How To: Bleed MR2 Cooling System
Draining: Complete service manual instructions can be found here. The MR2 has four drain plugs, one in the radiator, two in the piping underneath the car, and one in the engine block. When I...
Category: Coolant
MK2 Coolant
Head Water Temp. Monitoring
In order to find out what was happening when we switched from normal coolant to NPG+, we installed thermocouples in our cyl heads at the inlet and outlet to track temperatures. Preliminary results below....
Hose From Hell Replacement Without Removing any Part of the Turbo
Note: Hose from Hell is also known as HFH. Description of HFH The HFH is a simple 5 inch coolant hose on the MR2 Turbo that usually wears out and burts sometime after...
Carboy Coolant Mod
Here are some excellent pictures of a Carboy style modification that was performed on a Series 1 3S-GTE. Results are forthcoming.
How To: Flush Coolant
Pat decided to use Evan’s NPG+ as a coolant in hopes of preventing detonation that chronically plagues 3SGTE’s when they reach the 300 rear wheel horsepower limit. Pat is going to be using a...