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Old 01-19-08 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by RobbieR
The reason why the German and Italian motor layouts are "prettier" is due to the frequent maintenance. The mechanics want something nice to look at.
heh lol
Old 01-19-08 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by 4TehNguyen
its far cheaper to just put an engine cover on instead of spending resources designing how the hoses, wires, lines will run in such a way it looks nice. Sounds like a pain in the *** to route everything. On nice looking engines when a line/hose/wire breaks and its buried deep down somewhere because it was routed to make the engine look nice, theres always a trade off
reason it looks like that is for easier acceses. There is reason Toyota's are rated as easiest vehicles to work on, year after year.
Old 01-19-08 | 12:02 PM
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looks like **** but i guess they did it for easy access... all that mess and it cant out run the m3 or the cAMG
Old 01-19-08 | 04:32 PM
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That looks horrible, kind of like something out of a really bad science fiction movie. I'm glad they covered that motor up.

My 6.1L Hemi looks pretty nice in comparison to that thing.

Originally Posted by Joe Z
This is what the IS-F engine looks like with out the main cover....





Holy Cow!!!!!!
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Old 01-23-08 | 02:31 AM
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that is pretty ugly - but hey I aint driving with my hood up...ya know
and no one is at that --maybe you cant pop it up at a show but hey forget that

with the power and quality this car will hopefully have with toyotas name behind it...I'll take that mess and be clear of the damn service dept -- rather than have a pretty poorly built P.O.S any day that has me yet again back at the dealer cause now some other ***** has gone wrong *cough* Infiniti G35 coupe *cough*
Old 01-26-08 | 08:23 PM
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doesn't look bad to me... its functional... If you want an ugly engine bay, take a look under the hood of a WRX or STi... All function and zero form.. There isn't even an engine cover!
Old 01-26-08 | 08:42 PM
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alot of hoses but easy to work on.
btw, my Mama said: beauty is inside. LoL
Old 01-27-08 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Vi-Tuyen
alot of hoses but easy to work on.
btw, my Mama said: beauty is inside. LoL

Inner beauty is over rated anyway.
Old 01-27-08 | 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by osomoso
Inner beauty is over rated anyway.
ouch lol .....
Old 01-27-08 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Shoyuu
It kinda looks like the Predator once it removes it's helmet...
I was thinking along the lines of Medusa.

Old 01-27-08 | 04:49 PM
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I saw this a while ago and I still can't believe how complicated it looks!
Old 01-28-08 | 02:44 AM
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Looks like 1UZ motor with a lot of wire looms.

Either way I will still take that
Old 01-28-08 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by carchitect
I was thinking along the lines of Medusa.

LOL, where the hell did you come up with that?
Old 01-30-08 | 03:39 PM
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Subarus are as bad
Old 01-31-08 | 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Z
This is what the IS-F engine looks like with out the main cover....





Holy Cow!!!!!!
It kinda reminds me of the Lexus commercial on tV now about the "sensors". something like "we have 6 sensors just monitoring the sensors".

It might not look purdy but just looking at it makes me feel like the engine aint going to have many problems, even with 400+ hp

I need to get me one.

Hehehe


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