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Woah.. do you know, or can you find out how many hours they will charge you just to disassemble & reassemble?

Can anyone tell me if the 3.5L engine can be taken out from below, or do rear body panels need to come off to take it out the back and up? TIA

If valves are in fact bad, and pistons/cylinders look ok, should I be concerned about undetectable stress on other components not getting replaced? I plan to do a VERY mild HP tune, and mostly want to increase rpms to the 7600-7800 range.

Here's a screenshot of the inside of one of the cylinders, thoughts? (FYI, I had my cover powder coated)

Thank you for the info. My objective is to maintain it as my daily, tune up to 500BHP (not over) and push the RPMs to 7600-7800, as long as I'm replacing valves, is there any benefit to doing a more performance based head swap?

A lot of great info here, thank you! My intention to keep it as my daily and not to track it, so reliability is a top priority. With that said, if I go the happy medium route with upgraded heads, and a roughly 460-480HP tune and push to 7600 - 7800 rpm(more critical than HP), is this possible...

Thanks for your input, I'm leaning towards the "happy medium" option with MWR, ported heads & improved valve train. I have a local guy that's already tuned a handful of these so I'll lean on him to tweak the ECU. I've been using it as my daily and plan to drive it 75% of the time, so...

here's what happened... I downshifted to 4th, wanting to go back to 5th and unfortunately mis-shifted into 3rd, causing SUPER HIGH revs at a very high speed, kicking the rev display to the limit. 😱 The car immediately went into limp mode and once on the side of the road it died. It was Sunday...

I'm definitely at a crossroads, considering the following options: - replace only what's needed and maintain stock performance ($3,000 - $5,000) - swap with performance heads, valves, springs, etc, to step up the BHP ($5,000 - $8,000) - swap with performance long block to ensure any and all...

They definitely come highly recommended and are out for the holidays for the next 2 weeks. I've sent them a couple emails, but haven't heard back yet. Have you heard much about Monkey Wrench Racing? Are they a good alternative or just wait for JUBU?

I recently over-revved my engine, and will likely need to replace some valves, are these stock Toyota parts or are they modified/upgraded and required to get directly from Lotus? TIA