Plasticky Jap Crap

[TonyD]

It appears that I'm not alone in my affection for the Lexus V8 ( 1UZFE ) engine in that I have been helping a guy in Derbyshire wire up his Lexus engine to power his heavily modified Bowler Tomcat.

He came round last night to check up on a few wires he still hadn't identified as he used the Cobras as a reference for his wiring. As I hadn't started the engine in Tims car for over 12 months, I suggested that perhaps I should give it a try.

I just pushed the connectors onto the battery, turned the ignition on, waited for the fuel rail to fill and turned the key.

No sooner had I turned the key that the engine burst into life, and settled into a fast idle. One turn of the key! Dont you just love jap engineering, fuel injection and ECU's.......

As we stood next to the car listening to the ECU run through the rev range to tune itself ( an ECU when disconnected from the battery loses all its learned settings) he told me a couple of things he had learnt during his build from his intensive study of all things Toyota V8.

Firstly to totally tune a a V8 Ecu all you do is let the engine idle for 20 minutes, then take it up to a constant 2500 rpm for another 20 minutes. The ECU in that time will have tuned itself to the exact requirements of the engine.

Secondly, and this is the really good bit, although the factory auto gearbox settings make the max revs for gearchanging 6500rpm, the factory engine rev limit only cuts in at 7600rpm.

So a Lexus V8 engine straight out of your friendly scrappers is quite happy, and is factory set, to be able to rev day in day out to 7600rpm. Its probably because the engines are blueprinted and balanced at the factory and have 6 bolt main bearings.

Sorry for the gloat, but having just started on the builds again, all the automotive creative juices have started to flow once more. I even put a reminder in my diary today to book the hotel for the Le Mans cCassic on July 1st this year when the reservation system accepts bookings.

Cheers,
Tony.

[kurrmet]

Nice to see you back on form again Tony

You dont happen to have spare sitting in your garage you would want to swap for a chevy anchor.

[Robin427]

Still better to wire it up to a start button - just feels better (seeing as the LSx do the same thing!!!)

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by kurrmet

Nice to see you back on form again Tony

You dont happen to have spare sitting in your garage you would want to swap for a chevy anchor.

Any news on the lumps fate.......Was it a bent valve, slipped timing or holed piston ?

cheers,

Tony