I am relatively new to this forum but I have been pouring myself over it for awhile learning everything I can about the 1UZFE and also converting to 5 speed. A little background I am a Lexus technician for Lexus of Mobile and have been doing this professionally for 8 years. I currently own a 1986 Toyota Corolla GT-S (1UZFE swap in the making) and a 1981 Toyota Starlet (20V Swap in the making), I am very passionate about my cars and what I do. Having said that I have noticed that getting flywheels for our engines, as other people may have done on here I have called a couple of places. Namely Fidanza. I spoke to someone named Matt who then spoke to his technician.
The information I gave him was, as I recently discovered, that a 1mzfe flexplate has the exact same diameter and ring gear as a 1uzfe and the center hole for the crank was the same size, there was a Camry and Solara V6 5 speed in the 90's, so I called and asked what it cost to take said flywheel, and flip the ring gear and send it to me with no crank bolt holes drilled.
He replied with a number even he disagreed with, $1200 bucks, but he said that if I did a minimum order of 15 it would be around $300 per unit, I asked about drilling the 1uzfe holes and he said it would increase the cost to probably around $350 but that he needed to talk to his technician. I told him I would gauge interest and call him back so he could get me a solid figure for everyone to digest now I mentioned a couple of other flywheel option like the 5sfe, and 3sgte as thier rings gears are similar as well. In any event I wanted to talk to you guys about it I will do as much communicated as possible so we can come up with a consistant supply without having to modify flywheels. Seeing as a couple of places offer modified flywheels for $300 it seems reasonable to have units made for us without modification.
So the question is how interested are we? What do YOU guys suggest for the clutch pressure plate bolt pattern (i.e. what flywheel 5sfe, 3sgte, 1mzfe, 5vzfe ect.) Feed me some info and I will call him tomorrow and post again with what I find out. Remember my ultimate goal is to get an off the shelf Findanza unit for us 1UZFE guys they offer various stages for the 3sgte so that flywheel might be the most viable option as it has several clutch options. YOU guys let me know so I can relay the info.
Thanks for your input in advance.
Mike
p.s. I know this may have been done before but since it will help me as well as alot of other people, I am gonna keep up with it until we have something we can all agree on.
The information I gave him was, as I recently discovered, that a 1mzfe flexplate has the exact same diameter and ring gear as a 1uzfe and the center hole for the crank was the same size, there was a Camry and Solara V6 5 speed in the 90's, so I called and asked what it cost to take said flywheel, and flip the ring gear and send it to me with no crank bolt holes drilled.
He replied with a number even he disagreed with, $1200 bucks, but he said that if I did a minimum order of 15 it would be around $300 per unit, I asked about drilling the 1uzfe holes and he said it would increase the cost to probably around $350 but that he needed to talk to his technician. I told him I would gauge interest and call him back so he could get me a solid figure for everyone to digest now I mentioned a couple of other flywheel option like the 5sfe, and 3sgte as thier rings gears are similar as well. In any event I wanted to talk to you guys about it I will do as much communicated as possible so we can come up with a consistant supply without having to modify flywheels. Seeing as a couple of places offer modified flywheels for $300 it seems reasonable to have units made for us without modification.
So the question is how interested are we? What do YOU guys suggest for the clutch pressure plate bolt pattern (i.e. what flywheel 5sfe, 3sgte, 1mzfe, 5vzfe ect.) Feed me some info and I will call him tomorrow and post again with what I find out. Remember my ultimate goal is to get an off the shelf Findanza unit for us 1UZFE guys they offer various stages for the 3sgte so that flywheel might be the most viable option as it has several clutch options. YOU guys let me know so I can relay the info.
Thanks for your input in advance.
Mike
p.s. I know this may have been done before but since it will help me as well as alot of other people, I am gonna keep up with it until we have something we can all agree on.
