I've been lurking around on here for a while and thought it might be a good idea to put up a build thread to record the progress on my Rev 2 G-Limited import SW20.
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I bought the car late last summer locally off a friend of a friend.
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I'd always pined after an MR2, and although I really wanted a Turbo car, this seemed clean and tidy for the price.
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My initial intention was to run it until winter, then maybe sell in the spring to fund a turbo car.
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.oh how wrong I was
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Here's how she sat when I got her:
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So, after driving it, I loved the experience and really didn't care that it wasn't a turbo at the time, as it felt tight and looked pretty good.
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But, after a run out to Manchester last November, the engine started to rattle
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really badly.
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It looked like oil starvation due to a failed oil pump.
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The big ends were re-shelled but it made no difference, major internal damage had been done and I had a choice of 3 options:
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- fix the current engine, keeping stock
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- replace the engine with a used one
3
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- install a Turbo donor engine giving me the Turbo experience I originally wanted.
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I debated this for some time over the winter, until I got a call from a friend locally who had himself bought a Rev1 Turbo car to fix up.
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But, it turned out that car had been in a front end shunt, and badly repaired.
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He decided to break the car for parts and offered me the car as a donor, so I agreed.
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Here's the stripped donor car on its last journey to have the engine removed:
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It was a bit unfortunate to have this car broken as the shell was unusually very solid on the sills and rear arches, not a trace of rust.
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However the shonky front end repairs meant that none of the panels lined up properly and it would have been a massive job putting it right again, which seemed economically excessive.
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I'll post some more pics up soon, but I just really wanted to start this thread so I could document some history of the car whilst in my ownership.
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I have quite a few new parts added to the car already, and a few choice mods going in to the engine build too.
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.more to follow soon
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