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OEM Distributor w/Heatshield for an AE86...


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Tired of melting your distributor cap? Want a heatshield for your AE86 distributor? Don't want to buy a crappy one from Aerodyne? Want OEM quality?

There is a solution, get a distributor from an 85-87 MR-2. (The 88-89 MR-2 may also work, but I have NOT personally confirmed it. BTW - did the first 4 sentences sound too much like an infomercial, or is it just me? wink.gif )

They come with a 4AGE bluetop just like the AE86, but it has a slightly different distributor. The MR-2 distributor housing, and distributor cap are different. The housing has mounts for a factory equipped heatshield, and the cap angles upwards for more clearance in the MR-2 mid-engine bay. The internals, and rotor are identical. All you have to do is exchange them, you can even use your AE86 sparkplug wires by looping/routing them a little differently.





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Good shit. But I think an even better solution is an S2000 motor in there.

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QUOTE (mestizo @ Jun 29 2007, 12:05 AM)
Good shit. But I think an even better solution is an S2000 motor in there.

It pains me to hear that. rant.gif Maybe a 2J in a 240 hmmm.gif Sounds better to me. Just JK. Please dont ban me!!
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QUOTE (RicerX @ Jun 29 2007, 12:11 AM)
Maybe a 2J in a 240 hmmm.gif  Sounds better to me. Just JK. Please dont ban me!!


Actually, that's not that uncommon of a swap in japan IIRC...

Nothing wrong with an f20c or f22 in an AE86, 8-9k OEM redline with 240+ hp and a 6 speed trans is great. bow.gif I just cant afford to do it... yet.

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QUOTE (RicerX @ Jun 28 2007, 11:11 PM)
Please dont ban me!!


LOL I have not had to ban anyone from my forums, you would have to piss me off something feirce to get banned.

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QUOTE (mestizo @ Jun 29 2007, 12:12 PM)
LOL I have not had to ban anyone from my forums, you would have to piss me off something feirce to get banned.


Or me... but yeah. It'd take a WHOLE lot of stupid/assholishness to get banned here.

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In any case, here's the back story to why I've 'finally' gotten around to doing this distributor swap.

This last saturday (as rob knows) I ended up getting an exhaust leak. What I thought was a simple gasket turned out to be the piping on my almost brand new cat-conv from Magnaflow splitting apart, I don't understand how it got stressed enough to do so, but it did. Over 360 degrees of split around the piping & weld, spaced about 3/4" apart, crazy isn't it? Anyways, I take it off and drop it off to jon sunday who's going to weld it up for me.

I figure at this point I might as well install my header/flexpipe so I don't run into this again, and run my old cat conv. To change the header on my car you have to remove the distributor. I remove it, and as I always do I spin the rotor/dist shaft & gear. Well, 'lo & behold it's siezed and wont turn. Turns out saturday night I must have killed the distributor bearing and when it cooled down after failing; which probably was not too far from home, maybe even coming down the driveway, it completely siezed.

So I remember that sometime before this last november I picked up a MR-2 distributor during one of the junkyard runs to try out/compare to see if it'll work. I head off to the parts store to grab a dist cap & rotor. Pop the thing in with a new o-ring and it works. hooray.gif

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hey andrew
does the distributor from the mr2 just bolt up to the rolla motor or am i gonna have to mod it...cuz i broke the bolts off my original heat shield...
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QUOTE (chrisv85ae86 @ Feb 11 2009, 11:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
hey andrew
does the distributor from the mr2 just bolt up to the rolla motor or am i gonna have to mod it...cuz i broke the bolts off my original heat shield...


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No mods. As I said above, the only differences are the tabs for mounting the distributor cap & additional points to mount the heatshield.

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