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What kind of times puts a stockish sportivo normally on the 1/4 mile? I ask because I ran against one a couple of weeks ago with my Yaris TS and I beat the sportivo both times. The only mod on the sportivo was a K&N CAI. But I don't know if it was because my car was faster or because the sportivo was poorly driven. My Yaris weights 2450lbs and only with a CAI I managed to pull a 15.8 sec 1/4 mile @ 86mph What do you think?

kind of missing the point.... These numbers were obtained as part of a research this guy is doing. Is just a matter of installing a cat converter and a free flow axleback and you would be street legal. It would probably sacrifice a few hp to make it street legal. But you could modify it in a way that you can add a mid pipe with a cat and and axleback for the street and just a straight pipe for track usage. The point here is the great potential behind this new Toyota Engine...! Not every day you can see a 24% power gain just by adding some bolt ons. I understand this would not be appealing for a lot of people... even more since this is a pretty new car and a lot of folks won't care for modifying it. Yet.

This was originally posted by Richard Holdener (DYNATEK) as result from the research he is doing on B-Segment cars for his next book. The subject car was a Scion xD The original base line run for this car completely stock showed 119 whp. Now at 148 whp we are talking about a total increase of power to the wheels of 24% Impressive for bolt on parts. The only bolt on part missing here is the NST U-drive pulley which should bump the final output to over 150 whp Richard Holdener wrote: Here are the dyno results of the new long-tube header for the 1.8L Yaris TS and Scion xD (possibly other apps as well). Equipped with just a home-made air intake, the otherwise stock Xd produced 123 wheel hp and 121 ft-lb of torque. Equipped with the long-tube headers and 2.5-inch mid pipe (2.25 would work equally well) and no axle back, the motor produced 134 wheel hp and 134 ft-lb of torque. At just 3000 rpm, the header and mid pipe offered an additional 15 ft-lb of torque. Next we installed the prototype of the Xd intake manifold. The peak power numbers jumped to 148 hp and 137 ft-lb of torque. At 6000 rpm, the intake offered gains of 16 hp. It appears from this testing that if we add an NST u-pulley and receive the same results as we did on the 1.5L Yaris motor, the 1.8L can produce a real 150 wheel hp (possibly more if it reponds favorably to the FIC). BTW-We already made 151 wheel hp with a version of the intake that won't be offered for sale-it adds a bit more peak power but sacrafices too much elsewhere)

What I can tell you is that hundreds of people are running the NST pulleys in the states on their Yaris and their Scions... thousands of combined miles of usage... There ara pages and pages of ONLY positive reviews... not only one problem reported on years. I used to have a 1.5L Yaris and I had the NST pulleys installed for a couple of years and I loved it. I beat the crap put of that little car and never had a problem. Now I have a 1.8l Yaris and I want some an underdrive pulley for my new car. This is a 2008 Yaris T-Sport. Believe me I don't want to screw up my engine!! NST already designed the crank pulley and only requested a min of 14 initial buyers. There are already 10 ppl signed. We just need a few more to make this happen... See this thread for tons of reviews: http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4737

Looking for any people that could be interested on an 10% underdrive and lightweight crank pulley for your 2ZR-FE powered Corollas. This US company NST (Non Stop Tuning) http://www.nonstoptuning.com specialized on lightweight pulleys a large number of different car models has developed an under drive pulley for the Scion xD. This pulley will work on all the 2ZR-FE powered cars. I have a 2008 Yaris TS powered by this new 1.8 engine. Anyway, NST has requested at 14 interested people to join a group buy in order to have the first production run of the pulley done. We already have 9 people who joined the GB. The initial price for the pulley ( Group buy price) will be $99 USD. Shipping to AUS should not be that bad. Probably $20-$30 I believe this is like the best bang for the buck performance wise. The gains of the pulley pretty much compare to the gains of a CAI or an exhaust by a fraction of it's price. Just for reference, independent dyno testing on the NST under drive pulley for the 1.5L Yaris, showed a solid 3WHP gain all across the power band. And the Yaris crank OE crank pulley is lighter than the 1.8l crank pulley. So I would not be surprised to see a 4-5WHP gain from this pulley. On top of that HP gain, there are other benefits that ca not be measured on a dyno. Like the improved fuel economy, smoother idle and the best of all... improved throttle response. Some links for reference: http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic....&highlight= http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=244250 http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4737

i was interested. but a few major problems. 1. no money XD 2. where does ti go 3.what does it do 4.void warranty? Look the following links for answer to your questions: http://www.nonstoptuning.com/ http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic....mp;&start=0 The group buy price will be $99. Shipping to Aus should be around $20-$25 Void warranty. It should not void it. When you install ad aftermarket part to any car that part will void the warranty partially and only if the problem of the car can be traced back to that specific part. Meaning that the dealer ca not blame a brakes failure on your aftermarket Cold air Intake. So if a problem can be traced back to the pulley it could void the warranty. That been said... thousands of people have installed NST pulleys in their cars with NO single problem ever been reported. There are hundreds of reviews... 100% positive Where does it go? In place of the OE crank pulley/damper What does it do? It will released a few HP (3-5whp) will improve fuel economy a little and will improve the throttle response of the car. It acts by the same principle a lightweight flywheel does. By reducing rotational mass. We need 5 more people interested to meet the requested group buy quantity.

Bump for the NST underdrive crank pulley!!! I'm surprised there is no interest at all... <_<

Not following you... My previous posts were about an Intake Manifold, not a CAI... And the last post was about an under drive lightweight crank pulley.

I tought you guys might be interested in this: New Lightweight underdrive crank pulley for the 2ZR-FE http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=243432 http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=244250

http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=240773

Yeap, fabrication wise many shops could do an intake for less money. But get the intake to make power.... that's a hole different story! And this is why we are so exited about this unit. There is a lot of theory behind air wave resonance tunning (Search for Holmoltz resonance). This is not about increasing air flow, that's easy. Get the right resonance requires exact measurement in order to match the gains to the powerband and put them were they are useful. You can increase flow in such a manner that the engine will have a power boost from 7,000 to 8,500rpm. What is the use of that if the engine will not see more than 6,500rmp? I'm not trying to be an ***** here... I'm just pointing that is not as simple as manufacturing a piece of alloy. heck other wise I already would have made one! Then again, I agree with you. This is not a cheap mod. And I perfectly understand that it will not apeal to mamy people. Must of the people who buy a new car like this one are after the fuel economy more than performance.... There are just a few crazy folks like myself that are willing to go further....

I understand you position, this is not cheap. But Like they say.. you gotta pay to play. But I actually think this is the best bang for the buck. I mean the manifold alone made 13 wheel HP and when matched to a CAI and a fre flow exhaust it made 26 wheel hp. What other bolt on part will produce that? The couple of CAI's available for this engine on the us Scion and Corolla make hardly 5hp and cost more that $300. See the K & N for example. This manifold mostlikely will become a very rear piece. We are struggling to have 10 pcs made. This is kind of a special order. Regarding the fitmet.. it will only be a matter of cross checking the toyota part number of the OE manifold on your car against one of the manifolds from the US cars. I have already confirmed that the part number is the same for the US 2009 corolla/matrix, the scion xd and the Yaris TS. As for te quality of the part i will share a picture of another manifold created by the same person for the Nissan Versa/Tida enjoy:

Hey everybody, Just wanted to show all of you this thread form a US forum regarding a newly developed Intake Manifold for the 2ZR-fe 1.8L engine. http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=240773 We are currently looking for people interested as the developer of the intake Mani is asking for at least 10 people to make a production run. The estomated price will be $700 Us dollars. So you can have an idea of the gains from the Mani. The prototype unit produced 145 Wheel Horse power on the 1.8 engine from a base line of 119 Wheel HP. The car was also equipped a full exhaust and a cold air intake. According to the designer at least 15 whp come from the manifold only. If any one interested please look the thread I mention over at scionlife.com and post your interest there. Off course INTL shipment can be arranged. Oh BTW I drive a Yaris TS 2008. This car comes equipped with the 1.8 2ZR-FE Engine. See a picture of the engine below equipped with a Fujita competition CAI

Not really. The 2ZR-FE is just a tad larger than the standard 1.5l 1NZ-FE. Is there any interest here on this Intake Manifold? International shipping will be offered by the people coordinating the production run. This manifold will probably be arount $700 US dollars. This is like the best bang for the buck on bolt on performance parts and it should fit the new Corolla/Auris equipped with the 2ZR-FE Engine. Just want to make sure I have no relation with the folks producing this manifold. I'm just really interestedin making this happen... We need at least 10 people willing to buy to make this happen... For more info or to post your interest please go to: http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=240773

I wanted to bring this thread back to life. I drive a 2008 Yaris TS 1.8L 2ZR-FE powered. I have suffer as many the lack of aftermaket support for our engine. I have contacted the designer of the intake manifold and he is up for making a 10 units production run. This mod is like the best bang for the buck... IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED, please see more information here: http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic....&highlight= We are looking for at least 10 people to get this going. Please post a response on the link above if interested. The price for the manifold is expected at US$699.