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Re: TA22 Celica - V6 Conversion
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Sat, 05 February 2005 04:55
 
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THANK YOU for posting that chrisss!! At least somebody knows what time it is.
I see that lil buick v6 being ragged on here on the regular.... I only shake my head saying, "man these idiots don't have a clue".
Lots of folks here adopt the mentality that *only* dohc are 'performance motors'. Foolishness!
That v6 is an excellent, rugged reliable powerplant that even in n.a. can make decent hp/tq - trick is to gear a 'lightwt' car properly to take advantage of the torque.
I totally agree that they're not smooth like the import v6s tho.
I cut my teeth on buick v6s and know them very well. Having owned a buick GN I can tell you that you will go alot faster with FAR less money that you would be pumping into a 2jz... and NO you DON'T have to "throw alot of money" at them. A 10sec, full weight daily driven buick - try a stock unopened 150,000 mile motor boosted by a $700 turbo. Stock tranny and converter.
People snatch those drivetrains from junkyards and drop them into all sortsa imports... for eg. Stock high milage motor and turbo, swapped in to street rx7 FCs run mid 11s -reliably-
And for the record, there was a buick v6 campaigning to run with the 7.10sec pro-stock v8 field, WAY back in 1987. How fast do you think it would've been today, had it been allowed to compete. Competitors observing the car during 'shakedown' runs, said it could wipe out the field at will, with just one twist of the boost knob. Couldn't have that.
I wanted 'torquey' powerplants in my 2 corollas and no toyota 4 or 6 cylinder options made any sense to me either, so now I run mitsus 
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TA22 Celica - V6 Conversion
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peterb | Fri, 04 February 2005 06:59 |
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bbaacchhyy | Fri, 04 February 2005 07:09 |
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gianttomato | Fri, 04 February 2005 07:12 |
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Cool1 | Fri, 04 February 2005 07:15 |
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alex_ta22 | Fri, 04 February 2005 07:21 |
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bbaacchhyy | Fri, 04 February 2005 07:51 |
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Classique71 | Fri, 04 February 2005 08:23 |
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chrisss | Fri, 04 February 2005 11:25 |
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oldcorollas | Fri, 04 February 2005 11:42 |
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chrisss | Fri, 04 February 2005 12:05 |
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irishtwincam | Fri, 04 February 2005 13:08 |
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peterb | Fri, 04 February 2005 12:39 |
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chrisss | Fri, 04 February 2005 14:04 |
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irishtwincam | Fri, 04 February 2005 15:38 |
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quest | Sat, 05 February 2005 04:55 |
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gianttomato | Sat, 05 February 2005 05:12 |
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RA40 CELICA | Sat, 05 February 2005 07:14 |
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chrisss | Sat, 05 February 2005 07:39 |
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quest | Sat, 05 February 2005 12:11 |
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mrshin | Sat, 05 February 2005 13:38 |
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quest | Sat, 05 February 2005 23:28 |
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peterb | Sat, 05 February 2005 15:32 |
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MS-75 | Sun, 06 February 2005 00:27 |
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Cool1 | Sun, 06 February 2005 00:51 |
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Norbie | Sun, 06 February 2005 03:05 |
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brett_celicacoupe | Sun, 06 February 2005 03:18 |
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Norbie | Sun, 06 February 2005 03:33 |
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4agte | Sun, 06 February 2005 03:44 |
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hemi twofifteen turbo | Sun, 06 February 2005 04:51 |
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Cool1 | Sun, 06 February 2005 21:23 |
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mrshin | Mon, 07 February 2005 13:16 |
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hemi twofifteen turbo | Tue, 08 February 2005 07:49 |
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Norbie | Sun, 06 February 2005 08:05 |
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Cool1 | Sun, 06 February 2005 08:08 |
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hemi twofifteen turbo | Sun, 06 February 2005 13:25 |
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Cool1 | Mon, 07 February 2005 13:19 |
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chrisss | Mon, 07 February 2005 14:26 |
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Cool1 | Tue, 08 February 2005 07:51 |
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river | Tue, 08 February 2005 09:45 |
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jesseT18 | Tue, 08 February 2005 10:01 |
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river | Tue, 08 February 2005 10:17 |
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TA-022 | Tue, 08 February 2005 11:45 |
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mrshin | Tue, 08 February 2005 13:04 |
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foxtail | Wed, 09 February 2005 10:40 |
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TheStitt | Wed, 09 February 2005 23:23 |
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justcallmefrank | Thu, 10 February 2005 01:00 |
