Madlife's MR2

[madlife]

Aka... the Deuce.   Just realized I had nothing on it.

At purchase






Now

[madlife]

Saved for info...

The car was a 1992 N/A, fully loaded, power steering, A/C, power windows, but no leather.

It had a JDM Turbo Engine Swap.
Power steering and A/C removed
Carbon Fiber frunk and trunk,
Toms side skirts, rear bumper
Border Front bumper
Aftermarket BOV
Aftermarket Intake
Nippon Racing 16 in Rimes
Hanhook k106 tires {not that great FYI}
Pioneer deck, sub
Fucked up alarm - current disabled
Suspension mods - Don't have specifics, but shes STIFF... also a lack of the legendary "Snap oversteer"


The good:
AFter I disabled the alarm, she runs great. Every 1 of 30 starts It trips the alarms kill switch, and i have to unhook the batter for 5 seconds to get her going again.  It drives like a freakin go kart, I can't get the rear end to come around except for once the tires greased over at the Test and Tune.  The stock seats are frikin comfortable.  oh yea,  the price and lack of mr2s around NY

The bad
Interior was a wreck but mostly cleaned up now.
Small battery drain.  If it sits for 5 days or so it may not start
Exterior needs some work. Overall its very clean. The car was a CA car so that's a big bonus.
Front stereo speakers don't work, the HU is missing a volume knob, and doesn't stay flipped up.
Dash lights work intermittently.
The gas pedal is f'ed.  It was only using about 50% of the throttle body range, and now its up to about 75%.. awaiting my new pedal assembly.
The tires.. They greased over really bad at the autoX... but otherwise they have okay wet and dry traction.. From what Ive read they do have great treadwear.

The plan:
Get her cleaned up, and all the little buggers worked out,  also need to fix some crappy wiring jobs.  Someday I want to get her up on a lift to take pictures and find out exactly what suspension parts it has.. May come to RPI to use their lift if I cant find a place to do it out this way.

I plan on testing the waters on painting.  If all goes well with my housing plan, Ill have a place to paint some pieces this winter as a test. then in spring paint the body.. Overall I cant see spending $2k on a $3k car.

[spoolordie]

i love mr2's i like it

[aldog1330]

Thank god you ripped that snorkel off it.  That damn thing was ugly... looked like a donkey dong.

[madlife]

Updated interior

Still got a few more blue pieces to do,  but I'm impressed how well it its coming out.

[deadlydave]

That blue interior was interesting.  Looks a LOT better now.

I saw a black 2nd gen MR2 on 787 on the way into work today, and thought of you and Eric.

[spoolordie]

Yeah that blue interior made me wanna vomit, looks way better now.