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Rebuilt motor with Disco Potato Turbo OPINIONS??


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RM2 2000GT
08-11-2005, 09:51 AM
I am seriously considering buying this 1992 MR2 with this recently built engine. I need some honest opinions. I will be paying roughly 11000-12000 US Dollars. If everything is in good shape and is running smoothly, what do you think???



173,000 miles on the odometer

Clean Title, no accidents.

6000 miles since the rebuild on all components listed below.



ENGINE



Built by Bayshore Racing of San Francisco



Head

ferrea stainless intake/exhaust valves

titanium retainers

ferrea splitlocks

hks springs

stock cams

hks camgears



radial valve job

port and polished

decked



Block

CP custom forged pistons

shot-peened conrods

all new ARP hardware including headbolts, conrod bolts, main bearing bolts, flywheel bolts

entire assembly race balanced from pulley to flywheel



New oil, water pump, both idlers, tensioner, belts



OTHER

port and polished, port matched: throttle body horn, intake manifold, TVIS butterfly, head, exhaust manifold, turbo adapter, turbo inlet.

brand new TVIS butterfly set*

All hoses new on entire motor

RPS clutch

alternator, starter



TURBO AND EXHAUST

Garrett GT-28rs (disco potato) ballbearing turbo, internal wastegate

3 inch stainless downpipe

custom 3 inch exhaust, stainless magnaflow muffler

GReddy Intercooler and piping

manual boost controller

hks turbo timer



COOLING

All new coolant piping

Radiator re-cored



FUEL

Walbro fuel pump

factory injectors balanced by RC Engineering to 450cc



SUSPENSION, BRAKES, ECT

tokico 5 ways in front, koni 4 way in rear

new toyota brakes and rotors

yokohama avs es100 tires on all four rims

ST front sway bar

new lower ball joint on all 4 corners

new tie rod ends



*All components replaced with genuine toyota parts, unless otherwise specified

ac427cpe
08-11-2005, 09:54 PM
hard to tell w/o pics... i'm assuming in norcal. the owner might get that much, but i probably wouldn't go higer than 8-9k with what is done.

MR2turbo93
08-11-2005, 11:52 PM
yea you never know how someone treats their car regardless of how new the motor is .... thats a lot of work

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