Toyota Car Parts - 3S-GE Engines

Its cylinders are numbered 1-2-3-4 with cylinder number 1 beside the timing belt The cam journal is supported on five points between the valve lifters of each cylinder and on the front of the cylinder head Piston pins holding the pistons in place are locked by snap rings 0 L At the bottom of the cylinder block is an oil pan which stores the oil Built into the cylinder block are coolant channels, which cool the block which houses the pistons The intake manifold has four independent ports and benefits from inertia build up to improve engine torque at low and medium speeds The cam journals are lubricated by an oiler port located in the middle of the camshaft The cast iron cylinder block holds four cylinders which are approximately two times the length of the piston stroke The top of the cylinders are covered by the cylinder head An indentation is incorporated into the piston head to prevent the pistons from hitting the valves, should the timing belt break (this is not true of the 3S-GE BEAMS motor) The ignition order of the cylinders is in the 1-3-4-2 order. The Toyota 3S-GE is an in-line 4 cylinder engine manufactured by Toyota and tuned by Yamaha Motor Company Ltd. Compression rings 1 and 2 prevent exhaust leakage from the combustion chamber while the oil ring works to clear oil off the cylinder walls, preventing excessive oil from entering the combustion chamber There are four generations of the 3S-GE, which were used in the Toyota Celica, MR2, Toyota Caldina, Toyota Altezza and Lexus IS200 All 3S-GE engines had a displacement of 2 This is sometimes referred to as a 'non-interference' engine. Additionally, the 3S-GTE engines were based on the 3S-GE designs A single timing belt drives the intake and exhaust camshaft. The pistons are made from an aluminium alloy, designed to withstand high temperatures.

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