Nothing really!. Last summer I had a slight coolant leak, but that was soon fixed for next to nothing. The only money I've spent on the car is to satisfy my addiction to modifying!
The car came with the usual Jap mods, like the exhaust, air filter and wheels. I've since taken off the original mods and added various performance mods of my own over the past year; such as HKS cams, HKS verniers, Blitz Access ECU, Blitz Boost Controller, Blitz Diffuser, Blitz Turbo Timer, Magnecor HT leads, Khan RSR 17 inch Wheels, Full Body Kit, Cucso Struts, MRD Exhaust (v. loud!) HKS Blow off Valve (soon to swap for a Blitz one!).
I'm not 100% sure of my cars power reading now, I'll have to get a dyno done soon. To give an example of what sort of car the MR2 turbo is, I've **eaten** a Merc SLK 230 Coupe for breakfast, literally blew his Bavarian doors off, and that was when I was running 7psi (v. low) boost and on 95 Octane gas, god only knows what the outcome would have been if I was running 1 bar boost on 97 Octane gas! For another performance comparison, a Jaguar XK8 struggled to simply **pass** me in the fast lane!
Oooh naughty. You should always use 97 oct fuel in turbos or you'll cause premature valve wear. I made an 321bhp M3 look very silly today-keep up the expensive car eating!
Hmmm, no. the only reason you would beat an slk 230 is beacause you spent $4,000+ on your "jap" car that's only worth $8,000 today, stock. try racing a merc stock. as for teh other rice burner, what kind of car are you running against 300+ hp m3's... I don't thinkl you beat one.
This is incorrect, an MR2 Turbo running at or near factory specification would easily beat an SLK 230. In stock form, the revision 2 MR2 Turbo (1992-late 1993) weighs in at 1250kg and generates 220bhp. It can make 60mph in 5.5 seconds from a standing start and tops out at just over 145mph. Compare this to the SLK 230- it weighs 1324kg, generates 193bhp, and makes 60mph in 7.3 seconds. Top speed is 137mph. They may be seriously more expensive, but speed is the issue here, and in that respect the stock MR2 Turbo wins hands down.
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Absolutely, not a lot will touch the Turbo, especially when you consider the coupe weight even less than the T-Bar. You can easily beat an M3!!
In response to the comment sent January 2003, 145mph top speed is actually quite a conservative estimate.
I have a completely stock revision 2 (1992) GT-Turbo hardtop, and I have a GPS verified top speed of 159.4 mph (on a private road of course)!
A friend with a stock revision 3 GT-Turbo claims he has a GPS verified 167 mph, but I haven't seen this myself and so can't be 100% sure whether or not this is true.
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