Pistols MR2 stories... MK1 and 2zz MK3

[pistol pete]

Hi ollie...
Yes.. Yes I do!!!

[Ryan S]

Good to see you back mate. I'd love to have a mk3 turbo one day. Or even just a stock one as a daily driver. Very cool little cars.

[pistol pete]

I considered a 1zz turbo.. but i am going the 2zz route

I'd love a 2gr but they are big monies to build

[pistol pete]

So not a huge update.. but here we go.

first off I apologise, a few freinds have read this and mentioned i did also have a silver mk3 mr2 i bought to go to wales on a road trip. so that makes this my 4th mk3

Anyway i wanted to give it a good clean i knwo the last owner cleaned it, but its always something to do on a new car. it does still need a clay bar & polish but this is a good start after being on nights!

so first i thought i would give the "mason household Fleet" a clean
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Our 211K VRS.. its awesome!!
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Then onto the MR2
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just washed, hand washed, dried and waxed, also RainX'd the windows, love that stuff
I am pretty pleased with how the purchased looks now, when i have more time i will go fully to town on it

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TTE spoiler, this will be sold when i move to a carbon lid
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I found out its a remus exhuast
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Its the RED edition so extra red inside
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next job is change the stereo
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Also whilst all this was going on, i messaged a mate who lives north of Darlington (bearing in mind i am south Kent) thats a long long way away, he always seems to have many Toyotas, i asked if he ever has a spare 2zz celica going to let me know, after investigation the celica is a better car to purchase for the swap.
Turned out he did and it was in my budget, After a chat with the wife and it being the 2nd car in a week to fall in my lap she said i couldn't say no, so the deal was done.
He is even bringing it down to Peterborough for me, to meet half way.

so Sunday its new heart arrived from a 2 owner car with full history

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I need to find out what else i need to complete the swap, but the main purchase is done, then will be full steam ahead!!!!!

[Charged]

You move fast Pete!! Excellent work.. has the Celica got the correct ecu for the conversion? Iirc you need the early model 190 ecu?

[Ryan S]

Oh...They seats are different to the usual mk3 seats. They have holes for harnesses to slip through. Interesting!

[pistol pete]

Yeah I think it's because it's the red edition I'm not sure to be honest. I'll probably sell them at some point..

The celica is an early model so hopefully right. Its kinda fallen into my lap so had to really

[pistol pete]

5am start this morning, trip up to Peterborough
a quick meet up and drive home.. and this si now sat on the drive

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got a few bits to do to the rex then ill unload it and start stripping down.

woohoo

[pistol pete]

thought a small update is in order.

I put the hard top back on the car as I had no where safe to put it and was worried it would get damaged

Met up with Pete Kyte and Harry (who i got the car from) they came down in Pete's Immaculate mk3, and Harry's new low mileage very clean matching mk3

So a ride out was in order, Harry decided his new car is too quite and wants his old exhaust back
couple of ride out pictures.. just because i can
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driveway filling up
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So after that, I decided to make up a hard top stand so I can enjoy soft top motoring
brackets made,
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Mounted on the wall..
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everytime I turned around my little helper was giving me her ball
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got the roof on the wall
fitted and protected
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out of the garage and there she is helping me again
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Next up was get the RX8 running, it had been sat a couple of weeks and never likes to start afterwards.. so normal de-flooding sequence commenced and ran it did... My neighbors love me

https://youtu.be/KkCFMk06aXM

I have no idea how to embed the video

Got the RX8 back on the trailer and the celica off..
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had to give it a wash, even though i'm pulling it apart in was horrible, I just got filthy every time i touched it

and she was waiting to help again so helpful
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Not had any interest on the rest of the car bits soo far so once I have what I need off to the tip it goes..
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On the ride home from work yesterday, the clutch in the MR started slipping. so the timeline is moving up a bit.. keep a watch. more news as soon as i do it

[kaiowas]

What are you doing about gear linkages Pete?

Celica linkage is on the front of the gearbox
Mk3 linkage is on the rear of the gearbox (Same as Corolla I believe - which is a point in favour of using a Corolla as a donor)

The 'right' solution is to mix and match gearbox parts to to get the combination of ratios/diff that you want into the right housing (You know I can advise here!) but I think it's common in mk3 circles to somehow make the front mount linkages work in the mk3

[pistol pete]

Hi Phil.
Nope best option is to keep the box and just take the selector out of my box and swap it to the new box, (both 6 speed)
and then just swap the diffs over (but no idea how to do that yet )

[kaiowas]

Happy to help you out if you want to bring both 'boxes up here.

[pistol pete]

Cool thanks buddy.
the other option i have is to keep the MR box and diff and swap the celica internals over to it..
which means no mucking about with bungs or anything as the casings correct

[kaiowas]

It's what I'd do. You need to open both gearboxes up to swap the diff over anyway so you might as well use the casing that right for the car as it's no more work. You've also got the option of whether to use the 2ZZ 6th gear or the slightly longer one from the 1ZZ box

[pistol pete]

Thought i should do an update!
What's been happening. well not a lot.
Been helping a friend sort out her new house, and had to do clutch slave/master cylinders new brake fluid on the RX8. and of course go racing. so been busy there!

Here is the Race cat at three sisters last weekend
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video here
https://flic.kr/p/25o6njP

I'm also very proud of my new Spa picture in my hallway
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So Jackie, the friend we are helping moving has driven my mr a few times and fell in love with it
I then was chatting to patrick, headcase, who said he had a mr2 he was selling if i knew anyone.. the next day she had picked it up, 72k mile Pre facelift with a few nice extras on it
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Ben came down in the M5 and we went to a little local meet which was cool

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next day Facebook gave me a memory of my old yellow mk3
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So we recreated the picture.. i wish she would stop growing!!
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I then found i had a water leak everytime it rained and was filling up the passenger side footwell as the water bag for directing rainwater to the drain is ripped, so for now we are back with the hard top

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Did get one good run out home from nights with the roof down though
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So anyways it has got to the point now i need to actually start doing some work to it.
I have had enough of it dragging its belly along the road, and will be no good on track.
So big order went in with Fensport today (highly recommend them)!!
https://www.fensport.co.uk/

Order was
Set of BC coilovers
Yellow stuff all round pads (will be going to carbotech later, but these have served us well on the RX)
New discs all round
Drop links all round
Goodridge Braided brake lines
Also sat at home i have a set of wipers to go on it

While i am doing that ill get the soft top off and see if i can repair the leak

It should be a good start anyways!

So not much of an update. my list of jobs is huge and cars low down at themoment, i have the RX8 new pads, fit a bathroom and shower, race anglesey, prep for getting new boiler fitting, get 2zz out the celica, move the classic mini so i can get to the ramp, fix sister in laws car. it goes on! I have a full list of jobs on the white board in the kitchen

[pistol pete]

Well after passing its mot I wanted to get on with the build,
So I've picked up an Ep3 as my daily

The Mr is off the road and booked in for a cage on 5th Aug. So some stripping incoming zoon

[craig]

So I've picked up an Ep3 as my daily

[pistol pete]

Indeed
I have a thread for the type R if anyones interested
https://type-r-owners.co.uk/forums/show ... -the-rough

The wifes little fabia blew its head gasket so on friday she picked up he new car.. its a crack little thing great fun to drive!!



And in the heat yesterday i had the joys of getting the celica engine out




Bit of a move around, i get the mini out of the garage, celica round the front of the house ready for scrap
and the MR2 in the garage, ready to strip the interior, It is booked in for its rollcage beginning of august, so time to get a hurry on

[pistol pete]

Okay... far to long since update.. sorry.. soooo.. many photos incoming!!!


First job. I decided i wanted the cage in, after looking at what was around, and what i wanted. I decided it will be a dedicated track car, not half raod half track, and i wanted a full cage.

I landed on going with a company called Caged Laser
Based in south west
https://cagedlaser.co.uk/

They had not done an MR2 before and wanted to. So a deal was done on a bolt in caged that they could then use as a template to sell on, all done to MSA spec.

They wanted the interior and dash out to fit the cage. Thats the first job then.. Strip the interior of all weight.

first Jack up your car





fair bit of weight out of there.
all down the tip




But as i now had a red roof and nice interior i thought id upgrade the silver one..
it came out well i think

Before



After


Seats are so much softer and much more comfy

Next up, I still needed it to move around, so i go some rogue seat mounts and stole the spare seat out of the RX8.

now i do not need the seat to move so its sits fairly low without sliders



Car moved outside (with no exhaust it was pretty loud!)

Loaded up for the long trip to Caged laser

So much smaller on the trailer than the RX8

Dropped off. I was expecting to be dropping the car off at a shed. but when i got there i was offered a tour of the workshop... What a place.. an EV Skyline drift car with tesla power, Lots of caterham roll cages, and westfield chassis.. so they knew what they were doing!!!



Back home i started to play with the 2zz
I got it up on the engine stand and deided to change water pump, gaskets etc.
Ordered all Parts from Fensport.



And then i went on a nice family holiday for the week.. while i was there i got some photos from caged laser



They also as an extra added in 6 point harness points stitched in for me on the drivers side a 4 point on passenger


Home from holiday and time to pick the cage up


Also one of the guys there was going a bit of work on his car.. this little beaut


Got the car home.. and here is the cage.. the family decided it should be bright..







they have done somthing different in that the roof bolts to the cage so can easily be removed



I had andy pop down in his 2gr beast...





So due to school holidays. not much got done for couple weeks.. was out having fun!!

Anyway this week got back to it.. getting the 1zz out of the car, so i can then drop the gearboxes off to Patrick Chambers to swap them out for me

subframe out



I had trouble the rear engine mount bolt had sized in the rubber so took the whole thing off in one go
At work a press and it was soon apart


ill be going poly mounts anyway

that was today everything is disconnected just need to undo the side engine mounts and drop the engine, but i had to come to work..


On another note.. I had order a magilligan 2zz exhaust back in may.. nothing ever arrived, so after chasing i got my money back through paypal..
I was wondering what to do about an exhaust, then a friend sent me a link toa full 2zz mr2 exhaust on ebay £200.. the picks were not great, but i though why not to get me going.

threw on a best offer of 150 and it was accepted to my surprise.. a full system for 150!!!!
My mate went and picked it up.. i haven'd seen it but seems to be a Monkey wrench racing system which will be a huge bonus if it is!




also saw this at my mates workshop.. made me laugh

[pistol pete]

I had a quick hour this morning before starting work
this happened