I bought the car last year from member 3sgte and needless to say it was in a state although it had certainly had some money spent on it.
It had made 442bhp in a previous life but those days were long gone when I got it. The bodywork was in a bad way and when I took it to 2bar Ryan it started to overheat on the dyno 
. A sniffer test confirmed the engine was fooked. The problem could well have been there when I bought the car although everything seemed ok at the time looking back now the car and more to point seller didnt add up. Ill just have to learn from it and move onAnyway at this point I faced the dilema of breaking the car or getting it to how I wanted it.
The fact I writing this shows which decision I made.. In essence I wanted an Mr2 Turbo for years and this short and sour experience hadnt scratched the itch so to speak. Besides the ornament on my driveway still contained some very good parts that I would want should I go and buy another.Anyway.
...The first issue to address was the bodywork.
After handing over a big pile of notes to a body shop the visible rust had gone and some Toms kit added. 
Next came the thorney issue of the engine.
The aim of my project was to have a very fast road mr2 with up to 500bhp. For these figures a forged engine had to be built. While planning and pricing the engine out of a certain wheelie popping mr2 came on sale so I couldnt resist and snapped it up. The spec was a 2.2 HKS stroker with monster cams and a lot of custom work. Hopefully this will handle everything I throw at it. A 2.1 bar test drive at 700hp confirmed it worked.
Fitting the engine was relatively straight forward although the HKS unit uses a rev2 head and all my other stuff is rev3 plus.
After speaking to ryan@2bar he suggested using a rev 3 inlet manifold on the rev 2 head. At this point (APRIL) the car was ready bar the inlet manifold who peter @Sbits said would get sorted as it should only be a few hours labour. God knows whats happened as I still havent got it now nearly six months later and believe me when I say there has been a lot of chasing and even more excuses?????
Bodge job removed
New engine waiting
I took the decision to use a slightly modified rev2 inlet manifold/throttlebody as I think it should be fine for my power goals.
....Plus I dont appreciate being lied to and taken for a ride............Meanwhile I treated the car to some new bits most of which are in my garage. I also got a nice new set of rims and r888 tyres...
Finally got the car running this week and its going to Ryan next week for mapping.
Its very very loud and the cams make for a very nice idle.
I want to thank Martin Kingston at MK tuning in Blackburn who has been a gem he turned a rough mr2 into something to be proud of.
He generally specialises in celica GT4s but has well and truely popped his mr2 cherry with mine so I would recommend anyone using his service. Saying that he is well and truely sick of my car having been sat at his unit for nearly a year
I will be updating with the mapping progress and I have quite a few other bits to add but heres how it stands now.
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Some with my brothers 500bhp celica
