MR2 SC Rebuild Chronicles: Second Star to the Right....

"MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig" (MR2_FTW) 06/17/2014 at 22:55 • Filed to: MR2, Toyota, 4A-GZE, Supercharged, Rebuild, Project

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Put like 56 miles on the car tonight. I went to the car wash and to fill up with some fresh 93 octane Shell. The motor drives perfectly. Idle is a tad rougher than I remember, but I wonder if that's just from a combination of higher compression, lighter flywheel, now-solid side mounts, and just being generally new.

The rear brakes are making some noise which is annoying. I wonder if the ebrake seized while it was on blocks (they aren't seized anymore) and messed up the rotors. I think I may do pads and rotors before the next autocross anyway. It also needs an alignment pretty badly.

Odo read 274149 at the beginning of the night, which means the car had roughly 209,935 miles on it when the motor was rebuilt.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 06/17/2014 at 23:04

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I want to touch the hiney

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 06/17/2014 at 23:13

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and it's back! good to hear it's alive and well!

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power 06/17/2014 at 23:19

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Thanks!

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 06/17/2014 at 23:20

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beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 06/17/2014 at 23:24

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I'll even use my microfiber cleaning glove. My favourite part of cleaning my SW20 is getting my hand right up in it's side vents or tickling the trim part of the bumper in front of the muffler box.

PheeNoIVI > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 06/17/2014 at 23:36

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After seeing this car on tonights Top Gear I love this car! This model at least. Always loved the other ones lol.

naildeath > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 07/06/2014 at 19:11

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Ha ha I love community!!! The SC is a real beaut, are those Mk3 wheels you have on there?

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > naildeath 07/06/2014 at 21:01

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Yep. I got them for super cheap. I pulled a 3S-GTE head out of a junk yard for like $30, and traded it for them. I took them back down to bare metal and repainted them.

naildeath > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 07/07/2014 at 15:39

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Quality, I had some for mine. But I has no use for them so ended up selling them lol. They do look good on the Mk1 tho