My Mr2 F20c conversion

Its been too long, I really need to get my mr2 up here.

I bought the mr2 late last year from Canberra and got it shipped up to Brisbane last year for $1100. Straight body, but smokey engine. Someone on this forum brought it to my attention so thanks very much for that :).

Let me figure how to put photos up... --- not sure how to do it, any tips much appreciated thanks

something different ;)

Oily engine out,

MDF engine template in car mounted on gearbox

Glad to see you made it over here, tcran.
Look forward to seeing this at one of the QLD club days or a track day!

Thanks guys, yeah I decided to do something a bit different. However this car is still to be build on a budget of about 10K. I went with the F20c because it has power and reliability out of the box (and Im slightly obsessed with vtec) and its NA. To build a 3sge to the spec that this engine has would take a LOT of money, and would probably not be that reliable.

I am reusing the gearbox that was in there, the s54. I know its not real strong, but its nice and light. It also simplifies the install greatly as it locates the whole drivetrain on its mounts, sorts the driveshafts and shift linkage issues.

I had to go to a segmented driveshaft from an ST185 celica to fit down the side of the engine as the engine is relatively wide at the bellhousing compared to the gearbox width. (thanks Knightrous for this info!)

The goal for the car is to have a daily which is regularly raced at events. I'm hoping that the final weight is about 1 tonne.

Rotrex you say, hmmm very interesting. The clutch that I had made for it is very over-engineered for possible future boost plans.. Hopefully it will be done by the end of christmas holidays. Definitely will be getting it out there...