My uplanned MR2 build project!

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Wait, what ever happened to the Supra?


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leesredgt
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Thats been gone for over a year now.lol

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Dude, nice. Meeting my expectations (as though you care). Keep going! My Cobra project has been sitting for a WHILE. Be more ambitious than me!

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Somehow I missed this thread until now.
This is me subscribing.

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in for the build

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Looking good Lee!!!! :mike

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Thanks guys!

I finally got it ready and painted it today! Came out pretty dang good to! I finally get to start putting crap back in now. lol

Heres how it looked before i sprayed it.

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After one coat of red.

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And after the other two coats of base and two coats of clear.

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Ended up coming out pretty dang good. I cant wait to start putting it back together now!

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painting out side seems like a pain, you cant control the air temp to get a nice consistent temp of the car metal so the paint flows smooth. but lookslike you did a god job

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I fiinally got a little bit done, at least worth showing.

Got the tape off and ive started putting some of it back together.

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Got the tail lights painted and put back in.

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New T-top seals going back in!

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Ive just started to put some sound deadening in the car yesterday.

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And last but not least my girl bought me a new shift knob for the car but i couldnt wait so i put it in the non turbo one for now :)

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Thats it for now!

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Coming along quiet nicely Lee!Think you could head down my way and spray my MR2? :biggrin:

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lol Honestly, if you were closer and it was warmer and you had it all prepared i wouldn't mind doing it at all. lol Spraying it is the fun part.

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spraying is the easy part!

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Wow! Its been another month already since ive updated this thing! Welllll heres where im at.

Got the front back on and some of the lights back in. Also got the headlights in but didn't get a picture of that.

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While I was outside I also got the fuel tank dropped, drained, and new fuel pump put in and the tank put back in.

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New fuel pump compared to the old one.

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When I couldn't work outside I worked on recovering my seats. I only took pictures of one, I figured its the same thing twice.lol

Heres what it looked like before the redo:

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My dog decided to take a break. lol

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And finally the finished product!

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That's pretty much it for now. I've kinda got burned out on the project so im not going as hard on it as I was but I should have it done before to long I hope.

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wow, that seat turned out nice. Great job so far.

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Thanks! Sorry for the super late update. Ive been lazy.

I haven't done much but heres where im at of late. The dash is back in, the engine is completely done and i got some other small things done as well.

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And im soooooooooooo tempted to paint this thing black and mount it to the A-pillar. The inner ricer in me lives!!!

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Huge tachs are yucky!

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I figured if I did go through with it I will mount it to the A pillar so I don't screw up my dash. Its been sitting in my closet for the past 6 years lol

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Leave it in the closet. :)

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hahahahahaha I knew once I said it that would be the response I got lol

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I think im going to try and use the shift light some how. We shall see lol

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Listening to your engine > A light
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Gotten quite a bit done since the last update! Dont know how the troll picture replaced one of my pictures but what ever. lol Now on to the pictures!

Finally got the engine buttoned up and put it back in!

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There was a picture of it fully bolted in but i cant find it now.You get the picture. lol

Got new wheel studs and lug nuts to go with the new wheels!

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Got the old studs out and the new ones in and redid the calipers while i was there!

New ARP studs.

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Freshly painted calipers!

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I also did a lil sumtin sumtin with the gas lid!

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On top of all that i got everything back in the engine bay. Got new E-Brake cables on and the trunk lid as well. Just waiting on one more part now to put on before i can sit her back on the ground. Its been almost a year since shes sat level!

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leesredgt wrote: Image
From clean to lame in .001 seconds.

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:gapteeth:

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I like your engine hoist ! :biggrin:

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Just a quick update! I finally got the car on the ground a couple of days ago! Shes rocking the 4x4 right now. Hopefully my springs and struts will get here within the month so i can take up that wheel gap!

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I haven't had much time to troll NICO lately, but I'm glad this showed up. It's looking really good. Also, it's funny. Our cars are going to be running by about the same time. I should get the Cobra out of the shop this week.

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Thanks i really appreciate it!

I finally got my springs in! I actually have one done but didn't get a picture of it on the car yet.

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