Copper head gasket advice?

The 2.7 liter in your truck is the motor I want to turbocharge and drop into my 1990 Pickup. It's the 3RZ and is supposed to be very good. They also have a 2RZ version without the internal balance shafts that revs a little higher if I'm not mistaken. Great motor though!

What sort of gas mileage do you see on your Tacoma?

Ray

 

Thanks!

Yeah I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along. I'll know more soon, once I get the cylinder head into the mix.

Ray

 

Have you see the turbo charged versions that people have done? You can pump 300-400 HP through the stock bottom end as far as I know. I'm planning on building that motor. It's way better than the V6 in a lot of ways.

Ray

 

Here is my list of Toyota 3RZ videos:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcrOZFKblE1SB8n-p68XKRTc745gwIUIq

There are some crazy motors on there.

Ray

 

Finally finished hand scraping the block. I learned a lot and it actually turned out really nice. Here are a couple of videos in case anyone was curious of the outcome. I opted to use a Fel-Pro PermaTorque head gasket (non-MLS version), as opposed to attempting to use the SCE copper ICS gasket (although it was tempting!)

 

Hi Beetle - I contacted the Three bond company and have been talking with them. Would you mind checking the tube of what you use and confirm for me that it's 1184? I noticed they have a few different versions that people tend to like for head gasket stuff.

Ray