haha, yea, thats usually what i do. i look for deals and am really good at haggling..idk why tho. the mazda i think will be a quick fix and sale. then either pick up the supra or finish the dsm. i might need a lil break, so ill prolly fix the dsm, and if i find a tranny, pick up the supra.

sounds like a solid plan man. I cant remember if you need pistons or not but I suggest evo 9 pistons if your doing a rebuild, they have a better compression ratio and less hot spots.

sweet thanks for the tip! idk if ill need pistons yet, still working on my truck and my buddies 98 eclipse. puttin his motor back in in a couple days. 420a's are crap and they aggrevate me lol.

ya the 420's, stay away from them!! take it you have a garage with all the essentials in it?

oh yes, i have a pretty well stacked garage, but im always amassing more tools. put the 420a in yesterday, ran for two minutes and puked oil everywhere. damn oil pump. chiltons specifically says you dont need to seal it, the o rings will do fine...shoulda got a factory service manual, which says to seal the piss out of it....

so i get to pull it, fix that, reinstall and try again...oh well at least it sounded good for two minutes.

just picked up the 92 talon the other day, it is CLEAN inside, and all there! everything looks great on it, im gonna replace the whole front body panel (except the bumper) and put a new core support on while i do the head. it is a very nice car for the 450 bux i spent. nice surprise under the hood too, someone did put on a small 16g, but its bone stock other than that. once were moved at the end of this month, i will be tearing into it and getting it running. i need to find a JDM cyclone intake manifold to put on later on.

hows the 5m coming along?? (to get back on subject, haha)

well the 5m's still at a stand still.... might be working on it soon though, found frame damage on my eclipse where it was hit in the rear end, just found it tonight and I'm freaking out a little. lol
So I might be putting the eclipse on hold and going back to the supra if I cant pull the frame back out with a come along. so things are going VERY bad right now and I'm bloody pissed.

damn thats the pits! unibody frame damage can be spendy. id have it looked at by a shop to get an idea of how you could fix it or how much they can do it for.

as for the 5m, keep pluggin away. im still doing my 7m bits and pieces. most of the major stuff is there, just got a few little things to do.

youll have to post some pictures man!

sorry for the late reply! But ya I'm planning on taking it to 4 or 5 shops to get an estimate done, I was told to just use a come along to pull it out but I tried that and got no where! lol I'm picking up a flawless talon shell tomorrow if everything goes right and I'll take some pics then.

As for the 5M well she's all cozily wrapped under a tarp right now, I was thinking of getting the new rotors and pads soon but we'll see because we finally got a decent snow fall now. We're have an EXTREMELY weird winter...... we were above zero 3 days ago for the last like 3 weeks with no snow all december until now and now were -30 below (which is normal temp)!

So your almost ready to put'r back together then eh?

<cough>MR2s are better</cough> ;)



Frame damage is a killer for me... I seriously hate body work, but I'm not setup to do it myself so I try to avoid it completely. I've got a semi nasty hit in the side of the MR2 where there are three plies that all come together, so it's nothing that'll just "pull out"... I know enough to know that I'll be drilling out spot welds, straightening three plies of sheet metal, matching the curve of the exterior layer to the passenger side and then re-welding.... f u d g e.... I really need to get in well with a body guy and work out some trades. The one thing I could do with my '2' would be to just straighten everything as much as possible and then install the TRD widebody kit. It would cover the afflicted are completely.... but I don't know how I feel about that kit. But, the upside is I am capable of all of the install except the painting.

Anyway, sorry for the thread-jack; Just had to share my loathing of body work.

i feel your pain on the body work Cre. i abhor it. i never want to see another block sander as long as i live.

id love to have an MR2, but theres no way i could find a worth while project here for the right price. that talon was a steal. not to mention, ive found some good parts for it for dirt cheap lately. gm8 rhc6 turbo (brand new), G4CS 2.4l 6 bolt block from a mitsu expo (drop in stroker, aside from pistons), cylcone intake manifold (similar to the mazda and ford variable intake runner length system) and some megan racing coils with kyb gr2's. spent less than 500 on all that.

i havent seen the trd kits for mr2's, have to check that out.

as for the dsm shell, good deal! keep plugging away man