(Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20-

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (rikkir)

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:53:14 GMT

Fast Eddie
Admin
Wow, you do fast work! I hope it is all fixed and reliable again for mr2wpc

They don't call me Fast Eddie for nothing. ;-p

I thought it was because of your bedroom skills? " />

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:33:45 GMT

Admin
Wow, you do fast work! I hope it is all fixed and reliable again for mr2wpc

They don't call me Fast Eddie for nothing. ;-p

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Admin)

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 09:53:54 GMT

Wow, you do fast work! I hope it is all fixed and reliable again for mr2wpc

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 09:26:10 GMT

Eric
Looking forward to catching up soon, is Rosie missing the front lip in the last picture?

Not long now, I remove the front lip when ever i leave it at a workshop so I don't have to worry about it getting ripped off as it sits very low.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:44:45 GMT

After thinking Rosie was sorted for Track Day!!

This HAPPENED!!

On the way back from MR2 meet at Hunter Valley i noticed "Rosie" was overheating therefore pulled over and then she decided to piss out coolant from the overflow bottle over the road in the middle of nowhere.
But there are Good people in the world, willing to sacrifice there drinking water for "Rosie", which just got me to a garage.
Therefore returned the car to TRP to run some pressure tests just to find out that the fourth cyclinder was blowing exhaust into the coolant. (Blown Head Gasket)
So out come the motor again after only 20,000km's. $$$$$$

Sent the Head away to be pressure tested, machined and also fitted new ARP head bolts and studs.
Replaced the Gen 2 head gasket with a cometic gasket.
Whilst the engine was out i also replaced the thrust bearing and upgraded to a TRD Thermostat
Put back together again, and she is now ready for the track.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Eric)

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:22:29 GMT

Looking forward to catching up soon, is Rosie missing the front lip in the last picture?

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:14:26 GMT

Couple of Upgrades to "Rosie"
Got my self some chrome semi forged SSR Rims.
Plastic dipped them in matt black.
Highlighted the SSR badge in red.

Wrapped them in Nitto NT01's.
Which knocked off four secounds off her PB at Wakefield Park.

Decided next was to do the Delta V Big Brake Upgrade with RDA EBC discs.
And brought my self some 22V Gen 3 and Nissan GTR calipers, then cleaned up and restored them using new rebuild kit.

After upgrading the brakes Rosie decided to start blowing blue smoke when in idle!!!
After investigation TRP found there was an issue with the CT26 turbo, therefore had it high flowed and bolted on a 3 inch Berk dump pipe.
Upgraded the Gen 2 to Gen 3 Cross member and tie rods.
Also installed new whiteline sway bar (front and back) as i had them lying around.

Replaced factory map sensor with Delco 3 bar.
Fitted Haltech Lambda to CAN unit and configured it in the ECU.
Then had "Rosie" tuned on the dyno and she produced a safe 173.2Kw at the wheels with better fuel economy.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (B24)

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:58:14 GMT

Its a shame you have a problem at this time of year. Hopefully everything works out.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Nik_Lee)

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:15:43 GMT

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Hopefully it will be an easy fix with just a head gasket and not a cracked head or something like that.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:54:50 GMT

Got bad news with Rosie. Issues with number 4 cylinder exhaust into coolant, car running fine but not a good idea to track it as is. Got her in the workshop to take the head off to find exact problem $$$$.
Merry Christmas.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:50:01 GMT

MR PLOW
Time for another update Eddie?

Very soon Mr Plow " />

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (MR PLOW)

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:18:39 GMT

Time for another update Eddie?

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Fast Eddie)

Thu, 12 May 2016 10:52:28 GMT

maccardo94
Looks gooodd..just bought a mr2 recently and want to get these skirts and maybe the spoiler ..what brand are they and where did you get them from ?

Sorry for the delay been overseas, welcome new MR2 owner Skirts are Toms bought them second hand on GUM TREE. Rear spoiler from PSI new from the USA.

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (maccardo94)

Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:08:42 GMT

Looks gooodd..just bought a mr2 recently and want to get these skirts and maybe the spoiler ..what brand are they and where did you get them from ?

Re: (Eddie’s New Found Love) -SW20- (Matts_SW20)

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:51:07 GMT

Fast Eddie
Thanks Matts_SW20 We couldn't of timed it any better rocking into MCM Nats, I was looking for your car at lunch break without much joy. Thanks for the footage at the drags i'm very happy with how Rosie is running.We will catch up soon buddy.

It was good haha, it was up at Motorkhana all day long and I wasn't around it much because of everything else going on. No worries it's about all I recorded that day haha. Keen to catch up, I want to drive down to a Syd meet but failing that I'll go to Toyotafest in October :p

Great job on the launch by the way it did make a big difference at the other end. Looking forward to more updates.