MR2 Hunting (New Post, please read and give thoughts), NEED YOUR HELP ON NEW POST Options

[Random_Stranger]

Anyone know what price range a SW20 MR2 goes for? Any recommendations for the AW11 vs the SW20 if you maybe suggest one over the other? I want a sexy daily driver that I can have for a later project (because even just a stock GT-Four in the future is good enough for me as far as a complete project goes, unless tempted to take it beyond that), and I want it to be a Toyota.

Why am I looking for another car?

Well here's the deal. Today I did a compression test today in class and discovered that my car has a dead cylinder. All the readings were an average of 190 with one cylinder giving me a reading of 25 and leaks. So on Tuesday, I am going to run a wet test to determine if it is the valves (which I am praying for) or the piston rings (which will make want to get another car so I can park my car and take my time on it without having to make repairs of daily driving for exterior damage and such as it is very expensive and I can rebuild the engine, this is my only car).

So what do you guys think?

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Oct 1, 2009 - 3:38 AM

[Kwanza26]

I have an SW20 for sale... but probably not what you're looking for. It's n/a and needs a motor... haha... but it is the hardtop, which are much lighter and much more difficult to find.

That said... SW20's are only really popular for making ass loads of power fairly easily. They are, IMO, the worst of the duces in terms of handling, or even simply driving. To me, they are poorly balanced, too ass heavy and unpredictable, hardly desirable traits if the car is meant to be a sports car (you know... going fast through curves). But going straight would be fine. Price-wise... MR2 turbos have inflated lately. For a good one, expect to pay around 5000... n/a's can be found anywhere from 2.5-4 k...

This post has been edited by Kwanza26: Sep 3, 2009 - 5:17 PM

[Random_Stranger]

I have an SW20 for sale... but probably not what you're looking for. It's n/a and needs a motor... haha... but it is the hardtop, which are much lighter and much more difficult to find.

That said... SW20's are only really popular for making ass loads of power fairly easily. They are, IMO, the worst of the duces in terms of handling, or even simply driving. To me, they are poorly balanced, too ass heavy and unpredictable, hardly desirable traits if the car is meant to be a sports car (you know... going fast through curves). But going straight would be fine. Price-wise... MR2 turbos have inflated lately. For a good one, expect to pay around 5000... n/a's can be found anywhere from 2.5-4 k...

Well I would be happy with even just a N/a that I can get for $2k or less. Kinda what I was looking at. I wouldn't mind a fairly good conditioned AW11, although I don't want to spend no more than $800 on one of those, even though I know the resale value is a bit up there on those as well. Heck, with that said, I wouldn't spend more than $1300 on an AE86, because I think those are overpriced (damn cartoons)...