MCM's 2ZR swap

[eTiMaGo]

triggered much?

Now, before I sound too much like an MCM fanboi, I agree with you on many points, that "piece of shit" comment was a bit harsh, especially after they did one of their most detailed and polished builds. So I guess it was meant to be more tongue-in-cheek After all, for the whole series until that point, they were super positive, and impressed by the final performance of the car.

Anyway, if you look at their other builds, many of them follow the same kind of format, apart from their "hero" cars, they often just disappear into obscurity. We just want to know more more more about the Yaris, because it's *our* car and we are one pretty close-knit community!

As for your points:

1) Yeah, some kind of nod to the die-hard Yaris fans over here would have been nice. Heck even in their own forums, and at their last meet, there was another turboe'd Yaris, I don't think that got mentioned at all...

2) Comes with the Youtube territory I guess

3) Hardware cost is not hard to figure out. I *think* the turbo was $169 As for the Haltech 750, it's listed on their site at $1099 - $1469 depending on your harness choice. Anyway as you know, the biggest costs in a build won't be the hardware, but the time and expertise needed to get things done, and that's hard to put a price tag on.

At the end, it's entertainment. I tend to view MCM as something close to Top Gear, a show in the world of cars, but also not really about cars... If anything, they have shown to millions of people that you can take a "shitty" modern econobox that's not a Honda Civic and turn it into something pretty impressive!

Thankfully there are tons of other channels with more serious mechanical content!