The Story of Redlyne_mr2: 1999 - Present
It all began on a warms summers night in 1999, I took delivery of my 1991 Toyota mr2 turbo with 49K original kms, purchase from the first owner, completely stock. Shortly there after I picked up some rims, had the side mouldings painted, got jdm clear corners and solid side markers. Oh yah... I was the boss!
Earliest known picture of the car.
The following summer the s2000 was was released which meant I had to up my game for the street races. I purchased some tein springs, tokico struts, BOV, Tom's side with Bomex front, hks exhaust and a boost controller.
Many will remember this trailer trash pic.
Over the winter I built up the engine and the transmission however a disastrous incident on May 26th 2001 brought the mr2's street racing days to a hault and thus began a 6 year restoration project. Over the 6 years all bushings were replaced with urethane ones, all control arms were removed, cleaned and powder coated, and I had the chassis re-enforced to make it stiffer.
In the winter of 2006/2007 the car was brought up to Calgary and was given to Dan and Dave at Screamin' paintworks. It was totally taken apart and the shell was painted in BMW Imola red.
While at Screamin I had as many body parts replace with carbon fiber, this included the hood, headlight covers, trunk, spoiler, and windshield cowl. New weather stripping along with all new oem toyota fittings were installed. A brand new oem windshield was also put in. An authentic Greddy Gracer bodykit along with Bomex power type 1 mirros were also installed. MR2 fans will also notice the 94+ 1 piece spoiler conversion.
Spring of 2007 I installed a massive collection of performance parts that I had accumulated over the 6 year period, everything from coilovers, to roll cage, to sway bars and random braces, to rims, to brakes, engine parts and turbo kit.
Many of the items I installed myself with the help of a good buddy, the rest was sent up to Project Omega in Edmonton for final installation.
I received the car back just in time for summer in 07
Having chosen inproper offsets and widths for my te37s I sold those and bought a set of rare Advan RG1s.
The car then attended it's first ever Beyond cruise, as you may have noticed the carbon front diffuser is missing in this pic. Shortly before the cruise I hit a huge pothole totally destroying the lip and carbon diffuser, this pic shows the brand new lip however the diffusers would take several months to arrive from Japan.
The car was given a new plate.
Having driven the car fairly hard in the summer of 07 and making the stupid mistake of running to much boost with not enough fuel I blew the original gen2 3sgte. A gen3 3sgte was purchased from Speedtech and the car was once again brought up to Project Omega in Edmonton where the swap would be completed.
More engine work was done to the car over the winter of 2007/2008, I was so happy with the update gen3 engine and the turbo kit, the car was now reliable and fast.
The car would go on to win Best Toyota at DTP2008 and get it's first photoshoot with Mbolt.
As the summer of 2008 progressed I finished off most of the interior as well as the stereo which I had moved into the glovebox to make room for my boost controller, turbo timer and powerfc, notice the racepak digital dash as well.
As the summer of 08 neared to an end I considered the car pretty much complete.
Little did I know the modbug would bite me again in the winter of 08/09.......
Last edited by Redlyne_mr2; 03-16-2009 at 11:09 AM.
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