More Photo's coming soon....
Ok update on what I should at this point be nick name project Murphy, yet I'm sticking to calling her Katsumi. As of now I still have yet to log a full tank of gas without having something new break or show it self to be broken.
Fixed and I'll use this term loosely as many of you will think I bastardized the car, the rear center panel between the tail lights. I was originally missing the 2, where it's supposed to say MR2, instead it just said MR. Removed the remains of the emblem left a thick resedue of glue and god knows what. So what did I do, sand it down and "painted" the panel what looks like to be a gray metal flake. That and replaced the emblem with something I found on ebay. Hey it looks cool got to rock the VIP look right.
Took the car out last week for a spin. Rotor decided the screws that held it in place weren't tight enough. Got stuck at Redmond town center, thank you AAA towing. Went home fearing the worst, did the timing belt slip, or did I just kill the trans. So happy it was the rotor that somehow went loose. How I have no idea.
Got the car cleaned up by a mobile detailing service. I did mention the car was sitting for 4 long years, 1 of them was outside in the elements. So yes there was a mold issue in parts of the car. I did replace a vast number of parts with surface mold. The worst culprit was the storage box lid behind the passenger seat. Yet there was a lingering issue that needed a steam cleaning of the interior. While at it had the car washed and wax. It was raining, I was lazy, cost only a little bit more and did I mention it was raining.
Took the car out for a good spin good idea right. She's clean, new seals on the engine, and solved that pesky no spark issue so what could go wrong right. So I tossed caution to the wind and went off to my second job aka the casino. While there won 250 bucks so it was a good night. Then went to get my car at the Valet stand....... 4 cigarettes later my car finally rolls down the hill to where I was waiting. In my mind the worst of the worst happened. Did they scratch my car and are thinking of ways to explain things, did the car die, and they had to jump it. Nope I walk up to my car and the valet looks at me like a lost puppy and says "Sir you door wont open :basmah: ". Somehow the spring that actuates the locking part of the door decided to break or just fall off. Another day of owning a mr2 I guess. This is one item not in my wheel house so off to Isshi's shop to get things fixed.
Next on the list of things to deal with, new t-top seals, passenger side t-top glass, and a stereo system of some sort. Oh and fix that pesky high idle problem so I could finally take emissions to register the car. Then I could finally start to Mod the car. Talk about taking the long road to start the modding process.
Found some very special wheels that seems to be made of unobtainium, these were harder to track down then even finding a set of trd ilumi k's. Too bad they coming over on the slow boat and need some work before they can be mounted onto a mr2.
Yay now both my projects are back under one roof.
Some where out there has to be a nice 95 sunroof that needs to get rescued right. Hey if I can't buy my perfect 2nd gen I will at least try to build one.