Thought I would chuck up a post with my motors past and present.
I started driving when I hit 18 with a classic Mini 1.3i, this trusty little motor kept me going for just under a year when I sold it and purchased a Mk2 MR2 GT.
The car had galactic mileage on it and the cylinder head cracked after a couple of weeks.
It had a new head put on and a rebuild to get it going again after a year I sold it but was already hooked on Jap cars!
The next steed was a trusty Mkiv Supra SZ, car ran like clockwork fitted an RSR exhaust and 17" Turbo wheels. Finally sold it 7 months later as it was lacking grunt
I then got a Supra RZ 6 speed. This was BPU'd to around 380bhp the car started off looking like this
I then got a set of Racing Heart CR's for it (was very hard to find a new set in the correct offsets)
I really wish I had stopped there but made the fatal mistake of going too far! I spotted a Border Racing kit on google whilst looking for other stuff and fell in love with its crazy looks. After a bit of phoning around I got the kit imported from Japan. As far as I know it was the only one in the UK.
After a lot of nights working on the drive I was left with this:
A few months later I fell out of love with the car and was trying to decide on what to do. I had the funds to either go single turbo, sell and buy something a bit more exotic or an FD (something I have always wanted to own).
After a few chats with the old man I started looking at TVR Tuscans (he has a Griffith 500 so a bit biased lol)
Had a chap look at a few on my behalf and a few months later I was the proud owner of this bute.
This is the longest car I have ever owned at 4 years! 3 years into ownership the engine had the blue smoke of death so after a nice £7k rebuild it had to go (I was told) she made 389bhp on the rollers and weighing only 1060kg was easily the fasted car I have ever owned.
This was sold to fund a bigger house as my wife and I wish to start a family.
In preperation for said family we decided to get a more practical car. I didn't want to go to a boring shopping car just yet so we decided on an MG ZS180 which has the 2.5 V6 from a freelander and pretty much the suspension set up from a Civic Type R. Its pretty quick for its size and handles quite well.
Then after a bit of saving and a helping hand from my wife we picked this up last month.
She's a 1997 RX7 FD Type R. It came into the UK in 2002 and has had 3 owners over here. The engine has just been rebuilt and I have just run it in
The body work was resprayed earlier in the year and looks really good.
Only mods are some Tein lowering springs and a cat back exhaust....which I removed and fitted a HKS Carbon Ti that I got imported from the states.
Plans are to change the wheels for a set of Works Emotions as soon as possible. Press new bushes into the spare set of suspension arms I have, respray them and get them fitted.
Then it will be onto reliablity mods like better cooling and fuel delivery before swapping the ECU and increasing the power.
I will no doubt keep you guys updated
