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Interesting. I have purple spats and side skirts (which I hate!) and would dearly love to have them body colour (black). I'd just rip them off and forget about them if some of them were not hiding horrors. Rattle cans did spring to mind, how easy is it to get a half decent result like this?

Both prob shaft bearings, some nuts to hold them to the shaft and a left rear radius arm..

plain discs for the win! Pagid discs are nice, OEM toyota are good too. The pads make the real difference, just got stoptech on mine and they are much stronger than the old toyota pads. They get even better if you warm them up too. Still can't beat the carbotech pads for stopping though. Them paired with a nice plain disc is great.

yesterday... bled brakes after fitting replacement oem hoses at the front (not perfect but usable and powerful enough to stop hard when required!) Fix the funny steering noise, rack was lose due to a stripped bolt. Replaced the duff front outer CV boot Oil change for the rear diff, old oil was waaaay too old, it's been in that many, many years! Diagnosed the vibration issue, which turned out to be the rear of the 2 prop bearings Discovered some suspension damage and unevenly worn shocks, left rear, rear most arm is bent and rear shocks the left is soft while right rear is stiff. Checked the gearbox and engine to find they have a clean bill of health Madness of daft things, drove 358m and still had 1/4 of a tank! Car drives so much better now and is safe again, just got to fix these last few bits and it's golden

tip toe driving the poor thing to prevent whatever this vibrations is from ripping the car apart. booked in friday for the replacement cv boot and to inspect these issues. might not be able to fix them all on the day but at least we will know what's wrong. going to check the rear diff oil level this evening, there is a tiny leak at the input shaft so maybe it's gone a bit dry.

Bled the brakes again (after an afternoon of rear brake fitting yesterday) and still don't have a strong pedal.. the car that keeps on giving is chucking up more issues than I'm solving atm, should be good for thread updates though.

If you want to change the seats, bucket seats are around half the weight of the stock seats, at least 14kg to be had here. Not a cheap option. Could dump the misses and take the passenger seat out, good 14kg+ saving there Floor mats? get them heavy fuel eaters out! Cone filter instead of airbox, 2.5kg Cut sugar from your diet and walk an extra 20mins a day, might be some weight saved there. But then you could be a 0% fat road cyclist for all I know. Only wear race boots when driving, every kg helps so leave the doc martins at home. Run with the screen wash only half filled. Have to top up more quickly but it's another 2kg saved. Add all the ideas in this thread together and there is loads to be saved Just added them up.. 97.5kg of savings! about the weight of a larger passenger. SAS 7 AC 7 battery 10 spare 18 wheels 8kg half tank 20kg plastic trim 2kg plastic windows 3 seats 14 mats 3 boots 1 washer 2 airbox 2.5

Plastic rear quarter windows and rear hatch window can save some good weight.. plastic4performance.com lighter battery can help and isn't as expensive, something like this https://www.braillebattery.co.uk/index.php/braille/product_batteries/b129 at around 150 quid

There are lots of things you can remove to save weight, you have to inspect every single component and asses it's use, design etc. Rotating weight has a great effect on MPG, so light alloys will help for example, these also make the overall weight of the car less so it's win/win. Don't be tempted by light wheel nuts though, these are a daft idea and a safety issue. plastic trims and covers that are just there to tidy the engine bay up can be removed, not things like fuse box covers but the plastic wit the VVTI logo etc. Taking this critical look at each part doesn't save much weight per part, but the numbers build if you keep going and look at everything. It can get out of hand, the ultimate would be to strip the entire chassis and only put back what's needed, including trimming out spare wires in the loom, removing stuck on floor tar etc. But less drastic savings can add up. I intend to do this for my gt4 as it's very nose heavy but I'm not really looking to strip it out at all. My MR2 has had the full drastic treatment and saved huge amounts of weight.

55L of fuel weighs 41.1895kg. Petrol is around 748.9g/L, different octane changes the weight slightly, some race fuel we used was 747g/L

Got the last part of the brake puzzle, the rear discs. Just got to book a day off to fit them now. Oh and bleed the bloody things!

was a shame as I paid to have new boots fitted to that driveshaft in january. wondering if my noise is now that join when turning. no sign of the old clip. had to repack the join as best I could and fill the boot up. didn't seem to hold the edge of the fitting very well. Would rather not have to replace the boot again. it seems in good/new condition but the tension in just the boot was enough to pull it off the cv end. really needs a proper fix before something dies there. I have little faith that cable ties will last long.

fitted front brakes, repacked the FR outer CV with grease as the clip had come off the new boot and sprayed the grease everywhere. Need a new metal clip for that! tried for an hour to bleed the brakes but the pedal isn't great. ran out of time so will have to take another stab at it tomorrow Didn't take many snaps.. but oem everything and some rebuilt calipers

Failed to change the brake pads and discs, not normally a task that is too hard. Sadly some stuck pins in both calipers had other ideas. Didn't even get to the rears! Anyone got some GT4 calipers for sale?

Just picked up a new center dash trim. This is to replace the broken air vent and get rid of the alarm flashing light that's put a hole in the dash, plus some cheap phone holder that doesn't work.. 20 bucks well spent. That along with the UK right hand vent panel with a fog button, should tidy it up a bit.

I sit in a traffic queue for some roadworks every morning, about 75% of people passing the other way turn and stare Mind you the MR2 turns as many heads too

Some passing young guys were commenting on the car.. One said "why would you put that bonnet on a car, what a stupid choice. He could have chosen a much better looking vent and made it less busy" I kindly explained what the car was, they had never heard of a GT4 or even known that homologation cars were a thing. They were quite impressed with the chargecooler but were still a bit down on it because it wasn't as fast as some modern things. Kids. Also met with 2 other local gt4 owners while collecting some new discs and pads from gt4-paly for this weekends brake refresh. Nice long chat and maybe joining in with the rolling road day next month.

Cleaned the inside of the windscreen for the 3rd time. Used a different product and it seems to at last have cleaned it.. time will tell. Plus took it out for rip around the B roads of sunny Sussex to enjoy the sun

Washed it, cleaned the interior, tested the o2 sensor, tested the temp sensor, checked for boost leaks, adjusted the dump valve (didn't seem to change anything) and then took it for a drive in the sun.

If I was in your situation and no specialists were practical to get to, then would be looking for a decent small independent engine builder or machine shop type setup. Go speak with them and bring the part and you'll soon get an idea if they are up to the job of restoring the subframe. Unless you need someone to also remove and refit the item, then you're looking at a toyota/celica specialist or a car restorers. Most garages don't entertain restoration work in my experience. John French is an MR2 and Celica specialist just south of Birmingham, near Kidderminster. Quite a way to go for you, but he likes to do things the correct way. Very up front with costings and time too. There is another much further north but the name escapes more now.

just using it as a car this week. to and from work each day, roasting small children on the bonnet very, that sort of thing. found a usb stick to plug into the headunit, so much better than a dodgy aux lead into a phone. bought some nice cleaning products to show it some love at the weekend.

cleared and aimed the washer jets, amazing what a tiny bit of dirt in them can do. removed the ripped bonnet padding and the broken rain tray. drove it for miles and miles, enjoyed every inch of it!

Yeah was cold last night! but the night before wasn't much warmer and the rain had frozen so the car had about 2cm of solid ice on it. no snow though. Never think to take pics as I'm always late for work so just start scraping the ice off Looks like snow tonight, wrap up warm peeps!

Well I'm very new to Celica ownership, a few friends have had st182 and a carlos sainz but I went down a different path. So my first and hopefully long lasting Celica is my current st205 which I bought from a friend's wife in November. She wanted something more reliable and I couldn't let the chance slip. Only driven it about 500 miles so far and chucked about 2k at it for major service and a few other fixes, which seems to be par for the course in gt4 ownership. So far loving the smooth suspension and ease of driving. Plan is to just keep it well maintained, tidy it up and use it as my main car. Still got a couple of MR2s for playing with mods. This isn't my first homologation special, had 3 Pulsar GTiRs over the years. Nothing like a rally car err excuse the purple, I will get round to turning those parts black at some point or at least removing the spats and skirts. St205 '95 Jap import, no abs, almost fully stock.

you only need to grind one side of the nut so that might work. but think about it, if you can't get them off then how can you get net nuts back on? chop the whole thing off with a cutting disc and replace. The MR2 are the same, they are never reusable.