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That cliffhanger at the end hits even harder when it happened in person. That test firing was done late at night and then we retired for the night. Thankfully we worked on it refreshed the next morning :)
I’d like to think anyone who gets their hands dirty has experienced one of those. That or the fluid transfer pump blonde moment. So you ARE human. Also what great running show doesn’t leave on a cliffhanger? Tune in next week to find out!
Hey Marc, I just discovered your channel and website! Id heard murmurs on the MR2 boards for a while about 2AR swaps and now I know where that information is coming from! My question is this: do you have in depth guides or videos up that go over the AW11 swap you did for lemons? I have an 87 AW11 and am researching affordable swap options. I've looked through your website and channel but couldnt find anything, perhaps I missed the video? Thanks for the content, Its very interesting and insightful!
Mark's demeanour and very thoughtful, deliberate way of explaining complicated concepts reminds me a lot of Haltech's Scotty (AKA Tuning Fork). When he was talking about the Haltech ECU, it was a little uncanny! I now need to see a MCM / G&G collab!
I was thinking the same when I heard him, I had to do a Tuning Fork search to remind myself of his features and accent. I was gonna post "Either Mark sounds like Tuning Fork or Tuning Fork sounds like Mark.. they both speak Haltech."
Loving this build. As an old school Toyota fan that migrated to a Honda fan, mostly because of wanting some vtec power in my life. It is great to see that toyota had a competitor to the k series all along. We just didn’t know it. This build has me looking for a 2ar now. I just have to see about converting it to rwd to put it in my Ae86.
I recently found out about you guys through your FD road trip series. Fell in love with your guys' videos. Amazing production and quality. I binged all of your road trip series within two days. Keep it up Ben and Ben! New favorite UA-cam channel.
It’s a poor man’s Lotus! This is an awesome build guys, thanks for collaborating on this project. All of this is fairly attainable for the working car enthusiast, love it! So, idea for a name…. Toyota that drives like a Lotus - Lōta.
honestly not surprised the 2AR is a good platform for decent power- I daily a camry myself and the amount of abuse I've put that engine through without any complaints or fail really surprised me, I always figured you could make something with it if you tinkered around
This is going to be a great little track car!! Can’t wait to see how it comes out. I’ve been wanting the 2gr for my sw20. But with how the 2AR is progressing, that may be a better build. But the 2gr just sounds so great!!!
Thie channel quickly became my favorite car related channel on UA-cam, after discovering them a couple months ago. Everything about it is great, from the quality of the recording, audio, etc.
Had the chance at work this week to swap a junkyard 2AR from a Venza into a Sienna. I did notice the factory oil separator integrated in the engine. But, holy cow, I was more amazed at the size of the intake ports. They remind me of the 3rd Gen Hemi in size and shape, for some reason. Had to swap parts from the old engine to the "new" one, but the swap was a success. A lot of work, I must say.
Watching Mark put together this car reminds me of Anakin Skywalker working on his pod-racer! Mark is just a big kid who loves working on cars! I need Mark as my next door neighbor!
I loved your advertisement for Valvoline. Talk about trying to hide it. (: Great video and excited to see your level of performance with this car. I trust it’ll be pretty quick 😮. Has Gears and Gasoline ⚙️ & ⛽️ posted this often in the past?
Just a pro tip from a fellow car small sports tuner, those motorcycle and ATV agm batteries are good for 2-3 years before you need to charge them on a regular basis (weekly if you daily drive and monthly if you just go to tracks). It got annoying for me and I went to a 51R AGM battery. A bit heavier, but there are other ways to shed weight that don't annoy you all the time.
this is the type of info i want for my Skoda Fabia,...to see from which VAG group things i can use to make my sleeper Skoda, from which model Skoda,VW, Seat etc i can use parts. nice video! :D
Marc has figured out how to affordably unlock some of the 2AR-FE's potential. Papadakis Racing has a good UA-cam video of the teardown of their high-end 2AR-FE drift engine. It's not a Honda K-series, but it seems to have a lot of potential.
That’s right! We’re kicking off two videos a week now! Keep that notification bell on and make sure you’re subscribed! We’ve got twice the action coming to you now. 😊 Every Saturday and Wednesday at 9am EST.
Thank you
LETSSS GOOO, Keep up the good work watching from Jamaica =)
Didn't expect this at 715 am
YEEEEEESSSS BABYYY
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, (watching from china with a VPN)
That cliffhanger at the end hits even harder when it happened in person. That test firing was done late at night and then we retired for the night. Thankfully we worked on it refreshed the next morning :)
Can't wait to see how it picks up again!
I’d like to think anyone who gets their hands dirty has experienced one of those. That or the fluid transfer pump blonde moment. So you ARE human. Also what great running show doesn’t leave on a cliffhanger? Tune in next week to find out!
Lol I love the calm natured response. That's fine.
Hey Marc, I just discovered your channel and website! Id heard murmurs on the MR2 boards for a while about 2AR swaps and now I know where that information is coming from!
My question is this: do you have in depth guides or videos up that go over the AW11 swap you did for lemons? I have an 87 AW11 and am researching affordable swap options. I've looked through your website and channel but couldnt find anything, perhaps I missed the video?
Thanks for the content, Its very interesting and insightful!
Very excited for your 350whp goal! If I keep my tC2 I know who I’m going to for parts to have a 350whp tC :)
A WEDNESDAY UPLOAD??? Work can wait.
Same 😂
Follow them on insta. They post stuff there. 😁
Mark's demeanour and very thoughtful, deliberate way of explaining complicated concepts reminds me a lot of Haltech's Scotty (AKA Tuning Fork). When he was talking about the Haltech ECU, it was a little uncanny! I now need to see a MCM / G&G collab!
I was thinking the same when I heard him, I had to do a Tuning Fork search to remind myself of his features and accent.
I was gonna post "Either Mark sounds like Tuning Fork or Tuning Fork sounds like Mark.. they both speak Haltech."
Mark really puts the Research and Development into R&D
Loving this build. As an old school Toyota fan that migrated to a Honda fan, mostly because of wanting some vtec power in my life. It is great to see that toyota had a competitor to the k series all along. We just didn’t know it. This build has me looking for a 2ar now. I just have to see about converting it to rwd to put it in my Ae86.
2zz.. but 2ar has all the torque on the low end vs revving it to 9k and still gets spanked
Do It! 🤓👍
@@mengx94 torque is helluva drug...
im also considering a 2ar in my ae86 :D
Papadakis Racing has been making 1000 HP with a 2AR in a longitudinal FD car for many years now.
Shoutout to Marc for having a vast amount of knowledge! So cool to watch this build.
I recently found out about you guys through your FD road trip series. Fell in love with your guys' videos. Amazing production and quality. I binged all of your road trip series within two days. Keep it up Ben and Ben! New favorite UA-cam channel.
Same! I too discovered them by the FD trip and the FD trip is my favourite road trip series so far! Hope to see more road trips from them
average new g&g fan experience
I'm so excited to see how this turns out! If this motor can rev to 8k, I'd heavily consider using a 2AR in an AE86 build!
@@michaelscholten9753 oh damn, well I guess AE86 build it is!
Finding a gurulike figure like Mark has done wonders for your production schedule
It doesn't feel normal. But feels oh so right to have 2 videos every week!
Something to break that hump day vibes 💪👏👌
It’s a poor man’s Lotus! This is an awesome build guys, thanks for collaborating on this project. All of this is fairly attainable for the working car enthusiast, love it! So, idea for a name…. Toyota that drives like a Lotus - Lōta.
Sweet! Thanks guys!
You guys choose the right guy for the job. He is truly incredible at 2ar stuff
I’m loving the two videos a week! Just what I needed in the middle of the week
i like the 5 pound clearance tool :D
That moment you go to youtube and see Gears and Gasoline posted a video on a Wednesday. Yessssssssssss.
honestly not surprised the 2AR is a good platform for decent power- I daily a camry myself and the amount of abuse I've put that engine through without any complaints or fail really surprised me, I always figured you could make something with it if you tinkered around
This is going to be a great little track car!! Can’t wait to see how it comes out. I’ve been wanting the 2gr for my sw20. But with how the 2AR is progressing, that may be a better build. But the 2gr just sounds so great!!!
I can listen and watch Mark do engine swaps and fall asleep to his calm soothing voice, while learning tons about toyotas.
Frankstein motorworks is awesome! Hope you get their spherical shifter cable bushings (if it works in your application)
+1 for marc!
Thie channel quickly became my favorite car related channel on UA-cam, after discovering them a couple months ago. Everything about it is great, from the quality of the recording, audio, etc.
I love marks calm demeanor
Fascinated by the novelty of this engine build. I love the K series, but it is everywhere. Seeing something new is exciting.
This is what I needed today. 🙏🏿
I wonder if this engine will fit in a 7th generation Celica. 🤔
Honestly love the content like this. Small affordable builds that are effective that your community can relate to. Keep it up!
Love that mass air tube utilizing the OE side vents and not shoving the intake in the back corner like some do.
Mark makes a quality product!
This is a cool swap, definitely looking forward to seeing it on track
The fact that your using 2 intake cams blows my mind 😳, this engine is very interesting.
That guy mark is awesome.🤘🏼
Had the chance at work this week to swap a junkyard 2AR from a Venza into a Sienna. I did notice the factory oil separator integrated in the engine. But, holy cow, I was more amazed at the size of the intake ports. They remind me of the 3rd Gen Hemi in size and shape, for some reason.
Had to swap parts from the old engine to the "new" one, but the swap was a success. A lot of work, I must say.
Marc Labranche, hats off to you my man! Amazing job your doing.
G&G hammering the firewall to made things fit is the stuff of DIY. If it is Retropower project they would have 3D and fab a new panel!
Thank you for the valvoline sponsorship. Cause it reminded me that I need to check my oil levels
I hope this brings more attention to the 2AR-FE.. finding parts for a gen 2 scion tC track car is impossible
Wait... three axles? This thing's going to be three wheel drive!? Wild!
I was surprised to see this on a Wednesday…. 2 vids a week now… YES!!! Keep it up you 2!!!
Tuningforks cousin? Speaks in the same informative and easy way! Excellent👌🏻
Haha first cold day in south Florida and an MR2 update! Best day ever
YES!!!! Because waiting until Saturday each week, was just plain MEAN!!! of you guys...
Watching Mark put together this car reminds me of Anakin Skywalker working on his pod-racer! Mark is just a big kid who loves working on cars! I need Mark as my next door neighbor!
I love the ingenuity of this mechanic. A true tinkerer.
I loved your advertisement for Valvoline. Talk about trying to hide it. (:
Great video and excited to see your level of performance with this car. I trust it’ll be pretty quick 😮.
Has Gears and Gasoline ⚙️ & ⛽️ posted this often in the past?
big fan from Thailand ,two videos per week so good!
This is actually the best news I’ve gotten all week!
You all have made my day thank you!
This is nice af felluhs, damnn I want to build a 98 Corolla s now with one of these
I love this build so much. I'm literally shopping MR2s now lol.
This is a dream build to me. This is a car that I would actually like to own. An average Joe’s Lotus. Very cool series for that reason.
Now this is a build! This Marc guy knows what he's doing.
can't wait to hear your thoughts once it's done.
I was confused when I saw this on my notification. lol 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thank you. Makes more sense why the last one was so short. Apologies for the previous complaint. Great build/great info here.
Cant wait to we see more of Ben's Honda S2000.
Woo! Two a week is exciting to hear.
Didnt believe my eyes when I saw there was a new video today, thought I must have just missed one! Very excited to see more GnG content!
LOL nice cliffhanger ending. Also, Mark is a legend!
YESSS TWO VIDEOS IN ONE WEEK !!!
This is so sweet, loving this 2 video a week thing and so so so close to finishing this crazy MR2 build!
"I did a stupid" that made me giggle. Great build series lads.
Can't wait til Saturday! Loving this build series
Love the knowledge and passion from Marc, he seems like an awesome dude!
LMAO absolute BEST outro I've ever seen. I'm getting excited to see this thing haul ass. Getting me pumped for the day we start the 2GR swap in my SW!
Two videos a week is the best news I have received this year. Keep it coming boys!
This Mr2 build is looking to become one of the more epic builds on here.
Wow! I wasn't expecting this.
Heart for 2X A WEEK !
the advance you go to is so much nicer then the advance I work at.
Nice seeing ya on Sunday bb
With the cliffhanger!! Man now I can't wait for the next one!
Love the philosophy of this build, can't wait to see the next video
Just a pro tip from a fellow car small sports tuner, those motorcycle and ATV agm batteries are good for 2-3 years before you need to charge them on a regular basis (weekly if you daily drive and monthly if you just go to tracks). It got annoying for me and I went to a 51R AGM battery. A bit heavier, but there are other ways to shed weight that don't annoy you all the time.
I like this swap. Very interesting. Going to be a good series
Im just qurious to when the next year car road trip loved the last one 3 months ago would love to see another.
Loving this built so much...
probably my favorite build to date!
this is the type of info i want for my Skoda Fabia,...to see from which VAG group things i can use to make my sleeper Skoda, from which model Skoda,VW, Seat etc i can use parts. nice video! :D
10 minutes were like 2 minutes. I saw the notification at work I started eating my snack and watching this , felt like a kid watching cartoons
The guy building the engine reminds me of Tuning fork from Haltech.. 👌🏻
That was an amazingly well done video, great sound track, great pacing, great cinematography!
Was going to comment "thanks for not making me wait a week to see this thing fire up". Glad I waited till the end and "F-U, see you in a week"
Loving everything on this channel recently! I'm now following this evil genius on his channel
go Marc and Ben! looking forward to the next episode.
I really like seeing, motor tweaked for something different than originally designed
A bit weird watching GG videos on Wednesday weekday morning, then realizing that I have to work for the rest of the week :)
Really hope you guys do a lot more on this project!!!
So cool that Russell Crowe is into MR2s
2 videos a week! Yes 🙌🏾
This is insane, and this guy is a beast
Genius level stuff here
Ah, ye olde "massaging the firewall with a hammer" clearance method. A sure sign of a serious build. Very cool.
Love this series and love 2 videos a week!!!!
Yesssssssssssss 2x the action!! Wednesday & Saturday
Very informative 👏...this is tempting me to build a toyota
Marc has figured out how to affordably unlock some of the 2AR-FE's potential. Papadakis Racing has a good UA-cam video of the teardown of their high-end 2AR-FE drift engine. It's not a Honda K-series, but it seems to have a lot of potential.
argh! next! hahaha! can't wait to see this build run!!!
Mark is the man!!!
Wow! Another vid in just few days! Thanks G&G!
Never thought I'd find a 4 cylinder build really interesting, but this is super cool.
I’m stoked about this build and love the engine choice!
9AM is my break time at work. This couldn't be more perfect. G&G goooooo!
The male has a majestic vice. Also did you finally come up with a nick name for your mustache that thing winked at me