1980s TOYOTA TEST ENGINES Who knows about this???

[AE25]

i recall having someone claim this same thing on toyspeed forums. sounds like same car and engine.
oh looky... found it http://forums.toyspeed.org.nz/viewto...er=asc&start=0

from memory.. the chassis tag could not be proven and he never came through with any proof of claims.. we called BS.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Revhead wrote:

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1981 MA61 2.8L GT-L factory TRD spec
5M-GZE-U this is one of the main differences in mine its super charged 2.8L 4 valves per pot 8.6-1 compression runs 7psi from stock from what i thort was a SC14 but have since found it not as its bigger

it runs a W58OD so i get 7 gears in total

what is factory there mate?
and what do you mean "TRD spec"?
does the build plate say 5mgze?

got pics of the above?

yes build plate says that

iv got all the paper work for it but in jap

pridy much the owner in 1981 bought the car & asked for it to be speced up from factory to the full spec they could do & spaired no money doing it in 1986 it was bought over by the owner when he moved it was blowen up some time arround here by the owner & was sold off
it was de reged & sat for a while before in late 1987 the new owner put a standed motor & re vined it with it in when i bought it it came with every thing that had ever been changed on it only thing missing is the ECU i still have every thing from the orrignal badges right thro to vin plates number plates & motor the

work to put it back to staned is not alot its just time cousmeing & expensive for me at the moment im putting about $150 a week in to it so soon i hope to have it done but it will probly be late next yeah
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The faster you go the quicker you get there

soarer 4.6L V8 twin turbo sold before i finished it fully
datson 1200 SSS coupe & GA60 soon to be 7M-GTE
doing up: MA61 5M-GZE-U with TAVAS ???
for sale EE90

and this is the car

[Gttwinturbomk3]

Hi AE25,

Thats damb interesting there from the NZ toyspeed haha, who knows this could be the same car! It sounds very similar to what i am talking about anyhow. Also it was here in Dunedin.

I personally think that this is still BS and Toyota never did it, but maybe someone tryed chucking some whorey setup on it who knows???

Cheers for that mate,

James aka "suprafanatic"

[oldeskewltoy]

And I remember a HKS kit from the 80s/90s that added a turbo to the 4A-GZE.

[Sam_Q]

apparently the reason why that HKS kit is so rare is because it's was worth a small fortune at the time

[Quint]

if this is true this must be very rare, even more so than my factory intercooled mteu ma63 mk2.

Shit, I called someones bs on there mk2 having an intercooled mteu from factory in it.

[AE25]

is this yours Gttwinturbomk3?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-283508742.htm

17 pics and not a single engine bay shot???? the most important area!!!

[Gttwinturbomk3]

Shit, I called someones bs on there mk2 having an intercooled mteu from factory in it.

Did ya, wow i bet you felt special or maybe jealous who knows. Its good to have a rare mk2 like hardly anyone else has got by toyota. I call you BS for bothering to say any shit.


AE25

Thats not mine although its very similar, and yes it does exist....

[Vios-GT_07]

surprised nobody picked it up yet... W5x + OD = 7 speed?

[RAAAH23]

its possible, early 3sp and 4sp man boxes had overdrives for highway crusing.. possible but unlikely

[wilbo666]

surprised nobody picked it up yet... W5x + OD = 7 speed?

its possible, early 3sp and 4sp man boxes had overdrives for highway crusing.. possible but unlikely

No it's not even close to possible.

The owner sounds like they don't really have the whole picture...


I suspect the car was converted from auto to manual at some stage and the OD button was left in... as a manual car that auto button will do nothing! 7 gears is a lie

As is dual SC's... lolz (a lie)

Cheers
Wilbo

[jono]

is this yours Gttwinturbomk3?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-283508742.htm

17 pics and not a single engine bay shot???? the most important area!!!

its funny there is no engine bay pic, but the one of the dash cluster has a little turbo light.

[Hiro]

And you rarely had 2 overdrive gears anyway - either the overdrive unit was an extra gear added to create top gear (so a W5x would have 6 gears), or it was a separate unit between the box and the final drive which dropped all the ratios down (the opposite of a low-range transfer case, for instance), in which case he'd have 10 forward gears and 2 reverse (although there are sometimes lockouts to stop you using it in the low gears, or to automatically engage above a certain speed etc like an auto)

[CrUZida]

Shit, I called someones bs on there mk2 having an intercooled mteu from factory in it.

Why couldn't it? The 1984 MZ10 had an intercooled MTEU in it from factory.

[Gttwinturbomk3]

Heres mine

[RONA]

At best he could be confused and it has the twin turbo HKS kit on it?