Red Top Beams, Looking to buy, need advice. Options

[Poonicus]

I've been looking around online for a redtop beams and wanted to get you guy's opinion on what I've found.

$1499.99
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JDM-Toyota-3SGE-Be...6aa&vxp=mtr

$1384
http://www.jdmenginescorp.com/engine_detai...-trans-wire-ecu

$1995
http://www.jdmenginezone.com/engine-detail...top--98_99.html

[Poonicus]

Good thread glad I posted it haha and one more question in terms of driveablity and comfort, ect. would it be better to do 3gste or red top beams? I'm looking into swaping a motor into my car that gives it more power than the 5sfe but higher than like 16mpg.

[H8TRAIN]

Good thread glad I posted it haha and one more question in terms of driveablity and comfort, ect. would it be better to do 3gste or red top beams? I'm looking into swaping a motor into my car that gives it more power than the 5sfe but higher than like 16mpg.

How much horsepower do you want? I've never driven a beams and it's been awhile since being in a 3sgte car, but this is coming from general experience.

Going from a pedestrian four pot like a 5sfe to a hi-performance type like the beams is a significant and worthwhile hike in power. The difference is even greater in real world performance. But adding a complete turbo system to that high-performance engine design takes it into another league of power and performance. A gte is going to be stock 240hp. And you're going to ask it to ingest a few more psi than factory(oh yeah you are) so it's realistically a 260-300hp motor. That's to say nothing of the broad and abundant torque and it's subtle and unsubtle advantages.

A 200hp beams is a good choice. A 280hp gte is a good one too. But they're way different. Do you have a power or performance goal?

[Smaay]

Good thread glad I posted it haha and one more question in terms of driveablity and comfort, ect. would it be better to do 3gste or red top beams? I'm looking into swaping a motor into my car that gives it more power than the 5sfe but higher than like 16mpg.

How much horsepower do you want? I've never driven a beams and it's been awhile since being in a 3sgte car, but this is coming from general experience.

Going from a pedestrian four pot like a 5sfe to a hi-performance type like the beams is a significant and worthwhile hike in power. The difference is even greater in real world performance. But adding a complete turbo system to that high-performance engine design takes it into another league of power and performance. A gte is going to be stock 240hp. And you're going to ask it to ingest a few more psi than factory(oh yeah you are) so it's realistically a 260-300hp motor. That's to say nothing of the broad and abundant torque and it's subtle and unsubtle advantages.

A 200hp beams is a good choice. A 280hp gte is a good one too. But they're way different. Do you have a power or performance goal?

there is nothing high performance about a BEAMS

and a BEAMS might make 200 HP to the crank but you will be lucky to get 170 to the wheels