seems like ever since shawn bagged his car....i've seen a lot of bagged vehicles around town. This is what darren, africa, and I saw at Sonny's Real Pit Barbeque.
Yeah, but we should use an old vag product, Im sure we can pick something up for pretty cheap, would be sweet. Oh and by the way I generally prefer a spelling with a k, not a c.
wow that thing is sick. I always wanted to build a drift car out of one of those. swap in a 2jz, custom a-arms all around and alot of stiffening. and of course keep it looking exactly like that one
Why does evryone always have to talk trash about the m series. The first 7ms had some issues, but when they released the updated torque specs for the head it worked fine, I never had any trouble with mine. And the rest of the m seires motors (1-6) were pretty reliable in my opinion. And while were at it, if you have to do a 2jz swap, why not at least keep it in the the toyota family and build a cressida. Yes I know some people are not very fond of them, but better then a crown vic.
Three cheers on the Cressy. To bad they are kinda a bitch to fit in a clutch master cylinder. Get a MX73 wagon, do the 7M swap. Killer.
Oh I dont have any problems with the 7M, I love all Toyota motors equally... I can physically tell it a 7M just by hearing it. (Mainly 1st gear, low RPM's and parking lot speed)
I think majority of ma70's floating around now have had head gasket and overheating problems so getting a good 7M is like playing the lotto.
I have a friend that decked his 7M head (overheated, BHG, replaced HG, blew that one, then decked it) so much he raised the compression 1/2 a point. *I cannot remember what they took off, but that is what it equated to.
Oh this makes me want to have a Toy Yoda again.
Cressy wagon drift-slut for the win.
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jghc wrote: Why does evryone always have to talk trash about the m series. The first 7ms had some issues, but when they released the updated torque specs for the head it worked fine, I never had any trouble with mine. And the rest of the m seires motors (1-6) were pretty reliable in my opinion. And while were at it, if you have to do a 2jz swap, why not at least keep it in the the toyota family and build a cressida. Yes I know some people are not very fond of them, but better then a crown vic.
STFU n00b!.....you would think after the 7th generation, toyota would have gotten it right......WRONG! never had any trouble with yours huh? whats that motor sitting in your drive way with a big hole in it?
The one in the driveway is actually a 5m, and thats bc the previous owner hit something on the freeway with the oil pan, bending it till it interfered with the crank, which is pretty sweet, the engine had approximatly 215k on it at that time.
Now the 7m with a hole has long since been sold, the whole also was not put there by me, but again the previouse owner. We bought it from like some salvatoin army kinda place, and im pretty sure some genius had run that particular engine with no oil and thats why it through a rod.
And finally my current 7m, ran till 230k, then we pulled it apart bc another genius po had run it pretty much without a intake for prob 50k at least, and so the oil controll rings were toast, it was still nice inside other then that, had the thatch markings from the factory on the cylinder walls still. And while we were in there we replaced the headgasket, and put in some new head bolts, to get that good torque, and thats pretty much my m series saga. And maybey 7 generations was a little much, boring out a block orgianally for 2 liters to 3, is why that had some problems early on, and after 27 years it was deffintly time for a replacement.
So back on subject, I saw the wagon again, actually driving down alfaya, I only saw it, bc I heard it scraping along the ground, and looked over in its gerneral direction, it looks even better in motion then it did in those stills Jamin took.
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