I bought my Mira in January 2020 and have currently done a few things to it that I’d like to share. Got it for $500 with 347000kms. Picture below is how it currently looks.
January 2020: Starting things off, this is how the mira looked the day I got it. A standard l700.
March 2020: I knew I wanted to lower it and put some wheels on it. I looked around for lowering springs but in the end I went to the wreckers to find some different options. I found that struts from a move are shorter and bolt on with some minor modifications to lower the front. For the back I went with springs from an l200 mira and shorter shocks from a Nissan wingroad. Overall the car was about 30mm lower.
(Struts from a move vs the original mira ones)
(Before lowering)
(After lowering)
(This is after some skids in the wet paddock during lockdown)
I found these 14" Black Racing Watanabe reps in the corner of dad’s shed and tried them on the car to see if the offset would be good.
With some black paint and some lower profile tyres they’d be perfect. So off came the old tyres and I got to work sanding all the old paint off the wheels.
I spray painted them black and mounted up some 165/55 tyres I got cheap at the wreckers and they were ready to try on the car.
I only found 3 tyres at the wreckers so I’d have to wait to put the new wheels on.
Another find at the wreckers were some seats from a sirion which are a nice upgrade from the original seats.
