Time to make some additional power
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Part 3: More Adjustments Than A Midget Suit
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Part 2: Shocking New Development
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Part 2: Cheating Our Way To A Podium Finish
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Project Toyota MR2 Spyder gets poised to finally take on the Lotus Elise
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Impulse makes you do stupid things. Although I spent months contemplating the purchase of the right budget track car to help me get my NASA racing license, over the course of an hour, I got talked into buying a car old enough to drink. For a sum of $2500, I acquired a real gem, a 1985 Corolla GT-S.
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Project 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder
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Easy conversion to street-legal weekend track beater
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Read part 4 of Sport Compact Car Magazine's Project MR2 Spyder including a turbo kit from XS Engineering.
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In our last installment, we did the unlikely. We turbocharged the 11.5:1 2ZZ-GE engine in our Toyota Matrix.
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After the success of part one of Project MR2 Spyder, we got cocky. The first stage we did--suspension, wheels and tires--worked better than we ever expected, transforming a really good car into one of the best cars we've driven. But it needed more power, espec
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Every bit of automotive intuition I have says this can't be done, but we just did it. We turbocharged Toyota's 2ZZ-GE. Five years ago, I didn't think a production car could get away with 11.5:1 compression. One year ago, I didn't think you could turbocharge a
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Axis Sport Tuning's tuned MR2 Spyder set three new records in our testing last June, but we're convinced we can do even better. Like most projects, we plan to show you each step of this MR2 Spyder's progression from mild to wild. Along the way, we're going to
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There is little that can compare to the sound of our Celica GT-S' engine at full song. Breathing through a Rod Millen Motorsports intake and exhaust, the sound of Toyota's remarkable air pump is loud, clear and crisp. Pulling through the powerband, the symphon
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Last month's introduction of Project Celica GT-S may have been a shocker for regular SCC readers, but not for Celica GT-S owners. Last month, we admitted that we actually kept our Celica stock for the first 9,000 miles. That may well be a record for an SCC pro
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By now it's no secret that Toyota's new Celica has won a special place in the hearts of SCC's staff. The first time we got our hands on one, we loved it, and in our review of the factory GT-S for Eight Great Rides this year, we called it "one of the few perfor
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