Engine Codes : Suffix Feature
Engine Codes : Suffix Feature
Toyota Motor Corporation has produced a wide variety of automobile engines. The company
follows a simple naming system for their modern engines:
Suffix Feature
A Valvematic variable lift intake head
Twin SU-style side-draft carburetors
B
After 2000 indicates E85 Ethanol fuel.[citation needed]
C Carbureted / California Emissions Controlled
D Twin downdraft carburetors
E Electronic fuel injection
F Economy narrow-angle valve DOHC
G Performance wide-angle valve DOHC
High compression
H
High pressure charged (example : 2L-THE)
I Single-point fuel injection
J Autochoke (Early models) or unknown pollution control
L Transverse
M Philippines' market (meaning unknown)
N CNG fuel
P LPG fuel
R Low Compression (For 87 and below octane fuel)
S Swirl intake (1980s)
SE D-4 Gasoline direct injection (1990s)
T Turbocharged
U With Catalytic converter Japan-spec emissions
V Common Rail Diesel Injection (D-4D)
Atkinson cycle (typically also indicates a Hybrid engine, as Toyota only uses the
X
Atkinson cycle with hybrids)
Z Supercharged
Note: Other manufacturers may modify the engine after it has left the Toyota factory but the
engine still keeps the original Toyota designation. For example, Lotus added a supercharger to
the 2ZZ-GE in some versions of the Lotus Elise and Exige but it is still labelled 2ZZ-GE, not
2ZZ-GZE.
For Example
4A-GE
22R-TEC
The use of "G" to denote twin cam engines was decided on in 1971, with the renaming of the
10R into 8R-G. Before, twin cams had received new numerical codes.[1]
Note: Toyota, in 1987, began assigning dual letter engine codes to some of the "engine
family" categories in some engine lines, particularly six cylinder models. This can create
potential confusion. E.g. 1MZ-FE – This is not a supercharged, narrow angle, fuel
injected M-series engine, but a narrow angle, fuel injected MZ-series engine. Confusion
is easiest to avoid when using the dash to separate between the engine series and its own
characteristics: for instance, 1MZ-FE rather than 1M-ZFE.
Gasoline/Petrol[edit]
Flat-twin or Flat-four[edit]
1961 – U
o 1961–1966 – 0.7 L (697 cc) U
o 1965–1969 – 0.8 L (790 cc) 2U
o 1966–1976 – 0.8 L (790 cc) 2U-B
o 2011- 2.0 L (1998 cc) 4U-GSE
Straight-3[edit]
2004 – KR – DOHC
o 2004 – 1.0 L (998 cc) 1KR
Straight-4[edit]
Straight-6[edit]
V6[edit]
1987 – VZ – DOHC/SOHC
o 1987–1993 – 2.0 L (1992 cc) 1VZ
o 1987–1991 – 2.5 L (2496 cc) 2VZ
o 1987–1997 – 3.0 L (2958 cc) 3VZ
o 1993–1998 – 2.5 L (2496 cc) 4VZ
o 1995–2004 – 3.4 L (3378 cc) 5VZ
1994 – MZ – DOHC
o 1994 – 3.0 L (2995 cc) 1MZ
o 1998 – 2.5 L (2496 cc) 2MZ
o 2003 – 3.3 L (3310 cc) 3MZ
2003 – GR – DOHC
o 2002 – 4.0 L (3955 cc) 1GR
o 2006 – 3.5 L (3456 cc) 2GR
o 2003 – 3.0 L (2994 cc) 3GR
o 2006 – 2.5 L (2499 cc) 4GR
o 2005 – 2.5 L (2497 cc) 5GR
V8[edit]
1963 – V – OHV
o 1963–1967 – 2.6 L (2,599 cc) V
o 1967–1973 – 3.0 L (2,981 cc) 3V
o 1973–1983 – 3.4 L (3,376 cc) 4V
o 1983–1998 – 4.0 L (3,995 cc) 5V
1989 – UZ – DOHC
o 1989–2002 – 4.0 L (3,969 cc) 1UZ
o 1998–2009 – 4.7 L (4,663 cc) 2UZ
o 2000–2010 – 4.3 L (4,300 cc) 3UZ
2006 – UR – DOHC
o 2006 – 4.6 L (4,608 cc) 1UR
o 2007 – 5.0 L (4,969 cc) 2UR
o 2007 – 5.7 L (5,663 cc) 3UR
2003 – RV8
o 2003 – 4.0 L
o 2006 – 4.0 L RV8J
o 2011 – 3.4 L RV8KLM
V10[edit]
2010 – LR – DOHC/VVT-i
o 2010–2012 – 4.8 L (4,805 cc) 1LR-GUE
V12[edit]
1997 – GZ – DOHC
o 1997 – 5.0 L (4,996 cc) 1GZ-FE