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[02bluerolla]

UPDATE!!

Well a late update lol. The car has been running for the past 2 weeks. When we first started up the car it would idle fine but it wouldn"t rev pass 3000 rpm. We checked everything that could possibly go wrong. Everything was good! The car sat there for few weeks until we decided to rechecked everything again. We found out that we had the wrong ecu! I think i had a gen 2 ecu idk, but i ordered a gen 3 wrc ecu and it started and rev like it should.
Next up Was the shifter cables . I had try many different cables from various toyotas and none of them work, they were either to long or to short.
so i had to get custom ones.

for 30$ each not bad


I also had to use a 91 mr2 shifter assembly. I later clean it up and painted it.





Once i was done, the car shifted fine, not like i would like to but it shifted. The shifter lost is sporty feel, idk it felt too smooth. I cant really explain it but i didnt like it. But i had to deal with it since it was the only solution i could come up with. Next came the wheels,i just had gotten some new rubber too.




I really like the wheels but like a moron i didn't research how wide i could go in the front and rear so i ended up with the front wheel poking out a bit too much....

i been thinking of buying or trading my front ones for some 15x7 enkie rpf1, but i really havent put the time and effort to do it.
Well bad luck struck and as soon as i put the car down on its 4 wheels and started it , the transmission got stuck in a gear. It turns out that i was to excited to drive the car that i forgot to put oil in the transmission :facepalm: The next day i found a transmission for 100$ in a local forum! I picked that SOB fast and started working on the mr2. After that the car has not gave me any problems. The car feels good ! Here are some recent pics after i cleaned her up. I have not pushed the car since the motor been sitting there for awhile plus i have new tires and clutch. My future mods would be putting my heat ex changer in the front instead of the back, get custom ac lines , and maybe get a power fc and a upgraded fuel system.









This post has been edited by 02bluerolla: Jan 13, 2012 - 11:47 AM

[02bluerolla]

oh yeah i will get videos in a few days! I just have to make a trip to ATS and see if we can take my bros car (celica ) to get dyno and tuned.

[BonzaiCelica]

oooo awesome!! your cars looks mexican out now. (haha the wheels do like a bit wide!!! oh well live and learn. get them videos up the car looks very clean.

[Ted95]

how do those tires handle?

car looks sickk man!

This post has been edited by Ted95: Jan 14, 2012 - 9:59 AM

[02bluerolla]

oooo awesome!! your cars looks mexican out now. (haha the wheels do like a bit wide!!! oh well live and learn. get them videos up the car looks very clean.

jaja for real it does. Ill get videos when i take it to the track in a few weeks, But first i have to fix a coolant leak , that i cant seem to figure out where is it coming from.

how do those tires handle?

car looks sickk man!

Thanks! but i haven t really driven the car hard, right now iam driving it slow.

[02bluerolla]

New parts arrived last week so i decide to install them and since iam working on it i decided to relocate my heat exchanger .


ha the original one looks really thin compare to the new one




The fans bolted on perfectly.











And I also got my vanity plates!

[JasonTX]

pretty slick man. keep it up

[02bluerolla]

pretty slick man. keep it up

thanks man
anything new with your celica?

[Smaay]

awesome project, id love to drive it!

[GMan]

Awsome Project !