how much are superchargers worth now?

[kirsty]

thanks,i must say yours is very nice and clean,love the smoothed look,well il see if i can arrange to pick it up next weekend

Thanks! lol she looked good until I decided to snap my fuel flap off today!!
Well, I was trying to adjust it as it wasn't quite sitting right, but it appears that the pin and bits were a bit rusty, so they snapped!
Got a white one hopefully going in the post to me next week, but I'll still need to get it painted now! argh

[littleredrocket]

i shouldnt think getting it painted would be an issue,unless its a diff colour white to standard?

[HT]

i feel guilty now sorryyyyyy!
well i was very nervous about buying it,and im still shaking......
but i know i wont regret it as iv had 2 mr2 mk1 n/a`s now,but just needed a little extra oomph, thanks for everyones support !
besides its very low mileage so thats a bonus!

Congrats! Was that the one advertised on the mr2 mk1 club website??

[littleredrocket]

yeah that was the one,bought for 2495 in the end buy it now on ebay

[Sharpfish]

I bought my first JDM SC in 2001 for £2500 (1989, 48k miles on it at the time,Dark Blue g-limited with Mirrored T-Tops, retractable/better shaped mirrors, flush spoiler light, climate control etc) , and I see what a bargain it was if 6 years later they are still going for that! I admit mine was an auto though and a manual would have been much nicer/more expensive, but it was virtually mint, zero rust, great paint, clean underneath.

I now have a manual SC as I swapped the engine and toys over into a UK NA body (using NA gearbox) after the original genuine SC was written off(not my fault) and I got to buy the 'salvage' for £66! which had everything for a conversion + spares. So it's now not an official SC (and has all the usual UK body rust problems) but it still has all the features/toys of my previous "near mint" SC but in a lighter setup (NA box, shafts and ditched the air con), and swapped all the goodies over and lowered it/upgraded the suspension/renewed LOTS of mechanical parts to new - mechanically it's in very good shape now just got to sort the body out. Engine still only has ~ 70k miles on it as I don't do many miles and compression tests are spot on.

Don't forget to add a bigger pulley to the SC once you know the engine is solid... even more grins then had my fensport pulley since 2002 and it made a definite difference.

[HT]

yeah that was the one,bought for 2495 in the end buy it now on ebay

Bargain

[littleredrocket]

now i gonna have two cars my mk1 n/a and the sc next weekend,so it will be interesting to see how they differ in handling and stuff,my current car has climate control and aircon anyway which by all accounts iv been told is rare

[Sharpfish]

Well as I said, I dumped the air con when I did the conversion (namely cos it would have been a pain to try and retro fit it to my NA car) so that made it lighter (the comp weighs a tonne!).

Handling wise, having owned both, if both have good bushes and same setup then the NA handles a tad better in my opinion (less weight and stuff) but that also depends on year, the anti roll bar sizes also affect this (I still have to fit my 'fat' one from the 89 write off to my 88 conversion which has a smaller bar. I would say my conversion handles a lot better than my previous 'real SC' but that is also due to having new superflex bushes all round, lighter tranny and lowered suspension. It also seemed faster running through a my na gearbox compared to my original heavier auto tranny (of course).

So i'd get the bushes done and lower it/upgrade the suspension/wheels (if you don't mind messing around with a 'genuine' SC) and it will handle better than it came from toyota.

[littleredrocket]

any recommendations ?
somehting thats not too harsh on the road but good for handling too.i guess il have to see when i pick it up! i fitted a strut brace to the front of my n/a and felt it made quite a diff.and also can get the sunroof under,with a little fiddling about so can still stow it in the front on a nice day.so are superflex bushes the best type ?
i read a few posts about the high and tight ones tooo

[tonigmr2]

That's a good buy there chap! Good money.

Get it first, drive it, then think about modding it.

Superflex

T

[HT]

any recommendations ?
somehting thats not too harsh on the road but good for handling too.i guess il have to see when i pick it up! i fitted a strut brace to the front of my n/a and felt it made quite a diff.and also can get the sunroof under,with a little fiddling about so can still stow it in the front on a nice day.so are superflex bushes the best type ?
i read a few posts about the high and tight ones tooo

Its the general concensus that the superflex bushes are a big advantage over standard (and tired by now) bushes, without the harshness of the prothane ones. Prothane ones are much, much cheaper though however its worth checkig oout the TRD type also

[Speedy]

That's a good buy there chap! Good money.

Get it first, drive it, then think about modding it.

Superflex

T

Got to agree with Toni - it's a fine handling car in standard form if it's still in reasonable condition. Drive it for a bit, and then work out what you want to do

[littleredrocket]

im looking forward to driving it,especially with the extra torque all through the rev range[/quote]

[Charged]

Nice one Simon, congratulations chap

Ollie

[Chunky Monkey]

I saw that one on ebay too, clicked to add it to my watch list when the page refreshed it said item ended with buy it now! I was temped but with cars in double figures!! littering the garage, garden & surround area, my nuts would probably be for sale too.

[Blokey]

If it were mine I'd make sure everything it has is working properly, so that would be new coolant, change the oil and oil filter, flush the brake fluid and check the brake pads are ok and the disks are sound.

Then it would be off to a couple of airfield/track days to make friends and see how I like it and if there's anything that I'd want to change, then and only then would I think about changing it.

They're cracking cars.

Mine is off the road at the moment, needing new brake pads and disks all round, new brake fluid, new tyres, oil change, oil filter change, and and and.... but then I do rag it on tracks whenever I can and these are the original pads and disks I put on it when I bought it so it's allowed to be wanting new ones.

The only thing I'd warn about them is IMHO the brakes are overboosted compared to the Mk1 NA. It's very easy to lock the fronts of the SC if you go to that from driving the NA but with sticky tyres it's much improved.

I'm sure you'll love it!

B.

[kirsty]

Other than being lowered mine's pretty standard and I'm happy to get to know it inside and out as Blokey's said . . before I get the pulley done or am tempted to do anything else.

[Sharpfish]

It's very easy to lock the fronts of the SC if you go to that from driving the NA but with sticky tyres it's much improved.

This is true, it's part of the reason I wrote off my first SC, locked up and 'slid' under an artic lorry that had (wrongly) emerged from a side lane into my path (I was doing about 60 mph at the time and had not much space to come to a stop). Luckily it was so low that the car got wedged under the side of the lorry on the impact bars which bent up and slowed the car down (after crushing the bonnet into the windscreen). Quite scary but, yeah go easy with it.. I always felt the brakes were too 'touchy' esp on gravel, and that's just driving normally.

Obviously as others have said do all the *usual* stuff like oil/brakes/flush/getting used to it before doing bushes/pulleys. I sort of took it for granted you'd be doing those service things anyway, the more advanced stuff is worth mentioning as not everyone does it. I didn't touch my original SC for the record (even kept the tear drops) but then I only had it for a few months before it got killed. Due to the fact I then bought an NA and converted it, I knew the car inside and out (stripped both cars, swapped trannys, looms etc) I knew it was good and replaced all the worn service parts so it wasn't long before I started to improve the handling and superflex (or even new OEM) bushes are going to be almost inevitable if you want it to handle/feel as good as it could be regardless of how it runs when you get it (Unless of course it's already been done!).

Lowered suspension is a different matter, drive it for a while as stock you may like it. I just wanted to get the roofline down a bit while stiffening up the ride a touch and I don't regret it. I haven't done any stupid/ugly mods like mad bodykits or painted interior, i've kept it pretty much standard looking exept for debadge/stripe as the car looks at least 5 years newer without those pin stripes (though I understand some prefer them).

Anyway, just enjoy it... i'm sure you will decide naturally what you want to do to your own car in time but I would mostly keep it as stock looking as possibly and improve where you can (suspension, brakes)... 20 year old suspension is not going to give you the best results.

[littleredrocket]

I found the brakes on my n/a to be not great even though new pads and discs on the front but have locked up a couple of times driving down a country lane.
When i asked steve about the sc he mentioned having had a service done oil,coolent,its got a mushroom airfilter,and is taxed and mot`d.
Has had alot done to it,the wheels look good tooo,but have been looking at ronal turbo wheels for a while now which i was gonna get for my n/a.
But lloking at the tyres looks like its got kumho on,i usually get the goodyear f1s all round found them to be great in all conditions.

[Icsunonove]

Congratulations on your purchase!

I'm sure you'll have loads of fun in it. Make sure you get your NST pulley on order immediately! Adding a big pulley makes a HUGE difference.

Get it first, drive it, then think about modding it.

Just like your Mk3 Toni! That statement coming from you made me fall off my chair!