My MR2 ongoing project, I guess I'll just encompass everything in here...

[mikecentola]

tiraq came through!

[Cleck]

Fuck yeah, Tiraq Gibson came through son!

So, how's our design idea coming? Anything?

That black/red graphic on All Star Graphics website looks pretty cool, I like the abstractness of it.

[Cleck]

Did work at school today; new valve cover gaskets, spark plugs, front ball joints, thermostat w/obligatory coolant flush, Twosrus manual boost controller and cleaned up the valve cover too, lol.

First off, soooo glad I put a new t-stat in. It always ran waaaaaay cool, prolly why it was so rich. Now it runs perfectly, really helps things out.

Front ball joints are nice! No more shimmy, lol. Now I just gotta do my alignment, end of the month for sure. Need to also install my fuel cut controller if I'm going to up the boost any more.

Currently the car is boosting at 14psi, stock is 10. With fuel cut controller installed I can do about 15-16, no higher. Then I'll need to do a new fuel filter. This setup will last until I save the money to have Rick megasqirt the car eventually.

The valve cover gasket was definitely teh fail, leading me to believe it was the reason I was getting a lot of blowby out my bov and leaks around the vc. So far so clean, not a drop anywhere, and I was at some pretty high rpm's today so we'll see how it goes.

Anyways, pics:

Valve cover before, pretty dirty from years of neglect.





After - that's my cousin cleaning it thoroughly in the parts washer at school, you can see how clean it looks.

Better


Finished


Bad pic but you get the idea. Would have loved to paint it but I didn't think of it in time.

Rest:





Don't worry, I cleaned all that shit up. Almost checked the clearances but just didn't have enough time today. Maybe next time.





I am standing on a wheel here to get high enough to bend down far enough to work in this shit, lol. Pain in the ass.