There are few issues in life that include extra rigidity and promise than a cut-rate junkyard engine. Sadly for this Toyota 2GR V-6 pulled from a minivan and slated for a 350-horsepower buildup, it ran out of promise way back.  

So YouTuber Ben of Gears and Gasoline headed to his engine builder’s place, a number of states away in Ohio, with merely a handful of head gaskets, a prayer, and the defunct junk engine loaded at the back of his Toyota pickup. 

In a earlier installment of this construct collection, the engine had failed leakdown assessments, with a layer of oily milkshake gunk coating the within of what look like the valve and/or timing covers. Unhealthy information.

As soon as on the engine builder’s store, with the heads off, preliminary impressions seemed promising. Avoid wasting carbon buildup on the pistons, the engine checked out with practically good cylinder bores, and a crankshaft and rotating meeting that have been clear sufficient to avoid wasting from being pulled through the rebuild.

After all, this is not your on a regular basis garden-variety junker construct. At one level, the builder breaks out an incredible quantity of CNC machining on a set of high-compression pistons, milling out their raised surfaces to clear the engine’s valves. 

There’s even machining of the cam phasers to permit for more-advanced timing than was supposed by the manufacturing facility unit. Actually, actually cool stuff.

This construct is a tedious and exacting course of that ought to yield past 350 horses, whereas the meeting, measuring, disassembly, and rebuilding processes—repeated again and again—give some perception into why good engine builders are price their weight in gold. 

When completed, the engine is destined for the bay of a Toyota MR2. We will not wait to see it occur.