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What engine does Toyota run in Nascar? They don't have a 60s/70s legacy cast iron ohv V8 designed around a 4" bore and 3.5" stroke like the Big Three do....

 

yes they do. every engine in nascar is required to be of the same OHV pushrod V8 design. there is no such thing as "manufacturer specific" in nascar except for a few decals and a unique front facia

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yes they do. every engine in nascar is required to be of the same OHV pushrod V8 design. there is no such thing as "manufacturer specific" in nascar except for a few decals and a unique front facia

You mean to say they're all running the exact same block and heads? My understanding was that rules dictated displacement, cam type and profile, valve size, compression ratio, etc, but that the different teams used blocks that were loosely based on actual production engines. I.e. the GM teams ran a version of the 350 block and the Ford teams ran a version of the Ford small block. Toyota has no such engine in its history to my knowledge....

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You mean to say they're all running the exact same block and heads? My understanding was that rules dictated displacement, cam type and profile, valve size, compression ratio, etc, but that the different teams used blocks that were loosely based on actual production engines. I.e. the GM teams ran a version of the 350 block and the Ford teams ran a version of the Ford small block. Toyota has no such engine in its history to my knowledge....

If that's true then they could base their block on the 5.7 V-8 from the tundra, modified for the use of pushrods

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The tundra 5.7 is an all aluminum DOHC motor. It has a 94mm bore and as such would be very airflow limited with a 2 valve head. The stoke necessary to meet the 358 ci limit would make 9500 rpm operation near impossible. It has no place for a camshaft in the valley or provision for a distributor. By the time you cast it out of iron and modified it to remedy the other deficiencies, it would share absolutely nothing with the original, not even bore spacing.

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of the 30,139 Camrys on cars.com, only 2,986 are V6 powered.

 

 

 

The current Camry's 2GR-FE 3.5L V6 outperforms all four cylinder turbo engines in competing midsize sedans, and gets better real world fuel economy too.

Elsewhere in the world, the Camry V6 is called "Aurion" and has significant structural changes over the 4 cyl Camry,

I'm betting that the switch to new platform combined with standardizing with 4 cylinder engines (NA and Turbo)

will streamline production even more......

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I mean the fan-zies who say the Fusion "must have a V6 to compete with Toyota!"

 

While I agree about Camrys being stodgy since 1997, the new 2015's look more like a Lexus, a bit more upscale. Less like a 'nerd-mobile'; good for Toyota, bad for Lexus though

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I mean the fan-zies who say the Fusion "must have a V6 to compete with Toyota!"

 

While I agree about Camrys being stodgy since 1997, the new 2015's look more like a Lexus, a bit more upscale. Less like a 'nerd-mobile'; good for Toyota, bad for Lexus though

 

 

Personally I'm not a fan of the new front end language. It reminds me of something from my childhood.

 

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I mean the fan-zies who say the Fusion "must have a V6 to compete with Toyota!"

 

While I agree about Camrys being stodgy since 1997, the new 2015's look more like a Lexus, a bit more upscale. Less like a 'nerd-mobile'; good for Toyota, bad for Lexus though

It looks upscale until you get to that "window" on the rear pillar made out of black tape. That is so astonishingly lazy and cheap!

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