AW11 MR2

[ultim8m]

Sold the VL about a month ago loved it for what it was but missed being able to go around corners

heres my current toy

1987 AW11 MR2 Hardtop
4AGE N/A
K sport coilovers
Tanabe extractors
5Zigen 17's
Tanabe extractors
Supercharged engine cover

the paint on the bonnet was all peeling and the bootlid and engine cover were off the halfcut so were a different colour, the previous owner had already painted the roof black so i continued the theme onto the bonnet bootlid and engine cover until i can get the whole car resprayed. The latch on the supercharged engne lid is in a different spot to the one on the n/a bootlid so also installed hood pins to keep it closed.

so far all i've done to it is tidy it up a bit, respray bonnet boot and engine cover, resprayed front bar (which is off a swift gti) and rear bumper, also fitted new front rotors and pads as the old ones were well and truly warped. only standard rotors for now but have seen a nice set of 330mm ksport slotted rotors with 8 piston calipers on justjap, got the wheel bearing fixed, wheel alignment done to trd specs and adjusted the coilovers to improve the handling.

obviously its not a quick car in a straight line at the moment but it corners awesome and is a shitload of fun to drive

I Have a t25 sitting at home pretty much the plan is to collect bis and pieces over the next few months to turbo the current motor with low boost, plan is 7mgte injectors, fuel pressure regulator, haltech ps1000 ecu, liberty rs turbo water to air cooler (and the obvious bits to go with it) bigger fuel pump and custom manifold running around 7psi

heres pics (ignore the messy garage lol) or link to the full gallery of progress pics http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/edit.jpg

Rear strut brace all fitted (still gotta pull it back off and paint the ends and polish it up a bit)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ultim8m/mr2pics/strut%20brace.jpg

New shift boot and gearknob, getting a better gearknob soon supercheap one is temporary because i really hated the wooden one
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ultim8m/mr2pics/shifter.jpg

slowly getting through the little things to make her better also have a brand new t25 sitting at home now gonna go turbo rather than gze

and more painting and polishing

all the below are final pics, will put up progress pics on monday they are all on my phone and all the s**t to get them off my phone is at work

hard to notice but i colour coded the trim under the tailights has neatened up the rear end a bit
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/IMGP1118.jpg

put plug valley cover on polished the strut brace and painted a couple of things while i had the spray can out
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/IMGP1130.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/IMGP1134.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/IMGP1133.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/IMGP1137.jpg

just neatened things up a bit getting there slowly will buy new valve cover gaskets soon then repaint them too

[Lonewolf]

awesome, i love the aw11's
should go nicely with the turbo

[duste]

Saw this last night dude, very nice car. ;)

Only thing I've ever disliked about this is the exhaust, looks weird the way it is but I guess there's not really many options with a rear-mount engine, eh?

[DCEVO]

Getting there mate Turbs will make it a weapon dude

[Yakky Bear]

Very nice always had a bit of a soft spot for these !

[nism0man]

awesome car
i love the old mr2's

[Mad_Aussie]

needs two foot wide flares and 10n a half inch wide rims *cough adz cough*

[Passage GT]

nice car man, i've been a fan since ads built his, anyone know what he's up to these days?

[AMPERAGE]

Everyone that I know that has owned an MR2 always loved them. Unfortunately the most common thing you will hear from an MR2 owner is "I absolutely loved my MR2... until I wrote it off." The short wheelbase and midmounted engine, the layout that makes them handle so well, unfortunately also makes them twitchy and it catches out a lot of drivers.

I looked at buying an MR2 a while ago and the general consensus was that the two biggest killers of MR2s is the lift-off oversteer and the driver touching the brakes mid corner. Either can cause the front and rear to switch places very quickly.

Love the car mate. Keep this page updated as you go, I'm keen to see the results.

[ultim8m]

yer first mid engine car and also my first car with adjustable suspension so there has been a bit of a learning curve with driving it and also suspension setup.

Snap oversteer was pretty bad when i first got the car, and my first go at adjusting the suspension made it worse, now ive managed to get rid of most of it and adapt my driving a bit more to the car. Ive had it step out a couple of times in normal driving and managed to catch it. spun it twice at barbagello during powercruise first time was exactly what you said hitting the brakes mid corner (car in front of me hit his hard) and 2nd time i had adjusted the suspension and screwed it up.

Now ive got it set up with the front a little bit lower then the rear and had an alignment done to the trd specs and also fitted the rear strut brace which eliminated a lot of the understeer and made it more predictable rather then understeering into a corner and then snapping to oversteer.

[ultim8m]

Saw this last night dude, very nice car. ;)

Only thing I've ever disliked about this is the exhaust, looks weird the way it is but I guess there's not really many options with a rear-mount engine, eh?

yup the exhaust as it is currently is awful cannot stand it lol i would love to change it but there is no point at the moment because it will need to be changed once i get the turbo on anyway maybe go dual exit lol screamer out the left exhaust out the right :P

[Adsport]

Saw this last night dude, very nice car. ;)

Only thing I've ever disliked about this is the exhaust, looks weird the way it is but I guess there's not really many options with a rear-mount engine, eh?

theres heaps of options if you think 3 dimensionally :) the best ive come up with is this

http://www.adsportonline.com/aw11exh.jpg



needs two foot wide flares and 10n a half inch wide rims *cough adz cough*


:P


nice car man, i've been a fan since ads built his, anyone know what he's up to these days?


im still around trav, i dont frequent this forum for a lot of reasons but i do lurk on the odd occasion


Everyone that I know that has owned an MR2 always loved them. Unfortunately the most common thing you will hear from an MR2 owner is "I absolutely loved my MR2... until I wrote it off." The short wheelbase and midmounted engine, the layout that makes them handle so well, unfortunately also makes them twitchy and it catches out a lot of drivers.

I looked at buying an MR2 a while ago and the general consensus was that the two biggest killers of MR2s is the lift-off oversteer and the driver touching the brakes mid corner. Either can cause the front and rear to switch places very quickly.

Love the car mate. Keep this page updated as you go, I'm keen to see the results.


yeah, rule #1 = DONT BACK OFF





i saw this at powercruise, i cant say im a fan of the swift front bumper thingo but the rest of the car looks pretty neat.

your engine will go bang in no time unless you decompress it. i have had a lot of turbo 4ag's and all the GE+t ones all died eventually. its likely going to be more cost efficient for you to get a supercharged halfcut.

[kurbn]

whats the canister tapped off the side of the exhaust for?

[Adsport]

its a tuned resonator

[ultim8m]

a little while ago i had an altercation with a grand vitara that set back plans a bit anyway some updates this is where she is at now

Couple more updates, got a new headlight cover so have fitted that, sprayed headlight covers black to match bonnet ( mostly because new one i got was white and close enough black is better than close enough blue) sprayed the spoiler black too so it actually matches the bootlid now, destickered the bonnet wet sanded the bootlid and bonnet again and repolished so they are kind of shiny again, I ordered a distributor seal repair kit, and speed-source shifter cable and shifter base bushings from the us, they all came this week so fitted all the bushings still need to do the distributor seals but that can wait for now. The shifter bushings have improved the feel of shifts a huge amount although im still not completely happy with the throw distance so will be looking at getting a short shift kit soon can anyone recommend one for these?

anyways some photos of her now she is coming along nicely wont be too nuch longer and i will have a new front bumper and everything will be straight again

front bumper im getting
http://carmate.com/Images/BodyKitImages/88MR2(B)FBS%20SS.jpg

and pics of as she is now
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2040.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2037.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2029.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2028.jpg

and bushings on shifter cables and shifter base basically replaced all the rubber ones with solid aluminium and brass bushes

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2043.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2049.jpg

and last one not really a mod but i finally got some speaker boxes so they 6x9s arent mounted in cardboard anymore, has improved it a lot at the sacrifice of legroom

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/mr2050.jpg

[ultim8m]

finished spraying the bottom half in satin black, original plan was to go gloss black over satin black but now im not so sure im starting to like the blue over satin black opinions?

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/ultim8m_photos/mr2/119_3560.jpg

[Chase_d]

Looks good!
....gloss black would look good too IMO

What happened with that rear wheel arch?....doesn't look quite even, or maybe the angle of the photo?

[ultim8m]

its probably a bit of both, because i was planning to do the gloss black over the top i didn't stress too much about getting the arches perfect as i was going to blend the gloss into the edges, they were bloody hard to mask there is no definite line to follow

[Lonewolf]

Black and blue looks good!

[Milhouse]

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4447802/2/istockphoto_4447802-portrait-of-woman-showing-bruised-face.jpg

Black And Blue ?

[kirbo]

Neat man! Looks great, supercharge half-cut and brakes back to black. :) Happy modding!