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Up for sale is a 1986 AW11 MR2 with the 20v blacktop swap. Engine has been in the car for about 30k miles and has about 100k on it. New timing belt, water pump, and head gasket done when the swap was put in. C-56 transmission with lsd, 2nd gear syncro is worn, so if you shift hard, it will grind, but otherwise shifts fine. Fiberglass widebody style body kit has a little damage (mainly on the rear driver side quarter panel). 15x8 xxr 532 wheels. Sony xplod stereo with aux input, pioneer dash speakers and custom rear enclosures. Custom exhaust that sounds amazing: headers, 2" mandrel bent tubing, cat, and thrush welded muffler with kicked up tip. AEM air cleaner. New rear bearings, new brake rotors up front, new polyurethane bushings all around. New kyb shocks. Race seats. It is the sunroof model and comes with the matching interior sunroof cover! power locks and power windows. Flip up headlights work well. Alignment has been set to original TRD specs. AC and cruise control have been completely removed. No power steering; the steering input is awesome. Heat, fans, power mirrors, windsheild washers and wipers all work well.

You can turn this into a class example with minimal work.

The blacktop engine in this lightweight car is awesome. Rev is set at 9000. TVIS kicks in at 7000. The car is dead reliable and gets really great gas mileage. It was was driven to michigan and back a few months ago with zero issues. Has recently changed royal purple trans fluid, castrol synthetic, recent inspection, clean title.

Also for sale locally. I reserve the right to end the auction if sold.

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