… STX, or CSP, or SM that is. As much as I have come to dislike modified vehicles, the pile of parts on my shelf keeps growing, and I’m slowly giving in. While it’s only a couple bolts away from being stock legal, 8J wheels and and an exhaust hole fill in plate on the rear valence were to hard to refuse. Of course I’ll pull them both off when it matters, but I won’t look at the car with the same twinkle in my eye afterwards.
On a more practical note, I cannot for the life of me get the OEM rear cam plate to stop leaking. I’ve re-torqued it, removed it and cleaned it, re-sealed it, and it runs dry for a couple days, and then always reverts back to leaking. It’s a very common problem (a steel sheet blocking a hole on an aluminum head is a bad idea), but Toyota has yet to deal with it. There are lots of aftermarket solutions… but until August 23rd, it seems like I’m stuck with a slippery, wet, but smelly car.
As for the winter, I constantly day dream about what my ultimate FRS actually is, and wonder where it fits in solo rules and regulations, and how well it will work at the coming Badlands Motorsports Resort. Will it actually be naturally aspirated??? Can I keep it from looking like some hacked up, burnt out high school project??
Is it already too late?
Glad you kept those wheels. Very nice.
Is it your car? or an autocross car?
Maybe just keep it as an autocross car to stop it from turning into the burnt out high school car. That’s boring though.
You can legally do almost whatever you want to your burnt out drift car and it’s still works fine (often worse) as a burnt out drift car.
ha. I don’t need a “car”, so it’s an autox car…. Somewhat disappointing that as normal and “civilized” as it is, I’d way rather take my truck basically anywhere.
Basically one year in and… 5000km with multiple Montana road trips on it.
I don’t think there is anything I can do to it, that would make me want to actually drive it A to B given my other choices… unless I put the ugly and nondescript stock wheels and quiet exhaust back on it.