So far i'm loving it, its by far one of the best handling cars I've owned. Its a 1992 import tin top and amazingly it has no rust and apart from a few blemishes the paint is perfect so i think I've found a great start for a project.
I bought this car with the intention of doing track days and actually being able to enjoy day to day driving once again.
Due to how nice it looks I couldn't resist the obligatory arty car shot unfortunately I cant upload it till I've posted more unfortunately things have turned a little sour on the way back from work today the radiator decided to dump a fair portion of the coolant all due to a tiny o-ring on the bleed screw
which despite my best efforts appears to have sent the head gasket packing.So i fully intend on fixing this because apart from the head gasket this is the cleanest MR2 I could find, and so i'm after a little advice and on the hunt for some parts.
The plan is replace head gasket and fix/replace the radiator, but to make this a more positive thing i'm going to upgrade where possible
( I never like fixing things with standard parts, upgrading things makes it feel like you've chosen to fix it opposed to the car demanding parts ) I've done a bit of research and it looks like my my best bet is a rev 3 head gasket with the head being ground not skimmed then from then on its a chance to upgrade parts as I rebuild I was considering rev 3 cams but that requires the bucket over shim conversion.
So apart from saying hello and thanks for the wealth of info on this forum I would like to know if anyone can enlighten me as to how much is involved in the cam swap
? and does anyone have the relevant parts for sale ? and does any one have any recommendations of what else to do while I'm in there?Thanks
Jake