This whole project was ultimately started at Havah's Norcal Supra meet the first day or summer in San Leandro Ca on the bay. I was talking to Mo (Suprastanger507mgte) and he was talking about 2j swaps since we were standing around his teal 1.5jz mk3. He said that you can use an Na 2jz with 7m electroncs. WOW this is interesting! He explained most of the difficult parts of the swap to me. Well needless to say within 7 days I had an NA 2jz in my hands from Attarco in Sac CA. This motor was a long block, nothing else. After having it for a week in my garage I decided that I need to return this 2jz and get another one with more accessories/necessities. A buddy and I are taking the motor back to Attarco, probably a mile away from their warehouse we are going around a turn; i look in the rear view mirror and see the motor doing a somersault in the back of my dads Suburban. The tie I had holding the motor in place had come loose. Ooops. We pull over to find a few bad grease stains. Sorry dad. Its hard to flip a motor over 180 degrees in the back of a Suburban hahah. We get to Attarco and while the guys in the warehouse are unloading the motor my buddy and I are looking around. This place has got to have atleast 1500 motors and 1000 trannys. Unfortunately we didnt see any 2jzgtes, or Rbs. We saw one red top Sr20 though. The guy from the front desk tells us to come look at the different 2jzs he has instock. There are probably 5 other 2jz longblocks exactly like my first motor, but there was one 2jz with all the necessities(intake, exhaust, cut wiring harness, alternator, PS, all that fun stuff. In fear of the guy charging me more for the accessorized 2jz I kind of look around unexcited(in my mind I was jumping up and down 
) "I want that one I guess" and point at the 2jz. He says ok no problem ill get the guys to test it for you and I will take you up front to print you a different receipt. He calls his guys to fetch my motor while we go in the office. We come back out in the warehouse and see a guy loading my motor onto some kind of rack. We run over there, I tried to walk in the area with the machine but I got yelled at... hahah. The rack has a starter on it so it turns the motor over fairly quickly. Couldnt hear any loud knocks or anything . Thats pretty much the story on acquiring my motor, kind of long I know but im bored.
Well a few weeks ago my car started to knock very lightly but it got worse progressively. Ahh I know. I dont know what happened. It ran low on oil 1.5 years ago but since then i've been super anal about keeping it absolutely full or oil ALL THE TIME. Oh well i guess this means I need to do something with the 2jz i've had in my garage for the past 2 months.
So far i've spent ~$2000 on parts. I payed for it all by the way, just dont want anyone to think that my car is parentally funded.
How my looked before I ripped it apart.
I took the day off on a friday to start pulling the motor. Within 3 hrs I had the motor ready to be lifted out, its still sitting in the car though just cause I cant have 2 motors laying around my garage.
My mom came home and saw that I had the hood off the supra and she said "Take the hood off cause your to tired of having to lift it up when your working on your car?" This was actually kind of sad, I've had nothing but a blast in my car for the past 2.5 years and now im ripping it apart to the point where I cant drive it for awhile.
I've felt likes it x-mas for the past few days, lots of shiny go fast parts!
Ohh yea and Driftmotion FTW!
Over the past few days i've slowly taken the 2jz apart to put a twin turbo headgasket on and check a few things.
) "I want that one I guess" and point at the 2jz. He says ok no problem ill get the guys to test it for you and I will take you up front to print you a different receipt. He calls his guys to fetch my motor while we go in the office. We come back out in the warehouse and see a guy loading my motor onto some kind of rack. We run over there, I tried to walk in the area with the machine but I got yelled at... hahah. The rack has a starter on it so it turns the motor over fairly quickly. Couldnt hear any loud knocks or anything . Thats pretty much the story on acquiring my motor, kind of long I know but im bored.Well a few weeks ago my car started to knock very lightly but it got worse progressively. Ahh I know. I dont know what happened. It ran low on oil 1.5 years ago but since then i've been super anal about keeping it absolutely full or oil ALL THE TIME. Oh well i guess this means I need to do something with the 2jz i've had in my garage for the past 2 months.
So far i've spent ~$2000 on parts.
I payed for it all by the way, just dont want anyone to think that my car is parentally funded. How my looked before I ripped it apart.
I took the day off on a friday to start pulling the motor. Within 3 hrs I had the motor ready to be lifted out, its still sitting in the car though just cause I cant have 2 motors laying around my garage.
My mom came home and saw that I had the hood off the supra and she said "Take the hood off cause your to tired of having to lift it up when your working on your car?" This was actually kind of sad, I've had nothing but a blast in my car for the past 2.5 years and now im ripping it apart to the point where I cant drive it for awhile.
I've felt likes it x-mas for the past few days, lots of shiny go fast parts!
Ohh yea and Driftmotion FTW!
Over the past few days i've slowly taken the 2jz apart to put a twin turbo headgasket on and check a few things.
