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[MylerMr2]

Nice job, hope to see you down South once again.

Cheers Jim. Yip hope to make it down again. Hopefully a few more of my fellow Auckland members will join me.

I met a number of the AK mates at Manfeild last weekend. Nice bunch.

Yip. A good bunch of blokes and lady. Theres many more builds just waiting to get a taste fuel. Will be an exciting new year when they all start to fire up.

[MylerMr2]

IM BACK
Its been awhile since ive done one of these and may have missed a few upgrades as many things have changed in the last 4 years, but this should give the guys that remember my car a little update. The MR2 is tuned (made 201wkw at 16.5psi) and after going through the cert process, she is finally ready to hit the road legally.

updated 2023 Mod List

Engine Bay

CT20b Upgraded Turbo
Custom Turbo Manifold
Engine Mounts, front and rear (Poly)
3" AdrenalinR Exhaust
3" Intake pipe
Racer X Oil catch can, Coolant overflow, Coolant Neck
Greddy style side mounted Inter-cooler, 9" fan and shroud
DW300 In tank fuel pump
Braided Fuel lines
ECU, G4x Plug and Play,
External Wastegate
e153 Factory LSD
HD Excedy Clutch
Light weight Toda flywheel
Single Port Clutch Slave Cylinder

Handling and Suspension

BC Gold Coil Overs
White Line front and rear Sway bars
Hard Race rear end links, MR2 heaven Front end links
Full replacement bush kits

Interior Styling

Honda CL7 Recaro Seats
Powertune Digital Dash
Prosport Oil Temp/Pressure Gauges
Innovated WideBand Gauge
Gauges are held in a custom Gauge pod made in the UK by a man called Alan Bryson.
Custom made dominator shift surround, (also made by Alan Bryson)

Exterior Styling

Bomex Front bumper
Tinted front indicators
East Bear wing, Gen5 wing, C-One Wing
Gen3 Kouki Lights and center panel, Custom made Carbon fibre badge.
350Z Rear Diffuser or Rear Greddy Spats (depending on fitment)
Possibly more that ive forgotten that ill update as i remember.

Current plans are to finish the small things, paint etc. Tidy up the wiring and tidying up the dash wiring and simplifying the layout.

Below are a few pics from the last 8months or so, while changing the gearbox and clutch etc, the engine got a minor freshen up with seals and gaskets etc,

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Engine Back Together and Ready To Back In.jpg (2.09 MiB) Viewed 1797 times

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Current Close Up Engine Bay.jpg (2.56 MiB) Viewed 1797 times

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Finally Wofed and Rego.jpg (4.5 MiB) Viewed 1797 times

2023/2024 Plans
Next up for the build will be a new engine, plan is Gen4 Block with either forged rods/gen 2 rods with Forged pistons, Tweaked Gen3 head with HKS Cams and adjustable cam gears, will use the gen4 oil pump to utilize COP. Stay Tuned for the next update ( hopefully not 4 years away)

[Benckj]

Very impressive work, glad to see you back on the road. Unlike you I've been a lazy sod with no improvements to speak of. Hardly drive the Mr2 anymore which is sad.

[Alsw20]

Nice work keeping with the ct20b. Curious why you went with the custom exhaust manifold? I always just bolted the ct20b up to the stock 2nd gen exhaust manifold.

Taken the car to the strip?

[MylerMr2]

Nice work keeping with the ct20b. Curious why you went with the custom exhaust manifold? I always just bolted the ct20b up to the stock 2nd gen exhaust manifold.

Taken the car to the strip?

Cheers, Yeah the CT20b will mount perfectly to the stock manifold. But back when i was running the CT26 with a GFB boost controller i had issues with over-boosting when ever i tried to up the boost, in the end i figured it was the controller at fault not my setup. I decided that because in the future id want to turn the boost up a bit more the next setup would need to run an external waste gate.

The CT20b that i brought needed a rebuild and had previously had the waste gate welded shut anyways. I could have just made an adapter to sit between the turbo and manifold with the waste-gate there but realized that it would move the location of the turbo to much for my liking BUT.... Once i had started making the manifold it soon became apparent that keeping the turbo in the stock location wasn't gonna be do-able, so i did what i wanted to avoid and moved the position of the turbo sightly, a bit lower and abit closer to the rear fire wall.

So long story short.....i wanted to run an external wastegate


Yep i have been to the drags once, the start of last year, now legal i wanna go back, i was only getting lower/mid 14s, i believe my gearbox was holding me back being hard to get the gears nicely. so hopefully now i can get out of the 14s and down to the 13s. Fingers crossed!!!

[MylerMr2]

Nice work keeping with the ct20b. Curious why you went with the custom exhaust manifold? I always just bolted the ct20b up to the stock 2nd gen exhaust manifold.

Taken the car to the strip?

should have attached the pic of my car heading down the strip for the first time, so here ya go

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[Alsw20]

Ouch that’s stock gen2 times. 201kW is 12s all day. Should be trapping 110mph+ at the end of the track.