Toms 280t Anyone Got One?

[Bobski]

I think you better check the cost of Insurance for going down the Turbo/SC routes too!

[James S]

I think you better check the cost of Insurance for going down the Turbo/SC routes too!

They arn't that bad really as long as I don't crash mine (touch wood) and get a years NCB under my belt.

Works out about the same as I am spending now.

[robjonk]

Threes another one on piston heads now.

[robjonk]

Opps sorry not a tom's but still a turbo.

[Asi]

insuring that will be high aswell

[robjonk]

not too bad for me got full no claims & am 37. A lot cheaper than my aristo.

Got it for the wife but took ages to esva it & so she bought something else & does not want to change. so aristo or tez can only keep one.

[Dan_Harris]

see i still see them as a nice car but it's likely to be at the upper end of it's power limit at 280bhp I want more headroom :D

[Abaddon]

see i still see them as a nice car but it's likely to be at the upper end of it's power limit at 280bhp I want more headroom :D

The 280T is a very mildly tuned but expensive altezza.

There are plenty of MR2's with 500 wheel (not crank) horse around... thats with the same block and crank but with an inferior head... how much headroom do you want lol

[Yeldarb]

see i still see them as a nice car but it's likely to be at the upper end of it's power limit at 280bhp I want more headroom :D

The 280T is a very mildly tuned but expensive altezza.

There are plenty of MR2's with 500 wheel (not crank) horse around... thats with the same block and crank but with an inferior head... how much headroom do you want lol

Those MR2's with 500 BHP are the turbo ones they have 3S GTE unit a different engine to the TOMs 280..

[Abaddon]

see i still see them as a nice car but it's likely to be at the upper end of it's power limit at 280bhp I want more headroom :D

The 280T is a very mildly tuned but expensive altezza.

There are plenty of MR2's with 500 wheel (not crank) horse around... thats with the same block and crank but with an inferior head... how much headroom do you want lol

Those MR2's with 500 BHP are the turbo ones they have 3S GTE unit a different engine to the TOMs 280..

It's the same block though! With aftermarket rods and pistons the beams 3SGE has as much potential turbocharged as any of the 3S's. You can use aftermarket forged rods from the GTE but you need really dished pistons to get the compression ratio down.

They didn't make a GTE equivalent of the beams GE but if you compare all the generations of GE and GTE the internal differences is always pistons, rods, injectors and cams.