jasear
March 31, 2004, 2:02 pm
The altezza i have bought is 4 cyl Beams?
What does the Beams stand for?
Leitch
March 31, 2004, 2:06 pm
Breakthrough Engine with Advanced Mechanism System
or something like that!
Regards
Terry
jasear
March 31, 2004, 2:11 pm
what does it do though? Does it make the car faster?
Monster-Mat
March 31, 2004, 2:16 pm
all altezza are BEAMS, just like on fords they call them zetec...
ColinBarber
March 31, 2004, 2:57 pm
Not sure what is different on a BEAMS engine to a non-BEAMS engine. It's not heard of over here. In Japan both 4 and 6 cylinder Altezza, GS300 and the V8 4.3 engines are labelled as BEAMS
However the Black top 3S-GE engine has some things not normally found to increase the performace:
dual vvt-i. Both intake and exhaust timing is adjusted
titanium valves
11.5 compression ratio (most engines are 10.5). The auto Altezza has 11.0 compression which is why it is 10bhp lower.
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