A friend has a 89 corolla EZ 2 door hatch with the carburated 3 valve head 1500 motor.
Are there speed parts for this?
Headers intake?
How about converting it to carbs? or EFI?
The current carb-o-vac-u-injection bit of weirdness on this is huge $$ to repair/replace to he wants to go simple. He is old school to he thinks that a weber would be the ticket.
Anyone shed some light on this? I know 4AGE motors cold but I have not messed with this one at all
Ohya is it an interference motor?
In reply to dean1484:
Actually it is a Tercel, chassis code is EL31. the engine, 3E has no speed parts............................. There is a fuel injected version in the regular Tercel for that year, 3EE
There is one other possibility... the Starlet(after 84) came with a 4EFTE same block designation, but a bit larger and with a turbo. Only problem is finding one.... it was never imported to the US
the weber would be a whole lot less work than adding the EFI in this case, IMO.
the only interference belt engines toyota made in the 80s were the diesels.
Most Japanese car companies put out some kind of 3-valve economy motor in the late 80's/early 90's. I highly doubt it's interference (but don't quote me on that). They are mostly low-compression wheezers with decent torque and middling power; they get crazy gas mileage, though. I mean, you can make pretty much anything fast with aggressive porting, a cam, a nice intake/exhaust, and other such things. We're not talking about off-the-shelf parts here, though, and it doesn't even have a hobbyist following...a turbo is possible, but you'd be looking at Megasquirt and a lot of custom parts.
All that said, it would be pretty badass if you guys did something cool with it. They are really freaking light. And they have been rapidly disappearing from these rust belt roads. If there was some way to cram a 4AG or 3SGE in there and put good suspension on it, it'd haul ass.
oldeskewltoy wrote:In reply to dean1484:
Actually it is a Tercel, chassis code is EL31. the engine, 3E has no speed parts............................. There is a fuel injected version in the regular Tercel for that year, 3EE
Yes You are correct . It is a Tercel. For some reason I was pulling a blank and could not remember.
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