1stgen4gunner

Hey guys, how is everyone, haven't posted in a while, just a question on how anybody likes the 3VZE-FE compared to the 3VZE, is there a huge noticeable difference?

mt_goat

Huh? 3VZFE is in a Camry IIRC, do you mean 5VZFE?

1stgen4gunner

It was only in the Camry? I was looking up the different engines on Wikipedia, and it stated that from 92-95 they started putting 3VZE-FE engines in 4runners, sorry bout that musta read it wrong.

1stgen4gunner

Actually, another question, how does a 95 3vze compare to say a 88 3vze, are they basically just the same?

1stgen4gunner

Also read your sig line mt goat, you must have one damn nice rig.

1stgen4gunner

Thanks man you can stop rubbing my stupidity in my face now, lol

space-junk

iTrader: (1)

on another note, i heard that the 3vzfe and the 3vze blocks are the same, just the heads and intake are different... i know that there is a thread that is around about it, but i just thought id ask since this one is here...

mt_goat

Thanks, it gets around pretty good.

mt_goat

I'm not sure what's different on the blocks, but there is some difference. The 3VZFE is a transaxle mount for the front wheel drive Camry. Yeah there is a big thread on here where one guy was trying to put 3VZFE heads on a 3VZE block, but he never got it done.

934RunnerPR

Im going to try it out ill tell ya whats up .Gotta repair my 3.slow anyway

RSR

Short blocks aren't exactly the same... The crank on the 3vzfe is heat treated. The 3vze isn't. Think it's the same for the piston rods...

The long block is another story... The 3vzfe is DOHC, the 3vze is SOHC. Etc. Etc.

Some of the peformance 3vzes that folks sell make a lot of changes that move the 3vze short block closer to the 3vzfe, but it's still an ugly duck compared to the 5vzfe -- the next gen V6 found in Tacomas, next gen 4 runners, etc. It's a DOHC and has a far improved intake system. And well, it was also designed for metal, not asbestos, headgaskets like the 3vze and 22re... Cost is pretty much the same as the 5vzfe these days and it's definitely an easier swap than the 3vzfe...

That said, some parts like the 3vzfe AFM, igniter, and some other parts do swap, but they're two separate engines designed to perform different roles..

Basically, the 3vze is identical to the 22re in a lot of respects. Made to be reliable and good enough, not maximize performance like the 3vzfe.

Add a supercharger to the 5vzfe and it has the highest performance specs of nearly any engine we can put in our rigs...

t100 noob

cant add a supercharger to my engine without doing the ecu swap ect.. ect.. 1995 t100 5vz-fe

934RunnerPR

bold patterns , and some angle bettween heads , not possible without a Chop shop Near

RSR

There's been some turbos done on 2nd/3rd gen pickups and 1st/2nd gen 4runners with 3.4 swaps. The most recent one I've seen was a rear mount turbo.

CJM

Had a camry with the 3vz-fe and lemme tell you what-that sucker had some balls! Its basically a performance engine, I could chirp the tires in 2nd gear if I layed into it enough and it was an automatic.