What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
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- scarylilrambo
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
Wow - Just read all of the this! That's a great help to me! Thanks
- Benckj
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
Glad it helped you.
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- madaboutv8s427
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
thanks mate i will be doing those thimg it will b my list to work on what do u think is most important to doBenckj wrote:We all have our pet hates with car problems and will pick on the one which caught us out. I liked the article because it gave new owners something to think about before they splashed out on new wheels and head deck. While changing some suspension bushes or ball joints is not the most exciting mod it may be the most practicle. I posted the thread for a disscussion point on something we could assemble or add to and place as a stcicky so new owners have a good starting point.
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
Really depends on the car and how well or lack of maintenance done. If you address the common most important problems I'd say brakes and suspension first. Re-build rear cylinders and flush new fluid through. Get rotors tuirned and install decent pads. Suspension is checking all components for wear and then replacing bushes. Then comes trans and motor fluids (oil, coolant, etc).
Jim Benck
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
So much work in a new car , Just getting it back up to spec maintenance wise .
I really hate buying new cars lololol
I really hate buying new cars lololol
- Swampy
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
Big end bearings?Tronic wrote:I would agree, but only for your "Typical MR2" and by that I mean typically piss poor maintained running shit oil with infrequent changes and forgetting to top it up so it suffers from oil starvation to boot. I will be gutted if mine doesn't see twice that milage. It has been impecibly maintained since 64,000km and fed the best oil always at the full mark, but time will tell.Rabid wrote:I recommend that any SW that has done over 160k has the big end bearings changed, no one worries about these till she starts rattling and by then its all over rover.
This is based on tearing down a number of 3s engines.
I definitely think my suspension and brakes are a priority, 20+ year old parts in there. Ride is very stiff IMO, I think I went over some cobble-stone street in town last night around Atrium On Elliot/High Street area and was holding onto the steering wheel for dear life not that it bothers me but want to keep it well maintained. But then again, I've only ever driven cars with gentle suspension set ups.
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Re: What to Do with your New SW20-STICKY?
MR2's are supposed to have stiffer suspension than normal cars. Generally putting new suspension parts in will make it a bit stiffer too.
Doing brakes is a good idea, if you know what your doing you can do them yourself. Otherwise get a shop to do them or a club member that's done them before.
When it comes to engine internals, it's better to drive it until it breaks, then fix it. Think of it this way, if the engine is still running (ie not broken) and you did big-end bearings, and 10,000km later you spin a main bearing, it's a waste of money because you have to take more of the engine apart to fix it, and that money could have gone into an engine rebuild or an engine swap instead.
Doing brakes is a good idea, if you know what your doing you can do them yourself. Otherwise get a shop to do them or a club member that's done them before.
When it comes to engine internals, it's better to drive it until it breaks, then fix it. Think of it this way, if the engine is still running (ie not broken) and you did big-end bearings, and 10,000km later you spin a main bearing, it's a waste of money because you have to take more of the engine apart to fix it, and that money could have gone into an engine rebuild or an engine swap instead.
Jason Ross, current cars:
Project: 1990 SW20 GT, 1992+ brake swap, 1992+ subframe swap, 1996 Celica turbo engine swap, 1996 MR2 LSD gearbox swap, Caldina Turbo coil-on-plug ignition, Link G4 Storm, 161kw @ 10psi.
Daily: 2004 Toyota Vitz RS, 1.5L, 5sp
Tow rig: 2009 Camry, 2.4L, auto
Scrapped: 1989 SW20 GT, 1992 SW20 G-Limited, ex EssDub car, donor, 1997 Toyota Tercel 3dr hatch, front crash, 1990 SW20, G-Limited, ex EssDub car, roll crashed, donor
Sold: 1987 AW11 Supercharged, 1991 SW20 G-Limited, ex EssDub car
Project: 1990 SW20 GT, 1992+ brake swap, 1992+ subframe swap, 1996 Celica turbo engine swap, 1996 MR2 LSD gearbox swap, Caldina Turbo coil-on-plug ignition, Link G4 Storm, 161kw @ 10psi.
Daily: 2004 Toyota Vitz RS, 1.5L, 5sp
Tow rig: 2009 Camry, 2.4L, auto
Scrapped: 1989 SW20 GT, 1992 SW20 G-Limited, ex EssDub car, donor, 1997 Toyota Tercel 3dr hatch, front crash, 1990 SW20, G-Limited, ex EssDub car, roll crashed, donor
Sold: 1987 AW11 Supercharged, 1991 SW20 G-Limited, ex EssDub car