Wackojacko and Kovac's Track Mk2 MR2
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For the best part of a year I have been mumbling about getting a track toy, as my daily car is an enjoyable drive but not something I am very comfortable with tracking as its not the most exciting nor cheap to fix. This thought spiraled into action after a long chat with like minded PHer Wackojacko. Where we came to a conclusion using the incredible bit of beer math: A track car owned by two people has half the running costs for each person.
Many links where exchanged on facebook, From E36 328i (is there any other track car for today's petrolhead) to more left-field options like a Nissan S12 and then a incredibly tempting Alpina E34 (Not so much as a track car but more because its an Alpina) All this looking came to an end with the suggestion of a Toyota MR2.
Many candidates where considered, Less where viewed until we came back to the first one we laid eyes on. A lemon yellow MK2 Rev2 complete with a cage and a fair assortment of performance parts already fitted. I had a few concerns about it at first, Mostly because it was already a track car but these were overcome by the statement "Its yellow!", One ebay auction and two greasy envelopes of money later. I was greeted with the following sight.
Followed swiftly by
I had the task of following the car home, Meaning I had all the Aircon and interior to myself. However Wackojacko had a track car and a childish grin to go with it.
This process took up much of the day so we had to put the car to bed and struggle through another week before we could play with it some more.
Next weekend we found that It never takes either of us long to want to take things apart. This was the start of a long process to crack open the bumper and remove a few parts to loose some more weight from the car.
It turns out that removing the front bumper from the MR2 is not a trivial task and that an 18 year old car has a lot of rusty bolts on it.
This took us the best part of 5 hours to remove, Only to shed a few KGs of bar. In the mean time I removed the tints from the front windows as they where both starting to show their age and of questionable legality.
But enough of that, I give you our very yellow MK2 MR2 Rev2 Track car with the following spec:
Updates to follow
Many links where exchanged on facebook, From E36 328i (is there any other track car for today's petrolhead) to more left-field options like a Nissan S12 and then a incredibly tempting Alpina E34 (Not so much as a track car but more because its an Alpina) All this looking came to an end with the suggestion of a Toyota MR2.
Many candidates where considered, Less where viewed until we came back to the first one we laid eyes on. A lemon yellow MK2 Rev2 complete with a cage and a fair assortment of performance parts already fitted. I had a few concerns about it at first, Mostly because it was already a track car but these were overcome by the statement "Its yellow!", One ebay auction and two greasy envelopes of money later. I was greeted with the following sight.
Followed swiftly by
I had the task of following the car home, Meaning I had all the Aircon and interior to myself. However Wackojacko had a track car and a childish grin to go with it.
This process took up much of the day so we had to put the car to bed and struggle through another week before we could play with it some more.
Next weekend we found that It never takes either of us long to want to take things apart. This was the start of a long process to crack open the bumper and remove a few parts to loose some more weight from the car.
It turns out that removing the front bumper from the MR2 is not a trivial task and that an 18 year old car has a lot of rusty bolts on it.
This took us the best part of 5 hours to remove, Only to shed a few KGs of bar. In the mean time I removed the tints from the front windows as they where both starting to show their age and of questionable legality.
But enough of that, I give you our very yellow MK2 MR2 Rev2 Track car with the following spec:
- Cusco 6 point bolt in cage
- Buckets with TRS Harnesses
- Induction kit
- Custom De-cat S/S twin exit exhaust (98Db)
- Sachs Competition clutch with Exedy pressure plate
- Fully stripped out
- Japspeed short shift kit
- Sparco Wheel on Snap off boss
- Overhauled Brakes
- Lowered by 35mm
Updates to follow
LandingSpot said:
Looks a good project. They race em in the Sprint Series, so they can't be bad!! Turbo or not?
www.imoc.co.uk is a great resource for them. Good luck!
Thanks, Ill give IMOC a look over. www.imoc.co.uk is a great resource for them. Good luck!
Its a NA, I was tempted by turbos but the idea of keeping it simple to start won me over.
One of the things we have noticed that the car was missing is braided brake lines. So we checked out the normal places and and found that Camskill was the cheapest by a bit for a nice set of HEL brakelines (£66) they quoted a lead time of 2 weeks on their website, We have the entire winter before we end up tracking this so its not a problem to wait a few weeks for some parts.
This was on Tuesday. By Wednesday I had a tracking code in my email and this morning I found a parcel on my desk at work with the following in it.
I was very very impressed at how quick Camskill managed to turn our order around, awesome job guys .
Yes, It did have to be yellow lines.
This was on Tuesday. By Wednesday I had a tracking code in my email and this morning I found a parcel on my desk at work with the following in it.
I was very very impressed at how quick Camskill managed to turn our order around, awesome job guys .
Yes, It did have to be yellow lines.
wackojacko said:
Again this was the second time out probably 10 laps in the car at this point and I take the co owner of the car out in it (Mr Kovac) .... I succeeded in suitably scaring him 
What the video doesn't convey very well is me trying to talk a certain loon into not hoofing it out graham hill bend. Oh well, even I was grinning like a child with sweets at the end.Edited by wackojacko on Saturday 18th February 16:39
The whole deal with splitting the costs seems very sensible to me. Many things get cheaper too.
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