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melbourne
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September 2005
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MR2 Suspension
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Thu, 27 October 2005 21:28
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A mate of mine has the early shape MR2 (1987 i think) and wants to upgrade his suspension. He wants to use the car for road and track use (circuit sprint etc). Does anyone know any spec's, brands, types of suspension that is available for MR2.
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Location:
Sydney
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August 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Thu, 27 October 2005 23:17
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have a look at the AW11 thread, this is discussed a fair bit
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Location:
Toronto, Downtown
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September 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Fri, 28 October 2005 01:27
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You are pretty much limited to lowered springs and a small selection of shocks there are no coil over kits that are under $4000 that you can buyt off the shelf. However you can get people like noltech to make custom coilovers for less than $2000.
Twosrus.com supply a complete urethane bush set for the aw11 at quite a reasonable cost.
Whiteline make adjustable swaybars for the aw11.
How much of a budget does your friend have and how extreme does he want to go?
Firstly the best thing you can do for your car is get a half decent wheel alignment (this does not mean taking your car to bob jane) by someone who has setup race cars b4. With the aw11 they have quite an ammount of adjustability from the factory.
Toe Camber and Caster can all be adjusted
If you have an s/c you may want to use more rear camnber.
Most setups ive read about use maximum caster. I would aim for about 2 degs -tive camber in the front and 1.5 deg -tive in the rear.
Im not sure about the toe settings but the alaingment guy should be able to help. Also the guys in the aw11 annonomus thread have done some setup testing in their aw11's so they should be able to help. This should cost about $100
If it were me and the shocks in the car were half decent then I would start with urethane bushes and adjustable sway bars. Which including labour would come in under $1000.
After that I would look at getting some custom coil overs made I would budget $2000-$2500 for them.
Lastly i would look at getting some adjustable strut tops for camber and possibly (depending on which brand you go for) caster. This would only serve the purpose of making adjustments on the fly at the racetrack
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Location:
Adelaide
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January 2003
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Fri, 28 October 2005 10:13
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An easier option for the urethane bushings is Superpro which is in Australia, no offence to TwosRus, but i think its much easier and cheaper if you can get this stuff in Australia, they do a complete set of bushings for the AW11 apart from the steering rack bushings which i believe is better off left in rubber from Toyota. Koni also make adjustable strut inserts for the AW11
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Location:
Adelaide
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July 2005
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Fri, 28 October 2005 14:57
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i have a full set of super pro bushes in stock and have swaybars on order. we have filled an order in the past for some custom springs. i can dig up the specs if you like. i think it was 3.9kg/mm front and 8.5kg/mm rear... let me know...these are an awesome handling car! 
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Toronto, Downtown
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September 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Fri, 28 October 2005 23:41
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| sikmr2 wrote on Fri, 28 October 2005 20:13 |
An easier option for the urethane bushings is Superpro which is in Australia, no offence to TwosRus, but i think its much easier and cheaper if you can get this stuff in Australia, they do a complete set of bushings for the AW11 apart from the steering rack bushings which i believe is better off left in rubber from Toyota. Koni also make adjustable strut inserts for the AW11
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the twosrus is a complete kit including the steering rack bush from my experince no company in aus makes them.
Its not like the twosrus bushes are $$$ it would probably work out being $180 for the whole lot landed at your door.
However it might give people peice of mind that they are buying somthing in australia so it makes returns easier.
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Location:
nelson, new zealand
Registered:
October 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Sat, 29 October 2005 02:09
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TRD do some awesome springs and shocks for these.
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Location:
Adelaide
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October 2005
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Sat, 29 October 2005 02:15
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my brother has an mr 2 AW11 and he is looking at toda racing suspension for his ride. these seem to be really good in specification 
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Toronto, Downtown
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September 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Sat, 29 October 2005 03:32
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yeah the toda ones rock but not much change from $5000
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Location:
Adelaide
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May 2002
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
August 2004
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Sun, 30 October 2005 08:01
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Rex then started to refer to himself in the third person and quickly learned that it was not his driving that needed work. Mike his psychiatrist persona pleeded with Rex to get help asap.
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Location:
Gawler
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May 2005
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Re: MR2 Suspension
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Sun, 30 October 2005 11:09
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I would before anything get is alligned, once this is done on an old fashioned pit style machine buy a profesional then you can start to see where the problems lie if any and go from there.
I know a good alligner in adelaide for any intrested.
Sam.
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