Jason's T-Top Turbo

It looks great! Congrats. 👏👍👊

Whore of Babylon
Really nice car with low kms. Keeping it stock as possible or do you have other plans?

Keen to see more pics too. can you do engine bay,boot and frunk pics, keen to see what a really clean car looks like.

Good job on your purchase, holding off for the right one is not a skill i posses. :D
 

 
Thank you! I definitely plan on modifying it but not much further than it currently already is. I tossed up the idea of keeping it as stock as possible but the fact that its already been modified kind of ruins that for me. My plan is to clean it up and tastefully modify it keeping it looking OEM+.

As for those photos if you keep your eye on this thread they will appear as I update it :)

The one job everyone told me was going to be absolute hell.... I finally got around to attempting to flush and bleed the coolant now that I fixed the water outlet. Now to make this long and frustrating story short it actually wasn't too difficult to bleed the system but I was having major issue's trying to drain all the coolant out of the car. Although I followed the repair manual I was only able to drain out on avg about 4.5L of the rusty coolant. I tried flushing the system 6 times in total before I just completely became unmotivated and gave up. First photo is the very first drain and the 2nd is the last time before I gave up.
 
 
So after only getting it slightly clearer and less gunky I eventually ended up sending the car over to Paden at Unique Automotive. He carried out not only the Coolant flush but did a normal service as well as replacing the fuel filter, gearbox oil and drive belts(I decided to get him to do everything I was going to because I was so over this car making no progress with cooling system). Paden ended up finding a partial blockage in the passenger side coolant pipe which runs under the car and managed to clear it after having the same issue as me only being able to drain about 4L of coolant. I was super impressed with his work and everything was done properly to my inspection and taken care of as if it was his own car. I highly recommend Paden for any jobs you need done on your MR2's if you decide not to take them on yourself. As you can see the Coolant is super green as it should be and a shiny new fuel filter in view as well.
 
I was given an Original "TEQ" Oil cap by my girlfriend which she found cleaning up her dads spares from his old Cressida and said I would put it on once the cooling system was sorted. It will match perfectly with my vision of this car with some other "TEQ" bits currently on their way in the mail!

Peter
Hi Jason,
Just a point about the coolant. Genuine Toyota Coolant is red.
Have seen Forum posts which indicate that green is not preferred of our engines.
Maybe an urban myth ?
Others may have first hand experience or verifiable reasons why green isn't good.
Nice car, but.

You raise a very good point! I spent hours researching about what coolant to put in the car as I was originally going to put Genuine Toyota Red coolant in it as that's what I heard was to be used. After speaking to a radiator repair shop locally he actually told me that todays formula of green coolant(specifically mentioned penrite) it actually contains all the suitable additives for my car and he recommended I used it at a 38% mix because my cooling system is older and Toyota red tends to leak out of older coolant connections as opposed to the green.

I also found out in my research that Penrite/Nulon red coolant definitely won't work in my case as my 1990 model has the original copper core Toyota radiator in it still and those two brand Red coolants are not compatible with copper core radiators. Paden from unique said I could use either green or specifically the Toyota Red but again recommended green as it's an older car. That being said I'm more than comfortable and confident running the green in my car especially because I've matched the additives required to whats on the bottle.

Its gotta be OAT red coolant. 
 
I really don't think that a colour is going to make a difference between it leaking or not, but from all I read about our engines using OAT coolant is a must, the additives in the green corrode the internals otherwise. 
 
But a great find and a nice looking car.

Toyota red is different to aftermarket green, specifically the way it reacts over time with the metals of the mr2 engine. The general mechanic advice is not specific to mr2.
Toyota red only with the mr2.

Jason, congrats on finding a nice clean SW20.
 
Re cooling system, have you checked out:
https://www.mr2australia.com/mr2play/tm.aspx?m=113820