</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by elripster:
<strong>Why would we think that for example, my motor's head gaskets are marginally more robust than they need to be to survive?

Maybe they are on par with any other head gasket.

But, maybe not. If the cost of the supercharger were less money it would be one thing but with the availability of the 3.4 which will readily accept the SC it's the best deal for sure.

I'm curious, you say "NA" and I assume you mean non applicable. What would be different between my year and say a '92 before the repair? What is different after the repair? My HG's were covered by the dealer so someone thought the motor was applicable and my truck is a pre 03/89 truck.

Frank.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Isn't it still a bit of mystery as to why the Toyota 3.0s were really blowing gaskets in the first place? I know virtually nothing about the 3.0 V-6, but I have some docs on my website about the campaign and as a result I get emails almost daily from V-6 owners. I'm really surprised how many people tell me that they've had one or more failures after having the gaskets replaced. I wonder if maybe some of those failures are due to the poor workmanship on replacing the gaskets, like not resurfacing the heads, since so many other V-6s have lasted many hundreds of thousands of miles.

However, I've heard the problem may not have been the gaskets at all, but rather the lack of the proper number of head studs, or lack of proper torque or something else.

These are questions I'm just curious about. Seems like a few 3.0 V-6s will last forever, but there are still too many of them with repeated gasket failures. Without have a concreat reason as to why this is happening, I would be worried about putting a supercharger on that motor.

Anyway, as for the supercharger cost, that's a huge chunk of change. As mentioned earlier, seems to me a bone stock 3.4 liter would drop right in, with no hassle, and cost about half as much for probably the exact same power increase. Take part of that $3000 and put it into the 3.4 supercharger and you'd have real rocket. Reliable too.

<small>[ June 19, 2003, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: Brian894X4 ]</small>