MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig's posts

As a longtime lurker/occasional poster since the pre-jalopnik manifesto days, I salute you all. Hope to see you over…

Not a whole lot has been done on the Corolla this summer, as it’s mostly just been sitting waiting for the event…

After over a year of debating, asking for advice, and looking for something to replace my Matrix XRS daily driver, I…

With funds running low this year, I’ve been pretty selective about what events to attend. Thus far I’d only done…

With the splitter now sitting several inches lower, the old Longacre struts were barely holding on to a couple…

I’ve known for a while that the design of the original splitter I made for the car had some problems. The Dibond…

With the car safely home from HPDE back in April, a few issues that had made themselves apparent now needed fixing.

The alarm went off at 5:30am, far too early for any reasonable person to wake up on a weekend. Fumbling around in…

I totally forgot to post the last update from January! Here you go!

It’s been six months since the last time I posted an update and some pretty cool stuff has happened in that time.

In my ongoing search for a tow-capable daily driver replacement for my Matrix this spring, I think it’s coming down…

Last one for 2018. There’s a few little things to do over the winter and then start hitting 2019 as hard as I can. I…

Since I’m still on the wait list for the wait list for the last HPDE in October, I decided to go ahead and do the…

With a nice clean workspace, getting the car prepped for HPDE was a much more pleasant experience.

Man was that fun. Four 30-minute track sessions and though the temperature did creep up to the 3/4 mark, the car…

As though I wasn’t already stressing out over it enough already. 

I’ve been looking at 4th gen 4Runners as a possible new daily next year, and figured what the heck, what are Land…

Since the last update I finished going around the interior and stitch welding the seams.