What Colour look best on a Sdub? Red or black, it was painted red originally. At the moment it is black.
What the diffence between Gen1/2 to a Gen 3 Rear chassis subframe? Far as I can tell the gen 3 looks heavier and stronger.
 

Take it back to bare metal

It is all up to personal taste really. At first I thought my yellow MR2 looked awesome - I still do, but I've been getting a desire for a Steel Mist Gray respray lately. 

The Super Red looks awesome on these cars also, but you have to make sure you're maintaining the paint otherwise it'll fade obviously (I'm sure a few coats of clear should help slow that process down)

Hoonsy, Stick with Yellow!
SMG looks nice, but there's enough black/grey/silver MR2's out there.
I haven't seen many yellow ones though.

grosso
What Colour look best on a Sdub? Red or black, it was painted red originally. At the moment it is black.
What the diffence between Gen1/2 to a Gen 3 Rear chassis subframe? Far as I can tell the gen 3 looks heavier and stronger.
 

Depends what you want to do with the car. 

If you purely want to track the car and dont care about the panels, just go acrylic or pressure pack black again. Why bother going for somthing nice if you are simply going to drive the car. And lets face it, anyone who regularly tracks their car will go off. 

Hoonsy
It is all up to personal taste really. At first I thought my yellow MR2 looked awesome - I still do, but I've been getting a desire for a Steel Mist Gray respray lately. 

The Super Red looks awesome on these cars also, but you have to make sure you're maintaining the paint otherwise it'll fade obviously (I'm sure a few coats of clear should help slow that process down)

Stick with yellow. Its an awesome colour for MR2's

Not to mention respraying a car is not cheap nor fun. It's truly a matter of "you get what you pay for"

For some, a $1500 closed door respray may be enough for them. especially if its the same colour as the car was before. Sometimes this can work out OK if the guy can spray, and if you spend enough time block sanding the car. The quality of paint also comes into play. 

For others, they want a decent job. This is 5-10k at least

No contest really, it's gotta be RED!!! Ha ha
 
 
The later rear sub frame (X-member) mainly has longer track rod arms, that give less rear toe out on braking when there is  weight shift to the front. The story goes that Toyota did the mod after criticism about 'snap over steer' on early models in the hands of inexperienced drivers.
 
It is an easy a straight swap, and I fitted one to my own car replacing the earlier X-member and found the car more stable on high speed cornering. Also gave better straight line tracking on typical country roads.
 
I also should mention that some people actually do prefer the more 'lively' handling with the early X-member, and that's their choice, but I ain't never going  back to the old one, that's for sure, lol.
 

 
 
 
 

grosso
What Colour look best on a Sdub? Red or black, it was painted red originally. At the moment it is black.
What the diffence between Gen1/2 to a Gen 3 Rear chassis subframe? Far as I can tell the gen 3 looks heavier and stronger.
 

Depends on taste, i like blue myself lol

rikkir
Hoonsy, Stick with Yellow!
SMG looks nice, but there's enough black/grey/silver MR2's out there.
I haven't seen many yellow ones though.

The upkeep is killing me though haha! Nothing feels worse than giving it a bit of a buff/cut and then realizing how faded and oxidized the paint truly is. I do agree though, yellow MR2s are a bit of a rarity in Australia. I've only ever seen one other, and it's some middle aged lady driving around my neighbourhood

Eric
 
 
Stick with yellow. Its an awesome colour for MR2's

Not to mention respraying a car is not cheap nor fun. It's truly a matter of "you get what you pay for"

For some, a $1500 closed door respray may be enough for them. especially if its the same colour as the car was before. Sometimes this can work out OK if the guy can spray, and if you spend enough time block sanding the car. The quality of paint also comes into play. 

For others, they want a decent job. This is 5-10k at least

If I ever got the car resprayed to yellow, I'm sure a closed door would be good enough. Does depend on the workmanship as you said though - a $1500 paint job could be worth the money from one guy, whereas a $1500 paint job from someone else could be instant regret.

Not to mention if I went to respray it, I'd want some clear coat. Paint transfer when detailing has been my kryptonite
 

Eric
 
For some, a $1500 closed door respray may be enough for them.

Are we talking acrylic or 2K? Any time I've asked painters how much a 2K closed door paint job is they start at about $4000.

Definitely SMG