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There has been some discussion over in JapChat on the 1UZFE V8 & other favourite Jap engines over the last few months.
Great engine, extremely well designed,engineered & built. A standard mid-'90s N/A is putting out around 260 bhp at that level it is so unstressed it's almost just ticking over. Plenty of turbo conversions, & even one or two in aeroplanes iirc.
This site has some very useful stuff & links.
www.1uzfe.com/
p.s. If it's any use, there was an article in PPC a few month back on alternates to small block V8's, which included the Lexus 1UZFE V8.
Cheers
Matt
>> Edited by tuttle on Tuesday 21st March 14:50
Great engine, extremely well designed,engineered & built. A standard mid-'90s N/A is putting out around 260 bhp at that level it is so unstressed it's almost just ticking over. Plenty of turbo conversions, & even one or two in aeroplanes iirc.
This site has some very useful stuff & links.
www.1uzfe.com/
p.s. If it's any use, there was an article in PPC a few month back on alternates to small block V8's, which included the Lexus 1UZFE V8.
Cheers
Matt
>> Edited by tuttle on Tuesday 21st March 14:50
Also check here...
www.lextreme.com/forums/index.php?
There is no doubt they are an excellent engine.
www.lextreme.com/forums/index.php?
There is no doubt they are an excellent engine.
I'm building two Cobra replicas that have Lexus V8's, 1UZFE's to be exact.
They are a lovely engine to work on, extremely reliable and easily tunable. Respond extremely very to bit of Forced Induction up to 8 psi on standard internals and up to 12 psi with aftermarket ECU. Put in low compression pistons and youre looking at a reliable 16 to 20 psi boosted V8 putting out over 500bhp.
I must say that having built a Cobra with the 4.4 litre BMW V8 the Lexus is as good, and definitely easier to work on.
As mentioned www.lextreme.com is a fantastic resource on these engines and just what backyard engineers can do with them and theres a growing tuning scene with manual gearbox conversions and transaxle conversions becoming common.
If you want any info/ pictures etc I've got one engine on the floor and the other in a Cobra, so just ask away.
Cheers,
Tony
>> Edited by Tony427 on Wednesday 22 March 22:17
They are a lovely engine to work on, extremely reliable and easily tunable. Respond extremely very to bit of Forced Induction up to 8 psi on standard internals and up to 12 psi with aftermarket ECU. Put in low compression pistons and youre looking at a reliable 16 to 20 psi boosted V8 putting out over 500bhp.
I must say that having built a Cobra with the 4.4 litre BMW V8 the Lexus is as good, and definitely easier to work on.
As mentioned www.lextreme.com is a fantastic resource on these engines and just what backyard engineers can do with them and theres a growing tuning scene with manual gearbox conversions and transaxle conversions becoming common.
If you want any info/ pictures etc I've got one engine on the floor and the other in a Cobra, so just ask away.
Cheers,
Tony
>> Edited by Tony427 on Wednesday 22 March 22:17
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