Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 09:13 pm, by: Emanuel Spinola(Manny)
David You may well be right about the 280T as I'm only going off memory, but I wouldn't have expected Lexus Australia to be so cheeky as to use it when they were using Neil in marketing the IS series back in 1999/2000.
"BEAMS" (Breakthrough Engine with Advanced Mechanism System) is pretty much all the VVTi versions of Toyota engines including the VVTi 1JZ-GTE and 2JZ-GE in the JZZ30/JZZ31 Soarers.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 09:22 pm, by: Neil Griffiths(Aussiesc)
Variable Timing +
In 1992, the 4AGE 1600 received VVT (Variable Cam Timing), individual throttle bodies, and an extra Valve > 4AGE 20V! It produced 160 HP, the equivalent of 10 HP for every 100cc- racing engine output comparable to the early days of Twin Cams! By 1997, the JZ six cylinder models and the 3SGE Beams gained VVT heads too.
In it’s final reiteration the 3SGE gained Dual VVTi head and remains in production for the Altezza. The 3SGTE never had the VVTi head, but internal upgrades and different turbos allowed it to produce 260 HP.
The 2ZZGE 1800 is the newest and maybe LAST G series Twin Cam engine. The use of aluminum blocks is also a first for a Toyota performance engine. Up-graded features include variable timing and variable lift, and tuned intake manifold.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 07:40 am, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
...and overnight, I was thinking you were probably right Manny . I am away for a few days from this morning but next time I am out that way I am going to ask, merely out of curiosity. If they were promoting the IS series I am not sure why they would put a four in it anyway so it is all a little puzzling.
Thanks for clarifying BEAMS as a technology. I guess that as a marketing term it never picked up the public so they settled for VVT-i
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Did they have a MOTES model as well?
