Toyota E engine

The Toyota E engine is a family of straight-four multi-valve piston engines produced by Toyota Motor Corporation from 1985 to 1999, ranging from 1.0 to 1.5 litres. Like many Toyota engines of its era it has a cast iron block, an aluminium cylinder head and a timing belt rather than a chain. It replaced the K engines in most applications and was among the first Toyota engines designed for fuel economy, practicality and everyday use rather than performance, delivering power and torque in the low-to-mid rev range. A hollow crankshaft, thinner block casting and fewer auxiliaries made it light, and carbureted versions used a newly designed variable-venturi carburetor. The SOHC variants have three valves per cylinder, twelve in all, which is unusual for a straight-four, while the DOHC variants have four valves per cylinder and use the High-Mecha Twin Cam slave-cam system, in which a single belt drives the exhaust camshaft and scissor gears drive the inlet camshaft. In the Transport Atlas it represents the economy engines of the Tercel and Starlet era.