basic Putty, right henry?:thefinger

He is using "MY" putty, Tamiya Basic Putty, right henry?:thefinger

Man, STFU u know u use my stuff too. As to answer your question, Youngdrifter x, i think the stuff ur using works ok, alot of ppl recommend using Tamiya Smooth Surface Epoxy Putty, even though i havnt used it myself.

Thanks.

Is there really a difference?

Right now im still in the process of workin on the body kit, i am almost finished with the front. My friend ShOrtyOC714 thought of making a Roll Cage, so we did, took us about 2 hours or so... cuz we kept doing other stuff at the same time, it came out pretty well. Thanx to ShOrtyOC714 for all the help. :iceslolan

http://nwwo.com/shorty/store/Pc060018.jpg

http://nwwo.com/shorty/store/Pc060019.jpg

Looks ok, but the roll cage is too thick, and well, the bars don't really look too straight. May I suggest buying some brass rods, and bending/soldering them? IMO it would look more realistic.

The roll cage isnt really big it just seems like it is in the pics, but in real life they look perfect, also the bars are straight its just the angels i took them at, also i messed up on 1 of the bars and thats about it.

One of the bars is crooked because it started melting while we tried to melt the bars together, some other ones got warped because of the heat also, that's why some arent straight. Im thinking of constructing a bonnet hood for me, does anyone know how to do this?

if you can try to buy some styren tubing for the rollcage then glue it together rather than melt it, then you wont have to deal with warping, plus if you put the glue on the ends of the tubing it will give it a welded effect

We superglued them first, but it still had edges, so we decided to melt it to give it a real weld affect, just some parts caught on fire because of the super glue.

The trick with styrene is to apply tube glue for platic on one end of the tube, wait for about 30 seconds, press the tube to the other piece that you want it to attach to, hold firmly for a few seconds, then gently begin to pry away the tube and you will reveal access glue have "melted" both pieces slightly. Now press it firmly back on to the same piece and hold. You should see small beads of melted plastic and glue being pressed out from under the tube end. When dried and painted, these beads give a distinct impression of weld beads.

Word of caution. Never attempt to melp the plastic pieces using direct flame. Not only will you not be able to chieve the correct result, but you may damage the parts irreversably and damage surrounding parts as well.