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Toyota MRS spyder widebody
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Built for Autosalon, this radical MRS started life as a stock Australian delivered MRS, comple with SMT transmisison. The super-rare Veilside body kit is one of only a few in Australia.
Recent work by Road & Track involved changing the clutch and repairing the SMT operating system. Faults in the SMT operating systems lead to poor gear changes and/or slipping clutch, and are notoriously difficult to repair. Unfortunatelly all new parts for this unique system must be genuine Toyota ones, so repairs are always costly.
The Toyota SMT (sequential manual transmisison) is unique to MRS models. Basically, a hydraukic actuator is bolted to the side of a "conventional" C60 Toyota gearbox, and this device operates the clutch lever and the gear selectors. In late models like this, the throttle is also partially controlled, so quick downchanges can be accompanied by a "blip" of the throttle, to ease the syncro loads.
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