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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 01:04 PM
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Heres the post I put up a couple days ago on this motor it is the complete ad Found this on e-bay thought someone might like it

TRD 3.0L 3VZ Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart Baja Race Engine
Custom-made, TRD Works Engine Built for Ivan Stewart Item number: 110150161562

Own a piece of history!!! This is a custom-built race engine. All parts specially cast, made and machined by Toyota Racing Development's Race Engine shop, the same folks making the NASCAR race motors. Back when Ivan "the Iron Man" Stewart was fully factory backed with a small army of Toyota technicians and engineers, TRD and PPI hand built a limited run of 3.0L engines to dominate SCORE Baja racing and they DID! Capable of nearly 400 horsepower on a full on race tune, these motors carried Ivan Stewart to multiple Baja 500 and 1000 wins. Most of the motors and parts disappeared to collectors or TRD scrap parts bins but this one got away. It lurked in the shadows of TRD until it was put back into action in a Class 7S race truck by a TRD engineer in 2001. He raced a year or so then sold the truck to the Long Beach Racers who campaigned the truck and WON the Baja 1000 on this motor in 2004. This is a winning, strong motor built with Toyota reliability. The Long Beach Racers ran the truck another 2 years and wanted to switch to Class 7SX which allows for 3.4L motors and more competition. During the Baja 250, they spun a bearing and instead of rebuilding the motor, they decided to make the switch to 3.4L. So if you're looking for a high horsepower motor to run or race or you want to put a piece of history on display in your showroom, this is the last chance for this motor to be available. If you could even get TRD to make you one of these, you'd pay a couple hundred grand or more. The heads are one-off castings for high flow with matching intakes, dry sumped, girdled block, etc. If you know racing and Baja racing at that, you know how rare this opportunity is. Auction includes: TRD 3VZ Racing Engine, including dry sump and pump, ECU's and headers. Basically a complete engine that needs a bottom end rebuild. Spare Parts: Lots of spare sheet metal timing belt covers, etc. 3 cam shafts 1 crankshaft 3 dry sump pans 3 main bearing supports / crank position sensor mounts 4 sets of heads 4 intake manifolds 2 injection systems 1 set of valve covers 1 power steering reservoir 6 ignition coils 7 cam pulleys Lots of spare valves and springs, both new and used Braded stainless steel Dry sump lines with AN fittings 160 amp alternator 1 Ultra Filter oil filter can Extra oil lines 15 velocity stacks 2 crankshaft pulleys New distributor cap TIG welded chrome moly motor mounts I have more pictures with better shots of the spare parts I will email to bidders. Sorry, eBay limits the amounts of pictures I can post.
y minus pics but the listing number is there for all to go look into and pick apart.

NOTICE IT SAYS CAPABLE OF 400 HP ON FULL RACE TUNE does not seem to me hes not claiming its a400 hp motor but could be made to be in full race form.

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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 01:25 PM
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He's got a reserve of almost $4000 on it?
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 07:29 AM
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I asked him about the power and his answer makes sense.

"No. The comment of "nearly 400hp" comes from what I've heard
they were capable of on an all out race tune ECU with racing fuel
and super high RPM. As mentioned, the LBR team detuned the
ECU or rev limit to go easier on the motor. I have not seen or
know of an actual dyno run for hard numbers. I'm sure when
TRD built the motor, they did but I don't have access to their
data. I have heard that back in the day they quoted lower
numbers as well to keep actual power numbers a secret with the
logic being, if the competition thinks you are only making
325hp, they may build for 350hp and focus their efforts
elsewhere on the truck. But hey, they can squeeze 350hp from a
Goody's Dash 3.0L motor with a carburator and that's on factory
block and heads.
"

Frank
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Old Jul 27, 2007 | 10:06 AM
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damn you guys need to read the sellers description before argueing about all these hypothetical what ifs.

he said nearly 400 with a full on race tune... didnt claim it was 400 if you just dumped it into your pickup...

good research elripster
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Old Jul 28, 2007 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by elripster
But hey, they can squeeze 350hp from a
Goody's Dash 3.0L motor with a carburator and that's on factory
block and heads.
"
Frank

Say wha who when where what? Anybody know more about what a Goodys Dash motor is?
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Old Jul 28, 2007 | 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by sh0kk86
damn you guys need to read the sellers description before argueing about all these hypothetical what ifs.

he said nearly 400 with a full on race tune... didnt claim it was 400 if you just dumped it into your pickup...

good research elripster

But this thread was amusing
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