New tires - Firestone Firehawk SZ80

Woo-hoo! New tires at last! The model of the rims is BBS RG.

At last, the oil filter comes off

92978 km

I bought a nice set of oil filter keys, so I could take the old stuck filter off. While at it, we poured in some new Shell Helix Ultra 5W-40 oil.

I have to take a pic of the old filter, it had a funny name.










Veeery nice. Very nice indeed. I am pleased and so is Maladar. Huge thanks to Maladar again. :)







Maladar is checking the brand new key set. I don't think we're going to have any problems with oil filters ever again.








Under car. It still is nearly rustfree. Tires are as hard as plastic, but who cares?

Actually, I'd love to have some new tires, but I'm still checking new rims, which (I think) will be wider than these BBS's (BBS BN says the rim, 15 x 6,5J ET +40)

Midsummer

I did some offroading!

I had to drive up a steep hill and park in a unbeliveably steep location, which this picture doesn't make any justice.

Rookie body kit

I found some pictures of the full Speed Shop Rookie body kit from the www.mr2supercharger.com website.

It's a nice bodykit, but it definetly needs wheels with small (or negative) offset.

Those two pictures below with two-tone white/silver MR2 are too familiar. :)




And I apologize for using the pictures from mr2supercharger site without permission, I couldn't find any AW11 pictures from the rookie site :)

Midsummer

I drove my AW11 around for a few days during the midsummer holidays. I had some time to check the fuel consumption, and I got about 10 liters in 100km (that's about 24 mpg in useless imperial units)

I didn't care about economic driving attitude, I floored the car when I felt like it and I was expecting something near 20 liters in 100km.

I was positively surprised. :)

AW11 with it's distant relatives

AW11 with its distant relative. Mid-engined, rear wheel drive two-seater. Though one of the cars in this picture is missing 4 cylinders and lots of horsepower.









Nice guys at the local Ferrari shop washed my car.












Engine wash, again.

Laughing man

I lost the picture momentarily

Rookie rear (whatever) wing

We took it off. It was butt-ugly. Maladar helped me a lot, he also used some chemicals, mostly brake cleaner (brain killer), polishing wax, interior wash and motor wash. I was pretty impressed with this.

I dubbed Maladar and Widric as chemical brothers.

Once again, a really nice day. We bought some junk food and bad-for-your-teeth kind of soft drinks.

This is how the car was before. As you can see from the first pic, the rear wing was broken. Another reason to remove it.

I believe that this is the company who made the rear wing.







This is the result. Maladar is pleased.













Maladar is cleaning the 4A-GZE. A little amount of cleaning agent and water was enough.

92424 km

I was driving back from Thoron's, and I noticed the symmetry of my odometer.

15.6.2008

Belts 'n stuff

I've got Sabelt's belts and a Nardi steering wheel.

92222 km

Driving around again. The car in front is Widric's JDM Prelude.

Odometer

92000 km and rising.

Head unit and speakers

I got some new parts for the car. The head unit is Alpine CDE-9880R. Playing Rinneradio from iPod, not the kind of music to play when you're driving.

And new speakers. Fits nicely. Original mounting and everything. Speakers are Rainbow Audio SL 100.

New Blog

Well, I'm still fixing the looks of this blog. I copied everything from my old (and short) selfmade blog, and I hope to have a decent blog in no time.

Old Blog

20. May 2008 - Nothing much

I drove around for about week. For the whole time, the weather wasn't nice, there was regular rainstorms and now the car is pretty dirty. Odometer is 92074km.

10. May 2008 - Warm weather, took the car out for a spin

Really nice weather.

26. Apr 2008 - First day of summer!

Driving around without the roof panels.

18. Apr 2008 - Oil change

Oil changed. Spilled some oil on the engine and oil filter is still stuck. I need a better tool to remove the filter. Huge thanks to Maladar, Widric & Beldin

3. Apr 2008 - Cruising

I drov e around a bit. It seems that the vehicle tax is still marked as unpaid, for some reason.

2. Apr 2008 - Some parts

After lenghty conversation with JDM Factory, we got a nice list of parts to order:

Water pump assy	16100-19115
s/c Timing belt guide	13566-15010
V-Belt 1	90916-02157 99365-50950
V-Belt 2	90916-02118 90916-02188 90916-02370
Spring, Tension Idler	90507-20010
Pin, for idler	90249-06006
Idler sub-assy, timing belt	13505-16021
Fuel Filter	23300-19175
Gasket (Fuel Filter)	90430-12005
Tomei Timing Belt 4A-GZE
Super Charger Pulley Kit 4A-GZE
Thermostat
Thermostat Seal
Suspension upgrade

1. Apr 2008 - Vehicle tax

I paid the vehicle tax.