Hey, I knew I guy that wanted to put a "steam engine" in a "Fuel Drop tank" off a fighter jet and add some wheels and steering . So whats so funny about this?
cmon guys like he said it was rescued and the engine probably fucked as well lets just appreciate a nice custom car who cars if the engines in the front its custom he can do what he wants with it i remember the days when all of us car enthusiasts could get along and talk about our cars now you do a swap for a bigger better engine and you get criticized for it fuck that if you do that you have no respect go drive your car off a bridge
I love love this car and the concept. You stepped out of the box, and then crushed the box. This is part of what makes us Americans. Thank you kind Sir, you're an inspiration.
PS: Don't bother explaining yourself to the automotive retards, it's your car and you can install a reentry rocket in it if you want.
I'm all for engine swaps, but wouldn't it have been easier to find a Pinto body (or even a RWD Mazda, Toyota or Nissan truck)and swapped the 302 into something besides this?
johnmotive@yahoo.com its a old vid the cars been though a lot. its siting with the windows smashed out of it at the moment. kids got 8 cars on the lot one night. 60s will fit under the car, with the 8.8 ford ind rear sas i might get it running soon and make a nother vid. cars been painted since this vid. and now has a 5 speed
I Love it !!. Nothing better than homemade fabrication, You have too much advance in your timing though. also find you some flowmasters and dump the tails to the ground. Oh ya find you another one for parts and cut the fenders off it and flair your car all the way around, then just add some 60's series (fatties) tires around that bad boy and let her rip !.
let me say it again for the late comers who think they know it all. this nr2 war going to the junk yard iit was hit at 50 mph by a flat bed truck. and the mr2 was parked. thus the rear1/4s where crushed tail lights and so on up to the gas cap motor moounts shered off strut rods snaped in half. and the motor had a blown head or craked block. was rusted out. and it cost me 30$ and i keep it from going to the scrao yard. morons from hell ill put my mr3 up against any mr2 have on the 1/4 mil
lol looks like you got a whole mr2 junk yard collection. my first thought were is this a junkyard specifically for mr2's. the beat up ones are fine to screw around with but if you took a good condition mr2 and did that id punch you in the face haha cause you would deserve it
Your light to light car would get stomped proper by a V6 MR2. Putting a new carb setup on a still otherwise stock motor does not change the fact you have one of the most wheezy, low powered small block fords to ever come out short of the 80's era LTDs turd of a motor. Not to mention the hundreds of pounds of scrap iron you seem to have welded to the underside of the car to allow this turd to move and not fold like wet cardboard. You want to see it done right? Look up paulwoodsports v8 Mr2 MK1
ok morons this car was saved from a junk yard. it was ass ended at 65 MPH by a flat bed truck. and no its not a gimpy lil mr2 that can only run on the hi ways. its a light to light car now. morons its a 5.0 HO motor from a thunderbird. and a 5 speed. and yes it is way faster than my stock mr2. the vid is very very old. duel 4 bbls a full fram mustang front sus thunderbired ind rear sus. and a 5 speed .
@viktord1 i agree that just screws up the handling of the car the we all know the car is not fast but the hole reason every one likes the cars it bc of the way they handle
I am all for a V8 swap, however.... You just lost the integrity of the car. It is FR layout now, and you failed to use the car for it's greatest potential... the fact it is an MR vehicle. If you can apply a V8 or even a good inline V6 behind so that it is still an MR vehicle... Now you are on to something.
Chop the bottom out of an mr2, sit it on a shortened S10 frame w/ v8 swap (I know its not a chevy motor, or even frame for that mattter, just an example)...
Very simple to build, about as easy as it is to completely RUIN an Aw11. Congrats on that.
not a fan of making a mr2 a fr, but more power to you. also isnt weight in the back were it originally is good. i myself own a mr2 and they have some of the most awesome launch abilities next to awd cars.
@pimpjuice1100 a pile of shit that if went up against your car it would destroy it?? it weighs about 2.8k pounds with a v8 that thing probably flys so quit hating because you cant do what he did.
it was not connected at that time.the car was still being built at that time. it now has a 5 speed PS and hase been painted and the rad is in the back now,
I joined Youtube specifically so I could comment on this car: Now I know what NEVER, EVER to do if I have a ratted-out 1st-gen held together by rust, tape, and different color panels, and an old, low-compression, carbed-out anchor of an engine sitting under a shed in the backyard. Thanks for posting this car, because "swaps" like this make me feel like a genius as I look in from the outside!!
way to be a hater... the mr2 has a rear engine because its engine was paired with a FWD tranny, and the engine just happen to be in the rear. the only other way a V8 would work is if it was originally FWD... in ToyoStars case, from a Cadillac northstar. Its a great looking car... well its engine at least, it needs extra weight on the rear if your going to race it, drag or circuit.
What have you done to re-balance the handling or as I was alluding to in my above post; are you just shooting for straight line speed?
Genuinely interested.
I love the sound of a v8 and the extra power would be great but would I give up the neutral handling of my MR2 for increased straight line performance.
Honestly Not a Hater - great job on making it fit. I have an MR2. It's by a mile the best car I've ever owned. All I meant was the mid engined nature of the MR2 is what makes the car what it is. Midships Runabout 2-seater. It's handling characteristics are defined by the fact that the weight distribution is so central. Take the engine out the back and put a big v8 in the front and you've got to enter a world of crazy oversteer and massively reduced traction to put that power down.
your a fucking moron. look at the pics in the photos. and if you look closer its a MR2 booster. it was moved to make room for a V8
nitrate100 2 months ago
You put a mr2 body on a different frame. Becuz of the brake booster.
klahhdreamslife53 2 months ago
its unusual.. but hella good job at doing something very custome!! I have an '85 MK1 which I love.. never seen an engine in the front like that.
firebode 3 months ago
Hey, I knew I guy that wanted to put a "steam engine" in a "Fuel Drop tank" off a fighter jet and add some wheels and steering . So whats so funny about this?
bobrstrong1 5 months ago
you could make it a v12 the stock 4cyl in the back and the 8 in the front, lol just playin
hellopeople418 5 months ago
cmon guys like he said it was rescued and the engine probably fucked as well lets just appreciate a nice custom car who cars if the engines in the front its custom he can do what he wants with it i remember the days when all of us car enthusiasts could get along and talk about our cars now you do a swap for a bigger better engine and you get criticized for it fuck that if you do that you have no respect go drive your car off a bridge
xXxchipperchopperxXx 6 months ago
I love love this car and the concept. You stepped out of the box, and then crushed the box. This is part of what makes us Americans. Thank you kind Sir, you're an inspiration.
PS: Don't bother explaining yourself to the automotive retards, it's your car and you can install a reentry rocket in it if you want.
OsiTech 6 months ago
interesting, i was actually wondering if this could be done. Do some research and find out a lot. Thank you for the vid.
Morroku3 7 months ago
I'm all for engine swaps, but wouldn't it have been easier to find a Pinto body (or even a RWD Mazda, Toyota or Nissan truck)and swapped the 302 into something besides this?
waverly24 8 months ago
Nice, its good to save the car from the crusher. V8 POWER!
enigmajoe2002 10 months ago
It would appear that there is exhaust coming out of your water pump.
Does that make it a "smog pump"?
Also, headgasket.
KLowD9x 10 months ago
nice bro
fc3sghost 10 months ago
id say way to be creative
tlesiak91 10 months ago
is it air cooled?
94impala1982 10 months ago
@94impala1982 Water, but the radiator isnt hooked up. Cant run it for too long like that though
Bamchucknorris 10 months ago
That's not an mr2 anymore... It's an fr2 front engine rear wheel drive 2 seater... What's the world coming to... :(
UNREALMARKLAR8 11 months ago
umm.. how is this car running with no belts on it ?
letsgo395 11 months ago
What does this do to the handling? One thing that is revered by MR2 enthusiasts is the handling.
zachoxley 1 year ago
sooo... whats in the middle?
xk00zx 1 year ago
@xk00zx - the hamster, in a wheel, that's really powering it (JOKE!!) Good work!
GovernmentGuy 9 months ago
Lot of work.... but it looks like ass. Typical hillbilly... nice choice on the high dollar cherry bomb glasspack.
Bgreen06 1 year ago
haha, on glass packs even, whered you end up putting the rad? on fans in the back?
AyonRaven 1 year ago
Fuck you need a cam man
paintballx2008x 1 year ago
oh this just seems so wrong.... I LOVE IT
woah4 1 year ago
I think you've created an FR2. Completely mad!
markeastwooduk 1 year ago
Look at Paul wood's v8 aw11 to see how its done correctly.
LLJKotaru 1 year ago
Lol "Hey do you guys have any six inch cowl hoods for an MR2? I mean... for the trunk, yaknow"
SCBianchi 1 year ago
Nice job,shame to hear some little shites have damaged it,like to have seen it when it was completed!
silver760 1 year ago
johnmotive@yahoo.com its a old vid the cars been though a lot. its siting with the windows smashed out of it at the moment. kids got 8 cars on the lot one night. 60s will fit under the car, with the 8.8 ford ind rear sas i might get it running soon and make a nother vid. cars been painted since this vid. and now has a 5 speed
nitrate100 1 year ago
I Love it !!. Nothing better than homemade fabrication, You have too much advance in your timing though. also find you some flowmasters and dump the tails to the ground. Oh ya find you another one for parts and cut the fenders off it and flair your car all the way around, then just add some 60's series (fatties) tires around that bad boy and let her rip !.
Sextioneight 1 year ago
let me say it again for the late comers who think they know it all. this nr2 war going to the junk yard iit was hit at 50 mph by a flat bed truck. and the mr2 was parked. thus the rear1/4s where crushed tail lights and so on up to the gas cap motor moounts shered off strut rods snaped in half. and the motor had a blown head or craked block. was rusted out. and it cost me 30$ and i keep it from going to the scrao yard. morons from hell ill put my mr3 up against any mr2 have on the 1/4 mil
nitrate100 1 year ago
lol looks like you got a whole mr2 junk yard collection. my first thought were is this a junkyard specifically for mr2's. the beat up ones are fine to screw around with but if you took a good condition mr2 and did that id punch you in the face haha cause you would deserve it
slipNslidae86 1 year ago
Why? :(
vfIskullangel 1 year ago
Ford? NOOOOOOO!!! You fool!
FishermansDick 1 year ago
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muy bueno che
juan128europa 1 year ago
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ford motor.....i just gaged.
DonaldEHS 1 year ago
ford motor.....i just gaged.
DonaldEHS 1 year ago
Your light to light car would get stomped proper by a V6 MR2. Putting a new carb setup on a still otherwise stock motor does not change the fact you have one of the most wheezy, low powered small block fords to ever come out short of the 80's era LTDs turd of a motor. Not to mention the hundreds of pounds of scrap iron you seem to have welded to the underside of the car to allow this turd to move and not fold like wet cardboard. You want to see it done right? Look up paulwoodsports v8 Mr2 MK1
LLJKotaru 1 year ago
FR2...........
routa13b 1 year ago
well there's your first problem, the motor is in backwards... damn ford engineering...
bgdsub72 2 years ago 2
Why would you even bother replacing the great engine wich is stock?
Not to mention you lost all the potential of going fast around a track with the engine mounted in front.
+++'s for the work but you'd be bette rof swapping a black or redtop 20V...
gln666 2 years ago
dam aint much spare room left
nice job
Jimmyboy69er 2 years ago
would have taken you a fair while to do-massive points for effort nitrate!
@24okay - "a good inline v6" ??? Lol, go educate yourself bro
aw11roman 2 years ago
@aw11roman lol...i'm not even gonna bother looking for the idiot that said that....just lol......fail
happymerc 2 years ago
BAHAHAHAHA dude is trying to act like he knows what he talks about and then pulls that one out of his ass. Nice catch bro, that guy is such a douche.
RDubya146 2 years ago
id rather have a ford 302 than a chevy 305
MyGta123 2 years ago
OMFG YOU RETARDET PERSON!!!
Who in his right mind would f**kup a nice car like that...
A freaking V8 (piece of junk) in that body.
dude get some dinamite and blow that piece of shit up and get a REAL MR2 with the normal powerplant.
burnout1981 2 years ago
ok morons this car was saved from a junk yard. it was ass ended at 65 MPH by a flat bed truck. and no its not a gimpy lil mr2 that can only run on the hi ways. its a light to light car now. morons its a 5.0 HO motor from a thunderbird. and a 5 speed. and yes it is way faster than my stock mr2. the vid is very very old. duel 4 bbls a full fram mustang front sus thunderbired ind rear sus. and a 5 speed .
nitrate100 2 years ago 3
@nitrate100 i'm with ya man. it's not exactly a classic car yet anyways. i'm lookin at an 89 right now to throw a 302 into.
happymerc 2 years ago
aaah well that changes everything.
did you get a other MR2 and welded it together??
its still sad that you put a V8 in there coz i love the 4AG powerplant.
just 1 more question.
How did you fix the fact that the car in unstable in the rear??
burnout1981 1 year ago
@nitrate100 4AGZE>any V8 (ESPECIALLY a US built)
madjimms 3 months ago
@burnout1981 stfu stupid ricer a V8 is a REAL car engine
xFReSHeReST 8 months ago
@burnout1981 what V8 is a piece of junk?! you would not know a real powerplant if it smacked you up side the head
AJSFordMan 6 months ago
lame ass v8.. now its a waste of a good car u dumb ass
junost202 2 years ago
Is that a 2 barrel 302?? What a waste of a good car
volvoguy27 2 years ago
i appreciate the work that went into this. However the biggest reason the MR2 is such a good car is because it's mid engined.
viktord1 2 years ago 25
@viktord1
Exactly.
Aztech355 1 year ago
@viktord1 i agree that just screws up the handling of the car the we all know the car is not fast but the hole reason every one likes the cars it bc of the way they handle
Richierich1285 9 months ago
what a pos
Gr3mlyn88 2 years ago
scrap this now
MrSegaGenesis 2 years ago 4
I am all for a V8 swap, however.... You just lost the integrity of the car. It is FR layout now, and you failed to use the car for it's greatest potential... the fact it is an MR vehicle. If you can apply a V8 or even a good inline V6 behind so that it is still an MR vehicle... Now you are on to something.
24okay 2 years ago
I think its cool, must be fun to drive
Kachopsticks 2 years ago
i all for more power in a mr2 but thats ruined,
oh, i do own a mr2 mk2, and love it as it is thanks very much
mike1968uk 2 years ago
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what an insult to that ford motor to put in a toyota....down with toyota
390merc65 2 years ago
insult to the toyota you mean
SHADOWDAEMON666 2 years ago 3
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no..to the ford motor , but its good to see the ford in there though
390merc65 2 years ago
It's "automotive Art" Just for the going of it.
fierofred 2 years ago
Wow... ruined...
let me guess... American????
badbenjy 2 years ago 2
Chop the bottom out of an mr2, sit it on a shortened S10 frame w/ v8 swap (I know its not a chevy motor, or even frame for that mattter, just an example)...
Very simple to build, about as easy as it is to completely RUIN an Aw11. Congrats on that.
1slomr2 2 years ago
I could also add it could have been just a v8 K-frame from a nova, or something of that sort. Either way..
What was the point?
1slomr2 2 years ago
oommgg!!! mr2 owner here...
and personally this car is all messed up...
mr2's are fast and smooth because the mid engine placing
thats the magic of mr2's ...well congrats u have a v8 corolla now peace!
EddieRockstar 2 years ago 4
Hello sell me your mr2 I love one v8 mr2 not if this one written well for that I Englishman does not write
But good incredible this one mr2
danteorochimaru 2 years ago
can you do some more detailing on the
crankshaft and the rear diferential
spike2fei 2 years ago
say bye bye to handling
deyan125 2 years ago 2
not a fan of making a mr2 a fr, but more power to you. also isnt weight in the back were it originally is good. i myself own a mr2 and they have some of the most awesome launch abilities next to awd cars.
rdyzz 2 years ago
What is this, Blair Witch MR2 project?
thebeeguy 2 years ago
what a fucking pile of shit
pimpjuice1100 2 years ago 13
@pimpjuice1100 a pile of shit that if went up against your car it would destroy it?? it weighs about 2.8k pounds with a v8 that thing probably flys so quit hating because you cant do what he did.
oAToMiCx 1 year ago
@pimpjuice1100 no need to talk about yourself that way
xXxchipperchopperxXx 6 months ago
Is it just me or the water pump isn't connected to any coolant hose ??
crazy392 3 years ago
it was not connected at that time.the car was still being built at that time. it now has a 5 speed PS and hase been painted and the rad is in the back now,
nitrate100 3 years ago
I joined Youtube specifically so I could comment on this car: Now I know what NEVER, EVER to do if I have a ratted-out 1st-gen held together by rust, tape, and different color panels, and an old, low-compression, carbed-out anchor of an engine sitting under a shed in the backyard. Thanks for posting this car, because "swaps" like this make me feel like a genius as I look in from the outside!!
joshcop608 3 years ago 3
how much hp like 200?
justin54321 3 years ago
definately cool and unexpected, just make sure you rename it FR2 :p
rjkStudios 3 years ago
I would have liked it a lot better if it had a Lexus V8..you know, keep it in the family lol..not a Ford engine..
Gonzalor29 3 years ago 5
@Gonzalor29 ummmmm FORD makes mazda DAHHHHHH!!!!!
phathonda420 1 year ago
The proper setup would have been the 3.4L v8 out of a late model SHO shoved into the rear or a northstar.
TheSofaFox 3 years ago
Kill it, please before I do...
SpikeRazzor 3 years ago 3
An engine in the FRONT of an mr2 - that's just wrong.
Hope your only gonna drag it...
EdShift
edshift 3 years ago 4
way to be a hater... the mr2 has a rear engine because its engine was paired with a FWD tranny, and the engine just happen to be in the rear. the only other way a V8 would work is if it was originally FWD... in ToyoStars case, from a Cadillac northstar. Its a great looking car... well its engine at least, it needs extra weight on the rear if your going to race it, drag or circuit.
lordoftaco 3 years ago
What have you done to re-balance the handling or as I was alluding to in my above post; are you just shooting for straight line speed?
Genuinely interested.
I love the sound of a v8 and the extra power would be great but would I give up the neutral handling of my MR2 for increased straight line performance.
In a word:
NO.
EdShift
edshift 3 years ago
light to light car.
nitrate100 2 years ago
Honestly Not a Hater - great job on making it fit. I have an MR2. It's by a mile the best car I've ever owned. All I meant was the mid engined nature of the MR2 is what makes the car what it is. Midships Runabout 2-seater. It's handling characteristics are defined by the fact that the weight distribution is so central. Take the engine out the back and put a big v8 in the front and you've got to enter a world of crazy oversteer and massively reduced traction to put that power down.
edshift 3 years ago
I would be interested to know if this makes it round any corners...
The stock mr2 handles great but im sure that is gonna change massively with the shift in weight F/R balance?
daleisuseless 3 years ago
Neat! Now you just need some paint on it!
What motor is that? Ford, right? 302 or 351?
aaron71 3 years ago
Is it still RWD?
rs91mr2 3 years ago
yes
nitrate100 3 years ago
why did't u put it in the back ...
hectormr2turbo 3 years ago 5
that is a lot of work right there
billstickly1 3 years ago