2015 3-door

[Jason@SportsCar]

Just picked up our 2015, the racecar build will commence shortly.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7-bpDjCcAAYyVI.jpg:large

[nookandcrannycar]

Nice :thumbsup:!

[CTScott]

Excellent! Glad to see you are doing another Yaris.

[Ryze268]

Sweet, how much does it weigh?

[yougojay]

COOL! This is going to be exciting! About 2,100 pounds I believe, that would be my guess. Woo Hoo!

[Thirty-Nine]

Looking forward to this.

[mr_miles]

Hooray! I anxiously await the interior part-out thread :p

[Jason@SportsCar]

COOL! This is going to be exciting! About 2,100 pounds I believe, that would be my guess. Woo Hoo!

I have never seen a stock US spec car that light.

This one is 2286lbs with a 1/4 tank of fuel. Just need to pull 450lbs out.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t-y76FmV4wo/VMLmVmAF7kI/AAAAAAAADHw/L5c4-Harxys/s1152/IMG_20150123_162443723.jpg

[LTHatch]

Fantastic! Can't wait to see some of the weight reduction tricks.

[SilverBack]

That's the same exact 3-door I was hoping to replace my Yaris with, right down to the color. Damn you JK lol.

Can't wait to see the build process!

[yougojay]

I have never seen a stock US spec car that light.

This one is 2286lbs with a 1/4 tank of fuel. Just need to pull 450lbs out.

I was close from memory - my next guess was 2,300 - Regardless, This will be interesting

[Jason@SportsCar]

Progress. Soon the cutting will start.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6IYR2FRLa4c/VMQuu9OYUKI/AAAAAAAADII/Lae8DqY-4Tk/s640/IMG_20150124_154550248_HDR.jpg
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[LTHatch]

Very nice! What are you cutting out if you don't mind me asking.

[Jason@SportsCar]

More progress, got the interior out to the point we can install a rollcage. More cutting and weight reduction to take place later.

Funny thing was finding a cellphone under the carpet, embedded in the padding. This is a car that has never been sold, never left the Toyota campus until we picked it up. A little digging and we found the phone appears to be from France. Some poor person installing interior bits on the assembly line likely lost it.

Filled a dumpsters with all unneeded interior bits, total time to strip was about 4 hours.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DUP2jVwYK7o/VM6hAjLXZkI/AAAAAAAADOg/_a1ZLlHfNic/s1152/IMG_20150201_130547500.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QddeqZPgir4/VM5_qmWskWI/AAAAAAAADOM/MJtR8esm_Nc/s640/IMG_20150201_113154364.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-001Rls5EAWk/VMxVFp2j0qI/AAAAAAAADMo/QrmXydQCdZY/s1152/IMG_20150130_200501539.jpg

[Kar98]

Charge the phone up and browse through the contacts!

[Jason@SportsCar]

Charge the phone up and browse through the contacts!

It is locked. TMS is going to ship it back to TMMF. Could be a goodwill thing, or a point of training. :laugh:

[mr_miles]

Can I buy a few of the interior parts off you Before they're in at the dump? Could use the a pillars and the stereo surround plastic lol :p

[WorkTL]

I needed the cup holder. Lol

[Jason@SportsCar]

I dont have the space to keep all the little bits and pieces. All the stuff lived in the back of my Tundra until I needed to haul something else, then it all (non hazardous stuff) went in the dumpster. :frown:

[marspike]

It is locked. TMS is going to ship it back to TMMF. Could be a goodwill thing, or a point of training. :laugh:
Crazy man ;-) .

[Thirty-Nine]

Just out of curiosity, are you keeping the original steering rack or is it beneficial to move up to the quicker steering on the SE?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Just out of curiosity, are you keeping the original steering rack or is it beneficial to move up to the quicker steering on the SE?

For road racing the standard rack is quick enough, and since we pull out the power steering we really don't want to increase the effort required to turn the wheels either.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Progress on the new car:

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[ern-diz]

So cool

[mr_miles]

Can i bring you mine so you can put a awesome cage in mine too? :D

[Jason@SportsCar]

Almost race ready.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rQWE3ddEsFs/VW0HAA78TqI/AAAAAAAAE-w/VPTGpyZi9LE/w1274-h717-no/IMG_20150601_182925118_HDR.jpg

[spookybathtub]

Why did you knock out the windows? That would increase drag by a lot.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Why did you knock out the windows? That would increase drag by a lot.

They are being replaced with plastic ones. :laugh:

[ern-diz]

What size wheel and tire is that?

[Freestylin]

Love the progress you have made so far! Can't wait to see when this thing is fully put together! :)

[Jason@SportsCar]

What size wheel and tire is that?

15X7, +35mm
215-580-15 Hoosier S80 slick

[yougojay]

Thank you for posting photos - This is cool

[ern-diz]

Thank you for posting photos - This is cool

Super cool. Def a thread to follow.

[Freestylin]

Finding the cell phone on the floor pan actually made me lol.

What suspension are you currently running? I am running the exact same wheel setup 15x7 +35 with a different tire profile (205/50R15) and am afraid that I will rub in extreme cornering situations. Do you clear the fenders with those 215/50R15 tires when you drive the car hard?

[YodaBird]

Ah crap, I wanted to see the skeleton when the padding was still in the front dash of the car, Jason ripped it out.

[YodaBird]

Jason can you show the other side of the drivers side ?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Jason can you show the other side of the drivers side ?

I don't currently have other pics of the interior side of the firewall.

[Jason@SportsCar]

A few laps from BWRP on Sunday in the new car. Reset the lap record on lap 3. Great fun leading the group to the green, and talking the overall win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1O1YcEYsr4

[kimona]

^^^ Enjoyed every second of it!

[CrankyOldMan]

Very well done!