file.newsgroup.cars.103427 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MR2 - noisy engine.
In article , [email protected] (eliot) writes:
>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
Well, the 1.6 IS music to my ears. I often turn my stereo off and just run
it towards red line on nice twisty roads. But Toyota engines at idle have
a strange "bells and whisstles at the bottom of a matal can" sound. I can't
describe it any better.
Just like all the older Benzes have a very characteristic clattering sound
at idle. Do you know what I'm referring to?
MIke.S