Resto-Mod of a 1987 Toyota MR2 by Turbowned

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Installed my brake kit a couple days ago; I'm very impressed with it! The guy at FastBrakes (I forget his name) was very helpful; too. I was a little concerned with the rotors not being perfectly centered on the hub, so I called him and he offered to make me centering rings if it ended up having too much runout. I plan on measuring it soon to find out whether its necessary or not. Onto the pictures:

You can see how badly I needed new brakes. The brakes got so hot it cracked the rotor in 4 places:

Took the old brakes off and thoroughly cleaned the hubs and caliper mounting points with a wire wheel, wire brush, sandpaper, and brake clean:

Test-fitting the rotor (the weather went from 50 to 80 that day, so the temperature change caused the rotors to oxidize instantly! Oh, New England)

Caliper installed, brakes bled (didn't have any wrench the right size for the bleeder screw, had to use a miniature adjustable wrench, lol):

Wheels back on, on the ground:

So far I'm impressed with the stopping power. We'll see how they hold up long-term.

In the upcoming weeks, I plan on replacing the driver's door hinges, finish applying sound deadening to the rear firewall and replace my rear trim/speakers, install new outer window skimmers (still looking for a solution to the inner ones - no longer available through Toyota), headlight buckets, and new Screaming Chicken badge.

8/6/2011

I decided to address the rust issue with my rear wheel arches by... cutting them off!

And riveting ZG flares on:

I forgot to upload the in-progress pics; I'll put those up later. It wasn't too pretty but it works.

Since I now have a whole lotta wheel gap to fill (front flares will be going on soon), I went ahead and bought these XXR 527 in 15x8.25" 0 offset all around:

And Toyo Proxes R1R in 205/50ZR15F and 225/45ZR15 R:

I'll edit this particular post with actual pics when they arrive next week. Now I can be JDM HERRA FRUSH, y0!