Track Day MSP Build

[dandan2]

there is a video of it on youtube. hold on ill find it

 

[dandan2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUEOqDlTBo

 

[MSPM1cheLe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUEOqDlTBo

thanks. annnnd where is the filter i guess is the better question. (sorry never seen this set up on a MSP)

 

[vinnie mack]

he is running a stock airbox so he probably has a duct running from the stock intake tube to the hole.

 

[low_psi]

I'll find a picture of the intake tonight. The Home Depot dryer duct special has long been replaced with proper brake duct hose. Connects from a pipe fitted to the headlight to the stock airbox where a panel filter is still used.

 

[vinnie mack]

makes sense.. what about water? or do you not see rain that much.

 

[low_psi]

I just bend the hose to a 90* like the stock elbow.

Here's a quick picture of what the car, swapped the wider track wheels on for a change of pace. The silver wheels have been on the car for over 5 years now.

 

[CitizenPro]

I love it, dude!

 

[MSPM1cheLe]

nice cage. 4 point?

 

[low_psi]

Chuck, when you getting back in the game?

Yep, Autopower.

 

[CitizenPro]

I'm coming back pretty soon actually, but behind the scenes. I'll be taking my little brother under my wing, and get his ride to the next level. Should be picking up the MSP I told you about next week, so you'll be seeing more of it on the forums. Its a yellow banana too!

...CitizenPro V2

 

[low_psi]

Finished one of the front struts tonight....

Instead of having custom threaded inserts made to weld onto the OEM tubes, I used some parts laying around the shop. I knew 1st gen MR2 struts used the same gland nut I have for the Konis, but I wasn't sure about the 2nd gen struts. It just so happened we had some old 2nd gen struts laying around and to my extreme joy, the thread pitch is what I needed. So after a lot of hacksaw action I have the inserts that have been holding me up for so long.

So as of tonight I have one strut ready for powder coat... just three more! I'll post pictures soon. Going to send off my rear sway bar to the coater tomorrow, made a few modifications

 

[low_psi]

 

[CitizenPro]

^ Looks good Marc, bout time you give your girl some lovin...

 

[low_psi]

Indeed indeed. The struts will look pretty bling once coated.

 

[low_psi]

Have the strut tubes all finished up. I'll shot a picture or two tomorrow before I drop them off to get coated.

 

[Rogue]

needing more rotation?

 

[low_psi]

Just a little bit. The car is great everywhere but really low speed corners. I'm not expecting to use the bar on full stiff, but use it on the medium setting to remedy this. On cold tires its already quite tail happy!

Here are the tubes all ready for the coater:

A quick detail shot. All the surfaces have been radius'd and cleaned up since the stampings are pretty ugly:

 

[aMaff]

While you have them apart, it would probably make sense to weld in some reinforcements for the end-link tabs on the struts.

EDIT: Looks like that may have already been done, but it's hard to tell as there's no close up of the tabs.

 

[low_psi]

Yep, no worries! I made tab additions to replicate the exact size of the OEM MSP tabs.