Toyota engines

[pdennis30]

Hi Just a quick one Do all Elise's now have toyota engines and if so what year did they start,
thanks.

[djroadboy]

Only the 111R and S2 Exige have Toyota engines. The standard car and 111S still use the k-series.

HTH

Dan

[pdennis30]

Thanks Dan , do the later K-series still suffer the hgf

[bogie]

nope - very rare on the S2 Elise, except for the 135R which had the head retrofitted.

[Scuffham]

bogie said:

nope - very rare on the S2 Elise, except for the 135R which had the head retrofitted.

you having a laugh?

[bogie]

wink was missing off the end

[VTECMatt]

2002 MY on my 3rd

[Davey S1]

There seems to have been a spate of HGF's recently on both S1's and S2's.

[djroadboy]

The quality of castings on the later heads seems to be lower than the early ones. This leads to more problems with porosity and therefore HGF.

Dan

[[k]ar|]

There is an excellent article on the K-series, including the HGF issue here...

www.sandsmuseum.com/cars/elise/thecar/engine/kingk.html

Hope this helps,

[k]

[Scuffham]

define "excellent"?

most of that artical is pure conjecture etc.

the *facts* in it are somewhat inacurate, and where is this mirrical 100% reliable K with 300Bhp?

[[k]ar|]

Define "inacurate" and "mirrical"

What are your issues specifically with the article? Instead of simply stating that it's inaccurate/conjecture/etc, it might be of greater assistance to the OP to hear more details from you?

[k]


>> Edited by [k]ar| on Sunday 3rd April 17:03

[djroadboy]

I think Simon probably gets a bit sick of saying the same things over and over. That article is far from excellent. I can't be arsed to go into it either. Its Sunday!

K series engines are not reliable for a number of different reasons. Fact!

Dan

[[k]ar|]

I've not seen any of Simon's other posts re: the K-series, as I have a Toyota-powered car so they're not relevant to me.

I was simply trying to help out a fellow PH'er by linking them up to a page I had seen on the relevant topic. It seemed to be detailed and informative re: the HGF issue, hence my describing the article as "excellent".

Why did I bother

[k]

[djroadboy]

Indeed!

>> Edited by djroadboy on Sunday 3rd April 20:16

[Scuffham]

[quote=[k]ar|]I've not seen any of Simon's other posts re: the K-series, as I have a Toyota-powered car so they're not relevant to me.

I was simply trying to help out a fellow PH'er by linking them up to a page I had seen on the relevant topic. It seemed to be detailed and informative re: the HGF issue, hence my describing the article as "excellent".

Why did I bother

[k]

[/quote]

not being evasive, just CBA to repeat myself.

I suggest you look though the relevalt threads on Seloc, they cover 99% of it.

suffice to say, it's not a matter of opinion that it's mostly Bollocks, there are *many* factual problems in it.