Toyota MR2 Message Board - View Single Post - 4A-GE MK1 Engine new to mr N/A, i swear, this car is faster than it should be..

curvesrgood · 01-10-2008, 12:53 PM

I went from a 463 rwhp corvette to my 88 N/A and wasn't bummed out... My S/C has some nice mods and really gets up and goes, but other than off the line, the N/A isn't that much slower. The N/A will keep up with rediculous cars... an NSX on bumpy asphalt doesn't have anything for the N/A (sounds crazy, but this guy was driving the mess out of his somewhat modded NSX and couldn't shake me off his bumper... don't get me wrong, I wasn't passing it and couldn't have, but he couldn't get me off his bumper and his rear end was sliding out in the curves... I think he needed driving lessons or maybe just to grow a pair), didn't do bad in a drag run with a heavily modded FD RX-7 either... just a slow pulling away, but I don't know the dude's car and can't say for sure that it was running right for him... I'll give benefit of the doubt. But a while back I had a 30 minute police chase in my N/A with 8 officers trying to find/catch me so they've got a pretty good punch for what they are... the officers were looking at the motor longer than they searched the car. I don't care which two I drive most days, they're both super fun, sound different (like the N/A engine/HKS exhaust sound... and of course there's nothing like the S/C winding out at over 10 lbs of boost). I have no clue what either of mine weigh (S/C is a swap car sunroof), but I keep stripping stuff off every few days other than from the interior. I had a pile of brackets from the trunk laying behind the N/A car this past weekend actually

. I'd guess you've got a basically stock N/A 4age 16 valve motor... but 120 would be great... think they're rated at 115 so if we're getting 100 to the wheels we're doing good. I figure mine must be with a custom intake and the HKS exhaust... and a couple of minor things. By the way, I got mine with around 108K on mine... over 120K now. If you're wanting to do a few things to it, first get rid of that airbox in the trunk and all that plastic intake deal that goes around the trunk and to the other side's air intake and make you a short conical air filter. Using an overly big filter doesn't seem to hurt... I'm running a K&N for a 5.0 Mustang so it is about twice as long as most folks I've seen... can hear that thing sucking air like it's life depends on it when I get into it too. Mine felt like a different car once I did that and exhaust and got some air flowing through that motor... they seem to just be air starved when stock! Congrats on getting a fun ride, I'm stuck on mr2's now.

01-10-2008, 12:53 PM	#18 (permalink)
curvesrgood three mk1's Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NC Posts: 499 Thanks: 8 Thanked 33 Times in 28 Posts iTrader Rating: (1/100% )	I went from a 463 rwhp corvette to my 88 N/A and wasn't bummed out... My S/C has some nice mods and really gets up and goes, but other than off the line, the N/A isn't that much slower. The N/A will keep up with rediculous cars... an NSX on bumpy asphalt doesn't have anything for the N/A (sounds crazy, but this guy was driving the mess out of his somewhat modded NSX and couldn't shake me off his bumper... don't get me wrong, I wasn't passing it and couldn't have, but he couldn't get me off his bumper and his rear end was sliding out in the curves... I think he needed driving lessons or maybe just to grow a pair), didn't do bad in a drag run with a heavily modded FD RX-7 either... just a slow pulling away, but I don't know the dude's car and can't say for sure that it was running right for him... I'll give benefit of the doubt. But a while back I had a 30 minute police chase in my N/A with 8 officers trying to find/catch me so they've got a pretty good punch for what they are... the officers were looking at the motor longer than they searched the car. I don't care which two I drive most days, they're both super fun, sound different (like the N/A engine/HKS exhaust sound... and of course there's nothing like the S/C winding out at over 10 lbs of boost). I have no clue what either of mine weigh (S/C is a swap car sunroof), but I keep stripping stuff off every few days other than from the interior. I had a pile of brackets from the trunk laying behind the N/A car this past weekend actually . I'd guess you've got a basically stock N/A 4age 16 valve motor... but 120 would be great... think they're rated at 115 so if we're getting 100 to the wheels we're doing good. I figure mine must be with a custom intake and the HKS exhaust... and a couple of minor things. By the way, I got mine with around 108K on mine... over 120K now. If you're wanting to do a few things to it, first get rid of that airbox in the trunk and all that plastic intake deal that goes around the trunk and to the other side's air intake and make you a short conical air filter. Using an overly big filter doesn't seem to hurt... I'm running a K&N for a 5.0 Mustang so it is about twice as long as most folks I've seen... can hear that thing sucking air like it's life depends on it when I get into it too. Mine felt like a different car once I did that and exhaust and got some air flowing through that motor... they seem to just be air starved when stock! Congrats on getting a fun ride, I'm stuck on mr2's now.