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New toy day. Needed something to assist with rust removal. Once again, not huge progress. Engine lid off, spoiler parts that mount on the rear quarters and old antenna off. Some labelling of bags of bolts. Did a spot of rust removal, back to bare metal in no time Oh and the car has steering foglights

Can't get much worse from here though can it?

Today I managed to get the front bumper and wings off. Labelled up the front loom and removed the impact bar. Not huge progress but just slowly ticking away. Also went scouting for rust… and the front drivers wheel well failed the poke test… ahh well, knew there was gunna be rust! Impressively the inner sill actually seems solid all round, only time will tell if this is the case but a quick poke here and there and it sounded solid.

Oh jeez that's pretty bad! Bet you're glad it wasn't a rev1 without the door support bars! I've been keeping an eye out for a project one for a while, and this one came it at the right price so went down to see it. Knew it was going to be a big project going in.

Got the aircon condenser, and radiator out today. And a single foglight, the other one is still fighting. As you can see, there ain't much left of the condenser, thankfully this meant any refrigerant that may have been present after 10 years of no use was nowhere to be found. My brake fluid is blue, I'm hoping this is just some fancy pants "racing" stuff that happens to be blue... To my surprise the underside of the wiper cowl was "clean", well under the dirt it's not rusty is more what I mean anyway. Next up, more drilling to get the other soddin' foglight out. Then the front bumper and wings will come off.

Twas indeed cheap! And no, I do not. But I plan to learn Expecting this to be a multi year process, with a lot of learning involved.

I’ve been busy today, headlights out, front bumper, wings and radiator remain elusive. Bonnet and trunk lid removed, rear bumper removed. Can finally get a good look at the boot pocket rust. Amongst the photos are some pictures of the rear wheel well/sill area. That’ll need some proper care and attention. But according to people in the know this isn’t the worst they’ve seen!

The telescopic steering wheel had seized up so dropped that out, pulled it apart, covered it in WD40 and hit it with a hammer a few times. Now it works. The radiator is one of these shiny new fandagled self-disassembling ones, leave it for 10 years and it crumbles to dust! The car now resides in the garage on 4 four axle stands. Where it'll likely spend the next few years. I spent today trying to remove the front bumper, wings and radiator. None of these are off the car. And I swear 80% of the nuts/bolts I take off have sheared. I've got myself into something quite dire here The final picture is most of the rust that's fallen off the car so far just faffing around with the front end.

The car has had some previous premium choice welding on the boot floor. Doesn't appear to be a patch panel though as it's all corrugated still and it's not a complete weld in patch. Door lock wasn't in the hole, so I went poking in the door... Apparently someone managed to shear the lock barrel, gunna need a new one of those. "Fancy" aftermarket alloy pedals, a mini glove box drivers side and a tidy location for "fun mode" switches... The sun hath kissed the seatbelts, got a rattle can of Buzzweld PiO satin black to hopefully sort that! And the old school immobiliser the car had when I got it. This has been removed and interestingly both the immobiliser and turbo timer were wired into the cars harness using a patch harness. Really cool, and really easy to remove!

Overly excited about buying the last piece, I eagerly paid the man and got the car shipped back up north. With some help from a friend the car was cranked, and wouldn't start. No fuel getting to the engine after we put 10L into it. Fuel pump sounded like it was doing something but who knows. I've got big plans for the car that don't involve this engine or fuel system so it wasn't too worrisome. A quick look around the car and it's pretty clear a previous owner had a thing for yellow. All hand painted on, brush marks and all. As can be seen from the driver's side sill, the car is no stranger to rust. The other sill is no better, the boot pockets are completely rotten out, the wheel wells are on their way out. After some tinkering I got the headlights to play ball, between turbo timers, an immobiliser and some very goofy wiring to a switch the pop ups work.

Hey all, other forums seem to be dead in the water and I don't see the point it trying to use the Facebook groups for this kind of thread. TLDR; big ol' thread on a complete strip and restoration of an MR2 Turbo that has definitely seen better days. I recently acquired the final piece to my 90's Toyota collection, an MR2 Turbo. This particular car is registered as imported in the year 2000, officially registered by the DVLA as a 1994 car, but is an April 1992 car (Confirmed by Toyota, awaiting sending details to the DVLA to get this updated). Thus, this is a Rev2 car. One of the less desirable models as the 3S-GTEs in these don't take kindly to having the power wound up. It's a GT-S trim level, but with a whole host of options. Premium sound package, traction control, LSD, mudflaps, telescopic steering wheel, folding wing mirrors. Probably more that I'm unaware of. Doesn't appear to have the steering fog-lights. Attached are the photos I took when I went to view it. MOT history says the car was last MOT'd in 2009. According to one of the car reports, it's not been crashed, either here or in Japan.

Mines been in the garage for a month or so and just caked in dust! I’m based in Howden if you want to drop by and say hi, shoot me a PM

Thanks! Needs a rudy good wash to be honest

That'd be me

What time you expecting to start Saturday morning out of curiosity?

It's shipping primer, you want to sand it off before applying your own primer etc.

Elvington by any chance?

Police won't be interested as it's a civil matter. I'd expect the end game here would be court, where both sides can make their points and present their facts and let a judge decide. Getting it to court is a different matter entirely.

The car next to his is someone else's I'm sat at home at a desk, working

A mate of mine, Aiden. Based around Hull, not on the forums. And yeah, he's heading to Modified Nationals. The first is from today as he's heading down to the meet. Second picture was me helping him in my garage.

He talks about lowering power levels during gear changes etc using the Motec ECU so it *may* do it properly. Doesn't seem like we in the UK use Motec a whole lot, and I think it's a relatively new option so hasn't had much time out in the wild yet. Something I'm keeping an eye on as I've heard a lot of the same of what you're saying Burna, Syvecs etc don't control the box properly leading to problems as you say

Seconded regarding Paul at TCB. He's always my go to guy with regards to anything I need these days for anything Toyota, aftermarket or OEM.

Pics were taken 2nd August 2015, at Santa Pod. So would've been at the Ultimate Street Car event on the last day.

Don’t know if you need to touch them, but there’s an ECU and a relay or two next to the rear drivers side passengers seat belt. The wiring for the diff goes down out of the car next to where the ABS sensor lines go. The thick black cable here, you can see the relay and ECU off to the far right behind the speaker box (I’ve added the speaker boxes to my U.K. spec, normally the relay and ECU are mounted on a small bracket)

The two grey clips here are the abs sensors, the grommets are below the polystyrene foam/subwoofer holder. AFAIK on jap cars these will be the only two grommets in that area under the car, but I haven’t been under that area so can’t be certain