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Should be ok. The original 235 only has 105hp and 160ft/lbs of torque being put down through a 2 speed powerglide automatic. The engine and trans are half the weight of the car though... everything from the carburetor to the tailshaft housing are solid cast iron, lol. It makes the 7MGTE look...

Most new lexus models still use a steering damper. So do a bunch of other cars will over-assisted "luxury" power steering. Old technology, perhaps, but still viable. The lexus and mercedes guys complain that their cars get "spooky" when the damper goes bad. Exactly the word I'd use to describe...

My &@^# steering damper is shot, it has no damping at all anymore. My steering freaks out when I get on rough roads (every road where I live). The OEM piece is ~$170 (apparently it used to be ~$120, but the price recently went up everywhere). I saw that alot of mercedes models use a damper...

Damn. This is probably why my clutch engages right off the floor. Cheap slave cylinder FTL. What's the W58 slave cylinder bore supposed to be anyway?

Have you checked your voltage at the pumps while the problem was occurring? Could be wiring that's got a bad connection somewhere and the more violent acceleration in the lower gears is shaking the wiring more and causing a voltage drop. Also, have you tried filling the tank up to full? Could...

There's no real "stages" to upgrading any engine... but things do kind of lump together. If I had to lump 1JZ upgrades into stages I would probably put them like this... Stage 1: Walbro fuel pump, 2.5" IC pipes, medium FMIC (sized for ~400hp), 3" turbo-back exhaust, boost gauge, 3" pre-turbo...

I got rid of the MBC and ran the wastegate hoses like stock and the car only hits boost cut when it's below about 35 degrees now. I'm still at 10.25:1 AFR, so a good tune will get rid of it completely now. I'm worried about making more than 360hp.. that's all my clutch it rated to. Can't...

This took me 11 months and about $4,500. I don't have a real "before" picture. I forgot to take pics before I started tearing the ugly thing apart. I don't even have a pic with the 7M still in there. It started off as a stock 87' Turbo automatic liftback with a BHG and broken everything. State...

Tested this setup up to 130mph yesterday. No shakes. Nothing broke. Also, for those who were discussing the spacers for adjusting the driveshaft angles... look in a 93' SC300 factory service manual. There's a section in there about adjusting the driveshaft using those spacers, and it is very...

Don't get them, they're known to fall out at high speed, leaving a huge hole in your floor. You might also blow the welds on your intake manifold. If you really want them, considering all that...

I always thought it meant No/Acceleration.

Actually.... it's not the same. I got an OEM 2JZGTE pump from a 94 and the bolt pattern is the same, but the impeller is different. When I bolt it on you can't spin it because the impeller rubs. I checked the gasket thickness and it's the same as the original. The soarer impeller is plastic and...

I never saw how big the OEM intercooler/piping and exhaust was on a Soarer, so I wasn't sure how much of an improvement mine was compared to stock. I wonder if the little bleed hole on the outlet side of the MBC is bleeding off just enough to cause the ~3psi increase. I'll pull the MBC off and...

I can't get my boost set below the 14psi boost cut on my 1JZ. I'm not sure if this is normal for my setup or not, so I'm looking for advice from somone who's been here before. -stock twins with stock exhaust y-pipe and stock compressor pipes -single MBC (currently set to the max low setting...

You forgot the part about hitting your face on the steering wheel when fuel cut happens.

Also found out that this connection is wrong. • Yellow – Red/Green from IJ1 (Fuel) The red/green wire is coming from the FPR pin on the soarer ecu, which outputs either +2.5v (slow), or +5v (fast) and was used to control the soarer's fuel pump ECU. The MA70 has no fuel pump ECU...

If you're running a rising rate regulator, that's your problem. You should be running a non-rising rate (1:1) regulator set to near stock fuel pressure (measure fuel pressure with the vacuum disconnected at idle). You'll need the 440's for the power level you're planning to run. You probably...

This would be a great fix for anyone who's got a soarer 1JZ wired up with the wiring instructions in the "how-to wire a soarer 1JZ into an 87" sticky on this site. Those instructions have you running that heavy 10ga starter wire that goes to the starter solenoid through a tiny 18 or 20 ga wire...

Are the correct swaybar endlinks on your car, and is it a stock swaybar? Mine are pretty far away from the shock and lowering/raising doesn't look like it would make them go any closer.

Hooking up just one side won't work, both sides need to be there or neither side will work cause of how the cable system works. The only downside to taking the parking brake out is that it won't be there. The normal brakes will work the same with it gone. If your main brakes failed you'd have...