The Red Beast

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:36 pm

Couple of pics while it's sunny. 470 miles on it so far. 530 to go before it's mapped.

Enjoy...

Pictures taken at the end of my road.

EarL.

bubbles · Post by **bubbles** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:37 pm

Looks awesome bud, luv those rims
Rich

Quigonjay · Post by **Quigonjay** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:53 pm

the longer you keep stopping to pose the longer it will take to rack up the miles

2Crooky · Post by **2Crooky** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:14 pm

Ooooooohhh......splatter...........TISSUES

Very nice buddy

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:41 pm

Good looks but beneath lurks the beast

Antstarr · Post by **Antstarr** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:08 am

Love the street fighter look ur going for there very aggressive

I can imagine how much weight u have saved there with the engine lid, bonnet and bootlid...prob about the weight of a small kid.

Do u still keep a spare wheel in the frunk? Heard if u take it out it inbalances the car...correct me if im wrong im jus curious.

Igor · Post by **Igor** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:17 am

that looks ace. imo one of the nicest 2's out there. top stuff

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:50 am

Thanks guys. It's getting there.

Antstarr wrote:Love the street fighter look ur going for there very aggressive

I can imagine how much weight u have saved there with the engine lid, bonnet and bootlid...prob about the weight of a small kid.

Do u still keep a spare wheel in the frunk? Heard if u take it out it inbalances the car...correct me if im wrong im jus curious.

Yeah, it's saved a shed load of weight Ant. You wouldn'ty believe how much the boot and the bonnet weigh (engine cover was only light anyway, but the carbone one IS lighter). I think Toyota must have made them from old 2nd world war battleship steel or summat!

Never heard that about the spare wheel. Don't even have one any more, and even if I did.... It wouldn't fit. The brakes are too big! Spose I could always limp home on a disk.

The only thing I keep in the frunk, is the battery, and that's being swapped out for a race one coz it's lighter.

EarL.

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:01 pm

OMG... I hadn't seen pictures of the car with those SSR's on yet

Incredible!!

EDIT: What sort of brakes are you running, they look huge!

EDIT2: What specs are the wheels? Diameters, widths, offsets... tell me!

craig · Post by **craig** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:04 pm

Nice car earl, looks

Only things I would change if it were me would be the stock turbo lid and a spoiler.

Keep up the good work man

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:35 pm

Edwin wrote:OMG... I hadn't seen pictures of the car with those SSR's on yet Incredible!!

EDIT: What sort of brakes are you running, they look huge!

EDIT2: What specs are the wheels? Diameters, widths, offsets... tell me!

Cheers Edwin!

Glad you like the wheels. I looked at a couple of different types, but chose these as there's virtually none of them in the country, and they make the car look quite agressive. They're also incredibly light.

The brakes are from a company called HiSpec Motorport.

http://www.hispecmotorsport.co.uk/

They're 335mm drilled and grooved disks all round, with 4 pot billet alloy callipers (it's called the Monster 4 kit) on the front, and new Rev 2 callipers on the back, spaced accordingly. This mod gets around having to fiddle with the handbrake mechanism on the rear.

Stopping power is unbelievable. It makes your eyes bulge, and actually hurts your face when braking hard!

RedMR2 wrote:Nice car earl, looks

Only things I would change if it were me would be the stock turbo lid and a spoiler.

Keep up the good work man :Cool:

Cheers Red.

I'm still undecided about the spoiler. I've got a Rev 5 with a carbon centre being delivered any time now, but I really like the GT wing look, and I know it would suit the car down to the ground, but it's getting the right one...

Anyway, glad you guys like it.

EarL.

craig · Post by **craig** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:49 pm

Looking at it again, I even think that the engine lid may work better with the rev 5 carbon blade or a carbon GT wing.

Just my 2 pence mind

Spacey · Post by **Spacey** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:09 pm

Earl mate that's about the sexiest MR2 I've seen. And it's not all talk and no balls like so many kitted cars either.

You've done well!

Turbo- · Post by **Turbo-** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:18 pm

those 530 miles are just easy
drove my one 630 miles the day i got my licence

jimGTS · Post by **jimGTS** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:53 pm

looks bloody sweet dude....

have to agree with the comments regarding the boot....

i think a nice old rev1/2 spoiler would look ace with a red boot lid!!!!! (altho i take it you removed that spoiler yonks ago, lol)...

love the height, wheel width/offsets, pretty dam perfect!

shame you didnt put that tyre shiner stuff on! rims and car woulda looked 5% better in the photos, lol...

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:56 pm

jimGTS wrote:looks bloody sweet dude....

have to agree with the comments regarding the boot....
i think a nice old rev1/2 spoiler would look ace with a red boot lid!!!!! (altho i take it you removed that spoiler yonks ago, lol)...

love the height, wheel width/offsets, pretty dam perfect!

shame you didnt put that tyre shiner stuff on! rims and car woulda looked 5% better in the photos, lol...

Cheers Jimbo.

Each to their own mate. I really like the carbon/red combo. The Ask Sport boot lid that's on there is so light, that we had to remove the boot spring! When you opened the trunk from inside the car, it nearly smashed itself against the engine cover! It's approximately a third of the weight of the original!

I didn't really like the old Rev 1/2 spoiler, which is why I had it removed. I really like either the Rev 5 or a decent Carbon GT wing (which is probably what will be fitted, when I can find a nice one).

All in all, I'm pretty happy with they way it looks. Just a few things left to do: Black mesh the apatures in the front bumper, fit the rear spoiler, fit the Ask Sport Bonnet when it comes back...

...and get it mapped.

Then roll on TOTB!!

EarL.

BTW. Tyres aren't supposed to shine Jim. Use black boot polish. Much better.

jimGTS · Post by **jimGTS** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:51 pm

EarL wrote:

BTW. Tyres aren't supposed to shine Jim. Use black boot polish. Much better.

i didnt really mean shine, i just ment that stuff you can use to get the tyre a really deep shade of black....

=D>

looks sweet anyhow.. $\:D/$

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:13 pm

jimGTS wrote:
EarL wrote:

BTW. Tyres aren't supposed to shine Jim. Use black boot polish. Much better.

i didnt really mean shine, i just ment that stuff you can use to get the tyre a really deep shade of black.... =D>

looks sweet anyhow.. $\:D/$

...only kidding mate.

Antstarr · Post by **Antstarr** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:45 pm

Reminds me of this...

EarL · Post by **EarL** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:55 am

Antstarr wrote:Reminds me of this...

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Yeah, it was one of my influences when building it.

Not a great lover of the TRD though.

I was considering having the roof done black too, but the general consensus said that it would look crap.

EarL.

www.imoc.co.uk

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