captaingamez

Absolutely beautiful man. Congrats on the finish. Love the thread title too.

The 1UZ everything used to be custom, now you can get adapter plates for v160 r154 and even 350z, transmissions. Its not as custom as it once was. $300 for a adapter plate, thats a fact. Plus if you know someone with CNC/waterjet capabilities, you can download the CAD files for $25 for any adapter plate you want. The UZ is a lighter engine. The UZ is a better designed engine The UZ has better weight distribution being that it is a bank of 4 not 6. Also, Put a 5 speed/6 speed in an sc400. okay, now take the sc300 with 5speed and think about how much work you now have to do to it to make it catch up to the sc400. Its a joke man, a bad joke. You would have to spend even more than just the 5speed swap in the sc400 to make the sc300 as fast, and it will never handle as well. Dont get me wrong, Soarers are sick regardless of engine choice. Most JZ engines need a rebuild at this point as well, but nobody wants to talk about that. And In complete honesty, the 7M needs a little more than just a "rebuild" to keep up with a 2JZ for reliability. It needs a drift motion oil pump, or equivalent to be honest. After that and the right head gasket torque, they are pretty damn reliable. Its an easy swap, yup, and easy is what we should all strive for in tuning, at all times, never under any circumstances shouyld you veer outside the box and try something hard or go the road less traveled, especially not if it results in a better setup without the god engine. "people dont care about technical stuff, just how easy things are" So why do they even build cars, at all? If tuning were to be easy......, well Honestly its just a real shame that so many people are impressed by such an easy swap. All because of the Fast and the Furious. So what did I say that simply isnt true? Unlike some people, I actually like to be corrected when I am wrong.

Corrected. Not really figures, just my/ other peoples experience with them I hang out with a lot of people that work at Hasport and have some experiences with the crazier motors. I have never touched an NSX C, or an S2000 F engine myself. I know my K series though.

Hell yeah, they are like the 3TC of Hondas engines, lol. K are truly indestructible fuckers though.

I discovered one of the single most annoying things about the 2JZ engine tonight. People put them in SC400s. I knew this already, but I didnt really think about it in this manner. The 2JZ is the literall reason that Nissan spanked Toyota HARD, for 10 years in JGTC racing. Toyota never raced the 2JZ in pro JGTC in a non practice session. Because it was a massive, unreliable, heavy, pig. AND it made the Supras weight distribution terrible. So what Toyota did to beat Nissan was put a 3SG, inline 4 engine in the supra, and yes they raced it in GT500 class, NOT GT300 class. And they won the championship. After a few years of this, they needed more power, and the only way to retain the cars balance was to use the 1UZ V8 engine. The engine that comes in the SC400. An engine that is probably the best engine Toyota ever made. So essentially, people remove a race winning engine, to put in an engine that prevented Toyota from winning races. Not only that, but an engine that makes not just one, but every single car it is put into handle worse, including the ones that came from the factory with it. That is, unless going in one direction is your bag. Try road racing a Toyota Supra Mk4 with a 2jzgte and 600hp, you WILL, not might, WILL, get absolutely destroyed by every single Honda Civic and Mazda Miata on the track with a third of your horsepower. And it doesnt help that all Supras after the MK2 were very much spaghetti noodle chassis. The MK3 was better, but the MK4 flexes, A LOT. Which is why HKS makes like 50+ different frame braces for the damn thing. The other annoying thing is the 7M hate in the Toyota world. Its the samf damn motor as a 2JZ, block wise theres very few differences. The head is of the same design but is not as soft and they have a higher head torque, otherwise they are no better. Toyota people call the 7M a boat anchor for the reason of bad head gaskets. Yeah, their such shitty engines that HKS ONLY managed to get 415hp out of a naturally aspirated one. Sorry for the Toyota/Supra rant. I just got back from a car show with a load of Supra owners, like 12 MK 2/3/4s.

Its 50/50 with Hondas, sometimes they do, sometimes they dont. A lot of times they do. D engine is your best bet on not having an issue. B engines you will likely break shit. C 50/50 NSX C, dead beyond a shadow of doubt. F 50/50 S2000 F, Dead beyond a shadow of doubt (if snapped chain, or non-pressured tensioner) H, 80/20 Dead. D, meh, maybe K, Dead beyond shadow of doubt, ( if the oil pressure fed chain tensioner does not tension, or chain snap) R- No fookin idea.

Because your fuel trims and timing suck. I read your thread if I am not mistaken, and I remember your timing being ridiculous but as you said "safe" Well its too "safe", so safe its got you making 239/259. Problem solved. Also did I hear something about the dynamometer your using being called something like "the dream crusher" Ususally that means its not accurate. Or its not accurate in the right way. When every dyno around it is showing more horses, you might wanna reconsider if the tech actually knows his shit. +1 Totally off. He is losing massive power in his bad tune. But I didnt say this in his other thread cause I was trying to not be a dick, (as you can see where that got us) and he seemed pretty set in keeping the timing the same, "Safe".... Maybe had I said something then and he retuned and got 350 he wouldn't be trying to 2jz and hayabusa swap shit. Timing.

damn man, who did you steal that from.

Nice car man. Wait.....Theres storm drains on your track???? Dafaq??

what trans is that? It almost looks a little like a W58.

That first one looks like a decent deal at $1400 maybe.

I would love to, I might as my next car, But its hard to have 3 brands of car too. My other consideration is possibly a 200sx.

I am not sure yet. I really like the Honda Cromadoras but they are +60 offset, so in order to run them I have to switch the entire suspension to DC5 Integra Type R, You do get brembos and aluminium control arms though. This was going to be my route until recently when I have been short on funds. I have looked into the RPF1, but I keep hearing that they bend like butter. I also really like Gram Light 57s. I am in limbo in the wheels department, Im open to suggestions honestly, they just have to be in +45 offset. (or 60 if I am gonna go JDM fanboy crazy, lol)

As I said, I dislike LS1 engine swaps, because of the comonality. But I would rather see someone shoehorn a v8 into this than YET ANOTHER 2JZ. The OP seems to be all about cheap reliable power, so honestly the most sensible option for him would be an LS small block. end of story, plus it would probably fit no cut, making this a win win. On top of all that its lighter than a 2jz from what I have been told. Never seen em on a scale next to eachother though.

Well I try, But Im a PS3 person. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: No honestly though I am just sharing my knowledge on the subject here. There are a lot of people on this site, and who I know in my life that build way better stuff than me. I have pretty high aspirations though. Plus I said the coolest thing to do here would be Hyabusa v8, its still a Hyabusa motor. :rofl: PS I have a huge soft spot for first gen Busas.

Ooooh, that Aston-Martin again, it even looks good from the backside....Please Aston Please!!!!

WOW there is so much win there. I have built them because I build what the fanboys pay for :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Also nobody actually "compared" them. or said "the L series is better than this engine, the JZ is better than that engine, or blah blah blah" I did point out that the JZ has severely overlooked downfalls, and is way overtalked. And actually Toyota has put out some of the most indestructible engines on the planet out there, but the JZ series is not one of them, sorry. Definitely no Toyota hate coming from me. And also you revere the JZ series and talk about how much power they push, but then you say your not even using the 2JZGTE??? You do realize that the NA is a totally different engine right? I mean the block is the same....... Generally an L series will hold a lot of horseponies reliably. That is well proven. Minimal work will get you to 350+ on a correctly built L28et. And the Torque is pretty much just as good as JZ. If you can not get the numbers that as you said EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING, Well, you need to tune better and build better, not being a dick, thats just a fact. The engine is well easily capable. What turbo you running? what ECU? what intercooler? what type of injection/ignition system? How big are your injectors? How good is your tune really?ect, ect, ect. A turbo L28 correctly tuned will rape a well tuned NA 2jz, hard. Been there, done that, seen it happen, it was boring. (no I really have seen this a crap load of times, not even joking) Also, if you are refering to IAT heatsoak, please specify, when I say heat soak, I am talking about engine temp. Your IAT problems are just that, YOUR IAT PROBLEMS, they can be solved with a little brainpower and elbow grease. I am not attacking you, simply pointing out your oversight on the matter. Take it how you will. And I dont jave time for jerkin it, Im too busy building dreams.

I would absolutely love to see it done right, and with no firewall cuts especially. You could make a custom corss member if the front clearance is an issue, but I am not sure that would get the hood clearance good still. I feellike it might end up a bit front heavy though.

No, thats the guy that thought it was an awesome idea to put two LS7s together. I mean I woulda went with 3 and then like a 1 foot driveshaft, or just hook the tranny direct to the diff.

Oh man, I am so jealous flatcat. I used to have a 94 5 speed Ex, hunter green. It was one of my favorite cars ever. My dad bought it new and passed it on to me. It had 274k miles on it and it ran like a top, great power too. It was still on the original clutch believe it or not. One day while driving to school on a 3 lane roadway, somebody in the left hand turning lane (not a travel lane) decided that all of a sudden in rush hour traffic, they needed to make a right hand turn. I have been very sad about it ever since.

Thanks Heretic We painted the panel a few days ago, I installed the seal today. More to come shortly, stay tuned, install is goin down.

SL5?

Yes folks, 5000 Horsepower and 560 Kilometers per hour. Yeah, Right. I would love to see that get built for real though.

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooook I get it. Very nice. Thanks.

excuse my ignorance, but what is that thing?