I am a newbie to the MR2 world and recently purchased a 1996 REV 4 N/A, the car itself is very clean even though reading 99000 on the clock.
I love the feel and look of my new motor but have had a bad time reliability wise.
Bought the car for
£600 with T&T, which at the time thought was too good to be true and after day 1 realised it was. starting issues from cold first morning and after ringing the bloke i got it off i found out he had fitted a switch under the dash to bypass the CTS.... not good!changed the CTS sensor but still would not start from cold.
put up with it as i was just using it to get to work and back but averaging 23/Gallon was killing my wallet.
3 weeks later on my way home from work a strange noise?? next junction cut-out and struggled to start let alone idle, compression test showed 70/70/150/120, oh my what had i done?
head gasket blew through on the sealing ring from cyl 1 to 2.
.. common?have now spent 3 months stripping, saving, rebuilding and hope to be on the road again soon.
rebuild itself has not been too much ball ache but head was like a banana requiring 0.5mm off in order to get good clean-up
will it run? only a turn of the key will tell.So, needless to say my intro to the world of MR2's has been a rocky road but i will not give up.
. even if it bankrupts me i will drive my pride and joy again... once i have enough posts ill get some pics up but for now i'll just keep on believing that it will fire up when i've finished.
