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Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 00:31
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I was in Melbourne a few days ago, and was lucky enough to meet up with that friend of mine who fitted the 1UZ-FE four litre quad-cam V-8 into his AE-86.
The engine is basically stock apart from some well-made home-built extractors and a Motec to run it. He reckons it's aboug 300hp, and it'd be at least that.
Anyway, I knew it would be pretty darn quick but I wasn't prepared for just how fast it would be!!!!
We pulled away from the curbing, and he hit it in 1st, breaking into wheelspin. Picking 2nd gear didn't help as it spun the rear tyres almost all the time as well. 3rd gear was much better, with only a second or so of wheelspin before getting traction and then feeling a mighty hand pushing me back into the seat.
Very hard indeed.
He briefly picked 4th gear - again with a goodly chirp of tyres spinning - but we were running out of road quickly so a hefty stop was neeeded.
Oh yes, it stops as well! he's got some very large Celica brakes on it so the stopping power matches the GO power.
Round the first corner, then the same again through the gears.
A couple of corners later - and slower! - we came up to a typical 90° corner. The car was in 5th gear, but he didn't bother to change down, he just went around the corner at about 700rpm, then pulled away without any effort or complaint at all. When the engine was up at about 1500rpm, that familiar urge was starting to build up noticably again.
It's a little nose heavy with that big engine stuffed into the front, but the straight-line performance makes it just a HUGE amount of fun.
FWIW, bigger cams & a vastly more efficient inlet manifold have been talked about ..... 
[Updated on: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:42]
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Brisbane
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July 2002
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 00:50
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lol.. that would be nuts
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sunny coast, qld
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October 2002
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 01:17
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SOUNDS AWESOME!!!
got any pics or vids by any chance?
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Campbelltown, NSW, Austra...
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January 2004
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 01:53
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That car must have huge amount of torque.
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Brisbane
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November 2002
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 11:05
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Fantastic Bill, Sprinters aren't really my thing these days but a good bit of technology does wonders for my opinion!
(OT) How's the 3S going.... remember seeing it at the carpark when it was only just together, have you sorted out the bugs yet?
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Brisbane / Gold Coast
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May 2002
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sat, 22 May 2004 12:13
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It's still not finished, mainly because I'm not at home much and we are tryng hard to get the Fraser finished ASAP anwyay.
Not a huge amount more to do on it, just sort out the fuel pressure, speedo drive, and a couple of other little problems.
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Location:
Brisbane
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July 2002
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Re: Went for a ride in the 1UZ powered Sprinter
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Sun, 23 May 2004 00:12
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there are pics on his thread on PF
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