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E10 street. It is a street car that we use for HPDE. Nothing special about the engine that makes it a racecar. Just factory street car driveline other than the LSD.

My work racecar had the same tank of gas in it for over a year due to stopping extracurricular work things during Covid. No issues at all when we fired it up.

Run it to the light and fill the tank with E0. The E10 will be super diluted at that point. IMO, E10 isn't a concern on modern vehicles. They are designed with that in mind.

You forget that camshafts were snapping in the early 5.7L V8s. https://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/31/toyota-expresses-regret-for-tundra-camshaft-failures-on-internet/

IMO, your complaints of "turbo lag" are actually transmission lag. The hybrid masks the transmission lag because it is instant torque requiring fewer downshifts for quick spurts of acceleration.

Nearly 22mpg is pretty solid for driving 80mph the whole way.

I'd say 20hrs is on the far extreme situation and is not common. I'd expect that a vast majority... like 90% or more... are less than 3 hrs.

Piston is aluminum. Cyinder wall is a steel insert cast into the aluminum block. Piston rings are also steel. The early 2GR engines had a piston slap noise at startup that was related to thermal expansion. After the engine is past dead cold, it no longer makes the noise. My mom's V6 Rav4...

Hopefully it is modular so I could leave the 40 split in and remove the 60 side. I believe their 4Runner setup is designed like this.

And, as long as your trip isn't complete flat land, the engine will be at different speeds via gear shifts as you pull hills, encounter head winds, etc. If it is staying in 8th the entire time, just pop it down to 7th here and there.

I saw a 20" equipped LC trim beside a first edition earlier this week, and the difference in the sidewall isn't that massive, TBH. If we were talking 4Runner that is on a smaller overall tire diameter, the 20s seem really pronounced. The taller tires on the Land Cruiser make the 20s look not...

Sounds like the workaround that dealers were doing with the GR Corolla last year. They officially "sell" it to their used car arm of the company -- meaning that it is reported to Toyota as a sold unit for MSRP -- where they then ask for another allocation and attempt to sell the first one...

As an unused Aerospace Engineering degree holder, I appreciate the endorsement. 😆

Number of things happening here... 80mph is killer on fuel economy. The vehicles are rated by the EPA with a highway cycle that isn't anywhere near 80mph. Here's the one I found on the EPA site, but I thought they had changed it to include a little more high speed driving. Either way, this...

Not having full transparency sucks, but that's the nature of business and people. I can see both sides of the situation having been on both sides. If it makes you feel any better, the nature of manufacturing is such that any engine, even those with the best reputation, have the potential to...

Love the subdued look of the 1958 on aftermarket wheels/tires.

20" wheels are a factory option. It comes from Japan with those. The 3 year prepaid connectivity or whatever they call it should be a PIO and should be removable as long as the car hasn't been processed at port. If it has already gone through port, it shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 weeks away...

The best details you'll probably ever get are from the guy a few pages back that commented on it. There's really no benefit of publicly commenting on those things with deep detail because 1) people ate up with conspiracy theories won't accept it as we saw with the unintended acceleration...

A pillar rake is pretty different between Tacoma and LC. I'd be shocked if it fit.

I'm no longer working with engines. I've moved to electric motors. They were consumer engines. The data to dispute it is the fact that Toyota has been doing 10k OCIs since 2009ish and there are tons of Toyotas out there with 300k+ miles on those OCIs. Toyota has a severe service schedule...

Someone sent me his video saying that Toyota's 10k OCIs were wrong. Being a quality and production engineer for mass production engines, I was intrigued. How had he come to that conclusion? He said that an engine getting excessive blow by on the piston rings was due to oil change intervals...

LOL, his message to owners is to “stay calm” when he was out there with the other influencers getting YouTube clicks stirring things up.

This is what comes of it. They’re using the data to self select drivers that are unlikely to wreck. They offer slightly lower rates to statistically low risk customers, those customers save a little bit of money, and on aggregate don’t wreck a lot, and Toyota makes money. It’s a simple law of...

It depends how city your city driving is. If a lot of traffic, idling, and short trips, it will underperform the city number... especially with hybrids. Just the fact of getting 0mpg for big chunks of driving. The city EPA cycle is probably optimistic for true city driving. Did your...

Log into the Toyota app, click account in the upper right, click on "account", "data privacy portal", select your vehicle, and that will list every "data consent" that you accepted prior. There you can change your answers. Not too worried about my drive data, TBH. 99% chance that Toyota will...

Pretty surprising that the eKDSS doesn't have better RTI than the SDM, but good to see for the LC owners. I imagine the GX drives better on paved roads while coming within spitting distance of the LC off-road thanks to the more advanced swaybar mechanism.

You do know that there are literally hundreds of thousands of Tundra, Sequoia, and LX buyers out there with V35s that have no issue, right? Toyota isn't hauling every single one of them back. IMO, no one can tell you if the new Land Cruiser will be reliable or not. We can assume that Toyota...