Hello guys, I have such a question, is there a prius 51 and a desire to increase power, does anyone have experience in similar alterations, it may be worth putting camshafts from 2ZR-FE, or shifting the phases on the original camshafts
Is there a possibility that the 2ar turbo guys make more torque at 400whp than the 2az turbo guys make? Torque is what breaks these transmissions. Anyway, I am rewatching the video as I am getting ready to rebuild a e359f gearbox with e351 gears. Thanks again!
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No, the block is completely toast with a half dozen new inspection ports. Thankfully this is just a stock minivan motor that Toyota made for over a decade, it's hardly rare.
Can a 2gr fse make the same power? I want to make my IS350 a sleeper. Currently only have long tube headers, & a hks hi power single exit exhaust. Theres just not alot of support for the fse compared to fe. So I wonder if I can use parts you sell for the fe on the fse
@FrankensteinMotorworks Ahhh.. That's unfortunate. I'm planning to do a single turbo build here soon for it. Sucks trying to be unique & Different with huge obstacles in the way. Almost makes me want to give up the project before proceeding. I'm doing nitrous first, but I asked because your velocity stack hi ram caught my attention. Due to the fact I don't want to get nitrous backfire incase the plastic plenum decided to grenade. Well I'm just going to see where things lead, it'll either be really fun or a huge waste of money & time. Guess I'll have to find out myself. Wish the fse had this much information & aftermarket support like the FE
@@FrankensteinMotorworks maybe in the future, you can help out some of Lexus guys with the fse. Theres alot of people wanting to push the platform, but are just lost not knowing where to start
i have a 2006 IS350, I really would like 300/320 Wheel I have seen some of your videos but they do change a bit specially in design. My question is, what’s the shortest/surest way I can do that? What do I need for sure as of what’s known atm?
You put that lower manifold on a white mr2 and got 330hp a few videos ago. You said it was essentially a stock drop in 2gr otherwise the 263a kelford cams and cat back x pipe. So was that run done with stock headers? Still catted exhaust? Running on non oxygenated fuel? And was it a 10.8 or 11.8 compression ratio 2gr?
stock block, 10.8:1 compression with the 263-a cams, valve springs and the Frankenstein Motorworks headers with the TCS y-pipe. This was with normal 93 octane fuel, no oxygenation.
@@saitamahitjelyman898 Yeah, Toyota really built us a beast here that just needed a bit of studying to figure out how to get the best out of it. I've actually got a new version of this build coming together that does use high compression but i will still be using normal 93 octane fuel in it. The cams have also been tweaked slightly with the intention of hitting over 350whp. As for the supercharger i actually did a lot of work to fit that supercharger in the MR2 and got it working. that supercharger was so awful i dropped the project and removed it after driving it around for a week, it's not a good match for this motor at all and yeah we can get very similar power numbers without it.
@@FrankensteinMotorworks i rate a motor by its ability to produce and hold torque for as long as possible. Builds with a torque spike up near the end of the rpm band that achieve maximum kw for bragging rights have less appeal to me. And im sure a lot of people understand that for the majority of street reasonable builds, low rpm torque efficiency beats high rpm. So im glad you didn’t stick with the 400hp build with 263c cams and call it a day. And i like how you display your graphs. Theres a lot of dodgy ways to display graphs. Yours are good
@@saitamahitjelyman898 I really try to be as honest as i can be with the data. I also try to make a point to show atmospheric conditions on the runs and i try to dyno on days with a near zero correction factor. I am continuing the high horsepower build but this 350whp setup will be a much better seller so that's a priority.
@@FrankensteinMotorworks exactly, street spec sells best. Im always posting appreciation posts for a few iconic motors. This is one that i think goes under a lot of peoples noses. So i repost it. This engine and ongoing development to it gives power to the people because of its super high availability and reliability. More than is usually allowed. Seeing stuff like this genuinely gives me hope that we can have nice things in this deteriorating world. Your name comes up a lot when i make those posts, so youre doing something big. Stay safe!
Your work is awesome. I even like how you display your graphs correctly. Ive always said 2grs are just a new intake manifold away from being competitively power efficient, and youve done the r&d to make this hero engine into what it should be. So this engine right here had stock headers and cats? And did it have 10.8 or 11.8 compression ratio? Running on what fuel?
Do you think your support for the 2ar-fe will continue for the next couple of years? Your manifolds, cams shafts, and valve set are on my list. Im waiting for my dealership warranty to expire 🫢
I have absolutely no idea what you're doing or how that contraption is eating that block away but uou definitely seem like a professional and this is intriguing.
What would be the fix for speedometer being erratic ie: start the car and speed jumps up to 20mph in park and falls back down. Cruising at low speed speedo needle hits 180 and back etc?
I really haven't had any need to look into the speedometer mechanism but if your MR2 is 91-92 this is usually due to a bound up cable, if it's 93+ i'd bet there's a good chance you have capacitors that have gone bad on the board.
Hi, Marc. First of all - thank you, you are the man!! Your craftsmanship and knowledge and modesty - I appreciate it a lot. Now the question: did you remove the balance shaft assembly from AR engine? If yes - how it affects longetivity? Is there any power gain? Some say the balancers are there only for creature comfort, some say the engine will grenade itself without balance shaft. What's your opinion? Thank you!!
I generally delete the balance shafts, it does not have an effect on engine reliability and in theory it allows more power to make it to the wheels but i have not measured the difference. At a factory 650rpm idle this motor does have a decent vibration without them, i would probably not remove them on a street car.
Hitting 320-330whp (100hp more than stock) can be done. The recipe for that is here: frankensteinmotorworks.squarespace.com/stockecuna2gr the MR2 exhaust parts won't bolt up to your rav4 so you'll need some custom parts there but most of the stuff can be purchased off the shelf.
The ideas would likely work but the parts would have to be different, the 2GR-FSE is different in many small ways that prevent most 2GR-FE parts from bolting on.
Great stuff 👍 Do you know/remember what the combined torque figure is for the stock 2.5 hybrid (Camry) engine? Have you dyno tested that? Can't find any torque figures at all.
Great series. I see several parts purchases in the future from you. I have noticed that all of the videos are bypassing the AC. If I still want to have AC as I am not planning on racing mine, do you have anything that can augment what you are showing here?
At the time you could have paid a ton of extra money and upgraded to 16mb or 32mb but it would be hard to find those boards today to upgrade it and I would still have to pay an unlock fee to use that extra space. It would be a bit more useful with that extra space there but the reality is that even with 32mb you generally can't fit a more complicated program on there anyways. Even brand new machines these days only ship with 1gb and you can upgrade them to 32gb or 64gb. They price the memory on these things like they do on iphones.
