BS Story that isn't worth reading unless you care to know why I'm here now;So back on September 7th, 2013, I purchased my first Supra. Backing up the story a bit, I started out buying a POS Eclipse GS with a bent rod when I was about 16 and fixed that up and sold it and upgraded to a GST, which after 2 years I got sick of fixing it and sold that and purchased a 2003 Lexus IS300 5spd w/LSD that had 43k miles on it and it was totaled(clean title) ((Link to that rebuild thread - http://my.is/forums/f93/new-member-first-is300-463562/ )). That was Easter of 2013 as well. After getting that back on the road about 4 months later(my father does body work, so we did it together) I wanted a project car and would maybe spice up the Lexus later in life. But I was looking around and at first I wanted a Subaru Impreza, then I found a ragged out 1987 Toyota Supra Targa-top turbo that was manual(SCORE!). The asking price was 2500 which I knew was too high for the condition it was in(someone spray painted red & black all over the original beige interior). I of course rolled up to the guys house in my Toyota dealer uniform and he confronted me the problems of the car. After everything I ended up paying 1400.
He mentioned it ran like shit and it certainly did, was only running on 3cylinders, and that the flywheel was falling off, which it certainly was. Someone used grade-8 steel bolts to hold it in, and one of the heads off the bolt shattered off(was fun torching and drilling that on out). Later on discovered cylinders 5 & 6 were sharing compression and of course that meant bhg(GO FIGURE). So after fixing everything, I concluded a total of about $200 in parts to fix it to where I'm at now. I have a lot of plans, and my first is to get rid of this putrid 7m-gte and grab me a 1jz, as I already have the R154. The reason I want to go with a 1jz is because I would like to stick within factory limits(to an extent). The 2jz is too new for a MKIII, and I already own a Lexus that's equipped with a 2jz. So with that, I've been bullshitting for a little now, fiddling with this 7mgte, trying to work with this hopeless, molested wiring harness. soldered in a bunch of new connectors(except the afm, couldn't find one). And now it's pretty close to running correctly, except one of the million pieces of pipping likes to blow apart every once in a while and the thing bucks like a bull and back fires. Sounds like a horrible 2-step.
As for now, I will doing more & more research for 1jz swapping. Only things I really need to figure out is finding a cheap 2nd gen 1jz without the turbo recall ALSO without a transmission hanging off the back of it - impossible to find(that also comes with ignitor & wiring harness). Need to also figure out a ECU setup, whether try using the 7mgte just to get it running then switch to a stand alone? Or buy a M/T ecu for $1,000,000? Also need to figure out what to carry over from the 7m to the 1jz and research more about this way around fitting the wiring harness without cutting into it, I've been looking around for more info for whereabouts to drilling a hole in the firewall to the glove box area. Just mainly electrical shit, I know a lot about automotive electronics, but haven't had any experience in swaps.
Now for some pictures & videos! - don't have a whole lot
[imghttps://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31/1425257_760016527347796_592527688_o.jpg][/img]
[video=youtube_share;LmLD2jeuD7s]http://youtu.be/LmLD2jeuD7s[/video]
[video=youtube_share;J-drBwDJ5bY]http://youtu.be/J-drBwDJ5bY[/video]
He mentioned it ran like shit and it certainly did, was only running on 3cylinders, and that the flywheel was falling off, which it certainly was. Someone used grade-8 steel bolts to hold it in, and one of the heads off the bolt shattered off(was fun torching and drilling that on out). Later on discovered cylinders 5 & 6 were sharing compression and of course that meant bhg(GO FIGURE). So after fixing everything, I concluded a total of about $200 in parts to fix it to where I'm at now. I have a lot of plans, and my first is to get rid of this putrid 7m-gte and grab me a 1jz, as I already have the R154. The reason I want to go with a 1jz is because I would like to stick within factory limits(to an extent). The 2jz is too new for a MKIII, and I already own a Lexus that's equipped with a 2jz. So with that, I've been bullshitting for a little now, fiddling with this 7mgte, trying to work with this hopeless, molested wiring harness. soldered in a bunch of new connectors(except the afm, couldn't find one). And now it's pretty close to running correctly, except one of the million pieces of pipping likes to blow apart every once in a while and the thing bucks like a bull and back fires. Sounds like a horrible 2-step.
As for now, I will doing more & more research for 1jz swapping. Only things I really need to figure out is finding a cheap 2nd gen 1jz without the turbo recall ALSO without a transmission hanging off the back of it - impossible to find(that also comes with ignitor & wiring harness). Need to also figure out a ECU setup, whether try using the 7mgte just to get it running then switch to a stand alone? Or buy a M/T ecu for $1,000,000? Also need to figure out what to carry over from the 7m to the 1jz and research more about this way around fitting the wiring harness without cutting into it, I've been looking around for more info for whereabouts to drilling a hole in the firewall to the glove box area. Just mainly electrical shit, I know a lot about automotive electronics, but haven't had any experience in swaps.
Now for some pictures & videos! - don't have a whole lot
[imghttps://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31/1425257_760016527347796_592527688_o.jpg][/img]
[video=youtube_share;LmLD2jeuD7s]http://youtu.be/LmLD2jeuD7s[/video]
[video=youtube_share;J-drBwDJ5bY]http://youtu.be/J-drBwDJ5bY[/video]
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