Angel's 3sge to 3sgte thread

I started searching for a half cut but one day I saw a wreaked mr2 on the net and it was around the same price as a half cut $2500. I went to have a look at it, the engine started up fine idled fine no smoke no oil in the water or water in the oil. The gearbox when into gear fine but could not drive it (one of the wheels was not moving) but it looked good to me so I bought it.




This is were its been hit


The dude crashed it into the tree and it saw a bitch getting it into the drive way with one of the wheel not spinning. The brake is stuck and i cant push the piston back in. I will try and fix it once i get the engine out

I decided on the wreaked car instead of a halfcut because i could sell a lot of the parts off and the money i get will be used to overhaul the engine.

so the car is a 1991 mr2 with a gen2 1993 3sgte the last owner converted. One of the cool things about it is it has traction control and only 100,000km


I started taking things apart

Intercooler + piping
intake pipe
cruse control
ac belt and pulley
I'm very slowly working on it I'm in no rush i spend about one hour a day on it.

[IMG] Shot at 2012-03-24[/IMG]

It ended up having a HKS air intake kit and a trust intercooler and some sort of aftermarket exhausts looks like a 3"

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i haven't updated for i while basically i
took the rest of the exhaust off
the cross mender is out and all the suspension linkages + brakes. The car ended up having gen2 brakes on the right and gen3 brakes on the left probably one of the reasons he crashed.

drive shafts are out but one cv joint is broken the cage snapped in the crash probably upgrade to ATS ones

car looks like this now



i think im almost there




I think the only thing thats left are the engine mounts and ac motor so its should be coming out very soon. So far nothing has been to difficult except for one rusted bolt on the exhaust and the drive shaft nuts was a pita. What i did is i knocked the little centaur thing of the wheel out put the wheels back on the car and lowered the car back down. Put the car in gear and a brick on the front wheels. Then i used a breaker bar with a long pipe on the end even with the pipe it was extremely tight. had to use my whole body weight while pushing down but it finally came off
 

the broken cv joints well cage


and this thing. I hope its not expansive to replace, In the crash The drive shaft got pushed to the side and damaged it but it shaft is ok



also started polishing up my inter cooler pipes

looks like you have been busy mate, good work is all I can say.
Interesting way of getting the engine out, but I mean since it work, good on ya.

Nice bit of effort there.
 
I think you should have some sort of backup safety if those stands fail - even spare wheels do if thats all you have.

MRTurbo

Nice work! Bring the thing to a cruise sometime :-)

i will once the car is done.
 
today i tryed to take the body loom out but the sun went down so i gave up i wish it was day light savings again lol

i thought i might update my thread i started taking the engine apart
i took the intake mani and exhaust/turbo AND IT WAS A PAIN. I snapped like 5 bolts and rounded almost all the bolt had to drill almost all the exhaust bolts. intake was simple tho



 
then i took the head off and started taking it apart




 
i took the starter then the gear box off next, the starter was a bit of a P.I.T.A had to bash it with a hammer and jiggle it out. gear box pretty easy  just undid the bolts and jiggled it out

 
then the crank pulley bolt clutch and fly wheel

 
the pulley bolt was hard to take off what i did was i put a vice grip on the fly wheel so it can stop the engine from turning
This is what i mean (not my picture)

 
Then i used a breaker bar and a long pipe to undo the bolt. i had to sit on the engine (it was moving when i tried to unbolt it) while my girlfriend basically sat on the pipe to get it undone but we got it done. it probably looked quite funny should have taken a picture lol
 
 
 
 
 
 

first i want to clean every thing there's so much oil and grim on the engine and every thing around it. Even tho the engine has only 100,000km on it all the oil seals or shot. im not doing a full rebuild but i want all new oil seals, gaskets mls head gasket, bearings, piston rings, arp head studs, timing belt and distributor cap and rotor. but i don't want do any machine work to it unless i really have to. it a bit off a budget build
 
what ever money i get out off selling parts of the wrecked car i'm putting it back into the engine or to buy tools that i need
 
i already bought a torque wrench, breaker bar, 30mm long socked, 12 point allen thing for the head bolts, valve spring compressor and a engine stand that i haven't used yet u can see it in the last picture. so my tool collection have grown bigger