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As I was turning off the Monaro highway near Hume to head into Queanbeyan a bright red little TR-XX zipped through the intersection while I was waiting at the lights. Damn! No chance to flag him down!

Ummm did it sort of look like this?



I used to own a red Mira TR-XX (Aus one converted to almost jap spec) and sold it to someone in Canberra.

S

Hey... Wow... We might be on to something here, because there were several little details of the vehicle which didn't really fit the TR-XX profile.

It's highly likely we're talking the same car here. Obviously it had a skirt on the front, and although I hate to say it, they haven't exactly looked after you paint very well...

Tell me about the upgrades performed!

Hey Josh..

I brought the car of a guy that goes by the name of RNGTR on other forums (SDU, PF, Vic WRX). He brought a Aus spec Mira and a Jap spec front cut. The car had a TRXX front bar, side skirts, rear hatch, seats, dash (10,000rpm tacho).

Mod wise it had: 2.5" exhaust with 3 mufflers to keep it quite! TD04 (small housing one tho), MBC set to ~20PSI, FMIC of a TX5, no BOV

Power wise? Do not know, never had the chance to put it on a dyno, but it was in need of a tune badly. Even though it was running 20PSI it would not hold it and bleed back to ~10PSI.

I ran it at Caldar a few times, was very hard to get off the line. Ran a best of 16.3 @ 87MPH with it missing most of the way down the track. I would have loved to chase a better time, but I did one too many flat changes in it and killed the gearbox.. So no more drag racing after that.

Have now moved on to a MY00 WRX, was stock when I got it. Up to ~185>190kws ATW now

But I still miss my little Mira!!! Might get one as a second car if I can get the minister of finance to agree.

Happy to answer anymore q's/

Sean

Thanks Sean! Look forward to seeing more of you around here.

Gday guys, I built the tiny red terror you're talking about.

As Sean said, I took a Aus spec carby Mira and swapped a whole japanese TRXX drivetrain/dash/bodykit into it, it wasnt that hard, in fact it took about week to do!

I got really lucky, as the car i got all the bits from was a proper TRXX that made its way into Australia as a wreck. The best bit? it cost just $1500 for all the TRXX bits, incl a spare engine! I also was lucky enough to get one already modified ex-japan, with the aforementioned turbo kit/ exhaust.

I sold it to Sean after I sold my Liberty RS and got my GT-R, two 2 door car were not really practical! I miss it heaps, it was huge fun to drive around in as a work car for nearly 2 years!

In fact, im buying a real one soon (hopefully) just as a fun toy!

Cheers
Rod

Anyone wanting pics or info on it or the build email me.

How'd you go with engineering the little beastie?

I didnt

It was once the owner brought it off me. All it needed was a cat converter.

S

Noooice! Beats the piss out of an order to do a brake upgrade. Let alone anything else!

TR-XX upgrade on the front, OEM on drums on the rear.

S

What are the differences between the TR-XX front-end and that of the stock Mira?

TRXX has the vented rotors that we got on the EFI Mira. So not alot really.