suprafreak

imo. the only reason why toyota discontinued the 7m only after 5 years is because of emissions. probably why they came out with the 2.5 1jz to replace it. which is honestly an updated restructured motor. and when toyotas vvti came out they made the 2jz and continued again with the 3.0 7m's power was futuristic back in the day. the ultra high performance 3.0 na made 200hp 190tq stock compare that to jeeps 4.0(high putput i6) 180hp 235tq. close numbers but its a 3litre compared to the 4.0. not ragging on the 4.0 tho. those motors are durable. oh and there was an Aspec race team i remember in japan that raced a souped up turbo A model cant really remember. my best advice on the 7m if anyone stumbles into this thread like i did by chance. is to get one. do the proper mods. its worth it. plus even after 25 years theres still alot of aftermarket support. the torque makes up for the supras thunder thighs believe me. its not a bad handling car either. car and driver(think it was car and driver. that or motor trend) rated it with .86g skid pad pretty good for and late 80s car. also note that it was never meant to be a full on sports car like a rx7 or a Z. more like a luxo cruiser but it deffiantly made them sweat. thanks to the 7m behind the 3600lbs tank

only if you dont run the right amount of oil levels. which you gotta be dumb to run a 7m on low oil levels because that motor is sensitive due to the low pressure high flow system. my 7mgte has 309k miles all stock. hg gave out around 170k. did the metal hg wity arps. i rather have have reliability rather than power. never rebuilt my motor but never had any rod problems. i looked at that thread. pretty much everyone gave a reason why they had problems. low oil. ect ect. main reason. other reasons is just age. had mine for 10 years and i agree its a bullet proof block. the head design is somewhat a three angle valve job stock.and also somewhat hemispherical i had another one i worked on. scale to one to ten on easiness. one being 2000 daewoo laganza (i hate) 10 being old school small block i have to say around 7 also nobody takes into account that the 7m is a torque monster. i did a 7mge-t and kept the 9.2comp ratio. i got 218rwhp and 267rwt. at 7psi very fun. hard conversion tho. whatever anybody decides is their opinion and i respect it. just giving a detailed analysis about the 7m. my 7mge-t project cost me $2300 and ran the limits on 93 octane around 10psi. i was running high twelves. but with the rod thing. its just a misunderstanding about oil level sensitivity imo. im not sure about 400+hp tho. only had my na-t around 350hp but from the hks gain thread. they were running 500hp with stock internals reliably two cents