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Old 08-20-2011, 01:42 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by Dimman View Post
It's interesting how the 2JZGTE (also with cast pistons) has this reputation of being indestructible. But lately in the Supra community, as the price in Canada for Mk4's has come down and getting into the hands of noobs who want to 'tune' them, there are way more reports of failures.

Users can always out-stupid smart engineering.

Understood.

But I was responding to your original statement: "a factory ECU tuned to almost no margin of error for temp or fuel differences." If the factory is f.-ing up the engineering, then that ain't good.

EDIT: Unless you mean that owners are tuning a factory ECU and making it whack . . . ?
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