terp62 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Has anyone ever heard of someone swapping out a sc400 and putting in a Chevy 350. I love the Lexus body style but lets face it, you can get a lot more power from a 350. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 you can do anything you want, and puting a 350 in did come up as a joke. so why not go 500? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfish Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 you can do anything you want, and puting a 350 in did come up as a joke. so why not go 500? ← How about a funny car with a SC body ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 the solara is preatty close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKperformance Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 then put an inline 6 and work it with a turbop and be done but herassey like a chevy POS is ridiculas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadistic Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 I say the same thing.. Drop a 2J in.. That is unless 1500 hp isn't enough for your street car.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean_8044 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 It may seem like sacrilige to ditch the toyota V8 for a chevy, but you could probably get just as much HP out of the 350 for half the cost in the 2J or 1UZ. Turbos are the replacement for displacement and you could slap em on either the 2j or 1uz, but then the cost goes up. You can find a 350 used alot less than a 2j since they practically fall from the skies. V8 to V8 theres no comparison in performance for dollar between the two, but 350 to 2j would be different. Only advantage that i could really see would be ease of installation for the 350. How much engine management/tuning/re-wiring will a pushrod v8 need in comparison to a high HP 2j? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 what wiring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Curious Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Has anyone ever heard of someone swapping out a sc400 and putting in a Chevy 350. I love the Lexus body style but lets face it, you can get a lot more power from a 350. Just a thought. ← to my knowledge... no. however, i know of an ls1 thats going into an e36. :D if i were to go with a 350, itd have to be an ls1. lt1 honestly cant compare and the ls6 is too rare. if you were to swap in an ls1, you could supercharge it and do some other little tinkerings for under $10k in parts and then youre making ~600hp and ~700tq. sounds like the smart thing to do if you REALLY want good bang per buck. btw, a 600hp&tq supercharged 5.7l chevy v8 would be about 10x more streetable/daily driveable than a 600hp&tq turboed 2jz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfish Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Has anyone ever heard of someone swapping out a sc400 and putting in a Chevy 350. I love the Lexus body style but lets face it, you can get a lot more power from a 350. Just a thought. ← to my knowledge... no. however, i know of an ls1 thats going into an e36. :D if i were to go with a 350, itd have to be an ls1. lt1 honestly cant compare and the ls6 is too rare. if you were to swap in an ls1, you could supercharge it and do some other little tinkerings for under $10k in parts and then youre making ~600hp and ~700tq. sounds like the smart thing to do if you REALLY want good bang per buck. btw, a 600hp&tq supercharged 5.7l chevy v8 would be about 10x more streetable/daily driveable than a 600hp&tq turboed 2jz. ← http://home.earthlink.net/~sc300tt3/SW-SC300T.wmvWhy go 350 when you can have this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean_8044 Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 what wiring? Exactly. What wiring does a pushrod V8 need? What about a SC400 with a JZ swap? In the 400 its going to be just as hard if not more to put in the JZ over an old-school V8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 yea especialy if you use a carbed one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernsc300 Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 someone made their 4.0 a 4.6 and ran some crazy times on the track, the thing was lout as hell to. wish i remember where that link was though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadistic Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 It may seem like sacrilige to ditch the toyota V8 for a chevy, but you could probably get just as much HP out of the 350 for half the cost in the 2J or 1UZ. Turbos are the replacement for displacement and you could slap em on either the 2j or 1uz, but then the cost goes up. You can find a 350 used alot less than a 2j since they practically fall from the skies. V8 to V8 theres no comparison in performance for dollar between the two, but 350 to 2j would be different. Only advantage that i could really see would be ease of installation for the 350. How much engine management/tuning/re-wiring will a pushrod v8 need in comparison to a high HP 2j? ← You can't really call a turbo the replacement for displacement, because there is no such thing. Forced induction on a larger motor in theory is going to make more power to a certain point. The only reason I like the idea of a 2J over a V8 is one, I don't want a pushrod motor, and two I like the powerband a lot more on a 2J than a V8. I don't want something that has 1,000 lb ft of torque and I can't get traction with. Where as I can build a 2J to have less power, be just as fast, and still drive it everyday if I wanted.. I've never seen a person with a 350 that twisted to 9 grand, had the useable powerband of a turbocharged engine, and drove it everyday. It's driveability, useability, and personality in my opinion. If I had a 1U motor, I would stroke it and supercharge it. Either that or make the room for a TT setup. That's what we were planning to do with our 1U that we have sitting around the shop. It was a dealer warranty motor.. Heads were junk, so we bought the block.. The block only had 3,000 miles on it, we were going to finish putting it together, and drop it into a tube chasis 90-93 Celica after turbocharging the block. Something that we've always wanted to do, but never had the time or the funds to really put the motor together. Can you imagine a small sheet metal, tube chasis Celica with a Twin Turbocharged 4 litre.. That would be a monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Curious Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 http://home.earthlink.net/~sc300tt3/SW-SC300T.wmvWhy go 350 when you can have this. ← because id rather have this: http://servinitup.com/videos/240z.mpeg darius 240z > any sc300 hell, id even take this mr2 over that sc: http://www.racingstrong.com/video/mr2v8-1.mpg northstar mr2 :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartkat Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 http://home.earthlink.net/~sc300tt3/SW-SC300T.wmvWhy go 350 when you can have this. ← because id rather have this: http://servinitup.com/videos/240z.mpeg darius 240z > any sc300 hell, id even take this mr2 over that sc: http://www.racingstrong.com/video/mr2v8-1.mpg northstar mr2 :D ← The car may be ok but the driver in the first one is dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Curious Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 The car may be ok but the driver in the first one is dangerous. ← why? because he kept it in control where as the average driver would be all over the place hitting *BLEEP*? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vector Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 american = crap jap=crap german=god the jap v8 sucks, the american v8 sucks, go with the bmw v8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 i would take a jap v8 over any v8 except one from ferrari, but thats not the casehere. the jap v8 is far superior than anyother in the world maybe not in power but as far as quality goes its the best, theres always ways to make more power but most times the motor gets louder, name another v8 with around the same displacement that puts out about the same power, and is as quiet and smooth as the UZ motors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Curious Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 american = crap jap=crap german=god the jap v8 sucks, the american v8 sucks, go with the bmw v8. ← mmm... narrowmindedness is so tasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Curious Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 i would take a jap v8 over any v8 except one from ferrari, but thats not the casehere. the jap v8 is far superior than anyother in the world maybe not in power but as far as quality goes its the best, theres always ways to make more power but most times the motor gets louder, name another v8 with around the same displacement that puts out about the same power, and is as quiet and smooth as the UZ motors. ← mmm... more narrowmindedness! btw, i HIGHLY doubt anybody whos wanting to swap a sbc into a uzz30 gives a rats !Removed! about sound. if anything, they want it to be loud and proud. see, heres the thing: people do engine swaps for more power, not to make their car quieter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernsc300 Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 american = crap jap=crap german=god the jap v8 sucks, the american v8 sucks, go with the bmw v8. ← hahaha your a funny guy. :chairshot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartkat Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 The car may be ok but the driver in the first one is dangerous. ← why? because he kept it in control where as the average driver would be all over the place hitting *BLEEP*? ← Amend that to dangerous and stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soslowsc Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 how about getting the best of both world, Twin Turbo V8. http://www.galebanks.com/twin-turbo-products.cfm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzz30 Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 yea i wouldnt really think about sound either if i were going all out making 600hp on pump gas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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