- Engine code
- 2JZ-GTE
- Manufacturer
- Toyota
- Configuration
- Inline-6
- Displacement
- 2,997 cc
- Valvetrain
- DOHC (belt-driven)
- Aspiration
- Sequential twin-turbocharged
- Production
- 1991 – 2005
- Applications
- Toyota Aristo (JZS147) / Toyota Aristo V300 (JZS161) / Toyota Supra RZ/Turbo (JZA80)
- 01
It first powered the 1991 Toyota Aristo and became Toyota's flagship performance engine with the 1993 Supra RZ.
Source: Toyota JZ engine — Wikipedia (English) - 02
Its sequential twin turbochargers were jointly developed with Hitachi.
Source: Toyota JZ engine — Wikipedia (English) - 03
Japanese-market output was held at 280 PS under the industry's Gentlemen's Agreement; export versions were rated at 320 hp.
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VVT-i was added from September 1997.
Source: Toyota JZ engine — Wikipedia (English)
Technology — The straight-six
Six cylinders in a single row give inherent primary and secondary balance — the smooth heart of many Japanese GTs, from the 1960s to the turbo era.
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03 — Sources
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