Project #26 MR2MAN

[2mAn]

Today I had a few simple things I wanted to get done. Main thing was the throttle cable and it wasn’t as bad as I thought, however after installing it the angle looked bad...







Apparently re-routing the throttle cable isn’t always necessary and I would’ve been better off not moving anything ... undoing my work and installing it from the original side. Result was much better.






After that I wanted to finish up the coolant lines and got most of them except the pass side hard line to thermostat line. Ultimately, I threw in the towel and called it a day. I’ll try again tomorrow...

[2mAn]

Made a rookie mistake and forgot to install the throttle cable. This is going to be fun to fix. So instead I did something else. These are from a Celica GTS. Think of these as “Sport” seats versus the stock MR2 “Comfort” seats. Just had to swap the seat rails and it’s like they were meant to be there...

[luckybk]

I've really been wanting a convertible lately. Gonna be super fun.

[amcp]

Hell yeah. Best feeling is droppin a motor into its new home.

[MR E30 325is]

Excellent progress Simon!

[AWDBOB]

USPS is dropping the ball right now. They lost my flywheel for a month, and lost two of my customers packages in one week. Took another month-ish for those to get scanned back into the system.

Progress is looking good man.

[2mAn]

It’s all downhill from here.













Giving myself until the end of the month to be driving the car, but realistically should be much sooner...

[2mAn]

I hope you at least have a 10 lb (or lighter) flywheel for this.

yup, Fidanza flywheel. I think it weighs 7-8lbs

Bought another Odyssey PC680 with a light mount too... I found the mount and flywheel on LotusTalk, as well as the Rota Slipstreams.

It’s nice finding quality lightweight parts from the Lotus guys.

Edit: Finished installing the Rear Main Seal yesterday



...and today...

Check.












I’d be totally ready for tomorrow if the postal service weren’t such lazy f*#%$... twice they have “attempted” to deliver it... so my water pump and oil sensor have yet to be delivered, but I’ll be moving forward with the install tomorrow. I’ve got my buddy and my brother coming to lend some hands so I gotta move forward.

[BlackbirdM3]

I hope you at least have a 10 lb (or lighter) flywheel for this.

[2mAn]

Well, I was hoping to get the flywheel, clutch and pressure plate but old the rear main seal bested me. I’ve now sweat and spilled blood for this car...




The old seal didn’t look bad at all, so I hope I don’t regret this.

[2mAn]

So it's pretty funny that you end up getting a Mr. Two. My brother just bought a 2nd Gen Mr. Two the other day. Pretty cool cars. This is coming along my friend.

They are pretty simple to work on. I’m enjoying the new challenge and I’m enjoying the compact sporty nature of what I’m building.

I rode in one that has a K20 swap and that thing was QUICK!

So, today I torqued the Oil pan down (9 NM!) and got an extra set of hands. We took the motor off the stand so I can start installing the flywheel, clutch and pressure plate. Hope to have it ready to install this weekend.

[paynemw]

So it's pretty funny that you end up getting a Mr. Two. My brother just bought a 2nd Gen Mr. Two the other day. Pretty cool cars. This is coming along my friend.

[2mAn]

Still working on a few projects. Without going into details I did get a few things done, wiring for the throttle body is done







checked the lift pump filter. Both were clean and I cleaned them some more...







Hope to have the motor and trans finally mated this week so I can install them next weekend

[luckybk]

Lol at that logo placement, look like great headers otherwise.

[2mAn]

Ended up ordering a few more parts which will delay the install for another week or something...

Nevertheless, still have plenty to keep me busy. Finally removed the MWR PnP adapter and was a little disappointed at the short length of the Lift actuator. I wanted to run the extra wiring along with the rest of the harness, but that doesn’t seem to be the way they want it done.




Just for fun, I wanted to see if the 1ZZ ECU would plug into harness. I have a long term plan and was curious.









The instructions mention that the wiring for the TPS need to be changed, but didn’t say how... thanks... anyone know how and what needs to be swapped around? Also is this a change due to the 2ZZ wiring, or the position of the 2ZZ throttle plate? Where is the difference between a 1ZZ?









Next thing I did was to remove the old rubber shift cable isolators and installed these bronze ones from MWR.



DHL delivered my Cusco brace. Bought this through Yahoo Auctions via Nengun and it was a quite painless purchase. I would’ve had the rear bars also but lost a bidding war on eBay ... oh well









Was planning on installing this and the bp brace later, but decided to just do it now.









With that out of the way I decided to install the MWR swap header and I’m all for promoting your business but maybe check to make sure it doesn’t interfere with the stock bolts... insert facepalm here









A little motivation with the hammer and it’s out of the way and all installed. I bought all new hardware which is always nice to install with other new parts



Went back for some more. I actually painted this earlier today and got bored, so I went back down to the garage and installed it. This was actually the first thing I bought for the car, a bpbrace from phattires.


Here’s how it looked when I arrived, tightly packaged with duct tape.







...and after paint and install. Excited to get this car together and drive it.