where do you guys order or buy your body kits from...I got a 1993 MR2 Turbo and I was looking for Tom's Skirts/Rear and a bomex front bumper...anyone know any places i could try that are local to cambridge or should i order it from a site?

thanks a lot :hail:

id say ask Crimson_fury (a.k.a Dan) cuz he has the EXACT combo of pieces you want, so i dunno if u wanna go that way, cuz it would be twin cars lol, but PM him, he could prolly help ya out

Try sanderson tire in cambridge on hespler road, he sell the actual kits from the real companies, not like the knock off they sell on here. But if you dont mind the knock offs talk to Kdawgone his stuff is good qulity.

IMHO its the best body kit combo for the MR2. I think it flows so well with the car's shape that it should have been offered from the factory. My bomex front bumper is authentic, but the TOM's sides and rear are fake. I wanted the front bumper to be authentic because 1. bomex stuff is not too expensive, and 2. I've had problems with front bumper fitments in the past. The reason why I went with replica TOM's stuff is 1. The manufacturer that made my replica's is a licensed remanufacturer of TOM's stuff, and has duplicates of the orignial moulds (so quality is amazing). And 2. Real TOM's stuff is like $2000 CAD for a complete kit! OUCH $$$$!

I ordered my stuff from a company called MB Autosport. They are the only place that carries this brand of 'Replica' TOM's stuff. They also carry authentic and replica bomex stuff as well.

I also installed this body kit myself in my driveway. It was pretty easy actually. The funny thing was, the Replica TOM's stuff fit very well. Needed a tiny bit of modification, but fit well. The authentic bomex front bumper had some minor fitment issues. They will have to be fixed by the body shop when I get the whole car painted in the fall. Its just minor, but kinda disapointing for an authentic piece.

great!! thanks a lot guys.
Hey dan i see your car on my street parked across from the convenient store on Laurel St. in preston, i live closer to eagle st. but i always wondered who owned that car. You did an amazing job, one of my fav mr2's around...you should check out mr2oc.com its a pretty cool site if you havnt already...anyways thanks a lot for the info, also dan where is that place you bought ur body kit from? MB Autosport website? adress? thanks a lot man

Also how much was it to get your skirts/front/rear painted?

hehe that is my girlfriend's brother's place. I haven't seen an MR2 around. What color is yours? You have rims?

the website is http://www.mbautosport.com

All together it came to about $1400 taxes in shipped to my door including freight, duty and all that wonderfull stuff.

I was quoted $1500 taxes in at Valens Auto body to fix the alignment on the front bumper, paint the body kit, and paint the side trim (silver) to white as well. But I plan to paint the whole car a nice white with a silver pearl. Kinda like the JDM integra type R's have in Japan. Kind of like the white the Cadilac Escelade's get. So it will be even more.

Yah I've been a member on www.mr2oc.com for about 3.5 years now. I'm a member of www.ontariomr2club.com too. Come out to a meet man! I'd love to check out your ride!

I paid 800 tax in to fit and paint mine at valens. Everything was perfect fit except the sides which need alot of adding of fiberglass to make them stay on. Every thing was good except for my front bumper. THe quality was shit it flares out at the bottom, like most of you know. OH and when you get it painted get the whole car done as well it will look million times better, i could never match my paint, ask anyone that took a good look at my car.

Never again will i buy a knock off, it's not worth it in the end. But not all knock off are the same so when purchasing them make sure you know a person that order from them to see how thier qulity is

haha i've been hiding its black, stock exterior, t-tops
I bought it in january, kept it in my garage for the winter and about a month ago i finally got my Profec B boost controller in so i FINALLY got that installed after my dad took it to work for me and help me put it in (toyota...hehe arnt i lucky) and i just got my power intake in the mail and a hks bov so ill be putting those in this weekend. I have it off the road a lot. I dont have rims yet but im trying to find some 17" blitz 03 replica's, and im looking for the 94+ tailights and the body kit
All in time... also where did you get ur 94 tailights?
oh yeah and that website didnt work for me is it down?

I will definitly come out to one of the next meets when i got time i'd LOVE to see your car up close lol

Thanks for the info

I got my 94+ tail lights from www.partznet.com. Cheapest place around. Even James at Heffner Lexus toyota (friend of mine) could not get them cheaper even with his discount.

About the blow off valve, unless you have the recirculation kit, it is going to make your car run crappy. The only way you can ever vent blow off to the atmosphere (ie. the pssshhhh sound) is to change over to a map/iat sensor instead of the crappy afm. Because the AFM is before the blow off valve, it will measure X amount of air coming in. The AFM will send a signal to the ecu letting it know that X amount of air is coming in. The computer then decides how much fuel to spray in. It tells the injectors to spray in Y amount of fuel. Now once the air reaches the blow off valve, and if the blow off valve goes off, it releases some of the X amount of air out. Now the amount of air is less, far less. At this point its too late, the computer has already told the injectors to spray in a larger amount of fuel. This creates very bad air fuel mixture and causes bogging, stalling etc.

I can't seem to get the website to work either. They must be out of business or their site is down.

Originally Posted by CrimsonFury

I got my 94+ tail lights from www.partznet.com. Cheapest place around. Even James at Heffner Lexus toyota (friend of mine) could not get them cheaper even with his discount.

About the blow off valve, unless you have the recirculation kit, it is going to make your car run crappy. The only way you can ever vent blow off to the atmosphere (ie. the pssshhhh sound) is to change over to a map/iat sensor instead of the crappy afm. Because the AFM is before the blow off valve, it will measure X amount of air coming in. The AFM will send a signal to the ecu letting it know that X amount of air is coming in. The computer then decides how much fuel to spray in. It tells the injectors to spray in Y amount of fuel. Now once the air reaches the blow off valve, and if the blow off valve goes off, it releases some of the X amount of air out. Now the amount of air is less, far less. At this point its too late, the computer has already told the injectors to spray in a larger amount of fuel. This creates very bad air fuel mixture and causes bogging, stalling etc.

I can't seem to get the website to work either. They must be out of business or their site is down.

Well not really bout that BOV...cuz on the supras they do the exact same thing...they reserculate it after the AFM...all u have to do is close off the pipe where the hole is after the AFM and you should be fine...my car works great still...and on stock BOVs they have a sick fluttering sound...hehehe...but remember, that the stock BOVs can only withstand a certain amount of boost, and when u up boost to a certain point, change teh BOV

Originally Posted by supragino

Well not really bout that BOV...cuz on the supras they do the exact same thing...they reserculate it after the AFM...all u have to do is close off the pipe where the hole is after the AFM and you should be fine...my car works great still...and on stock BOVs they have a sick fluttering sound...hehehe...but remember, that the stock BOVs can only withstand a certain amount of boost, and when u up boost to a certain point, change teh BOV

Sorry you are wrong about both points.

With the AFM in place the air is metered before the blow off valve. Now in a stock situation its ok. When the air is metered and the signal sent to the ecu the ecu detremines the amount of fuel to spray in (to match the amount of air coming in), and when the blow off valve opens up, it recirulates the air back into the intake system before the compressor housing. This way it relieves pressure off of the compressor turbine (decreases lag and saves the turbo) and gets the air back into the intake system so that when the injectors decide to spray in the fuel, the volume of air is unchanged. This allows the car to run with consistent air fuel ratios across the rpm range. Now if you vent this air to the atmosphere, it has no way of getting back into the intake system. But now its too late, the injectors are going to spray in a certain amount of air (based off the original metering before the blow off valve). This is because you metered the air before you blew off. Now the ecu has no way to measure the new lowered amount of air volume. So its too late. Now the car will run extremel rich after blow off (just for a split second). This causes bogging, stalling and a loss of performance. I was not talking about the opening in the intake after the afm from venting to the atmosphere. Obviously you would close that hole up. That is common knowledge. Understand?

About the stock blow off valve. I'm not 100% certain what the supra's use, but the stock blow off valve on the MR2 is the best performing blow off valve around. There are 2 types of blow off valves. Ones that use springs to stay shut (most blow off valves) like turbosmart, turbo xs, blitz, greddy, etc. Or Blow off valves that use boost to stay shut (oem mr2, hks super sequential, tial, etc.). These are the nicer units. The bov's that use springs are only good up to like 8 or 9 psi. These are the cheap crappy bov's that blow off just from revving the car. How can a blow off releave pressure from revving the car when barely any boost can be made when revving a car in neutral?? It can't. They are just so weak that they go off from the change in vac to positive pressure. Basically the spring keeps it shut up to around 8 or 9 psi. then when you shift the pressure surge in the intake system exceeds 9 psi and the spring can no longer hold the boost and it blows off. This is not good. The bov's that use boost to stay shut can withstand almost any amount of boost you throw at them. As boost pressure rises, it uses this pressure to keep shut, then when the car changes gears or throttle is let off, the change in pressure to vacuum opens up the valve itself. It does not use a spring to stay shut. This is how the stock system works. The only aftermarket units that are AS GOOD AS STOCK are Tial and HKS super sequential. The only advantage with these units is that they are louder than stock. Thats it. I'm pretty sure the supra uses the same system the mr2 uses.

http://www.mr2oc.com check this out, use the search feature and look for 'OEM blow off valve'

thx for the info...i didnt know that...i think that my BOV is same as the stock MR2s cuz they dont sound off unless you are driving and shift...cuz when u rev...u hardly hear anything and thats only when u rev really high when the turbo boost to like 0 psi out of vacume