I did decide on the Duplicolor High Heat Aluminum. After spraying the transmission and block with this color, all I have to say is WOW. It looks wonderful! I have painted the motor mounts and other accessories on the transmission a high heat black. The two colors together look really nice.
I have probably 98% of [...]

BJJ has been going well. I feel I’m progressing, and retaining the technique knowledge. There are quite a few times when we’ll be rolling and I’ll remember some little thing I learned, or some way to move (often times this thinking is a few seconds late too ).
I’ve been able to complete more of [...]

Last night Mark and I removed both the block and transmission (Standing-in-engine-bay pictures coming soon!). My previous post stated that I think cleaning up the engine bay is going to be the worst part, but after looking over everything it’s not going to be too bad. Almost half of the bay is covered in black [...]

There are some things I want to do before I actually start reassembly . I’ll try and list out everything I can think of here.

Block

Remove single broken bolt
Install Freeze Plugs
Wipe engine down (Been sprayed with WD40 a couple times)
Tape off non-painted areas
Paint block with high heat engine paint

Duplicolor has this type of paint, i’m thinking [...]

So the motor in my stock MR2 decided to bite the bullet. I believe an oil ring on one of the pistons let go, as I was leaking oil out of my tail pipe (and plus the sound of piston slap rang loud at low rpms). After removing the head, the head gasket is blown [...]