5m in mk3???

[Poodles]

LOL @ 7M not being reliable.

The life expectancy of an engine is only 100K miles, it's what they're designed for. So people buy nearly 200K miles engines and expect them to take mods without shitting.

Only reason the 1J and 2J are "better" from a reliability standpoint is because they're NEWER and have less miles, nothing more.

 

[RockPaperSwoRD]

LOL @ 7M not being reliable.

The life expectancy of an engine is only 100K miles, it's what they're designed for. So people buy nearly 200K miles engines and expect them to take mods without shitting.

Only reason the 1J and 2J are "better" from a reliability standpoint is because they're NEWER and have less miles, nothing more.

its well documented that the 7M has/had a headgasket flaw. the headgasket wasnt torqued adequately, leading to the common bhg problem around here. sure you can get around it by putting a mhg and arps, but stock for stock, a JZ will always be more reliable

 

[Poodles]

If it had a flaw, it would have had a recall, yet again, over 100K miles issue...

 

[InFrnt0fU]

Only reason the 1J and 2J are "better" from a reliability standpoint is because they're NEWER and have less miles, nothing more.

Lemme just put that up there again. To also add and defend the 7M, new isn't always more reliable, generally newer anything will have bugs or something that hasn't been worked out yet...cause its NEW. I'm sure if you could find some sort of statistic on the reliability of transmissions, manual transmissions would come out on top as being more reliable than automatics with the definition of reliable being less parts broken or parts to replace and especially the longevity of parts.

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[IJ.]

its well documented that the 7M has/had a headgasket flaw. the headgasket wasnt torqued adequately, leading to the common bhg problem around here. sure you can get around it by putting a mhg and arps, but stock for stock, a JZ will always be more reliable

And being common knowledge fools STILL crank the boost on unopened 7M's then come here pissing and moaning about how crap 7M's are and how they're doing a 1Jz swap.....

ONLY way a 5M makes sense is if you already own a killer engine that's been built with the best parts and it's fresh enough to continue using without a freshen up.

 

[Lienhop Photo]

wow everyone is so high strung about diffrent motors. the mk2 is sweet but like a conquest its cool but I love my mk3 more and it looks better imo. im keeping the mk3 and getting a turbo motor just didnt know if it was worth it since its so cheap

 

[mattsplat72]

This is retarded.

 

[mkIIIman089]

If it had a flaw, it would have had a recall, yet again, over 100K miles issue...

Documented 33k miles was blown and had rod knock for my car... not even close to 100k miles before failure. Many flaws, unless a safety hazard are either quietly fixed or simply ignored. Look at GM's LIM gasket/dex-cool catastrophe...

That being said I am definitely pro 7M, IMO it's idiotic to spend 5x as much money to put a 1JZ in, rather than simply remedy your 7M's problem. A 1JZ, I might add, with an untold history, nearly 0 OEM parts availability, marginally more power, and instead of head gaskets... they eat stock turbos like it's going out of style.

 

[hvyman]

sigh only if they recalled the hg probelm.