seeing this on thomas his fb etc, its gonna be mental! i love his fab skills aswell! Cant wait to see this finished!
He's brilliant as I got the ideas and the plans that I know will work, but I've not got the fab skills to make it happen. So much has been custom fabbed, even the ITBs I didn't like how they was standard, so he modded em to how I wanted them, all the other 1uz with same ITBs just have em as they are, and IMO that's far from ideal.
Massive massive stupid cams, valve springs to match, few lil bits to the heads, balanced, blahblahstuffthings. Just bolt-ons don't gain much at all as none of them are the big restriction.
Whats the big restriction in your opinion dude ? Fitting a 1UZ to an RX8 next month and wouldnt mind doing a few bits before fitting
Cams. But they're fucking expensive, and mild ones are pointless, and then you need valvesprings too, and then its a bit pointless without decent inlet and exhaust manifolds, and then you need an aftermarket ECU to control it, and then to rev it as hard as the cams will make it want to is risky on stock internals, and so on and so forth. TBH I'd either leave it well alone unless you had a lot to spend. TBH I wouldn't even do that, if I was gonna just have a fairly stock engine I'd not even run a 1UZ, I'd jus get a 3UZ instead which is barely any more money from a breaker, and just have 300bhp and 330lbft from the start.
Ahhh, il look into the differences between the two Could you not have done the mods you did to the 1uz on the 3UZ or is it not as simple as that?
Pretty much nothing available for the VVTi heads on later 1UZ and 3UZ engines, and 3UZ internals aren't strong, so wouldn't wanna take one much past standard without uprated internals.
got to love how people are considering a specific engine conversion without knowing much about it. how much of this is still from the pile of crap you bought off me? do you think the man in japan who built it knows you are doing this to it?
Deffo. Esp as it's way more of a ballache than 99% of people imagine. The engine has zero parts of your engine mate, that was just a spare! The gearbox and gearbox bits are all used though, albeit now modified, as things aren't as simple as they seem lol. The Japan man knows, he's on my Facebook lol. He only realised it was exported to the UK a couple of years ago when someone he knows came back to Japan from a holiday in the UK with an issue of Redline with it in lol.
Stav i really hope i never have to meet you in person; you seem to be a really knowledgeable chap but christ you are cocky with it! It seems every time someone asks you a question you try to belittle them! Im aware some of the questions may seem daft to you but people are only trying to expand their knowledge! I personally love reading through your threads as you're always trying something out of the ordinary, but sharing your knowledge in a nicer would be appreciated.
Sorry that might of been a little strong, i'd had a few last night haha. Your replys just always seem to come across really blunt and "are you stupid?" sorta thing? I appreciate its hard to really judge a mood via text though..
Older 1UZ has strong internals and can actually buy tuning bits for, Newer 1UZ has VVTI and is faster from the off, but weaker internals and very few parts that fit. 3UZ is faster than them both from the start, at a level that's beyond what you'd get by adding bolt-on mods to a 1UZ, but has even less parts available. Stronger internals wont help you unless you're going forced induction anyhow.
