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Toyota Mr2 is able to argue with Ferrari
 
It has long been that serious tuning is the lot of foreign companies. Most of their domestic colleagues are more likely to engage in a surface smallest - installation of zero resistance filters, replacing racks and overseas gearboxes. To truly redo the car, hacking His Holy Saints - Motor, can units. And they do it, I must say, on a very high professional level. Being on Toyota MR2 in St. Petersburg roads, I was damn nice to realize that she was turned into a projectile in Russia.
 
Dreams Dreams
 
The owner of the scarlet Toyota Mr2 all his conscious life is dreaming about Ferrari. Especially in his soul he had to Testarossa. A dream car that will give God once will be. While he is morally and financially preparing for the upcoming purchase, does not forget to train, who is accustomed to the world of speeds, in which all ordinary, even the most powerful cars seem monstrously slow. Therefore, the place in the garage took the Japanese coupe.
 
In fact, the car you see in the photo, a few months ago looked completely helpless and opposite. A completely crushed salon was deprived of glasses, and the body was a natrel with dents, scratches and paint chips. But it turned out how in the old song: blinded from what was. What happened quite a bit and most importantly, in the technical plan was quite normal. The current owner of the MR2 found a car in Moscow. After a few days later, the model changed the registration, moved to Petersburg, and after a while, a freshly stained coupe with a new suspension and aerodynamic kit was already blocked on the roads of the city.
 
True, not to say that especially quickly. At the very least, make a quantum jump, going through another temporary measurement where the Ferrari ball right and the like, did not allow them. Therefore, the owner decided not to be fined and charge his device at the maximum. There was absolutely acquainted with the owner of a small tuning studio - an experienced master with professional engineering education. Just at that time, the specialist was tired of doing everything that was said in the insertion to the material: to bring domestic cars and used foreign cars by the least resistance method, replacing air filters and gears in gearboxes. The proposal to remember about the years carried out in the walls of the technical university, was the ability to install on the MR2 motor of the mechanical supercharger. Pretty rare today in Russia a way to increase power. The advantage of this device before the ordinary turbine is that it is devoid of turbo-pit effect, when when the engine is promoting up to 2000-3000 rpm, a noticeable lack of torque is felt, and then the car suddenly fits forward. Not the most convenient algorithm for control, I must say. The supercharged adds power from the lowest range of revolutions. This means a serious increase in torque - an important indicator during acceleration. In general, the owner of Toyota did not think for a long time and gave the scorch of the tuning process that pulled almost a year.
 
Pluses of mechanics
 
The engine of the mechanical supercharger engine of the eminent American manufacturer Roots demanded the removal of the top cover of the engine compartment. (For those who are not fanatically passionate about cars, I will say that Toyota Mr2 is a central motor compartment, the engine in which is located behind the front chairs, and inside the wheelbase). The compressor is driven by a belt from the crankshaft and creates a constant pressure of 1.4 atmosphere (for comparison: the ordinary turbine creates pressure on average twice as smaller).
Increased power always means increased fuel consumption. In order for it in the cylinders, it was enough, the power system was provided with an additional pump, a regulator and pressure gauge. Intercooler, or an intermediate cooling of the superior air, made a completely original, smartly in the intake manifold a separate radiator with its own high-performance electric pump. And then the wizards have encountered one more problem - new items did not want to place inside the engine compartment, even devoid of the lid. The yield was found quite original, but at the same time, and very difficult from a technical point of view - it was decided to modify the right rear side member, while retaining its rigidity and reliability.
 
The injection system remained standard - the appropriate fuel mixture was selected with more productive nozzles and pressure adjustment. As a result of all alterations, the engine began to develop 280 hp Instead of standard 156, and the maximum torque increased by 60%. Naturally, the merit belongs not only to the supercharger, but lightweight flywheel, reinforced connecting rod liners, forged pistons and rods, which were also installed on the engine as, for example, a standard addition, without which no Western atelier do. Just in case, the block of the block was reinforced with special bolts, and the motor was strengthened from the bottom: God forbid to crash when accepted, - the owner jokes.
 
After the final assembly, the engine was run in a special bench, which allowed to eliminate small errors in the electron brain settings and the composition of the mixture.
 
The next stage is the refinement of the suspension. It appeared more rigid and wear-resistant polyurethane silent blocks, German Bilstein shock absorbers, workers in a pair with eibaxh springs. Finally, brought the brake system. Enlarged disks and new calipers became the necessary cold shower of the car's heat.
 
Такова история этой Toyota MR2. Как насчет практики? - you ask. О, с ней тоже все в порядке! В том смысле, что она не менее интересна. Вообще, среднемоторный автомобиль обладает весьма оригинальным характером. В любом повороте он требует крайне осторожного обращения с рулем и акселератором, иначе совершенно легко начинает скользить. Причем таким образом, что стремиться вращаться вокруг центра тяжести, который находится в самой середине базы машины. Чем-то это напоминает обычный карт, только вот последствия ошибок могут быть куда более плачевными и обременительными. Новая подвеска MR2 сделала модель еще более острой с точки зрения ощущений водителя. Да, трясет, да, довольно сильно, но в этом, по крайней мере, есть гарантия того, что водитель чувствует купе каждой частью своего тела и может точно сказать, что в данный момент происходит с колесами, мотором, трансмиссией. А что до поворотов, то тут дело практики и привычки управлять именно этой Toyota.
 
Впрочем, никто и не обещал, что мне будет легко. Ведь это настоящий спортивный автомобиль, который после тюнинга обрел повадки суперкара. К ним относятся и довольно тугая педаль сцепления, и керамические диски этой детали внутри усиленной корзины, и руль, который просто невозможно держать одной рукой, только двумя.
 
Забыл сказать, что переделкам подвергся и салон. Теперь он обшит малиновой кожей, часть панелей окрашена в цвет кузова, появились удобные гоночные ковши, руль, накладки на педали и рычаг коробки передач Momo. Это из вещей полезных и действительно функциональных. Плюс хозяин MR2 не смог отказать себе в удовольствии разместить на передней панели несколько дополнительных аналоговых приборов. Часть из них даже установили на передней стойке. По мне, так ради пафоса и очаровывания прелестных пассажирок, но водитель Toyota утверждает, что всеми ими реально пользуется. Правда, непонятно - когда, ведь темперамент автомобиля стал весьма завидным. Разгон до 100 км/ч занимает лишь 5,5 с, то есть происходит на дистанции менее 550 м. Когда в такие моменты снимать показания с циферблатов, для меня так и осталось загадкой.
 
Здоровый аппетит
 
Do you know who sometimes remind me of tuning lovers? Maniacs, honestly. But not to offend, let's call them just obsessed people. As you know, the limits of perfection does not happen. More precisely, in the modern world they lies exclusively in financial capabilities. In general, it turned out that the current version of Toyota MR2 is still far from final. Trains by car for several months, the owner realized that he wanted, and most importantly - could afford more. That's right, appetite comes while eating. The plans appeared further engagement of the motor, so that at the exit he developed 500 hp. Plus, setting the zaki nitrogen injection system, briefly increasing the return of the engine twice. In general, soon the Japanese coupe is unlikely to give Ferrari for dynamic characteristics. But what about the dream of childhood? Just raise the bar even higher, dreaming now about the model F1 ...
 
Pavel Troskov
 
Brief specifications Toyota MR2
Engine volume, cube. See: 1794.
Number of valves on the cylinder: 4
Power, l. from. For rpm: 280
Max. Torque, nm / at about about. Min.: 273.
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, p .: 5.5
Maximum speed, km / h: no data
Middle fuel consumption l. / 100 km.: No data
Volume of fuel tank, l.: 48
Dimensions, mm.: 3885 x 1695 x 1225
 

A source: Newspaper "Car Izvestia" [№8 (54), 2004]