by TRD Man » Sun May 09, 2004 5:45 pm
We ran the EP71 from '90 to '94. It ran the 2E EFI engine. We built our own high compression pistons, head gaskets & designed our own cams for it. The car had TRD clutch, TRD LSD & suspension. A good car but limited by the std ECU and the std gearbox.
In'94 we built the country's first EP81 Rally car. This car was homologated with the same engine & box but we installed TRD pistons, cam, headgasket, injectors, ECU, LSD, clutch, close gear kit & final ratio, and anything else we could get our hands on.
As you would expect, a car with this much TRD gear was fantastic straight out of the box & required very little fine tuning at all.
Both cars ran the same TRD LSD and it ran faultlessly for over 50 events in 5 years including 4 Rally NZ's. It's probably still in service today somewhere.
It was soon after building the EP81 that we became NZ's TRD agent and we've sold literally hundeds of TRD LSD's since with very, very few problems.