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Anglesey is a lot more suited to the MR2. I will be co-driving this time, Cogboy is usually a lot more sideways than I am, and we are a bad influence on each other when we rally together. Forget the pace notes its more 'yehaaa' or 'give her dixie'!!!
Damn....... so I can't sue Blackpool council for the damage to my front wing and tracking! I think I have to change my clutch soon and I'd love to do the gearbox at the same time but can you get them from anywhere over here? We didn't really look for a 160, just jumped in at the deep end with a 64.Lotus C64 was because it came out of a mid-engined application, so all the selector mechanisms were in the correct places, we could use the Exige shifter, and the gear selector cables and the driveshafts were roughly the correct length. The Elise/Exige has a very similar track to the Mk1 MR2. Slightly wider, but we needed longer driveshafts and the Lotus ones are 'Perfick.'IanClements wrote:I'm probably asking a silly question here as I'm not the expert you are but will the C64 fit with MR2 driveshafts and clutch etc?
- their shafts are larger diameter than the MR2. They're probably Toyota CVs anyway, but what we ended up with is a combo of the 'Lotus' inner CV joints and the Lotus driveshafts turned down and re-splined to fit the MR2 outer CVs. This creates a problem though as the clutch fork then interferes with the gear selector mechanism. We solved this by junking the standard arrangement and using a concentric hydraulic slave cylinder.- was it ever put onto a 4AGE? Anyone out there know? I spoke to Fensport yesterday and they said they'd only ever seen 2 C160's so I can't see me getting hold of one easily. could a decent backstreet garage do it for me?IanClements wrote:Is fixing the driveshafts for the C64 a simple job to do, i.e.
We had a company called 'Timmick Precision Engineering' in Runcorn machine our driveshafts. The driveshafts are hardened and they had to use a solid carbide cutter and cut the new splines 10,000ths of an inch at a time. One of the engineers told me, "If those shafts had been any harder we'd have been f***ked." It cost £300 to have them turned down and re-splined.
(with the 2zz-ge engine too i hasten to add) using part Mk1 selector assembly and a few custom parts. We also added the Mk3 LSD unit and 6th gear assembly from the Mk3 as it had better ratios.
(eg Monkeywrench Motorsport) in the States and TODA Racing. All seen very expensive though and have to be imported.£3500 and even a modified head with uprated cams etc for £1500. So a complete bare engine for about £5000. still expensive coz you need all the fuel injection bits and exhaust manifolds.(probably needs a combination of 1zz and 2zz thrust washers and bearings and a 1zz flywheel) However I've not been able to find out which rods and pistons work or whether custom parts are required. that have been created ie the 7age so it should be possible to combine Mr T parts here as well. with usIanClements wrote:I'm guessing there's a few people like myself thinking of going six speed with the C160 box for ease of install, sounds like a great way of pepping up an old 4AGE but am I right in saying there dead rare.
(I'm in Australia) required buying a half-cut from Japan : '99 Trueno BZR. I don't know if they were ever sold in Europe.(blacktop) engine as well 
. Gearbox conversion to RWD (using Toyota parts rather than gutting the c52) was a cinch. I posted a write-up on the conversion on 2brutal : link, which is a copy of my original conversion thread on toymods : link.... With a 20v swap and a C160 gearbox (Belgium) 
- Circuit Pack 
(deal done yesterday, collecting next Friday) got hold of a new engine ready for the 2011 season. A rebuild and bike TBs was planned with an estimated cost of £2k (doing most of the work ourselves as usual) but we found an engine that was irresistible! Runs like a standard engine but revs and sounds like a superbike. I can't wait to get it in the MR2 and take it for a blast.(at 9000rpm of course) 
