My current hobby: Restoring my MR2 Turbo's interior

Paul Boz

In March I bought my 2nd MR2 turbo after putting 500,000 or so miles on the other one and retiring it to the scrap yard. With the car being almost 20 years old and having a nasty blue interior I decided to make a restoration project out of it. I have kept cars as hobbies for a long time so its good fun.

I've gutted the car down to bare sheet metal. all thats left now is to take out the dash and restore it. Once thats done the car will be complete again.

If anyone wants to check out my progress so far check out:

MkII MR2 Turbo Interior Restoration

snadam

cool man! Id love to see the final product. Be sure to keep us posted!

sagewalkinthere

Cool, just don't put a glasspack on it...

Paul Boz

sagewalkinthere wrote: »

Cool, just don't put a glasspack on it...

I've got a four inch exhaust straight off of the turbo and dumped out the rear

Updated with more pics.

djhss68

MR2s are nice little cars. You can't go wrong with Toyota.

msteinhilber

Looks like a fun project, I really miss having a project vehicle in my life but the money and mostly time doesn't really support it at this point.

The only car I ever was going to do a ground up restore on was an '88 300Z Turbo. Picked it up dirt cheap on ebay as the owner hadn't driven it for a while and they thought the turbo was hosed since it wasn't making boost. Turns out the wastegate actuator just broke - simple fix and it was back to it's quicker self. Clutch shattered on it and never got around to fixing it so I got rid of it. Then I put way too much cash into a FWD 02 Saturn SC2, building a one off turbo setup for it. Fun car while it lasted, arguing with the wife in a rain storm and cars plowing through the intersection ahead of me lead to driving into a flooded intersection while the car sat too low and hydrolocked the engine and the got in the car's interior - insurance totaled that one.

One of the guy's at a shop where I used to have my car dyno tuned had a MR2 that was pretty slick, ran in the mid to low 10's and had a crazy intercooler setup that stuck out the rear deck at an angle. Fast car and looked pretty mean too.

stlsmoore

Cool man I just bought a 95 Eagle Talon TSi AWD last week, it usually takes a prayer to turn a turbo DSM into a Daily Driver I hear but hopefully not. It seems like the only thing wrong is that it needs an entire new exhaust system and it leaks a tiny bit of oil somewhere.