Lexus V8

[Graham]

I was talking possibly motors for the tuscan racer, and someone suggested the Lexus V8 as a possibility. now I know nothing about these motors does anyone have any info

Cheers

graham

[tuttle]

There has been some discussion over in JapChat on the 1UZFE V8 & other favourite Jap engines over the last few months.
Great engine, extremely well designed,engineered & built. A standard mid-'90s N/A is putting out around 260 bhp at that level it is so unstressed it's almost just ticking over. Plenty of turbo conversions, & even one or two in aeroplanes iirc.
This site has some very useful stuff & links.
www.1uzfe.com/

p.s. If it's any use, there was an article in PPC a few month back on alternates to small block V8's, which included the Lexus 1UZFE V8.
Cheers
Matt

>> Edited by tuttle on Tuesday 21st March 14:50

[stevieturbo]

Also check here...

www.lextreme.com/forums/index.php?

There is no doubt they are an excellent engine.

[Tony427]

I'm building two Cobra replicas that have Lexus V8's, 1UZFE's to be exact.

They are a lovely engine to work on, extremely reliable and easily tunable. Respond extremely very to bit of Forced Induction up to 8 psi on standard internals and up to 12 psi with aftermarket ECU. Put in low compression pistons and youre looking at a reliable 16 to 20 psi boosted V8 putting out over 500bhp.

I must say that having built a Cobra with the 4.4 litre BMW V8 the Lexus is as good, and definitely easier to work on.

As mentioned www.lextreme.com is a fantastic resource on these engines and just what backyard engineers can do with them and theres a growing tuning scene with manual gearbox conversions and transaxle conversions becoming common.

If you want any info/ pictures etc I've got one engine on the floor and the other in a Cobra, so just ask away.

Cheers,

Tony

>> Edited by Tony427 on Wednesday 22 March 22:17

[kenmorton]

There is one in a Lexsu Soara import in my local scrapy that I'm sure would go for cheap money. Only problem is thinking of something to put it in ( havn't finished the project I'm building at the moment )