ClanFever's Toyota Sprinter Carib Z-Touring
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:16 pm
Thought I would do a rides thread for my Sprinter Carib. As it's my reliable Touring Workhorse and has taken me to more MR2 days than MR2s, I only thought it was fair.
Running a 1.6 Litre 4A-FE, it's a not so distance cousin of the MR2. Making a massive 85KW from factory, connected to the road via a 5 speed manual gearbox. It has an open differential, I am hoping to one day make it an LSD as I'd like it to have a little bit of off road capability on loose mud or sand.
I got her at the beginning of 2012 from a wholesaler, with only 178,000KM on the clock. I had a full cambelt kit done to it, a towbar added, lowered it, changed it's wheels, added sounds including a sub, tinted it and kept it till late 2014, when it was involved in a couple minor accidents. After fixing it, I sold it at around 250,000KM.
10 months later I was back in the market for a cheap car. I found it for sale on Trademe, and bought it back (it had been sold to another owner before I got my hands back on it). 20,000km had been added to it. And as far as I could tell, it was the same car.
I have recently raised it back on 30% stiffer standard height springs/new shocks, and had another full cambelt kit and new clutch chucked into it. And it still goes strong with 283,000KM on the clock.
Photos of when I first got it, and after I had put wheels, tints and the towbar on it.
Running a 1.6 Litre 4A-FE, it's a not so distance cousin of the MR2. Making a massive 85KW from factory, connected to the road via a 5 speed manual gearbox. It has an open differential, I am hoping to one day make it an LSD as I'd like it to have a little bit of off road capability on loose mud or sand.
I got her at the beginning of 2012 from a wholesaler, with only 178,000KM on the clock. I had a full cambelt kit done to it, a towbar added, lowered it, changed it's wheels, added sounds including a sub, tinted it and kept it till late 2014, when it was involved in a couple minor accidents. After fixing it, I sold it at around 250,000KM.
10 months later I was back in the market for a cheap car. I found it for sale on Trademe, and bought it back (it had been sold to another owner before I got my hands back on it). 20,000km had been added to it. And as far as I could tell, it was the same car.
I have recently raised it back on 30% stiffer standard height springs/new shocks, and had another full cambelt kit and new clutch chucked into it. And it still goes strong with 283,000KM on the clock.
Photos of when I first got it, and after I had put wheels, tints and the towbar on it.