"LuczOr" (LuczOr)
06/24/2014 at 11:56 • Filed to: None
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"LuczOr" (LuczOr)
06/24/2014 at 11:56 • Filed to: None | 2
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Season 2 of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! continues! Coming at you with a (clever) new title for the show, this season will document the swap process. Here is an update on what happened over the break!
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Ok, nothing much happened. The project was in a bit of a holding pattern while trying to balance out the books. After buying up the Z28 for $4200, I have sold $2575 worth of parts leaving me with an LS1 with a wiring harness, ECU, MAF and all the required accouterments for the sweet price of $1625. The goal was to get that final value to $900, which I still hope to reach by continuing to sell stuff, but then there was some fail.
The 22-RE in the 4runner decided it didn't like revs as much as I do, so it decided to spin a bearing and start knocking a rod which has fast tracked the whole project since my wife won't let me drive her Rav4 whenever I want. It begins with removing the heart of the beast.
Due to my current home construction situation, I don't really have a clean place to remove the engine from the Z28. However, I do have a bunch of construction equipment and since the engine must come out from the bottom of the Camaro:
Yoink! And out comes the powerplant still bolted to the front suspension and K-member.
The next step was buying up all the bits to make the engine fit in a 1986 Toyota truck chassis which includes:
Bellhousing adapter
Flywheel, Pressure Plate, Custom Clutch, Flywheel Spacer
Toyota Land Cruiser Slave Cylinder
Custom Motor Mounts
Block Hugger Headers
Custom Exhaust Piping
Corvette Accessory Drive Kit (Ouch price)
Diff Drop Kit
Tuning Sofware and Hardware (WHY IS THIS THE MOST EXPENSIVE CRAP!?)
A bunch of other bits and bobs
And a set of traction bars to (hopefully) prevent the LS1 from spitting the rear end out of the truck.
All of that clocks in at an additional $3800.
Hopefully all this crap will trickle in over the next 2 weeks and I can get everything sorted out sometime in the next 4 weeks. Which puts my approximate completion date sometime in 2043, if I use autmotive project logic.
So stay tuned and see what will go wrong next.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> LuczOr
06/24/2014 at 14:15 |
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I'm a bit jealous. I'm getting sick of my 3VZE.
unpredictable_swerve
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
06/24/2014 at 14:56 |
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lets be honest here, nobody LIKES the 3VZ-FE, they just live with it. I will say 1JZ-GTE swapped 4Runners are a riot. 5VZ-FZE (Z=supercharged) are fun as well.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> unpredictable_swerve
06/24/2014 at 15:02 |
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But, LS's are simplifying and adding lightness.
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unpredictable_swerve
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
06/24/2014 at 15:06 |
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Lightness yes, simplify? No. Awesome? You betcha.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> unpredictable_swerve
06/24/2014 at 15:11 |
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Once installed, going from a vacuum hose nightmare, unaccessable maintenance places(with the exception of oil), and exploding head gaskets to simple design, small size, and depending on state, no emissions shit to deal with. Once it's installed, it would be simplified.
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unpredictable_swerve
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
06/24/2014 at 17:13 |
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It's far from a drop-in swap. Simple would be like a 22R/RE and MAYBE a 5VZ-FE. It's better in every way to a 3VZ, just... not what I would call "simple". A carb'd 350 in a 4Runner is pretty awesome though.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> unpredictable_swerve
06/24/2014 at 17:22 |
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As I stated before, after it is installed, it makes it simpler.