SUPRA Event is an exciting competition which presents the Engineering Students with a challenging task of designing, simulating and modeling a formula type race car. Each team designs and fabricates a prototype based on the strict guidelines provided to them and the car should perform in a dynamic event in a live race track.

7M/1G: Pretty weak sauce. So you buy a 3800lb driveway ornament and want to go fast. In North America, your faced with the 7M, and Japan, luckily enough got the 1jz, however, they too got the 7M and even worse, the 1G. Every other M series engine was decent, the 7M screwed that right up. It’s head design is the fault. People will tell you it was a bad factory gasket, or under torqued bolts. However, even with those factors coverd, the real core of the issue was a bad head design. Getting past the common, and often debilitating issue of 7m’s blowing gaskets (try pushing that thing!) The power of a 7m is a joke. Remember that Toyota publishes not the wheel horse power, but the crank. By the time that inline 6 delivers it’s 200hp N/a to the rear, it’s about 160hp, got a turbo? Roughly 190hp. Brutal for that amount of weight, but look out! There’s even a worse motor: the 1GGTE. Although not plagued with head gasket failures and people thinking they can build the ultimate 7m, only to fail like the next guy, the 1ggte had it’s own issues, spinning bearings, and well, being 2 liters! Such a tiny inline 6, and it needed twin turbo’s just to make the 210hp. Unless your supra screwed and end up with an n/a 1GGE at 150hp.