anyone know about the 1jzgte toyota?

[Guest kawgomoo]

sorry this is kind of off topic being a skyline place. but yall seem to know whats up.

anyhow anyone know anything about the 1jzgte? my friend has a clapped out lexus sc400 and we are looker to swap in an i6 twin turbo.... is the 1jzgte worth looking at?

what kind of power can be gotten out of it?

[Roy]

With the usual breathing mods and boost they are meant to be good for close on 200kw at the wheels with pretty good torque characteristics.

Basically the toytoa equivelant to the RB NIssan family of engines, with some out their saying they are a better engine mechanically, but management systems are not so flexible.

[Guest kawgomoo]

ive noticed in the uk and aussie alike people seem to produce less power than cars in the states, is it just my imagination? or do you all have strict governing laws? perhaps you all have more places for road racing? all we really do is street/drag race. im looking for about 300kw at the wheels. though i could settle for a little less.

unless my conversion is off for kw to hp, im multiplying kw by 1.34 to arrive at my hp number. anyone know if this is right?

[funkymonkey]

you'll find that most people in australia (dunno bout the UK) modify their car either moderately or over the top. Most of the time power ratings are from mods that DON'T include nitrous, coz well.. its illegal to have an NO2 system in a roadgoing car in most states.

Tuning in australia pretty much closely follows the Jap scene, where average users will mess with airflow in and out, BOV's FMIC's, SAFC's and ECU's. The more serious ones will rebore their engines, mess with camshafts, fuel rails, etc etc.

Really depends how much money you have, bearing in mind once you mod it your insurance jumps heaps, as imported cars aren't looked upon favourably by insurance companies here. Most of the guys here use their cars as daily drivers, so can't realistically make kW farting monsters (even though the car is capable of it).

[Silver-Arrowz]

I don't see many serious cars now days using NOS. Just pure, Jap style, hardcore components and engine know how. And unlike in the US, we don't have very long straight roads everywhere.

As for the Toyota motors, they are more reliable because they are a lower reving unit. Also you cannot deny it, but Toyota know how to make a reliable car. The motor is more after lower end power/torque, rather than all out power up top.

[Evan]

All that aside, proberbly a pain in the ass changine just about the whole loom to make the 1jz work.

Man the electrics side of it i think will be a total nightmare.

converting a v8 soarer / ls400 to a TT model that is.

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[Guest kawgomoo]

we dont use nos over here too much. but we tend to not tell our insurance about the mods we do, and even then it doesnt really raise the price an incredible amount. around our shop, and the people i see at the tracks and what not a built motor is standard issue, just keeping up with the jone's so to speak. most of the cars we build motors for and tune are daily drivers. we usually get 3-400whp out of the better hondas, with 250-300whp being about average for the less serious cars, usually inhibited by phony tuning gimmicks {apex afc, fmu's etc etc}

internally stock 2jzgte supras with air intake, exhaust, boost controller and downpipe are in the 380-420whp range.

the shop i work at has a c hassis dyno so i get to see w hat works and w hat doesnt without spending a dime