chaoticentity

@Andy Ven

JDM cars don't have a traction control pump. Their traction control is limited to the throttle body being used to pull power as far as I'm aware

Instead of pinging 8.8.8.8 ping the router. 192.168.1.254 is apparently the default for BT, though I've not been on a bt hub in a long time so not certain. This will test the connection between your laptop and the router and nothing else. If the failure continues you will know it's a local issue. Check with both ethernet and wifi as before and report back

The engine ECU is located in the passenger side footwell, under the carpet, within a black plastic box.

I can't promise any of these will be helpful, but this is what the alarm system looked like under my driver's seat when I removed everything. I wish I took more detailed photos

A GE version is allegedly coming

Artec out in Australia have recently released a GTE T4 true twin scroll cast stainless manifold, worth a look in my opinion

@Andy Ven does replace ball joints (And refurbed arms as a whole) for most of the suspension arms. Track rod end I'd speak with TCB. Both of these guys are forum traders.

Wait, the VAT only applies to CC's fee?

32k plus VAT plus 5% fee, so 40k is what the buyer is paying.

On the tyre wall there will be a date stamp to tell you the age of the tyre. There's no set standard for where they're displayed on the wall but it's 4 digits, the first two tell you the week, the second two tell you the year. Do the Google thing for examples if I've not explained it well enough

Yours isn't a UK spec though is it?

I believe mine would have an airbag light (Previous owner removed the lamp, I assume they didn't know how to reset it). But we're talking about the seatbelt warning light, and associated gubbins

Now that is really curious... Mine's a September 1993 car. I've had the whole interior out, have checked the looms thoroughly so there's definitely nothing there and no reason to believe someone else has hacked it out either

That’s the spirit! I’m considering it, finding a genuine turbo tintop isn’t easy though!

Been a little while, I’ve been busy at a wedding one weekend (took the supra out for that, lovely drive to the Peak District) and organising shite for the big day! The engine is now out, and more rust has been found… Where the traction bar mounts to the chassis the mount is rusted through, top bottom and sides to some extent leaving me with a decision about how dedicated I want to be with this shell I think I’ll probably get it sorted and keep the shell still, just have to take my sweet time getting things like this sorted properly

Funnily, my UK spec doesn't have seatbelt warning at all. No provisions in the loom for it either so it's not like it was removed. And it has the passenger airbag as standard. So at least in the example of a UK spec, seat belt detection is irrelevant to the airbag deployment.

Over the weekend I learned about my new favouritest job ever to do in a car. Removing sound deadening. Urgh. Disgusting, messy hammer and chisel work. No dry ice sadly, and the freezer stuff in a car mostly just made a mess. Maybe the other side will be easier. Also yanked the brake master, abs and traction system. Too much weight for my liking. Not decided if I'll keep ABS or not yet.

Non-exclusive or, why not both! Most of the floorpan isn't rusty... but I've yet to pull the fuel tank and see what crust awaits me beneath it... Updates will hopefully remain plentiful, I really need to build a workbench to store half this stuff... I'm running out of floorspace

Lol, attachment limit was because my membership lapsed. Thought it was setup to be an annual payment, hey ho. Heater/ac core out, cabin loom out

You'd have to remove both the seats and the seatbelts. All seats must have seat belts for the MOT. But the seatbelt mounting points for the rear seats are nowhere near the sills. More likely relating to the lower mount for the front seatbelts. You're much better off sorting the corrosion now before it gets worse as mc92 says.

It’s a turbo shell though! Gotta save it! And I’m sacrificing the running gear anyway as it’s not part of my build plans

Bit of a lax week, took the weekdays off from working on the Mr2. But it’s been a busy weekend! Firstly, front suspension off, mostly. Anti roll bars didn’t fancy letting me do the thing with the Allen key and a spanner so they’re stuck on, and one of the studs used to hold it on decided it liked the nut too much and came off from whatever it was attached to inside the frame. So that’s awaiting my angle grinder coming back. As the outside wasn’t going to plan I moved back inside and pulled the dashboard and the headliner out. Discovered some more rust holes, oh well no pictures for now as apparently the max upload size is 2MB?

Yup! My first car, she's sat outside on a flat concrete pad awaiting me buying an engine crane, and stand so I can yank the engine, get the gearbox refurbished, replace the clutch and probably do forged pistons so I can wind the boost up a bit without any worry. Lots to do and never enough time Might go as far as starting a thread on that too when I get to it

Gutted the interior today, thinking oh the rust can’t get much worse… so yep, need some inner sill repairs doing too. Oh well. Previous owner left a lovely gift in the form of having cut the original Toyota harness, so no easy eBay adapter for me this time. Having gutted a supra it’s mad how much more sound deadening and such is in an MR2! The last picture shows the remnants of what MR2 owners call a cancer bar… mine apparently got a bit beyond just cancer