I often see car enthusiasts openly discuss great motors like the lsx series of engines, ford’s 5.0/302, the kseries, 4g63’s and 2jzgte’s as examples.

I rarely see any open discussion of 3sgte engines, theyre older motors i gather that toyota developed in the 80s for WRC and eventually jgtc.

In terms of specs, its similar to a 4g63, turbocharged, iron block, aluminum head, dohc, 4valves per cylinder, oem 540cc injectors, etc.

In car communities i never see folk so little as mention those motors in discussions, almost like they never existed in the consciousness of car enthusiasts at all.

Was it a bad motor is why it got ignored or what’s going on here?