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Originally Posted by vh_supra26
Some guys over at SF were hoping to swap a 2JZ into the 86. Will it work, is there room?
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One of the guys on newcelica.org Shoved one into the last generation Celica. He had to mangle the hell out of the engine bay and the fire wall. But, he did it.
My dream swap has always been to shove the drivetrain from an STI into my celica. For no good reason other than to say that I did.
I didn't read through all 11 pages here, but I did see some people talking about the 2ZZ on the first page. Agreeably, the 2ZZ is torqueless and only now are they getting over 200whp out of an NA build thanks to a new intake manifold that one of the forum members came out with. Really, the only way to make gobs of power is through FI and swapping out just about everything in the short block. Even then, the highest horsepower 2ZZ Celica is a drag car built by Monkeywrench Racing and it tops out around 600 whp.
For me, it's not really the ultimate horsepower that matters, but the power to weight ratio and a good 6 speed manual transmission. If I can get the FT86 to somewhere between 1:6.5 and 1:7.5 I would be happy. Even happier if the thing would redline at 8k rpm.