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My JZX100 Chaser's engine blew up! I rebuilt the engine in two days, and now we’re going to the dyno to make power and tune the new engine!
This is where the 1JZ comes in. Since it doesn't carry the somewhat rockstar status of its bigger brother, you could get this smaller engine (or a car that has it) which delivers good power at a ...
Lately I've been contemplating buying a JDM right-hand-drive Toyota Soarer as a drift/street car project and in the process have found myself digging up information about the lesser-known 1JZ-GTE ...
See, this V12 engine was made by melding two Toyota 1JZ 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-sixes together at the crank. And it was almost entirely home-built by a long-time hot-rodder with ...
But before the 2JZ there was the 1JZ, and before the 1JZ was the 1G-GTE, the first twin-cam twin-turbo production engine from any Japanese manufacturer. Now, if the 1JZ is the father of the 2JZ ...
In the case of Toyota’s 1JZ and 2JZ, all three of those boxes are unequivocally ticked. So what are we dealing with exactly? Well, the 1JZ and 2JZ are both from the Toyota JZ engine family which was ...