MR2 spyders. your take?
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Nice car. My bet is that it will be the "single donor" behind the M40, if that kit ever makes it to market.
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Just remember it doesn't have the power of a V-8.
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Remember the MR2 Turbo a few years ago.. it was a high 13 1/4 mile car... it was pretty fast for what is was. The newer MR2's are nice, if not a little cute. The last generation was my favorite. If you could find a low mileage turbo, that would be fun on the road and track.
-Shannon
Just remember it doesn't have the power of a V-8.
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Remember the MR2 Turbo a few years ago.. it was a high 13 1/4 mile car... it was pretty fast for what is was. The newer MR2's are nice, if not a little cute. The last generation was my favorite. If you could find a low mileage turbo, that would be fun on the road and track.
-Shannon
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Mark, good call. Never thought of that.
MR2 has always received good reviews. Just remember it doesn't have the power of a V-8.
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Hey, the MR2 engine is going into the US spec Lotus Elise
(or was it the Celica?). The numbers are very very good
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Ian
Mark, good call. Never thought of that.
MR2 has always received good reviews. Just remember it doesn't have the power of a V-8.
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Hey, the MR2 engine is going into the US spec Lotus Elise
(or was it the Celica?). The numbers are very very good
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ian
I remember an article i read in a magazine that was trying to get something like 500 hp out of a turbo motor without opening it up to change internals. I seem to remember it was about 30 hp shy when the motor meltedon the dyno, turns out an auxilery fuel pump switch wasnt turned on and it was running a little lean. Pretty impressive though.
I owned a 1991 model MR2 (that’s the mini Ferrari look) a few year ago and found it to be an incredible car. In fact it did things a little too well. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif To really get a buzz out of it, it HAD to be driven hard.
The first generation of the mini-Ferraris apparently snapped away more easily at the rear under hard cornering. The second generation re-located the front suspension points to soften the effect, but the trade-off was that it lost some grip. The two models could most easily be distinguished by the earlier cars having 13" wheels and the later 14" wheels.
There was a motoring article that was published around the time of my ownership that compared handling between various cars. The MR2 was the only car tested (including a 911 Porsche) that could pull more than 1G laterally.
With regards to using the MR2 as a donor car...
Surely the MR2 is far too small to be a practicle GT40 donor??? Secondly, there was nothing miraculous about the MR2 mid-engine settup. It was basically a Corrola FWD engine transposed to back of the driver. There is a Porsche "James Dean" Spider replica (built in New Zealand I think) that uses this concept with the Subaru Impreza engine.
The first generation of the mini-Ferraris apparently snapped away more easily at the rear under hard cornering. The second generation re-located the front suspension points to soften the effect, but the trade-off was that it lost some grip. The two models could most easily be distinguished by the earlier cars having 13" wheels and the later 14" wheels.
There was a motoring article that was published around the time of my ownership that compared handling between various cars. The MR2 was the only car tested (including a 911 Porsche) that could pull more than 1G laterally.
With regards to using the MR2 as a donor car...
Surely the MR2 is far too small to be a practicle GT40 donor??? Secondly, there was nothing miraculous about the MR2 mid-engine settup. It was basically a Corrola FWD engine transposed to back of the driver. There is a Porsche "James Dean" Spider replica (built in New Zealand I think) that uses this concept with the Subaru Impreza engine.
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Nice car. My bet is that it will be the "single donor" behind the M40, if that kit ever makes it to market.
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Nope, that would not be the 'single donor,' and neither is the Fiero.
Although, to be honest, there's a heck of a GT40 replica being made out of a Fiero that doesn't look at all bad.
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/024195.html
Your pal,
Meat.
Nice car. My bet is that it will be the "single donor" behind the M40, if that kit ever makes it to market.
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Nope, that would not be the 'single donor,' and neither is the Fiero.
Although, to be honest, there's a heck of a GT40 replica being made out of a Fiero that doesn't look at all bad.
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/024195.html
Your pal,
Meat.
