gtt caldina gold badge.

[moose]

hey everyone.
ive just joined. ive sold my mitsi and just brought a gtt caldina.
the badges on the back are gold. gold toyota symbol and gtt gadge.
does this mean anything or is it just another gtt.
i havnt seen another caldina with gold badging.
any help would be great.
also the engine is a 3s-gte. is that just a mr2 motor?.
thanks
rowan.

[dazzag]

sorry dunno if gold is anything special but yeah the turbo lateish mr2s have that engine and also the gt4 celicas

[moose]

thanks dazzag.
i was told it was a lexus model. but i dont think it would be. he told me because it has yamaha on the side of engine it had bigger valves and all sorts of other things done to it. i imported it from japan it has been worked on but im not sure what im dealing with.

[dazzag]

ok yeah yamaha do make some of the heads for toyotas like the 3SGEs in the altezza which have extra work done to them with the ports and vavles being bigger and better. Altezza have a lexus equvilent cant remember the model (i think its is200) which is pretty much exactly the same which is probably why you got told it was the same as the lexus

[Flyboy]

the is200 with the 3SGE is the RS200.....

[moose]

so its a toyota engine with a is200 head?. nothing special or is it?. what gains do i get from it its pretty puss down low but 3rd gear and upwards are fantastic.

[Flyboy]

i dont think its an is200 head as they have 1G-FE in them...

[dazzag]

must be rs200 as i said i couldnt remember.... but yeah they are better than just a ordinary 3sgte head. would be more noticable in the high rev range

[moose]

wicked. thanks for your help.

[fivebob]

ok yeah yamaha do make some of the heads for toyotas like the 3SGEs in the altezza which have extra work done to them with the ports and vavles being bigger and better.

must be rs200 as i said i couldnt remember.... but yeah they are better than just a ordinary 3sgte head. would be more noticable in the high rev range

Sniff, sniff.... yep smells like BS to me, what's the tech forum coming to that this blatantly incorrect info stays around for so long unchallenged

All 3S's have a Yamaha head, as well as a lot of other Toyota engines. It's all part of a technology sharing agreement between Toyota and Yamaha that's been going on for the last 30 years or so. There's nothing special about a Toyota engine with a Yamaha head, it's more common than not for that to be the case.

Don't know if the gold badges signify anything but I don't think so.

The Caldina engine is not quite the same as the MR2/GT4, it has higher compression, coil on plug ignition, different intake manifold, a different exhaust manifold and turbo, and quite a few other parts that are different. I've made several posts on the differences, I suggest you use the search to find out what they are.

[Mr Revhead]

yep smells like BS to me, what's the tech forum coming to that this blatantly incorrect info stays around for so long unchallenged

hmmmm looks like toyspeeders are getting a life on sundays!

heres an handy thread.....

http://forums.toyspeed.org.nz/viewtopic.php?t=17436

its possible the gold badges are over polished silver ones.....

[Inane]

I'd definately been agreeing with fivebob on this one..


looks like bs, smells like bs....