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Wilson’s old car. I have a GT EX coupe also... l20et and auto. Currently about 20years into a 1year rebuild, rego on hold.

I have had a similar experience with IAG and also won. In my situation the police did attend, and the over party was fined. The insurance company failed to get the police report and it dragged on for over 18 months. In the end I obtained the police report myself and provided that to the adjudicator. To complicate proceedings, the other party was Korean, claimed to speak no english and the whole process needed to be translated. After the 4 hours it was like we had only just mentioned our names and had it translated. The adjudicator want to have another session in a couple of months time. The Korean lady had her whole family present as well as two IAG insurance managers. She refused to accept liability even when the police report was supplied.

The way I came out on top was to track down the fine the other party had received and obtained proof it had been payed. By doing this the other party had accepted responsibility. I was payed out within that week, but it was stressful getting to this point. I was disgusted by IAG staff in this and refuse be there clients. I went with AMI and when it was acquired by IAG left them too.

I’m onto my second one for work. Both have been autos. The auto gets 125kW whereas the 6spd manual is only 100kW. The auto I find drives better, although the earlier model 5 Spd manuals were all good. I like the one I have.

On 29/05/2019 at 10:15, ~Slideways~ said:

4agze's will all have fcked knock sensors now and you can't get them anymore. This causes timing to be pulled in the later map sensored ones. I had on in an AE86 years ago with this problem sometimes.

The SC12 superchargers are asthmatic, even Andre Simon of Speedtech struggled to get more than 100kw atw. They love a turbo though, I had a worn out bigport 8:1 4agze with leaking T25 turbo and it made 125kw atw on stock ecu and 10psi.

Then a smallport rebuilt MAP 8.9:1 4agze with Link ecu, ball bearing T28 and it made 150kw atw limited by factory injectors (365cc from memory).

Then the same smallport 4agze with Link ecu but with a TD05-16G made 214kw at 20psi. Stock head, stock bigport cams, stock intake manifold, evo 510cc injectors. Pretty simple set up.

Every one of them filled the head with oil on the race track though, 16V heads do that, 20v's don't if I did it again I'd use a 20v head.Or put a restrictor in the oil feed to the head.

 

If I was you I'd build a new one using the best factory bits:

Basic NA: Rebuilt blacktop with silvertop conrods (blacktop ones are tiny and like escaping).

Turbo: All blocks (ZE, 16v and 20v) and cranks are exactly the same from '89 onwards when the smallport started. The only bad thing about later blocks is the blacktop conrods. Buy some factory GZE forged pistons from Toyota (later 8.9:1 will fit with oil squirters and they used to be real cheap)  and you have a 'gze' short block.

Use a turbo from an Evo like the TD05 and you have a simple 200kw combination with 16V head or probably 230-250kw with a blacktop head.

 

Or go insane like some have and make 400kw with all the boost. Probably a bit of a nightmare to drive though, all of the above set ups I've tried were responsive and easy to drive. Except one with a big T3/04e which was a bit laggy.

 

I have an AW11 with a 4agze. It had a failed knock sensor, found a replacement on aliexpress, works mint and was cheap too.

21 hours ago, - i5oogt - said:

I dragged this thing out of a field with @Carsnz123 today. it's a 1971/1972 bmw e3 3.0s 

Whats up with the r30 sitting to the left?

Honda Odysseys are the go. I have had two. the first we had was a '96 and had 8 years of trouble free motoring. A little heavy on gas tho. We upgraded to an '05 and had that 3 years, just sold it last week. Used half the gas and made what felt like twice the power of the '96 model. The '05 model was chain driven and never had any issues. A lot of features crammed in for a low cost, the Dmax that replaced it doesn't have half of them.

Love seeing your car. Its how I want to get my one, one day. I bought the $600 supercharged aw11 with auto trans from that Ohaupo a couple of years ago. I had to do the cambelt and water pump, but stupidly id it without dropping the lot. Was a big job in the end. I've got  a full mk1a interior I'm putting in mine. I too like the earlier steering wheel. The earlier interior looks more sporty in my opinion.

Pretty distinctive, I'll keep an I out.

No, wasn't me driving it on Friday. Turned up to auction on Saturday morning, interested in getting a Imp with a mate, but it wasn't to be. Checked the Mr2 over, very little rust, supercharged and little interest from others. Couldn't leave without it at that price.

Hi, I am the buyer of the fifth mr2. Dark blue metallic, rough because it has been prepped for a respray. Reg and warrant, targa tops with good seals, but auto. Drove to Napier no probs, but before I left the auction site I noticed it was losing water round the water pump.