Beams toyota motor...

PittSpeed Automotive
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anyone know anything about them?

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Im sure burnyd will come in here and write you a short story about them, or maybe even a sonnet or two.

But apparently, their a high compression 3sge, their fairly rare and loved to be revved. They make somewhere in the neighborhood of ~200hp, obviously no turbo, these motors were designed to be NA only

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You looking at one? I have a friend that road races one…been pretty reliable from what he says…but his is internally stock.

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excellent… i’ll await the d’s input. sounds good so far.

not that it will happen, but since the tercel bombed on ebay, i was thinking of a motor to jam in it.

http://www.tigerjapanese.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=356&category_id=7&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26

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Not terribly overpriced either…that would be fun in a Tercel.

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there isnt many rwd toyota 4cyl options… id consider a 4age, but someone is already doing it on tercel4wd.com …im all about being different.

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It sounds like a super fun project. Speaking of BurnyD…he should see this:

http://roadraceautox.com/showthread.php?t=18745

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There okay motors… they came in the 4th generation of 3sge’s…

they are avaible from the following…

Over seas 6th gen celicas 94-99 ST202’s but only the SSII Version
IS300/Altezza
94-99 Caldina
Never in any USDM vehicles :frowning:

Overall good motor it makes 200hp/165ft lbs… if you get the one from the Altezza you will get dual VVT and not just vvt on the intake side… there really high compression motors for a stick motor 11:1. Unfortunately there is not much aftermarket for these cars as far as internals, there are a few places where you can buy itbs… you can always hook up AEM EMS to it since it is similar electronics to a 3sgte but as far as cams and internals being in the states would be really hard to source yourself.

I honestly do not think it is worth the time or money to swap one of these things into a vehicle. I have not checked in a long time but clips were very expensive the last time I looked.

So what were you looking to put a beams motor into?

Just purchase a ST185 clip. Or you can always put the beams on a E153 transmission. Let me know you can have my spare alltrac tranny I have no use for it.

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Thanks for the info man.

This will actually be rwd. i still have my 3sgte, but there’s probably no way to put a rwd trans on it. im also sure it would have to be stand-alone.

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rwd, then your going to need a r154 from a corolla like any ae86 cars or a supra… go to club4ag.com… theres converstions I just have never looked into it before…

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is this the 20v silver top motor with itbs? that motor loved to rev. had a customer with one. was pretty wild

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this is a little different… makes more power and is a 2.0l compared to a 1.6l… Beams from the factory is not ITB but there are a few places that make ITB’s for it… jay if I were you and wanted to do something creative just buy a silvertop 20v swap for it there really cheap and it will bolt into that same transmission wise so you can reuse it.

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so the beams motor and the 4age both use a r154 trans?

now what about this… the beams is coded 3s-ge … does that mean a 3sgte might have the same block to mate to that rwd trans??

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Beams is 3sge, 4age Silver top is 4age… the trans in the car currently is ment for a A series block hence the 4aGE…

like an alltrac tranny is ment for a S series block 3sgte…

the R154 tranny is ment for a A/M Series motors and is RWD, used in Corollas / supras(86-92) And would work.

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so there is no such thing as an S series rwd trans?