There is no such thing as “too much AW11 content”

especially not around these parts. But feel free to skip this entry if you’re over flying wedges.

I tend not to talk a great deal about my MR2 because it’s my daily driver and people don’t usually give a tin shit about their dailys, myself included. I’ve had it for half a year so far – and folks still haven’t realized that I went and bought another AW11 because I haven’t really bothered to tell anyone about it.

Red Two standing by.

It’s the fourth AW11 I’ve owned and the first supercharged one… why the hell didn’t I get one sooner?

of course, being a daily it gets driven around 500km a week and thus gets rather filthy rather quick. I recently cleaned it for the first time in months the other weekend, and decided to go snap-happy with the trusty old dSLR afterwards while I still had the chance. Photos came out primo – plus the lighting was particularly trippy that day… gotta love country weather.

if you must know, it does have a few goodies under the engine cover in the form of an upgraded supercharger pulley (which was a cunt to get the correct belt for) running 10psi, 4-1 extractors, and a TRD LSD ‘box (that needs shimming, bahhh). Oh it’s also got a PHAT PODDY in its own little enclosure, but who really counts that as a worthy mod?

The bronze rims are a nice touch and surprisingly lightweight, even more so than my DC2R Enkeis.

suffice to say, around town it’s a crazy little torque monster, and it’s still sweet in the twisties even if the stock suspension does err toward understeer in typical early SC model fashion. I have to restrain myself from taking it around the track, as I can’t afford to have it out of action for very long. Put 500km a week on my DR30? Been there, done that, and not something I would do again in a hurry.

Anyway, you can find more pics on flickr here, or just enjoy the selection below:

This is Red Two. Flying toward you.

Watch your back! Fighters above you, coming in!

Form up. And stay alert. We could run out of space real fast.

My scope shows the tower, but I can't see the exhaust port!

I apologize for the Wedge Antilles quotes – but it was too tempting not to use ‘em!