This dude is serious, if I win the lotto, I'm going to him

Thanks so much Mike for sharing your knowledge on the 4A-GE! I'd love to know more about building a 20v silvertop or blacktop too! (And 7A-GE etc!) A lot of this knowledge is lost with the forums going down. Thanks for preserving it for the next generation who loves these cars/motors.

Always nice to see videos on the good old 4A! I'm currently building 4A-GZE for my AW11 MR2, parts are harder to come by especially in Europe, but MRP has great stuff indeed and I've already bought couple of things from them.

Back in the day I had a Geo Prizim GSI with a 4AGE. I remember putting a on a set of dual Mikuni 44mm carbs on it. Sounded so good!

i am the proud owner of a toyota corolla ae86 1984 Euro edition Levin and i love my car and i have my 4AG 16v turbo

I absolutely love your naturally aspirated engine builds! Thank you for your help last year with advice for a clutch and flywheel for my AP1 S2000. I have really enjoyed the ACT clutch and flywheel. So nice having an ultra lightweight billet flywheel.

The 4AGE 20V blacktop motor was the epitome of the 4AGE series of motors. I loved my 20V back in the day.

The knowledge and experience in these videos humbles me every time, I hope the tuning industry isn’t dead by the time I learn

I really appreciate the FX16 call out! Great video and info.

Even though I feel burns stainless X-Pipes are a tad expensive, this video hits all the right buttons for me. Toyota, nostalgia era, itbs...

Absolutely LOVE the 4age content! Really love your experience and expertise with these series of engines.

My first car was a Toyota Corolla Twin Cam (series 1) 86kw . Eventually got a bearing knock and I fitted a 100kw import series 3 engine, huge difference and I couldn’t break it 😂. Dave Repsold here in South Africa is a legend with these. Awesome videos man

Man, Mike just has an aura that promotes joy and happiness

ive got a AE92 coupe which i manual swapped and put a blue top 4AGE from an 86 MR2. i rebuilt the 4AGE before hand, new pistons, bored 82mm, decked with the TRD 0.8mm head gasket, HKS 272 intake and exhaust on adjustable cam pulleys, stand alone ignition (no distributor) and two weber DCOE 40s and straight piped with stainless headers plus a few sort of reliability mods like the MRP timing belt stabilizer and all ARP bolts on the bottom end and the stronger 20v oil pump. it really takes off, i put 91-93 octane (north america) and have the ignition timing up just before knock. great acceleration with no delay!

Thankyou for the information...Im a 4AGE enthusiast from Sabah Malaysia...and this video is a refresh ...I have been playing this engine from the early model till the 20v blacktop

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This is really great stuff and should be archived for future generations to know what a real tuner is.

I love this engine I remember when I was a kid at the Long Beach Grand Prix seeing this beauty in a Atlantic car with side draft carbs sounded so sweet

This is great. Oem stuff was good for back in the day builds (club4ag era). These days we have more and better tested stuff to use where old oem parts can take the backseat.

I love how you guys just have knowledge.

Nice video, lots of great info here. I would like to add that the issue with oil pumps themselves are in the early gen pumps with square edged gears, later pumps (silvertop 20v is considered the better option) are great off the shelf for majority of builds. The problem with breaking gears on the bigports pertains to oil Cavitation. The head only has an oil return in the centre of the head on the exhaust side. Under high rpm and cornering forces, oil tends to get trapped in the head for a little too long which effects the pickup volume at the sump. The smallport engine has addressed this with an additional oil drain from the rear of the head down to the block amongst other efficiency upgrades. The bigport has the provisions for these drain ports to be machined for fittings by a skilled tech.

Been playing with the 4ag's for 26 years now, such a awesome engine!!

Great video. Hard to believe they’re a 40 year old design now! They sound so great, and were and still are a staple at every motorsport event in about any configuration you can imagine, as a 2A-GE for example. I have a soft spot for these (having owing 3 AE82 FX-GT and an AE85 with a 20v back in the day). They’re fragile alright, I’ve run bearings a few times in the bigport motors without the external head drain like the smallport has. Great to see NZ companies and guys like Garage 4age keeping them alive too.

I've seen 4A-GEs' of many flavours pushed to the outer limits in the NZ, Australian and South African tuning scene. Those guys swear by the 4A-GE motors. Great to see such a detailed analysis of this motor.

2ZZ-GE gets me a tad more excited.

Thanks Mike, a friend had a AE101G Corolla BZ touring wagon with a 5th gen, great little engines.👌

Great information! Thank you for sharing.

Man I loved this video! I owned an AE86 for 4 years (and I want back in one soon) and I love hearing the modern take on 4AGEs! Most of the info online are from 2006 which is probably outdated by now so I really appreciate this advice! If you have a chance I'd love to hear about 7AGE builds too!

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Im so glad I found your channel. A true car nerds dream!!!!!🤓

been buying 4ag parts from MRP for decades, so happy to see them mentioned on vids like these :)

Moto IQ got the best information. You guys should have at least a million subs!!!! Aloha from Hawaii.

Wasn’t expecting this one. ❤🔥

It's great for the beginner and novice builders. Great for it's generation.

i have a ae92 FXGT 1987. FwD but with a 20v blacktop swap. I LOVE a good 4age there quite neat

You got yourself a sub! Thanks for this!

really cool video

i love 4A-G engines!!

4AG is legendary. Hasselgren made some monsters for Formula Atlantic

Hey now! Have an AW11 that I’ve bringing back to life with its 4age.

Love the 4AG! Save the 16 valve!

Love these videos! 😁

love this stuff! do a video on 1JZGTE engines!

Great informative video! My Redtop 86 has been sitting for 12 years with blown rings who knows what else. And family took precedence over trying to build my 20V Silvertop 13 years ago... I guess I should really get on it, HAHA.

Awesome video, thanks.

Great video!!

Good little engine!

Crower engine parts are insane. My dad built a 65 stang with crower rods and high nickel boss block that revs to 8k rpm. Hope to build my own engine some day like he did. I’m 30 and making enough money to support myself but not much extra. Hope to someday have a fun car of my own.

Thanks for making a video on the engine! I'll probably put in some of those parts later on (like the oil pump gears), but for now I think it'll be fine for now until I wanna take it to the next step👍 I always love learning more about these engines!

Mike?! Steve Neill here! Happy to see such a well-educated OG on YT in my recommendations!

Please do a SR20VET break down video like these. Love the indepth analysis.

More 4a/7age content please

4A-GE engine is the most memorable creation for Toyota.

It’d be awesome if he’d talk more about other Toyota 4 cylinder engines. I’m looking to build a 3ZRFE

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High VE 81mm x 77.4mm FTW!! 🍻

2zz next please

Thanks for the Tech Info, The 7A-FE Block is 15mm taller and is a great choice for high revving 4A-GE builds and improves "Rod/Stroke ratio", 4A-GE Head bolts directly on the 7A-FE Block

i build an 7A-GE. Immortal Engine, 7AFE Block with 4AgE head its a must !

I just watched your LS build video. Great timing Mike and Moto IQ crew!

Mike could explain anything to me and I'd smile

awesome video. i love the way a 4age sounds when its wound out and the formula atlantic 4age's are just unreal. would be cool to see you go through a toyota 2rz or 3rz build. i have seen a few with 4 digit power numbers with a stock block and crank. looks to be a solid platform.

Great video, great information!! Awesome work!! Have you guys ever messed with 7ag builds?

Elsewhere in these comments, it is said that ""people put these in those 4wd Tercel wagons." That's true, I did it, but it is harder than you think. A 4age block will bolt right to the tercel trans, but there are other problems. The accessories are one..the different head and timing belt cover were a factor. Not too bad, though. The cooling system is a bit weird if your donor car is an mr2 (like mine), especially if using the larger mr2 radiator. The starter ended up being an mr2/Tercel hybrid, out of necessity. The tercel flywheel will not fit the 4ag crank (8 bolts vs 6) and the mr2 ring gear will not go in the tercel trans. I turned down the 4ag flywheel to accept the smaller ring gear. Used part of a bad 4ag crank as a mandrel. You must remove the ring gear from a tercel flywheel intact. They aren't sold separately. Now the mr2 clutch won't fit in the tercel trans. Almost, though. Grind/cut inside of bellhousing, it works. Fortunately, the input shaft splines match the mr2 disc. The tercel clutch cable interferes with the mr2 exhaust (now on the left). Tried many cables, I think the one that worked was from an old accord or prelude. I made a manifold, and ran it on gsxr-1100 carbs. Got them to work beautifully, like EFI. It even got good mileage. However, they are on the small side for a 1600 motor, and despite looking cool, it limited power at high rpm. The ignition used with the carbs was MSD with timing controls, as there was no ECU at this time. I then put the mr2 EFI on it. The manifold didn't fit under the hood...cut & weld that. The tercel fuel pump was engine driven, and low (carb) pressure. So..weld ring into tercel fuel tank and fab bracket for that, to use the stock mr2 pump. Make fuel lines. The throttle body points at the firewall now, requiring some ingenuity to connect it nicely to a large air filter.. The exhaust comes out the wrong side. Making a complete 2 1/4" exhaust for this was actually pretty hard..the unibody had room for a small exhaust only on the right side. The trans input shaft for the Tercel has a thin area, looks weak, but did not break, and I was abusive to it. The trans gear ratios were not well suited to the 4ag..you better rev it to 7500+/- rpm, or ot drops "off the cam" for a moment after an upshot. This made it either sort of slow, or moderately fast if you "whup on it". I estimated than mine may have been 150 hp, maybe. Wiseco pistons, head work, high compression, nice intake/exhaust. Stock cams. This did not make for a real fast car after a LOT of work- almost as a direct result of this, I now have an LS2 in a volvo wagon....I highly recommend this. 400 plus torquey, reliable hp..it's a blast. I think the volvo v8 swap was easier, and I made everything..engine & trans mounts, exhaust, driveshafts, etc. I have seen others who have claimed to do the 4AG tercel thing, but their pics showed only a long block in the car, clearly not running. Please comment if you have, or have seen another one. Definitely not as easy as it first appeared, I was tricked by the in-common "A" family engine. I drove it thousands of miles this way, my main car for a few years. Still have it, haven't run it for 10 yrs. It is red like Jesse Pinkman's of Breaking Bad. Haha maybe it's valuable! It is unique.

Sushpants and Garage4age have great 4AGE content.

4age is extremely reliable. One of Toyota's best engine. Engine is definitely not weak. Got both 16 valve and 20 valve.

I’d love to hear about your time with TRD and working in the Formula Atlantic series and these 4age cars

5:57 🇳🇿 MRPNZ Legend!

Would love to see a video analysis of the MX5 B Series motors!

Wow... I have a lot of years spent enjoying my AW11 with its 4AGE... Though, it certainly was not powerful, it was rev happy and was pure bliss at 6600rpm... It felt like my AW11 was floating on a road of silk. Any chance you could do a similar video for the 3SGE? :)

Do an episode on the 20v 4AGE pls...

Perfect video to see during my 5age build lol hks stroker for .1 more litre 😂 my 7a on the other hand that should make some power…. And my 9a…. It should be wild

might hopefully be getting a Prizm GSi eventually, I'll probably leave it stock but if I get the itch, I could do something cool with it

I am building a really clean del sol at the moment and would love to see a how to build a Honda d series

Would be cool to see you talk about the Toyota 3S engine as well.

Such soothing voice (like asmr) to listen for hours! Do you have an opinion on 3SGTE? I would like to see if your video will talk about building 3SGTE :D

I knows it not popular, but maybe an article or video on the vw 07K? In terms of short comings in the OE and ways to maximize performance

would love to see a video on the new 86 engine the fa20d

Really cool interesting stuff here 👍🏻👍🏻 I wish to see the MZR/Duratec engine

Love Na builds since people rarely do them anymore more. did an all-motor 6g72 with 13:1 compression and 272 cams with an LS intake adapted to the 6g72. With very similar built bottom end and built top end. Just a weird all-motor v6 build. lol

16v for life

Please do a video like this for 2TGEU!!!!!

cant wait for a 4G63 build

Trying to get the project rolling on my 95 Corolla want to learn and swap it to 7age fwd monster

Its 2023, and we are still stalking about 4ag. Long live 4ag!

I had 93 4agze with a turbo in an old corolla that was 172kw at the wheels and had the rev limit set to 8200rpm which was so reliable i put 80,000ks on it in the end the end the ring landings cracked due to a bad tune

Don't sleep on the 4AG. My AW11 makes 620whp on a 1.6L 16V 4A. Stock crank. Not sure why he's saying they are weak

This video is absolutely amazing would it be possible to get a full parts list I would love to put one of these together my self

I’d love for him too do the Volvo redblock engine the b21 if he knows anything about them 🙏🏻

Brother, I am from South Africa and have a few 4A-GE engines, I have one putting out 515HP on a stock crank and stock Series 2 rods and a stock head with no rev kit and is not flowed, only thing we did is stronger pistons that is it, never had any oil pump, crank, bearing and block issues what so ever. I am more that willing to share the build photos and dyno videos, at the moment our best time is 10.83sec on the 1/4mile

Please do a SR20 video like this!

Where is Driving 4 Answers?!

Craftsman right here

Maybe we just got lucky but we ran 270kw in a turbo setup with a KE20 rolla with standard crank and block. The rest was all forged (ceramic coated & shot peened pistons) and head was well worked. Crank never died, tho we never stressed it too hard cept when at the runs which we pulled almost a 10sec pass without slicks (think was a mid 10) .....we got kicked off the track cos we didnt have a tailshaft loop or rollcage. (it was an ae92 red top motor so i guess was 3rd gen ? )

Man I'd love to have you build a modest big port for my SCCA race car but I'm almost afraid to ask, bet it's not cheap!

Did you recomend to install oil cooler for a 4age red top build

Please do how to build a 2uz fe

did you know these motors used to dominate Formula Atlantic in SCCA? i built quite a few cyl. heads back in the day.....shim over converted to shim under cam....always good vids !!!!!!!

hi just wanted to know if u guys can make a video about the 20V beams Eengin and upgrades that u can do to it.

Can you do a 3sgte video? id love to hear your thoughts on the engine.

Some vids on transmissions would be sick