Gen2 3SGTE Block Thickness?

[loudstealthGT-Four]

Ok so im selling my old block from my GT4 on trade me and someone asked me if the block was a thick one or a thin one?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =298366915

Do they come in different thicknesses and how do i tell?

Thanks Tyler

[Akane]

It's a thin one, unless they're breaking 500hp+ it shouldn't be a worry.

[loudstealthGT-Four]

Ohk. So where would you find a thick block, and where is it thicker?

Learning something new

[Akane]

Very rarely a very very small batch of Gen 3+ engines came with "thick block", and all yankee 98+ 5S-FE's come with thick block.

The batch of gen 3 "thick walled" are very random, there seems to be no pattern on why they pop up. Luck of the draw.

This is where they usually break

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc16 ... C00219.jpg

Also the 3S-GTE block are believed to have a very thin wall between cylinder 2 and 3, and the material inside is actually in a hollow-thru pattern, not much "meat" supporting between the 2 cylinders, causing it to do bad things when high cylinder pressure is present.

[Malcolm]

I'm sure I remember someone (fivebob?) posting some information about this in the past. From what I remember, 3S blocks later than a certain date had the extra meat in this corner of the block (I believe Altezza motors are all reinforced?), and that this new basic block casting has superceded the old, so if you bought a new block from Toyota it would feature the reinforcement.

I even have some info about this on my website, but it was so long ago that I wrote it that I can't for the life of me remember where the info came from.

[XS1V]

http://www.gt4oc.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... hick+block

Great pics and info

Brad

[fivebob]

Gen IV (Caldina) blocks are reinforced in that area, as are any replacement blocks supplied by Toyota since 1998 for Gen II & III engines.