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building this engine will give me good power on a budget especially as im going to take my time doing it, but adding the charger will probably take a back seat. the biggest thing that attracted me to this engone is its apparent bulletproof reliability and its scope for tuning. all in all im happy enough with this route., the 3vz can take some abuse. Strip the 3vz down and rebuild it all back up as new. Then when the money is ok id be looking at turbo charging and going standalone. On a budget then the above....depending on what i found first...3vz or 3sgte. and what a interesting journey that was.... got 3/4 of the way there and noticed it felt a bit wrong when slowing for corners... i stopped in a layby and dropped the trailer and took the towcar for a spin, it was much less pronounced but still pulling to the left under moderate brakeing. tossed a coin and decided that as it was controllable id hook back up and take it easy. so instead of going home via the Atlantic highway which is very twisty i steered a course for oakhampton and went home on the a30. i decided id stop if it got any worse and call the rac. it didnt get any worse and i got all the way back home to the trailers hiding place with no real problems. dropped the trailer and went home. i decided as i had 5 mins to have a poke round the rear brakes. rhs caliper still has material on but very nearly metal to metal. i recon that caliper is sticking hence the uneven braking.... so much for just having passed a mot.... . alls well that ends well.
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stuff if you decide not to use it. Also the air-con compressor is worth keeping if your not using it
send me a link 
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Its happened to me once.. . 
works great 
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.. until you add the extras.... 
. £70 for the 250-500kg one £10 for a box of timber bolts rated high enough to do the job and bobs yer uncle. 
Just make sure the track on the roof is strong enough and you don't end up pulling the ceiling down when you try to lift the engine. 
'leg' and 4 legs, should be plenty. plus theyre bolting into 9"x3" roof trusses. no sign of any untoward movement whilst pulling a landrover engine transfer and gearbox out as a unit...
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(notwithstanding motorbikes) with this high a power to weight ratio, so rather than learn its handaling caracteristics the hard way first time out, i took it easy. ish. any ideas? Your find this messes with the power steering as its supposed to turn off at about 55mph but it doesnt till much later.(very rare) or do what i did and fit uk speedometer. Unfortuantely this does put back the 112mph limiter but if your not going on track then you wont need it. You could always wire the delimiter/convertor at the ecu end.... and it still tops out at 115mph.