file.newsgroup.cars.103348 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (eliot)
Subject: Re: MR2 - noisy engine.
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>The sound he describes is common to any older Toyota engine I ever heard.
>I don't know the relevance of his observations about oil changes, my simply
>makes noise. Not all that annoying, mind you. But you hear it well when the
>engine is right behind your left ear :-)
i think those with 1.6 MR2's would describe the engine as sweet if a
little loud, those with 2.2 MR2's i can't imagine any unbiased person
paying it any compliments. sounded like my ex-dormmate's rusty chevy
chevette. with the 1.6 i would want to redline it just for the music,
with the 2.2 i would short shift so that it would shut up.. the new
camry 2.2 features balance shafts. i guess since the mr2 is getting
the axe, it is too late for them to do anything about this..
it is no mystery that the turbo mr2 is "only" 2 liters.. the engineers
had enough integrity to prevent any further abuses. also, in europe
the MR2 Mk2 non-turbo was also "only" 2 liters.. as usual, the
undiscriminating american market (if it is japanese it *must* be good)
gets the dogs.. to be fair, we also got the turbo, which the europeans
did not.
eliot