FTW? TRD Curren 2.2l?

[bbq1988]

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2179135
doesnt sound right to me..

[MrOizo]

not just a 5SFE is it?

made to be "TRD" to make it sell better?

[flygt4]

id say its just a 5s probly never heard of trd doing a 2.2L 3s

[NILPSI]

I know the car, a friend of mine owned it and traded it into a car yard

Its engine is nothing special, and last time i saw it the front bumper and one side skirt was missing and it was running round on 2 space savers

[Mr Revhead]

yeah, no TRD 2.2 3sge

[Skin]

AFAIK the curren never came with the 5s-fe, only had 4s,3s-fe and 3s-ge options. So im guessing its just a 3sge, and he has been fed some bullcrap

[bbq1988]

hehe mighty myth busters!

[eskimo]

id say some one has told him that and thats what he believes. My trd St206 looks nothing like that, where is the nice big wing??

[Mr Revhead]

for the record TRD dont make "TRD models" for sale.

[bbq1988]

lol true true, i like my st206.. Go lsd

[Infinite]

u can have my RSD curren, its got soo much tourqe it rips the engine mount bolts out of the gearbox all by its self

[flygt4]

my little 1.6 does that too tho

[bbq1988]

u can have my RSD curren, its got soo much tourqe it rips the engine mount bolts out of the gearbox all by its self

Lol howmuch? i offer $3.50 :p

[Brick]

id say some one has told him that and thats what he believes

heh it would be like that guy who tried selling me his "supercharged" levin, he thought the plenum was a s/c it was only a 4age

[TRD Man]

for the record TRD dont make "TRD models" for sale.

Actually Warwick, they did.
Whilst most TRD marked cars were made to order there were some models that they made as showroom stock.
As an example - during one of my visits I spotted a lineup of about 60 TRD Mk2 Grande specials. I specifically asked if they were pre sold. They weren't - they were for stock.
There were other models too that were prepared in numbers for yard sales.

This particular car is not advertised as a TRD car - just the engine. It's entirely possible that TRD did produce a 'customer' 2.2 version of the 3SGE. Certainly TOM'S did and they often did these things in unison.

[Mr Revhead]

you could/can send a car to TRD shops to get the "works" and have everything TRD put on it and have it badged TRD. i guess you could call that made by TRD if you wanted.....

what your are implying is an HSV type arrangement, which uptill now hasnt happened, its underway in austrailia however.

with a large jap dealer i would be suprised if some didnt add a whole bunch of TRD parts to 50-60 for thier own little submodel
iv seen evidence of all sorts of things like that over the years
however that still doesnt means its a TRD model

now... 2.2 3sge customer engine? what you been smoking?

[eskimo]

you could/can send a car to TRD shops to get the "works" and have everything TRD put on it

So this must of happend to my curren. has the trd steering wheel leather gearknob, exhuast and the body kit. plus the gen3 3sge

[bbq1988]

pics? ill compare it to mine

[TRD Man]

Warwick, I am happy to acknowledge that you are a very good friend of TS and a very fine Toyota person with a special interest in TRD.
Please pay me the courtesy of reciprocating by acknowledging my longtime relationship with TRD during which I made many visits and counted many of it's top executives as friends & colleagues.

Indeed few people would have visited TRD as often as myself and during these visits I often saw many things that neither appear in any catalogue or microfiche nor conform to what I understood as their standard business model.

As an astute person, and businessman, I know what I saw and I know what I discussed.

I can't tell you with absolute certainty the destination of the 60 or so Mk2 that were in a production line at the TRD factory.
I can tell you that I was told they were showroom stock, as apposed to customer orders, and that TRD themslves produced the sales brochure for them. (I actually brought a wad of them home).
Whether they were a stock order by one dealership or a special run by TRD, which is what I was led to believe, it is clear that at the time they had no 'end user'. They would therefore qualify as a "TRD produced special for sale".

Despite the size of TRD they still had facility to cater for indivdual one off requirements.
Cars like the TRD 2000GT (MR2) & the TRD 3000GT (Supra) were made to order to a variable specification of the customers choosing.

In the 90's TRD & TOM'S had a particularly close working relationship. In fact it was TRD who introduced me to TOM'S as their very good development partners.
I recall seeing stacks of F3 engines in the TRD store which were a joint development project between the 2 companies.
As I said in my earlier post TOM'S produce, and have done for many years, a 2.2 bored & stroked 3SGE.
As this engine would have evolved in the mid 90's it is entirely possible that TRD were involved in it's development and that it was offered as a special option or after market sale, albeit in limited numbers.

Is it likely that this Curren has a TRD engine (if one exists) ? No, it's not.
But to rule it out entirely without all of the information is arrogance. And believe you me, no matter how much information Toyota may furnish you with, when it comes to happenings in Japan, there'll be a significant amount they don't even know about.

One thing we do know is that if it should have a 'special' TRD or other spec 2.2 3SGE it ought to go very well.

[Pies]

had a guy come into work the other day telling me about his factory trd mr2

rolf

had a 15 minute discussion about how trd dont do a factory trd mr2. he took me outside and showed me his cool metal badges (that someone had stuck on there) and how it was definately a trd one!

then after being shamed out by another toyota enthusiast that cam along to join the discussion... he started ranting about his mates factory v6 twin turbo mr2.

this guy obviously was into punishment i laughed so hard i had to walk back inside and sit down