So im blew my 7mge Motor

[carl johansson]

Originally Posted by stepchild

Hey so i blew the motor in my 1988 toyota supra 7mge while i was out havin abit of fun with her, and now im either looking into rebuilding the motor and was wondering what it has cost some of you guys in the past and how much you recommend to bore over the pistons and what not. also i was looking into gettin a 7mgte since i cant seem to find any 7mge kickin around. so i was wondering if i could simply bolt up a 7mgte motor to my non turbod car without changin the ecu tranny or anything else. just bolt it up and go???? no turbo or anything. atleast not yet.

so if you have any recomendations please let me know, this car is gorgeous and i want her back on the road for this summer. hopefully sooner so it can go in for its airbrushing so please give me any sort of advice . itll be greatly appreciated

thanks Kyle

I don't get it man. how much do you have to abuse these things to blow em up? We have an 86.5 and an 88. Both are used in 24 hours of lemons racing. essentially 2 days 8 - 10 hours per day of roadracing. we run the snot out of these things - and they never burp, don't burn oil - nothing - all they do is run. The engine in the 86 had 150K miles on it - we redid the head gasket - and since then it has run 7 races - over 4500 miles of racing - with absolutely no issues - we shift it at 6K - heel and toe it to match RPM - and the damned thing just keeps running. we assume it has to break sometime - but so far - this thing is amazing.

Carl Johansson