{"id":101085,"date":"2023-06-05T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=101085"},"modified":"2023-07-13T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:05:50","slug":"toyota-starlet-with-a-2-6-l-v8-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=101085","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Starlet with a 2.6 L V8 Racing Wolsfeld Hillclimb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101090\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101090\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101090\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?fit=1440%2C1440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8 05\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-05.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Mikko Kataja from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vhtracing\/\">VHT Racing<\/a> decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=95860\">swap the motor<\/a> in his Toyota Starlet race car. It was previously powered by a Toyota 4A-GE inline-four capable of 250+ horsepower. Mikko replaced it with a first-generation 2.6 L RPA V8 built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalprecisionengineering.com\/our-engines\">Radical Precision Engineering<\/a> (RPE). The motors use Hayabusa motorcycle heads and camshafts, custom aluminum block, and dry sump. Eventually Mikko will upgrade to a built 2.7 L RPX V8. The video below shows Mikko&#8217;s first race at Wolsfeld hillclimb with the 2.6 L V8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1Ig0hBMBREM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YEf2Q24WqWA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101091\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101091\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-06.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-06.jpg?resize=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-06.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-06.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101092\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101092\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101092\" 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wp-image-101092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-07.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-07.jpg?resize=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-07.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-07.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101093\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101093\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=101093\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?fit=1440%2C1081&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1081\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8 08\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?fit=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Toyota Starlet with a Radical Precision Engineering V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?resize=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toyota-Starlet-with-a-Radical-Precision-Engineering-V8-08.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@VHTRacing\">VHT Racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Mikko Kataja from VHT Racing decided to swap the motor in his Toyota Starlet race car. It was previously powered by a Toyota 4A-GE inline-four capable of 250+ horsepower. Mikko replaced it with a first-generation 2.6 L RPA V8 built by Radical Precision Engineering (RPE). The motors use Hayabusa motorcycle heads and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=101085\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyota Starlet with a 2.6 L V8 Racing Wolsfeld Hillclimb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starlet"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102690,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=102690","url_meta":{"origin":101085,"position":0},"title":"Toyota Starlet with a 2.6 L V8 Racing Trento-Bondone Hillclimb","author":"swaptastic","date":"July 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Mikko Kataja and his VHTRacing's 1980 Toyota Starlet (KP60) returned to Trento-Bondone Hillclimb in Italy for the 2nd race of the FIA European Hillclimb CUP series. 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The car had just swapped from Radical Precision Engineering's (RPE) 2.6 L RPA V8 to their next generation 2.7 L RPX V8. 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The car was previously powered by a 4A-GE inline-four. Then last year Mikko swapped to a 2.6 L RPA V8 created by Radical Precision Engineering (RPE). 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Mikko spent the next year and half redesigning and rebuilding the car. The body received new custom carbon fiber panels from Haidea in Finland. VHT Racing adjusted the suspension for a lowered ride height and wider track. 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The built motor made 250+ hp at 10,309 rpm on 102 octane fuel. For several years Mikko considered other engine options. 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