This feels like adding things just to add things. (the 'slit spoiler')
Late reply, but naw definitely not, it's a common thing on a lot of cars that my car takes inspiration from.
Alright well been about half a year since I last updated this thing, not that anyone still gets on this forum and reads anything, but heck figured why not update the ole build thread.
Not much new like normal. Only real changes to the car in the past few months is I put 185/55/14 Federal all the way around rather than 185/60 direzza in the rear. Fitment I thought was great with the direzza in the rear, however it made the car sit slightly too high compared to the front. Also I think I said this already but maybe not, I upped the spring rate on the front to 34k to allow me to be able to go a little lower than I was. Really love how the car looks with 185/55 all the around. Full Mk2 is back as well, I had mk3 on the front for a while since I was testing what 9j and 185/55 would look like up front. Fronts mk2 though are 8.5j, will eventually probably widen them to 9j or 9.5j, but can't be bothered right now as I haven't really been focusing too much attention towards the roadster or corolla really as far as doing anything car project related.
I did however finally get my advan rain tires in that I had bought earlier in the year and immediately got them mounted to the xr4. Man I could not be happier with how they look! Still need to paint the "windows" of the wheels to make them look normal, but it's so cold now a days here in Kentucky that painting is out of the question really until spring if I want a halfway decent coat of paint. Anyways, test fit the wheels on the car! This look will be for about 0 people on this forum or any place on the internet probably haha as it's pretty wild compared to what most people are used to seeing. Car right now, as I have previously posted before, is heavily influenced by PARMAN SA22. In pictures on the page before you can see the fitment that car has with mk1 and slick tire sticking out from the zg flare. I absolutely love this style of kaido racer and have always wanted to try the look on my current car since I got the flares put on a couple of years ago. When I got the xr4 off auction and was looking to rebarrel them to wider specs, if 13" were an option then I was going to go for PARMAN look. For reference on the pics below, rear has a 25mm spacer and fronts have 15mm one. At least a 10mm spacer is needed to make sure the wheels' pierce bolts clear the calipers. The rear in future will only have a 15mm spacer and therefore will be about half an inch less in width sticking out from the car. I believe this will give a closer visual balance that the PARMAN sa22 had.
Other additions to the car whenever I get around to it in the spring will be removing the current rollbar and making my own PVC one. This will serve two purposes that, while I don't feel as if I have to explain am going to anyways for those who actually have read this far. The first reason is I want to run a TRD style bucket seat in the car and if I do that I need to remove the roll bar because my head will sit right on the current one, which would do some damage to me even in a light rear end collision, and I just don't feel like I need to take that risk. Second purpose is it will allow me to shape the rollbar to more of a kaido racer styled one, rather than what's available to miatas in general now. In addition the roll bar now doesn't really do much as I don't drive the car hard to where I have any fear of rolling the car over. Will paint it green as well as paint the back of the green fabric trd style seat I have to match. This look should be pretty killer in my mind, but we will have to wait and see. Also I have a NUE type two spoiler to go on the car and the slit spoiler to paint still. Will change up the numbers on the car as well as the RDB Racing Family banner to a different style that will suit the overall look more. Also sometime this year might try carbs again (summer time?). I bought a carb kit that Garret Ogle had for sale for quite sometime and have it sitting here, but haven't tried again since the first time I destroyed my engine haha. Well anyways here's some photos below of the roadster that I am sure people have seen before, but here they are regardless:
Quick corolla update as well. Have almost everything here to do levin front end swap. Also waiting on coilovers to arrive and some other odds and ends to get the car low on some 13" mk3 with levin front. Should look really good! Pretty stoked as a corolla has been my dream car for a long time, well before I ever bought the roadster. Drove the car around this last weekend and I love and hate it right now. Love it because well it's a corolla how could I not? But also hate because this SOHC 4ac makes me wanna scream. Hopefully going this weekend to pick up a 4age out of a FWD Corolla. Will start piecing parts together to make that swap happen in the next few months hopefully. Even with comparable power to my 1.6 roadster the corolla would be a ton of fun to drive I think.
Thanks for reading, maybe will try and update this a little more when corolla parts come in!