> Speaking from the experiance of driving a Jeep with the 4.2 for 90k miles,
> and an old BMW with a 3.5l for 12k miles, you don't want to go with the
> iron cast behemoth from AMC lineage.
The 4.0's aren't too bad, other than the usual cracked exhaust manifolds
and leaking valve cover....lot better than the 4.2's IMO.
> Clearly the swap to do is a BMW M30. Put a pair of turbos on it and you
> can have 400+ horses.
If you just want to go for horse, they have some really nice hop up options
for the Supra I6's....rather have Toyota than BMW anyday...but thats me.
> As long as you are going to swap engines to something non GM, might as well
> make it interesting.
Now that I'll drink to.
Ryan
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