hi everyone i may have accquired 1600 mr2 engine and auxillaries can anyone advise me of which parts of the loom, coil etc to remove from the car and which models of toyota do i get the rwd gearbox from wish me luck martin

I believe you can use a type 9 box with a suitable bellhousing from Raw Engineering

http://www.rawengineering.co.uk/raw_db_parts.asp

Good luck

I would take as much loom as possible to start with - you can always ditch it later.

WRT gearboxes: If you can find a Toyota T50 5-speed it should bolt straight up to your engine. They were available in the early 1600cc Celica's and a couple of Corolla's from the early 80's. The last of the RWD Corolla's ran a 4A engine (same block as yours) in a RWD configuration and there was also a 'Sprinter' version but I'm not sure if they were available in the UK. Check out this site, though:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stepho/homepage.htm
This guy really knows his stuff....

HTH,

Tim

This place (http://www.fensport.co.uk/products.htm) also seem to do Toyota RWD gearbox for only £85, doesn't say if they need referb, but is cheaper than a bellhousing from RAW.

Stuart

[Edited on 21/3/05 by psylsph]

Youll be lucky to find a gearbox from fensport, they only get them in when they strip an Ae86 corolla GT (the old 1985 RWD version) which they dont seem to do much of these days.

Best bet would be the bell from RAW or if you can weld and have some experience you could build your own bell housing from two halves of the originals.

I was lucky in sourcing a complete engine and gearbox from an Ae86 then managing to find another complete engine and T50 box so i have spares. Will prob be selling the spare set once ive made sure that my pair work well. arent i lucky......

fin

To follow on from what Findlay said above, it is possible to make a bellhousing from the original Toyota and Ford housings. It is not that difficult to do and is substantially cheaper than buying one (as long as you can weld ali, or have a mate that can).

See my photo archive, there are two pictures there of the finished bellhousing, i have many more detailed pics if required.

The advantage of this setup is that you retain the Toyota hydraulic clutch mechanism and pressure plate, all you have to do is buy a spigot bearing and a standard Sierra clutch plate. I cannot remember which way round it is, either Toyota plate is 190mm dia and Sierra is 200mm dia or vice versa.

With regards to the loom, i took the whole thing and tried to fit it to my car and it was a nightmare (i have no electrical clue though!), if i was building again i would probably use it for reference only and make a loom to suit. There are so many unused circtuits for the various electrical gadgets on the Toyota, but they seem to share earths and such like.

The other thing to consider is the inlet plenum, it will probably need to be reduced in height to fit under the bonnet, to do this it is best to have the non-TVIS version. These are quite readliy available though, also you can buy the shortened plenum from RAW anyway.

Otherwise a good choice though, had my first mini-blast in it on Sunday across the road, put a big smile on my face

Good luck