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Hmmm. I don't have a Lexus ECU, and the engine I bought has a chopped up wiring harness. MegaSquirt is still an iffy proposition. Is there any more info on those carbed intake manifolds? Any source of used ones from racers moving on?

In the last few years I've seen multiple XJCs going for under $2500 US. There's a rust free one in California right now on Ebay for dirt cheap, as well as a fully restored one that will sell for under $10k. My favorites were a custom one with a Linginfelter built big block Chevy (825 hp)...

I'm not familiar whith the other Toyota trans, either. I'm just trying to figure where it's going to come up in the Comet. If it's under the dash or back under the center console between the seats...

So that top one is the one I'm looking for. Ok. How much farther back does that put the actual shifter? I'm going to look at the transmissions this weekend.

Any easy way to identify from the outside a later W58 that's out of the car, when the person selling the transmission doesn't know what it came out of? I'm looking at a pair of them, one has a short tailshaft housing, one has a long tailshaft housing, but I don't know what to look for to get the...

The only people who think that are ignorant non-enthusiasts who don't understand the concept of "traditional sports car." Lightweight, nimble, 2 seat convertible is a traditional recipe for a fun car. ;)

YOu don't need a lot of valves if you don't need to go over 9000 rpm (since 2 valve street pushrod engines have been known to rev that high with regularity). You don't really need a lot of bandaids for replacing low end power like variable valve lift and timing of you start with a larger engine...

So you trade off bent pushrods for the possibility of a stretched chain or broken cam drive belt that might allow many valves to come in contact with pistons. I've never had a bent pushrod in a performance pushrod engine, but I have had a cam belt go on an interference engine and require a...

Maybe, but I doubt I'd ever need to, as I'm not limited to 3.5 liters of displacement to make my power from. Pretty as hell, though. You think that engine would do well in a dual purpose daily driver/track day car? I made 600hp N/A for $1500 with a streetable pushrod motor. Feel free to...

Yeah, a T5 wouldn't handle the power you want to make easily. I'm not shooting for much more power than the stock 1UZ puts out. It moves the LS400 rather well in stock orm, and the Comet is over 1000 lbs lighter, which is like free power (power to weight will be a third better). Were I...

Yeah, I'd build it just like he would, but I did that drawing back in '90, (based on a car I built in '78 ), even before Foose started working for Coddington. I'd use different wheels now, and the color is going to have a little more golden tangerine in it. This is my dad and I building my...

Ok, after spending some time looking around at the MegaSquirt site, and talking with a few guys running that setup, that looks like the plan. It can use the stock crank wheel and the cam position sensor to run a EDIS waste spark coil set. And it looks to be fairly easy to set up the injection...

Yeah. I'd bet that in many cases, their first car was a total POS, slow, beat up, cheap, etc, and they ended up hating it (and thus anything even remotely resembling it) and then they got an example of some other car in good shape, found that it was faster, better handling, and generally in...

yeah, here in the US, I can buy a Chevy 350 that runs for about $150. it may be a smogger motor, but a copmplete rebuild kit (with any streetable comporession piston) runs about $500. Aftermarket speed parts are dirt cheap (complete cam and lifter kit is about $125), and if youy ant to buy used...

Well, it actually does, as lower toruqe figures would make an equal weight car have worse driveability, but if you weigh less, then that cancels out. Anyhow, you have to remember that even though I defend pushrod engines as not being dinosaurs, I am replacing a fully functional american...

Do you even rememebr teh '70s Caddys and Lincolns with pushrod engines that made huge torque figures and you couldnt' hear or feel them running? Sorry, there's more to it than that, too.

You're definitely right about not comparing apples to apples, there, as the Mclaren't BMW sourced engine was a cost no object lesson in ultimate engineering, and part of why the car sold for a million bucks each! There's a reason it took a million dollar car to get a larger engine to put out a...

Man, I hope the kiddies stay out of it, as it's anice, friendly discussion with no insults right now. The comparisons between the *UZ and the Chevy arrive because they are an easy frame of reference. We could as easily use the Nissan, Porsche, or Mercedes OHC V8s in comparison to the Chevy and...

We'll have to see. Right now, GM is putting the all aluminum LS* series engines into sports and performance cars, not the kinds of cars that regularly see 400-500k miles ANYHOW, as they are not long distance, comfy cruisers. But, pushrod Chevy engines have been happily powering cars for 50...

Of course, hp/liter is brought up. Hp/liter is important in racing classes where displacement is limited, or countries where displacement is taxed. Other than that, it's merely a sort of interesting engineering side note. A small .049 r/c car/airplane gas engine makes 450-500 hp/liter. Do you...