being a 27 year old design, the 7MGE and GTE were absolutely game changing motors in their day. Look at what the Camaro, Corvette, 300ZX, and any other comparable car of the time was running...find me a non "super car" from 1987 and chances are, the GTE would run with it. Anything making power back then was a small block V8, so a 3.0 coming out of the gate at those power levels was mind boggling...