RANT: Why do people make up engine designations? 5S-FTE 5S-FZE

[zoni]

come on!! they dont make turbo camrys and call the motor 5s-fte or rippmods supercharged camrys with a 5s-fze engine... NO!

when you turbo your motor its a turbocharged 5s-fe... nothing more.
when you supercharge... supercharged 5s-fe.

lol... sorry just got aggrevated for a sec...

[xpeed]

Mainly because it's easier to put in the "t" in the engine code instead of writing "turbocharged %*****"

[ECale3]

why DON'T you make up engine designations?

My s2000 has an F22Raptorfighterjetvtecpwnagec1 under the hood.

But on a serious note, its just an easy way to say what you've got without saying Hi, i have a Turbo 2.2L Four cylinder S (5th revision) block from toyota with linked DOHC and electronic fuel injection. Cause that information is the majority of what 5SFTE say after all.

[zoni]

you wouldnt see that to describe an mr2 or supra... 7m-gte only means one thing. as well as 3s-gte.
would it be right to call your motor a 7m or 3s-gte if you had a 7m or 3s-ge and put a turbo on that motor? no.

all i ask is can't we just accept that it isnt a real engine code and say turbo 5s-fe or supercharged 5s-fe?

[Smaay]

i have no problem with my 2ZZ-GTE or my 5S-FTE however i do have a problem when people say 3ZZ referring to a stroked 2ZZ. a 3ZZ is a 1.6L POS engine in JDM

[bigbird]

little bit of a thread revival, but i can see both sides. i dont say i have a 1mz-fze. i just say supercharged V6. but that may be due the othe fact that 90% of the people who ask wouldnt know what the engine codes means anyways...with or without the "Z" in it. so in essence its actually shorter since i dont have to say the code and then explain what the engine is.

[zoni]

well the 2zz/3zz problem is just stupidity... you cant rename a block just cause you feel like it... you can say stroked 2zz

about the turbo adding the "t" and supercharger adding the "z"... my opinion is that engines were made a certain way from the factory. and so named... now when you modify something with non-factory non-standard parts, it doesnt change the factory designation of the engine, it just adds soemthing. so you the proper thing to say would be for example.. aftermarket turbocharged 5s-fe... now we can shorten that to 5s-fe turbo. but not to 5s-fte. that T describes the factory head in that case... like 3s-ge turbo is WAY different from 3s-gte. right? the ge describes the head, just like the gte describes that head. the heads are different. way different.

i know... its just easy to say 5s-fte.. but its not proper.. thats my point. its not right. maybe im just being anal... oh well.

[Smaay]

yeah you are being anal...ha ha ha but i wont hold it against you. but i do refer to my 6th gen celica as a 5S-FTE simply because im using all factory parts in the turbo system. stock 3S manifold and CT26 turbo.

[viktord1]

Originally Posted by zoni

come on!! they dont make turbo camrys and call the motor 5s-fte or rippmods supercharged camrys with a 5s-fze engine... NO!

when you turbo your motor its a turbocharged 5s-fe... nothing more.
when you supercharge... supercharged 5s-fe.

lol... sorry just got aggrevated for a sec...

lol same reason nissan guys say sr20det instead of turbocharged sr20de. nissan never made a turbo sr20, it's all aftermarket stuff.