mr2-digest Thursday, 21 December 1995 Volume 01 : Number 069 Re: MKII w/o rear spoiler Stickers Honda's coming mid-engine MR2-cousin Season's G's Re: mk1 wiper during snow storm Fuel Injector O-Rings 14" wheels Suspension Techniques? Re: euro 3S-GTE motors Re: no rear spoiler Re: mk1 wiper during snow storm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Shehan" Date: 20 Dec 95 06:41:56 EST Subject: Re: MKII w/o rear spoiler Yes, Alex and Lisa Noordergraaf autocrossed a black '93? N/A MKII without a rear spoiler this past season. It looked really strange to me. I'm not sure that I like the look of the MKII w/o the rear spoiler. Mark Shehan '91 MKII turbo t-top red 146 K miles ------------------------------ From: uunet!aol.com!Dan22378 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 01:49:53 -0500 Subject: Stickers I'm not exactly sure whom was supposed to originally produce the stickers you all are so anxious to get, but if enough of you want stickers I can get them made up. My brother works in a graphic design company and I can get them made up. Also I was thinking of getting T-shirts made up, for the Die Hard MR2 enthusiasts. I'm wondering how many of you would be interested in them. The design is not yet determined. It's just a thought. let me know what you think. Dan22378@aol.com 91' MR2 Turbo ------------------------------ From: Chance Harper Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 08:29:04 EST Subject: Honda's coming mid-engine MR2-cousin I read in Popular Science (or Mechanics?) that Honda is going to come out with a mid-engine sports car, which looks to me like the MR2 successor that Toyota isn't going to produce (don't think the MRJ is going to cut it). It isn't going to have any turbo/super charger arrangement, but will probably have one of their VTEC 4's in it. Might be a winner. Anybody have any more info on this? ------------------------------ From: Derek Motloch Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 13:29:13 -0500 Subject: Season's G's Hey Everyone.... I'd just like to take this op. to wish you all the best over the holiday season! Take care driving, enjoy your holidays and HAVE FUN! I'm leaving for my road trip (London, Ont --> Florday --> Southern States --> California and back)... January 1st...looks like Wendy, Vernon and I are going to meet up!! Anyone else interested in meeting up around the 6-7 of Jan? It would look really cool to see a bunch of MR2's lined up! (good picture op!) Take care everyone... I'll be back! :) Derek. PS.... I bought my 91 NA without a spoiler.... it looked cool...but I still put on a 94 (single piece) spoiler myself... check it out on my homepage! - --------------------------------------------- Derek Motloch - 91na dmotloch@serix.com http://serix.com/~dmotloch/ - --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: uunet!softy.softwords.bc.ca!geoff Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 10:57:45 PST Subject: Re: mk1 wiper during snow storm Jack "Already driven my MR2 through 3 snowstorms this year" Wheeler wrote: > I haven't had this problem, but what I do is to brush my car off completely > before I go driving. And I mean all over! Sides, front, rear, top, even under > the spoiler, simply because I know how much I hate to be driving behind that > person who only clears a spot large enough to look through. So next time try Yes! Someone who knows how to clean snow off a car! It really irks me to get behind one of these idiots who leave entire snow drifts on their cars only to have it fly off onto my car! Don't these people realize that that snow is either gonna fly off onto the car behind, or down on their hood at the next stop light? Luckily I don't get this problem anymore since I've moved from the east coast to the west coast :-) Geoff '91t, 160,100km ------------------------------ From: uunet!aol.com!ECNEPRADEL Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 12:06:50 -0500 Subject: Fuel Injector O-Rings I am reconstructing my intake manifold on my 85 MK1 NA and would like to know if anyone has replaced the o-rings on the fuel injectors. Are these specially treated O-rings to resist degradation from fuel or can they be picked up at any hardware store? Thanks in advance! George ------------------------------ From: uunet!engineering.ucsb.edu!aok (Ahmad O. Al Khowaiter) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 15:33:07 PST Subject: 14" wheels 4 14" alloy wheels from my 91 N.A. are still available for $450 (+shipping). If any one is interested, please e-mail me directly as quickly as possible since I have to get rid of them within the next week . They come with Kelly tires front and rear + lugs. Front tires are worn, however rears have a lot of life left. Bill from Colorado Springs: I am sorry I lost your e-mail address, if you still want them you have to e-mail me back. - -- Ahmad aok@squid.ucsb.edu ------------------------------ From: uunet!disney.com!jsun (Jason Kaehler) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:46:51 -0800 Subject: Suspension Techniques? can anyone tell me how to get intouch with Suspension Techniques? I think they are in Irvine, but 411 has nothing. Any info is appreciated, please email directly as I no longer subscribe to this newsgroup. , You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. Jason Kaehler jsun@disney.com Disney Virtual Reality Lab v. 818.544.7975 "Buy the best, invent the rest!" ------------------------------ From: Matti Kalalahti Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 04:16:26 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: euro 3S-GTE motors > So if the 94+ 3S-GTE motors in European Celica GTs had 242hp, I've heard > rumors that the only difference is the turbo boost. Does anyone know > what boost they have set as maximum? US service manual lists 11.8psi max. 13psi. BTW, the Japanese market '95 MR2 turbo has 245hp, and Celica GT-4 255hp. - -- Matti Kalalahti | Toyota Carina Coupe GT-T TwinCam Turbo '82 k124476@ee.tut.fi | RWD * IRS * 3T-GTEU * 195+-15hp@4200-6700rpm A Huge Evergrowing WWW Home Page * http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~k124476/ ------------------------------ From: uunet!harvey.carol.net!bob (Robert Rogers) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:29:43 -0500 Subject: Re: no rear spoiler i like them... sort of like the old aston martin (spelling??). only sort of.. i wonder if they really do anything. i thought they were supposed to break up the vaccuum behind the car, but i think the residue on top of the bumper suggests they don't do that. 93NA 56,000 miles bob rogers bob@carol.net ------------------------------ From: David Tong Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 23:35:34 -0500 Subject: Re: mk1 wiper during snow storm > I haven't had this problem, but what I do is to brush my car off completely > before I go driving. And I mean all over! Sides, front, rear, top, even under > the spoiler, simply because I know how much I hate to be driving behind that > person who only clears a spot large enough to look through. So next time try > lifting up the wipers and cleaning out underneath them before you go driving > off. > > Jack "Already driven my MR2 through 3 snowstorms this year" Wheeler > Jackman962@aol.com Well, I am a person like you that always cleans all snow from my car before I drive it. I give extra cleaning on the windshield, wipers, head lights and rear light lenses. I was stuck in traffic during the snow storm over here at Boston. The wiper area was clean but after couple hours the snow build up and the wiper stopped working until I got out from the car and lifted the hood and clean all the ice around the wiper moving area. I know snow will build up no matter what kind of car it is but stopping it working seems unreasonable. This never happen to all the cars I had before namely an 86 Mazda 323 LX, 90 Geo Storm GSI, 94 VW Jetta GLX (a real cool car). David Tong ------------------------------ End of mr2-digest V1 #69