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Re: MR2 GT Vs GT4 (1990)	Fri, 23 September 2005 14:27

Ill add my 2c's. I've owned 2 MR2's and a GT4. A stock GT4 (and even one thats slightly modified) will be quite a bit slower then an MR2, due to the power sapping of the 4wd drivetrain, and the added weight that the GT4 has. You'll find some quite nasty syncro wear in upwards of 50% of MR2's/GT4's that you look at, unless they'd had a some sort of recon. sometime along the way. My GT4 (spectrals old car) was fitted with the ST205 gearbox, so shifts were fairly silky smooth. Alot of the prices you are quoting are garbage prices. I'd not pay anywhere near that for those cars. The GT4 I bought had a FMIC, 17's, some nice (in my opinion) castrol livery and a freshly rebuild engine (~1000km on it, with basically any seal/bearing etc you could think replaced, and new 20 thou over toyota pistons, as well as metal headgasket and arp headstuds). Had whiteline bushes fitted as well as alot of other little tid tads. How much did it cost me? $12620. Yes, this was sort of at 'mates rates' but a very good price even if you added a little. The interior was less then satisfactory (at least for myself) but all in all a good little car. Sold it a month or two ago for $14100, not particularly profiteering, I'd replaced half of the interior, including the entire dash pad, bought a HKS SSQV valve and boost controller for it, and a couple of other tid dads, probably came out of it even. It had a fairly minor oil leak on sale, as well as a cv boot that was starting to go on its way out, and a rooted rear drivers side wheel bearing, but that was about it. New owner was a young bloke, knew jack squat about car, took it in, cost him a tad over $800 to get all the issues fixed. He seemed to be most disgusted at this additional cost, though really, most of the issues were very minor, and if someone goes in and asks a mechanic to fix up ALL the issues on a used 15yo car they just bought, it'll more then likely total upwards of $2500. (Know someone who recently bought an MR2 and had to work out that much dosh just to have it running decently, without the clutch being rooted etc etc) Anyhow, being a GT4 (or MR2), it will cost you alot to have a mechanic to do work, even minor things. My GT4 was an aus delivered, with jap spec ecu. My opinion is that the widebody looks alot better then the jap imports, and the torsion LSD in the rear is an added bonus, but contrary to what grizzly said above, without the jap spec ecu, the aus delivered car wont create quite as much power as the japenese imports. To my knowledge the fuel maps etc in the jap ecu are slightly altered to take advantage of higher quality fuel. Anywho, my 2c's, I personally like MR2's more, thus the reason I moved back to one but it is all really personally opinion. Take your time in looking, and dont expect the cars to be perfect. As after all, they are ~15 years old. [Report message to a moderator]

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