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Oh yeah... I forgot about using the one off the truck. I found one on ebay, but it's broken and they still want $35 for it. If I can get a ride to the junkyard I'll look for one. Right now I can't drive farther than a half mile before the engine warms up and the turbos go from puffing to...

Yeah, I'm not a fan of armor all either, it didn't do shit to prevent aging on my last car's dashboard. Mine are cracked too. My wife pinches her arm on it every time she gets into the car. This might just be another part of our cars that can be fixed with the miracle known as "Plasti Dip"...

Yeah, from what I've read the 7M china manifolds sit the turbo much lower than the 1JZ manifolds do, so I shouldn't need a high adapter or an angled one for clearance. I bought a godspeed manifold on ebay, it's made out of the 321 stainless too, and it's a divided T4 flange. It looked like it...

I've seen this brought up before, but is the hole in the block for the drain larger than 1/2" ID? It looks like it would be, but I haven't had the stock flange off to verify it yet. If I get time later I'll put it on the lift and check. I found a high quality full ID -12AN kit here...

The turbo DSM's also use pan drains, not just the NA-T dsms. The guys going to block drains are going overkill though I think. I don't see how oil is going to block the end of an oil drain. A funnel full of oil doesn't drain noticeably slower if you put the end of it in a pan of oil. Part of...

So... while planning my Holset install I ran across this. It seems like alot of DSM guys run Holsets, and they seem to be having problem running -4AN feed with only a -10AN drain line. Holset calls for a 19mm minimum drain size, which is alot bigger than -10AN (most -10AN are ~.5" ID). Is...

I see alot of you who used the Holset turbos on the 1JZ used either an ebay divided T4 manifold, or a custom made one. I saw this one (http://www.ssautochrome.com/level.itml/icOid/1355) online and it already has a T3 flange. I couldn't find anyone who used this manifold though. Any reason why...

Bigger gap makes the idle smooth, smaller gap prevents blowout under boost. You have to find the biggest gap you can run without missing under boost. My idle was rough with a gap under .025", over that it was only a slight miss, till .030" when it started to idle smooth. Seems to match what I've...

Check the wiring, sounds electrical. If there's coolant up the the top of the radiator with it cold, and you warm the engine (a little, maybe 30 seconds running) and slowly release the cap and some coolant pushes into the recovery tank, then the system is full. The JZ engines aren't hard to...

You need one from a 94 Supra non-turbo. I had the same problem. They're about $50 from the dealer if I recall.

Haha... just to spite me it started smoking again almost as bad as before. Going to start it (cold engine) and shut it off after a few seconds... and repeat 3X with some time in between so the turbos don't heat up. Hopefully that will make the oil leak visible in the exhaust without the oil...

When I cut the pink wire on my car the car wouldn't idle normal anymore, it idled super low, barely running. Reconnecting it fixed the problem. Mines running an automatic Z30 soarer ECU though. Just get the speed cut eliminator... greddy, hks, blitz, apexi (the RSM has it built in).

Exhaust stem seals were toasted... they just about came off the guides by themselves. Intake were not far behind. Halfway done now, started at 6pm. Should finish by midnight. Edit: They DID come off by themselves on both exhaust valves on cylinder 3. That explains the sudden increase in smoke...

I don't mind the time doing the job... I have nothing better to do tonight anyway. I've been working on cars for years, so I'm pretty quick doing jobs like this. I think I can get it done in 6 hours after work tonight. Doing my leaking cam seals too. I'm not sure if I'm going to use rope or air...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of too, and if the valve seals don't fix it that's what it's got to be.

I assume, but I'm not sure, I just did the swap 6 months ago, the engine still had the stock water pump which just failed (usually they last about 100-150K), so that's the mileage I'm guessing it has on it). It didn't look like the valve covers were ever off before I changed the gaskets during...

Yeah that sounds about right. Maybe the seals will fix it then.

It's the old style, but I checked the PCV valve and it's working fine. I never got around to doing the 2JZ valve update on it yet, but I did disconned it from the valve cover and after running for 20 mins it still smoked. I will check for shaft play though, I'll have to pull the inlet pipes...

For those of you that have had your stock twin turbos start smoking, when you pulled them off was there wet oil visible in the turbine outlets in the exhaust? My car went from smoking a little to smoking ALOT in just a few days. When I pulled the downpipe to check for signs of oil leaking into...

The date in the door is when the car was built. They start building them several months before they release the car as the next year's model, so it's normal that it was built in 86. The year on the underhood emissions sticker normally displays the model year of the car (assuming it's the...