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Originally Posted by Dragonitti
Man if I had a dollar for every time someone said something about the engine being shared with the Camry. Guess that makes it a Camry, Rav4, and Corolla XRS all at the same time because they share a 2az-FE. Oh but wait, it has the same braking system as the Celica GTS....guess that makes it a Celica too.
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I respect the fact that you're working with the FE engine. It's just the fact that the majority of Toyotas that the tuning market has worked with were/are GE, GZE (supercharged), and GTE (turbocharged) wide angle heads and typically co-developed with Yamaha. (I'm sure you know this though...)
Therefore you can see why peoples scepticism when they ask you why on earth you're tuning a FE engine that's also found in the Camry. And although I understand the reasons for Toyotas discontinuation of the GE in the sport compact and tuning market, I (like most enthusiasts) don't support their decision and wish they had worked around it. Simply put, no one would bug you if Toyota had produced a 2AZ-GE that put out 210bhp stock and was shared with the 4 cylinder Camry SE and XRS models.