Ian.G's Track/Drift Levin.

[Lauren]

Hi Ian,

Sorry, haven't looked at the 86 list for a little while. Sorry to hear about your troubles. I notice you are looking at getting Dave Hawkes engine out of his MR2? Apparently he's sold it now, so not sure if you were the buyer?

I know the guy who owns this car, in fact i drove that very car round elvington back in May 2003. It did seem to go very well from what i remember, though always hard to tell as that car was seriously lightened. It definately had some revs on it, though Dave wanted me to keep under 6K

If you are not going for Dave's tuned 4A, i'd say go and find an AE92 or even better AE101 if poss smallport engine cheap and build that up. Think you'll get better results, though it depends how mad you want to go and of course budget etc.

I've just read some of the latter posts and realise that i'm simply telling you the same as everyone else!! Doh!

Just to add, the red top enigne you have is quite likely to be MR2 derived, the 87-90 4AGEs had slightly higher comp pistons than the early 3 rib 4as, but it wasn't a mega amount more, think its 10:1 rather than the 10.5:1 of the AE92 on engines.

Anyways good luck with it!