I thought I was getting a 3rd gen 3S-GE... Options

[OOBE]

...so this morning I went to pick up the car and SURPRISE...it's a '91 MR2 with a 3rd generation 3S-GTE from a JDM MR2. I was like, "Hmmm...even better than I thought. I start the car and it was running funny, so I check the compression and the #2 cylinder was 70, while the others were 190. I told the lady I wasn't gonna buy it unless she gave me her brand new CP pistons. She refused but my tuner, who's her cousin, convinced her...and I also ended up getting everything for $200 less.

She also refused that because she needs the money bad. The story is that this car is child support payment from her ex-husband. After she duivorced him, he was mad so he got in the car with his 4 year old daughter, and got all crazy drifting it on the street where he lives and wrecked it against the fence of a house and a palm tree. Good thing his daughter didn't suffer a scratch. What a dirtbag.

He owes her ex-wife over $7,000 in child support. He's in the Army Reserve, so she could pretty much end his life as he knows it, but she took it easy on him and settled out of court. She took the car with many brand new aftermarket parts (forged pistons, rods, ARP studs, forged rods, clutch, turbo header, etc.) as a payment.

Anyway, these are the holidays, and pretty much everyone around here is broke. Nobody is going to have thousands to shell out for an engine, except me that I have my priorities set, lol. So she let it go for $200. Good for her.

Price? Well, higher than you guys pay in the US. We get to pay way more down here, lol. But who cares? I have the almighty 3S-GTE....and I got it without even knowing it. Life is good. So I got the engine, the turbo tranny, the CP pistons and the Microtech EMS. I need to source many parts to make everything work, but my tuner likes a challenge. He wants to trade me his 2nd gen 3S-GTE but hell naw...this is for me.

This post has been edited by OOBE: Jan 2, 2010 - 4:55 PM

[_Jim_]

Are you sure you have a GEN3 3sgte, as the ECU says otherwise? Its possible I suppose that it has the wrong ECU plugged in? Post pics of the engine bay and I will tell what Generation 3sgte it is.