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[Apteryx]

Yeah these are serious cars. But they should drive well for the 6-figure price tag I suppose.

Those are the ones packing the 5.7L Turbocharged V8?

I know more than a few 4WD enthusiasts who would love to get their hands on that engine

[mattnz]

No it's a 6.2L N/A

Get an F6 tbh

[Tandoori]

If you want to see some serious HSVs, look at the packages that Walkinshaw Performance do.

OMG, Sex on wheels.

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[camy205]

Fords are better than Holdens

[Scorched_onion]

INB4 Fords are better than Holdens.

[DeeUnit]

Be interesting to see what number off the production line his one is at the end of the year. They print it along with chassy number etc under the hood.

My bad, he's getting it at the end of the month. E series 3.

[Mayhem_Lee]

You are quite right its an RB20E, I had a Laurel before the Skyline, force of habit

lol algood i had a series 1 R33 with 25de before my cedric

[Greaver]

Truuue a cedric, nice out of the ordinary roller, gotta love the RB rollers

[Mayhem_Lee]

Love the RB but prefer having a licence

[Codex]

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My new precious

[SaSa]

mm nice^ Ive got a Altezza and a Mazda 3 MPS sedan, both have decent sounds, the mazda with the stock standard speakers and the altezza with a sony xplode kit with a pretty decent sub (not sony but ill find out). The Mazda is pretty quick off the get go and has a nice vrooom sound, probably my favorite. EXCEPT FOR THE DOORS, Mazda 3 doors, i swear, most annoying things ever. Altezza is nice though, automatic seats (very fun to play with). Hopefully ill get some picks of the Mazda.

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^Not mine but very similar^

[Codex]

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[Apteryx]

Nice I'm very sure my next car will be a 2002+ Altezza RS200.

Just out of curiosity you have a 2.6L engine in your Altezza? What engine is that, I thought they either came with the 3S-FE, 3S-GE (both 2.0L) or in the wagon version the 2JZ-GE (3.0L)

[SaSa]

hmm, prolly not a 2.6, ill go look in the manual, or something. but altezza's are great cars, would highly recommend them, ours cost 15k and hardly any k's on the clock, runs like a beaut, plenty of gas when you put you foot down and can be insured as a Toyota Corolla! What more can you want? you can mod it up with some nice wheels and sounds if you want, make it look a bit more boy racer, but thats your decision.

[mattnz]

Or look under the bonnet?

It will be 2.0L unless someone has done some shoehorning, afaik only the wagons had a 3.0L.

I would imagine if it's like any car made in the last 20 years the engine cover will have shiny writing on it telling you what it is.

[SaSa]

true that^. ill check tomorrow

[Greaver]

Or just look on your rego and type the model into google

Anyways I have been put off Altezzas because they are so common (lol I drive a Skyline) but they are nice looking cars, and the beams engined ones especially go hard.

[Donkey]

Its a 2 liter 3s engine. Maybe 3sge?

[SaSa]

1999 altezza 2.0 L

[mattnz]

No kidding? There are 2 different 2.0L engines, an I4 and an I6

[Apteryx]

Anyways I have been put off Altezzas because they are so common (lol I drive a Skyline) but they are nice looking cars, and the beams engined ones especially go hard.

Yeah if you drive on the motorway at pretty much any time of day in Auckland you are guaranteed to see at least a handful of Altezza's. I think if you put exclusivity aside, they are a damn solid vehicle, the downside is due to this they are holding their price like no mans business.

Yeah I'll take a wild guess that it's the I6 3S-FE SaSa you would most likely know what it had if you had the 4Cylinder (RS200) model. And also would have paid more if it had very low mileage I would imagine.

The confusing part is the 4 and 6 cylinder 2.0L engines both say BEAMS on the engine cover, the 4cylinder has it printed in fancy red font is the easiest visual way to tell, also it's a lot shorter of course

Even still I've gone for a ride in my workmates 3S-FE, and while it is an economy engine, you cannot deny it is a smooth and nice ride. I haven't had the chance to drive or ride in an RS200, but from what I've heard the extra 60-70 horsies make for really good pickup.

[camy205]

Haha my parents just spent $2000 fixing our shitty car's brakes that could probably be sold for 2k!

[timmo]

Yeah I'll take a wild guess that it's the I6 3S-FE SaSa you would most likely know what it had if you had the 4Cylinder (RS200) model. And also would have paid more if it had very low mileage I would imagine.

The confusing part is the 4 and 6 cylinder 2.0L engines both say BEAMS on the engine cover, the 4cylinder has it printed in fancy red font is the easiest visual way to tell, also it's a lot shorter of course

Even still I've gone for a ride in my workmates 3S-FE, and while it is an economy engine, you cannot deny it is a smooth and nice ride. I haven't had the chance to drive or ride in an RS200, but from what I've heard the extra 60-70 horsies make for really good pickup.

The 3S is the four cylinder block, and in the case of the Altezza, that means the 3S-GE (G for performance wide angle cylinder head as opposed to FE which is the narrow angle economy head....not used in the Altezza but used in Camrys, Caldinas etc. E is toyotas code for fuel injected.)

The 6 cylinder Altezza As200 (and the Lexus IS200) is powered by a 1G-FE.....which is a quite an old engine (much like the 3S, although the 3S has had a lot more development) but kinda the only one that could have logically been put into the Altezza as the next largest inline engine is the 1JZ (2.5l) which already had a place in the larger Mark 2/Brevis etc.

[Mayhem_Lee]

since we are talking about altezzas my mate has taking a twin turbo caldena motor swaped it N/S mixed it up with some nissan parts (25det turbo and sr20 manifold) and dropped it in his tezza

[Nyan]

Oh wow, That's nice.