Re: What the helll are you building?

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Re: What the helll are you building?

dculberson wrote:

The 3rd gen MR2 seems to be one of Toyota's more problematic cars.  I like the way they look and drive and it makes it easy to find ones with blown motors for cheap.

Weird, the stuff I've found doing background research says they're reliable, particularly 2002 onward.

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Re: What the helll are you building?

"Building" is being used liberally, here.

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I'll make it to an actual race one of these days.  Until then...

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Only about a dozen more things to do before its a whole bike again. Sometime after Sears Point it should see some road miles again.

From this

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To this in about a year's time (of course not working on it all the time)

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Mr. Wednesday wrote:
dculberson wrote:

The 3rd gen MR2 seems to be one of Toyota's more problematic cars.  I like the way they look and drive and it makes it easy to find ones with blown motors for cheap.

Weird, the stuff I've found doing background research says they're reliable, particularly 2002 onward.

It might just be that they're not as beat on as a 10 year old Corolla would be so when the 1zz finally eats its pre-cats or blows its oil control rings people fix it rather than junkyard it.  Which leads to more discussion of engine replacements.

Other than the engine they seem pretty reliable.  But the pre-cat issue and oil control issue seem real enough.

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Re: What the helll are you building?

dculberson wrote:
Mr. Wednesday wrote:
dculberson wrote:

The 3rd gen MR2 seems to be one of Toyota's more problematic cars.  I like the way they look and drive and it makes it easy to find ones with blown motors for cheap.

Weird, the stuff I've found doing background research says they're reliable, particularly 2002 onward.

Other than the engine they seem pretty reliable.  But the pre-cat issue and oil control issue seem real enough.

They're very reliable until about 80-90k miles.  That's the mean lifetime of the oil control rings.  I got mine with about 50k miles and drove the tits off it until just over 100k miles, and all I had to replace was the tires and a couple ignition coils.

But when it came to "fixing" the oil rings, that would've put me underwater.  Apparently the engine is built to very tight tolerances, so you can't just have any shop fix the engine, otherwise that fix won't last very long.  The only feasible option was a swap, and the only rational swap is a 2zz swap (baby Lotus!)... and we couldn't find a decent 2zz for anything less than $4k.

One day, I'll have that MR2 with a turbo'ed 2zz, one day... just not any time soon.

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My CB750 is now running though not well. t now occurs to me that the problem I had back in 2006 that I attributed to the motor having not much compression may actually be my Dyna III aftermarket electronic ignition black box going bad. It runs great from about 3500rpm on up, but has a weak spark when kicked over with a plug grounded on the motor, and seems to run on only 2-3 cylinders at low RPMs. I may put a set of points back on it today just to see if it runs good with them.

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Re: What the helll are you building?

Not Lemoning since Buttonwillow last year and all I've actually managed to accomplish is getting this thing legal and ridable. As I titled the blog post: Its not finished, but it is done, for now.

http://piledriverz.com/2014/05/18/its-n … afe-racer/

http://piledriverz.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dsc_01181.jpg?w=590&h=394

Yes, there were some decisions made that do not toe the line of "Cafe Racer" orthodoxy, but if and when it ever gets to the final finished stage stuff like the higher, frame mounted headlight will make sense. The flat drag bar will get replaced with clip-ons somewhere in the future as well.

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Re: What the helll are you building?

I've been working on one of the KZ400s lately.

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this one is from before I trimmed the rear fender back
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It should be ready for riding in the spring.

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Re: What the helll are you building?

I'm working on finishing Optimus Prime. In electrical wiring hell right now.

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December 26-31 NSF will be having a build party for the Fury and Stude.  Barber will never be the same.

This space for rent.

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While I'd love to be attaching the back half of a Fiero to the front half of a 1990s Buick Skylark, I'm just building a successful move back to Charlottesville.

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Teams Argonaut Garage and Perplexus are bringing the following: pulled pork sandwiches, mac 'n cheese, salad and drinks

Re: What the helll are you building?

mjreed23 wrote:

Teams Argonaut Garage and Perplexus are bringing the following: pulled pork sandwiches, mac 'n cheese, salad and drinks

Nice... You probably meant to post this on a thread that isn't 7 years old though.

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