Just to be clear, I was kidding about the Veilside kit. It's hard to make a car that nice look that bad. I like the wingless look too. You never see them without one, but they say it was an option and as such I could pull it on my E Stock car.
Just to be clear, I was kidding about the Veilside kit. It's hard to make a car that nice look that bad. I like the wingless look too. You never see them without one, but they say it was an option and as such I could pull it on my E Stock car.
I'm normally anti-kit, but I don't mind the Veilside look.
This one looks like a mini F355....(which is not a bad thing.)
MK1's: Very early ones had a 3 rib block, not as strong as the later 7 rib blocks. Very, very early ones also had a flywheel with less bolts. Early ones had a C50 trans and not a C52. The C50's tend to jump out of 5th gear. Put the car in 5th and give it some gas, then let off, etc. If the shift lever moves (much) that indicates a potential problem with 5th gear jump out.
I've never driven a functional SC. The one SC I drove didn't have a working SC, and had a CEL and was dog slow and rusted out in the usual places. I passed on the purchase, as did my friend. "I've heard" that SC's run out of steam on top but are pretty quick on the bottom, where as I know a 20 valve is the opposite. A 20 valve swap is not for the electrically challenged. It took me 2 days to R&R the motor, leisurely, and 2 weeks to wire it up in my AW11 (RIP). My DD is a 20v AE92.
I remember years back going over to Bell Engineering to meet with Corky Bell about some intercooler work we were going to have them do for the SVO's (for Motion Dynamics, a performance shop I worked at in Austin) and also making a kit for the Conquest/Starion community, which I was a huge part of. He had an MR2 with a DOHC V6 with a blower on top and a pretty big turbo blowing into the blower. They cut out the trunk in order to have all the turbo stuff, intercoolers, etc. back there. Pretty sweet setup!
fast_eddie_72 wrote: Just to be clear, I was kidding about the Veilside kit. It's hard to make a car that nice look that bad. I like the wingless look too. You never see them without one, but they say it was an option and as such I could pull it on my E Stock car.
This is one of the few cars that i like a big obnoxious wing on, actually. The high-rise late-model TRD wing looks great on this these, in my opinion.
But the wingless look is good as well.
I love these...
I love these cars... I can't get my mind straight. I'm selling the RX7, and I can't decide what I want next. I'm constantly going back and forth between Miata, XR4Ti, MkIII Supra, or MkII MR2.
the mk1 is easy to drive fast, but no power, I tried to correct this by installing the 3sgte (the turbo motor form the second gen mr2), if i had it to do over again I'd have turbo'd and megasquirted the 4age
Why is that, evildky? I'm just curious. In other words, why would a 4agte be better than a 3sgte? Says the guy putting a 1nzfte in a Europa.
So ... if I happened to acquire a 2nd gen NA MR2 with a blown motor, what do you all think I should replace the stock motor with? Not too interested in a HUGE project or a crazy turbo setup, but maybe a bit more grunt than 130hp.
And how hard, relatively speaking, are they to work on? I'm used to everything from a '66 Bonneville (pipe wrench and hammer the only needed tools, sitting in the engine bay is comfy) to a 1995 LS400 (100 covers on everything, it's a 16-hour job to change the starter). Is the engine bay horribly cramped? I have done a couple swaps before, but always in traditional front engine cars; one rwd one fwd.
If it has a blown motor and you want simple, a turbo conversion is, obviously, a bolt in and has been done so many times there are no unknowns.
How hard to work on? Depends on what you're working on. But put a water pump, timing belt, seals, alternator, starter etc on the motor while it's on the engine stand. With all that kinda stuff in good order you won't run into a lot of problems. I'd rather R&R a transmission on an MR2 than a water pump. There's plenty of room on the exhaust side, and plenty of room on the intake side if you pull the intake. But what you might normally call the "front" of the engine is very, very tight.
Oh, and use really good (which often means Toyota) parts on hard to get to stuff. Starter and alt I bought from the dealer. Went with a cheap water pump. Lasted 18 months. Talk about false economy. Good lord.
If you have an appetite for a, maybe, big, but not HUGE project, as mentioned before, a V6 is pretty cool. No personal experience there. I'm told some of the engines are a tic lighter too.
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