Well, took the engine out of the MR2 yesterday and spent most of this evening stripping it down.

Here are a few pics of my ordeal. Forgive the quality, theyre all off the phone.

First couple of hoses off


All pipework off from the top, ready for dismantling crossmember & suspension underneath


A shot of the inlet with the injectors exposed, and some of my labelling


Another shot of my masking tape labelling system


Got her up on the lift then to remove this beasty (Yes I know the shafts are off in this pic, it was the only one I had of the crossmember still in the car)


Tie bars then came off meaning I could swing the hubs out


And then pull the driveshafts out


Disconnect the droplinks, and get the bugger out


We then raised the car away from the engine on the lift, and I was extremely glad to be left with this when the lift went up




The pile of parts mounting in the corner


Have a look at this for a hosing nightmare - This is going to be a nasty one to replum!!




This is the last time this turbo will be on the engine


Head off


And the block


After all that Im well knackered, and there is at least as much work to go! I have all the bolts out of the gearbox and will split it from the block tomorrow. Have a 6 plate clutch to go in there to take the new horspepower and torque!

any of the pipes/cables Im likely to forget are labelled - hopefully that should be enough. I was able to tear down and rebuild, then get an Mi16 back in to a BX in 3 days and that was including rewiring the entire loom for the megasquirt!

You found the problem? Cant tell from them pics.

You found the problem? Cant tell from them pics.

rings on piston no 1

Is this the one with the suspect rings?

ya, no way ill be doing any cleaning!

Is this the one with the suspect rings?

is indeed. new ones on the forged pistons are going to have to take close to 2.0 bar boost