T-Series Engine : Toyota Drag Racing Powerhouse

The Toyota T-Series engine is one of Toyota's powerhouse drag racing engines. In the USA this series engine came as the 3TC and the 2TC. Of course evberywhere else isn the world they got the Twin Cam engines or Twin Cam turbocharged models. Leave it up to American ingenuity to explore the possibilities of the 3TC and the 2TC American single cam Hemi engine.

The T-series motor is a robust iron block/head engine that has been used extinsively for drag racing all over the Americas. This includes those crazy Puerto Ricans that race while the eat/sleep/****. The American models came in the 1.6L and 1.8L version and have robust bottom ends that easily take a 150 shot of NOS.

This crazy example of the 3TC easily makes 700 horsepower.



If you do some gross approximations you can see that turbo is the size of a human giants head. Santos Racing has time slips of 10.05@136MPH to prove it too. Notice the stock ignition and the stock radiator. Pretty impressive.



How about "El Terror" this mean Corolla that runs a TurboCharged 1.8 3TC that runs an 8.40. Pretty insane for an engine that was made in 1970-1984. Trillville. Fo shiggles.

Word of advice if you see a loud old Corolla on the street, its probably a good idea not race for money.



Johnster