The Future of Engine Swaps Options

[Dr_Tweak]

I was thinking this over today and thought that it would be a cool discussion to post up. I'm getting a little concerned about the future of engine swaps. It seems like Toyota hasn't been building ANYTHING high-performance in the last few years. I love our Celicas, but they're coming up on 10 years old for the newest '99 model now. 2nd gen 3SGTE engines are minimum 15-16 years old...

I've been looking at the newer models trying to think of what the next batch of engine swapping is going to be. The 7th gen Celica is already out of production and hasn't gotten a whole lot of love. Of course the 2ZZ is a common swap but that engine never really took real well. 3SGTE into a 7th gen is something I'd like to do some more of, but still, the 3S is getting older. I guess the tC is the next platform to look at, but what to swap into it??? There's practically nothing out there for decent Toyota engines, the 2AZ only makes 160hp. I've sort of been looking at the 300hp 2GR-FSE but it's scary... lots of modern electronics to work around, immobilizer, etc.

2ZZ in a Yaris might be interesting...

Discuss!

-Doc

[Culpable04]

how often do they rebuilt those rotaries ? I have a friend with a RX7 and the car is just lovely, fast, clean, perfect. it has only 70 K miles. the engine has been replaced twice. I always blame him for that, but he says is the actual engine, they don't handle boost too well.


I think in the near future, we're just gonna keep rebuilding the old school engines, Toyota is not building anything to replace them, and a V6 swap doesn't sound as tempting to me. the 7th gen GTS engine, was a really good engine, but they didn't stick to it for too long to improve it, plus the 7th gen could have been lighter to be a better match to this engine.

Unless Toyota comes with something for car enthusiast affordable, I see almost everyone going to Honda.

[Akirad1]

how often do they rebuilt those rotaries ? I have a friend with a RX7 and the car is just lovely, fast, clean, perfect. it has only 70 K miles. the engine has been replaced twice. I always blame him for that, but he says is the actual engine, they don't handle boost too well.


I think in the near future, we're just gonna keep rebuilding the old school engines, Toyota is not building anything to replace them, and a V6 swap doesn't sound as tempting to me. the 7th gen GTS engine, was a really good engine, but they didn't stick to it for too long to improve it, plus the 7th gen could have been lighter to be a better match to this engine.

Unless Toyota comes with something for car enthusiast affordable, I see almost everyone going to Honda.

im sure they do normal race aplication rebuild, just depends on how hard they drive them and for what aplication they are being used for like drift, drag, rally x im sure you just gotta factor all of that into how and when it need to be rebuilt