wacomuk
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 07:32 AM |
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My new project Toyota MK1 MR2 1989
i used to love these so could not resist it! cheap as chips
20 years old and still looks cool!
http://www.insightbookingsolutions.co.uk
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 07:43 AM |
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The Toyota looks nice but what's the motor in the seven? I can count five headers on it
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 07:54 AM |
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 I always liked them. A bit of t-cut and that paint should look really good. Seems to be missing the rear air intake though
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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wacomuk
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 07:55 AM |
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V10 
http://www.insightbookingsolutions.co.uk
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 08:48 AM |
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Great little cars, vastly better to drive than it's lardy Mk2 brother. Sadly the tin worm also likes them...
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scootz
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 08:52 AM |
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I'd have one in a heartbeat if I had the time and space!
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idl1975
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 10:26 AM |
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From a mate who has one (a good one at that...) it seems that the first thing to do is replace every suspension bushing. There's apparently a
lot of movement otherwise, which can be "interesting" with a 20 year old mid-engined chassis.
quote:
Originally posted by wacomuk
i used to love these so could not resist it! cheap as chips
20 years old and still looks cool!
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NigeEss
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 11:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by idl1975
From a mate who has one (a good one at that...) it seems that the first thing to do is replace every suspension bushing. There's apparently a
lot of movement otherwise, which can be "interesting" with a 20 year old mid-engined chassis.
When I first got mine the handling was...er...lively.... to say the least.
New rear trailing arm ball joints totally transformed it.
Did a track day at Aintree last October and even in the rain the tail stayed put unless
really provoked.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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deezee
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 11:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Great little cars, vastly better to drive than it's lardy Mk2 brother. Sadly the tin worm also likes them...
LOL my MK2 Turbo isn't lardy, its about 210 Bhp/Tonne. A MK1 Supercharged is around 150 Bhp/Tonne. Plus the MK2 turbo comes with uprated
suspension geometry and a LSD. Guess is personal preference. Either way I'm selling mine to fund the locost build 
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hicost blade
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 12:30 PM |
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Ummm bushes. I had one of those as my second ever car and I loved it to bits. Sold it for the same price I bought it for 12 months later (£1500) and
it only cost £1700 to insure! and it only cost £600 to pass the MOT, that was only bushes and drop links. I have also had a rev 1 mk2 3sge (rear
suspension geometry was very close to the mk1 (lots of sideways action)) and a rev2 turbo (altered rear geometry (very sticky but boring)) and neither
came close to the pure handling of the mk1. Also when you get into the mk1's its like getting into a little Toyota fighter jet! I loved my mk1
but it started to rot . Mine looked a lot like yours including the sunroof (much better that T bar) looks like its in good nick. What are the rear
arches like? I got the some of those abrasive wheels for the drill and removed all of the paint and corrosion from the face of the wheel and then
polished it up with autosol and a buffing wheel, looked just like the supercharged wheels and tidies the car right up, only cost me about £20 and a
Saturday to do (and no I did it way before Edd China).
Dave
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hicost blade
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 12:32 PM |
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BTW Harris' breakers yard near Portsmouth always have 1 or 2 mk1's in their yard, I got a full magnex stainless exhaust system for mine
for £60!.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 12:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by hicost blade
it only cost £1700 to insure!
Only?
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hicost blade
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| posted on 16/2/09 at 01:08 PM |
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Yeah I know, the stupid things you do when your young. You only live once!!
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wacomuk
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| posted on 17/2/09 at 08:16 AM |
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insurance will be £150 for the year  41p a day lol
Drivers side rear has some rot in the sill
i cut it out last night
tacked a piece in
The rear quarter is a bit out shape so it got the 1st fill
http://www.insightbookingsolutions.co.uk
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