mmmm, shiny.

kaiowas · 9 Jul 2006 at 16:51

Spent the last couple of weekends tidying up some odds and ends on the MR2. Main job has been the engine bay, unfortunately I haven't got any 'before' pics but I'm sure you all know what a grotty 20 year old engine bay looks like

I'm particularly impressed with my nice shiny fuel rail.

All Pics link to full size versions.

Zip · 9 Jul 2006 at 16:58

Looks good :cool:

but you missed a spot

Will we get to see the rest of the car

Vix · 9 Jul 2006 at 16:59

Zip said:
Looks good

but you missed a spot

Will we get to see the rest of the car

Not yet as that is still filthy. I think we'll be doing them on the Thurs night before JAE!!!

vanpeebles · 9 Jul 2006 at 17:01

4AGE for the win! :cool:

kaiowas · 9 Jul 2006 at 17:03

Zip said:
but you missed a spot

I missed lots of spots but the aim is to have enough shiny bits that you don't notice the bit's I couldn't reach/be bothered with.

Zip · 9 Jul 2006 at 17:04

kaiowas said:
I missed lots of spots but the aim is to have enough shiny bits that you don't notice the bit's I couldn't reach/be bothered with.

Im just picky and have an eye for detail

Pluss i was looking for a spot so i could say it

kaiowas · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:07

13 minutes from first post to thread dying a death.

Did I pick a bad time to post or are people just not interested?

L0rdMike · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:09

Looks good and I know what a 4A-GE engine looks like after near 20 years.

Wheres the accelerator cable, how could you get rid of the Toyota master design? :mad:

kaiowas · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:21

L0rdMike said:
Wheres the accelerator cable, how could you get rid of the Toyota master design?

That'll be the 'jimi bracket™' Makes the pedal feel like it's attached to something as well as looking good.

Zip · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:55

kaiowas said:
13 minutes from first post to thread dying a death.

Did I pick a bad time to post or are people just not interested?

Im interested in it

ShakenNstirred · 10 Jul 2006 at 16:25

i`d get rid of the cone filter, it will be sucking in hot air from the engine bay, even with the cold air feed you have.
other than that it looks nice n clean

Zip · 10 Jul 2006 at 16:29

Whats the box with T-VIS on it do? :confused:

kaiowas · 10 Jul 2006 at 17:05

ShakenNstirred said:
i`d get rid of the cone filter, it will be sucking in hot air from the engine bay, even with the cold air feed you have.

Nah, the engine bay in a mk1 gets plenty of ventilation even without a cold air feed, on top of that I've also got the original induction system acting as a second cold air feed (you can just see it in the bottom left of the first pic)

Zip said:
Whats the box with T-VIS on it do?

It's just part of the inlet manifold. The T-VIS butterflies themselves are sandwiched between the manifold and the head.

Vix · 10 Jul 2006 at 20:15

L0rdMike said:
Looks good and I know what a 4A-GE engine looks like after near 20 years.

Wheres the accelerator cable, how could you get rid of the Toyota master design?

You wont believe the difference that bracket makes!

Lopéz · 10 Jul 2006 at 23:42

Give the Japs a BDA and they all beetle off with their calculators and rulers and churn out the 4AG. Clever little sods.

I was going to suggest the lettering in a different colour on the cam cover, but I think that's a bit 80's and it looks better all silver after all.

kaiowas · 11 Jul 2006 at 08:54

Lopéz said:
I was going to suggest the lettering in a different colour on the cam cover, but I think that's a bit 80's and it looks better all silver after all.

That was actually the plan. Unfortunately when I tried to paint them I suddenly learned that the silver paint i'd used on the cam covers didn't like to be painted over and it all went a bit messy.

I then rubbed the lettering back to bare metal ready to try again before deciding that it looked quite good as it was and I couldn't be bothered faffing any more so just stuck them on the car