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Originally Posted by SpeedCostsMoney
The issue with this is I live in the United States and putting a Toyota motor in a Cobra is unheard of. I was thinking of using a Factory Five Kit but they only use Ford and Chevy motors. I'm not sure what I need to do to get a Toyota engine in there. It might be worth it to import the kit you speak of and then put the motor and tranny in.
The FFR kit can't be too different from an AK kit. It's funny you are the only guys who are doing this and it's purely awesome. I can't wait to finish this car and go to car shows around here. It will blow people's minds.
Speed
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The FFR kits I believe are engineered to take a Mustang as the donor vehicle, the AK kit uses Series 3 / XJS Jaguar suspension/brakes etc with a custom steering rack.
It shouldn't be too difficult to adapt a chassis from a Ford/ Chevy engine configueration into a Toyota friendly chassis and I'm sure most kit builders would relish the challengeas a chance to use their engineering and problem solving skills rather than churning out clones of one kit.
Once built you can then slap on one or a couple of Turbos, an aftermarket fuelling ECU, perhaps an intercooler, and you're all set for 450 bhp out of a 4 litre without touching the internals.
If you then want to spend some cash on decompressing pistons and other trick stuff you can get over 1000 bhp out of a 4 ltr Toyota engine..........some mad Swedes have put a dry sumped Lexus engine with a lowered compression ratio, special cams, aftermarket ECU, twin large turbo's and a Porsche transaxle into an Ultima and are getting over 1000bhp out of the thing........now thats scary!!
Cheers,
Tony