AW11 upgrades. What have you done

[ke25sr]

Im curious as to what fits and what doesnt fit from other toyotas.

So if you have some real good tips for me please let me no.

[Rick]

Here is a start:


http://www.mr2supercharger.com/Modsindex.html

[MrOizo]

So if you have some real good tips for me please let me no.

www.clubaw.co.nz

[no_8wire]

Im curious as to what fits and what doesnt fit from other toyotas.

So if you have some real good tips for me please let me no.

Depends on what you want to do...
Handling?
Braking?
Power?

I have the rear swaybar off a sw20, front brakes off a ST185, and a 1800cc engine out of a corolla...


Lots can be done...

but yeah check out clubaw

[Crampy]

I've seen one with a 3SGTE in it at the drags a while back, pretty damn quick too.

20V it or turbo it or even better, do both.

I got my suspension settings done to TRD spec as found on the internet. It made it handle much better. It had lots of castor and about 2 degrees negative camber up front and I think 1 1/2 down back. Can't remember what the toe settings were though.
It got rid of the annoying understeer which is in the S/C models.

[perfk]

cogent put a silvertop in his not too long ago..
doing other stuff as well, I dunno what really - I'll tell him to check this thread

[vvega]

3sgte is good
1uz is better
century v12 woudl be teh bee's knees

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[Crampy]

3sgte is good
1uz is better
century v12 woudl be teh bee's knees

v

1UZFE! Now that's crazy... DO IT
I've heaqrd of a supercharger V6 in an AW11. Dunno where it was from, but a very interesting conversion.

[ke25sr]

man there is a lot of cool shit i can do to these on the cheap.

It allready has a blacktop in it. So i just want better brakes and handeling.

Awesome info guys keep it coming.

[vvega]

3sgte is good
1uz is better
century v12 woudl be teh bee's knees

v

1UZFE! Now that's crazy... DO IT
I've heaqrd of a supercharger V6 in an AW11. Dunno where it was from, but a very interesting conversion.

lol funny you should say that
i had one about 90% completed...then bad stuff happened and broke it up and sold it off

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[thaphatty]

1UZFE! Now that's crazy... DO IT
I've heaqrd of a supercharger V6 in an AW11. Dunno where it was from, but a very interesting conversion.

Yeap he so almost had it done, fully had motor and box in the hole etc

[thegreatestben]

Get some Celica Twin pots, Some new pads+fluid, good wheels and tires, Springs and Struts - kyb's are good and cheap.

[cogent]

man there is a lot of cool shizzel ia ca do these on the cheap.

It allready has a blacktop in it. So i just want better brakes and handeling.

Awesome info guys keep it coming.

Pop in an oil cooler to help with 'heavy driving' (some of them have them factory, but the 20vs dont utilise an external oil cooler iirc).

Ground control do a coilover set which would help with handling a lot. Warwick can source front TRD shocks but not rears, he can also source the springs aswell (all corners for springs).

[no_8wire]

shocks alround for facelift

[vvega]

if you upgrade teh facelift hub's you can use sw20 basses coil overs as well
i run zzw30 cusco's in my aw....and i love tehm

[cogent]

shocks alround for facelift

bastards! i have to go buy expensive konis for my rears

no AGX's in the country
cant get TRD ones for the rears
Tokiko want to be 'Amelican bland, rand of the free'

so im stuck with buying the konis

[Crampy]

shocks alround for facelift

bastards! i have to go buy expensive konis for my rears

no AGX's in the country
cant get TRD ones for the rears
Tokiko want to be 'Amelican bland, rand of the free'

so im stuck with buying the konis

Yes, but Konis are good, very good!

[Crampy]

Back when I was in the New Zealand MR2 owners club, Ade and Steve had a mould made for a nostriled bonnet. It meant you could cut out behind the radiator and vent it over the bonnet through the nostrils, rather than duct it back down under the car. Good cooling and better to have air going over your car than under it.

I was going to get one made up for me, but never got around to it.

As for suspension and handling, get heaps of castor put on it and some negative camber. Put new bushes in it. My one had the bushes all flogged out, so got them replaced, got the sway bar ones done in nolathane. It was much better after that.

I used to race my MR2 down at the Air Force training base in Blenheim when I was posted down there. There was nothing that could beat me. I took my BZ-G Trueno in it once and the MR2 beat it by five seconds (short three lap races) and it had poo tyres on it.
I cooked the brakes once though, as that was the only thing I never upgraded on it.

[Alex B]

man there is a lot of cool shizzel i can do to these on the cheap.

It allready has a blacktop in it. So i just want better brakes and handeling.

Awesome info guys keep it coming.

Arrh, you got the red one with black wheels

Poor bugger reckons he spend 60 hours wiring that thing

[ke25sr]

Arrh, you got the red one with black wheels

Poor bugger reckons he spend 60 hours wiring that thing

thats the 1. its a good car. engine will need some love .