Recent content by GSMnow

I actually made some progress on my car!!! I was up in Chicago for work and got 2 days of free time. I spent one going over the car and did a bit of testing and found why it was running on 4 cylinders. The left bank ignition coil failed. New coil from NAPA was just $25 and it fired up instantly...

Wow, has it been that long? I was hoping this would finally be the year I get to bring my car out here to Cali, but life always seems to get in the way of the plans. I did get to drive my car a bit, but it is still running on 4 cyl and the idle motor is still stuck. It drives like a very...

Hey, sorry I have been out of touch. This is my thread and I have not been on it in a month, Oops. Nothing really to report on my car, but I will add in my thooughts on the swap process. If there is an R cross member for a front sump, you may be in luck. The RA65 cross member was a great fit...

The good news and the bad news. Good news 1) I DROVE THE CAR!! almost 2 miles this time. Bad news 1) I had to work every day leading up to this trip. I didn't even get a camera into my bags, Sorry no pics, let alone video. 2) The front tires and the battery were flat. The tires held air...

Well, I am not the first. I saw one on this site when my turbo motor was in pieces. I am taking a trip back to Chicago for work and I am hoping to take it for a drive. I will bring a camera and take some pics and video of it while I am there. I really need to make a list of the things that...

coldbluesteel, I am pretty far along stuffing a 93 1UZFE from an LS400 into my 83 RA65 Celica. You can find 2 threads on my car here with pics. I also bought an entire LS400 donor car. It certainly made it much easier since I had no choice but to use the stock injection and trans. I am in...

The actual length of the engine block on the 1UZ is very close to the 22RE. So with careful design of the motor mounts, you should be able to keep the trans in the stock location. The new bell housing needed may alter the length a little, but it can't really change it much due to the...

If the SCCA Street Modified class rules would have allowed it, the first engine choice for my 83 Celica would have been an LS1 for all the right reasons. For a given hp/cu in a DOHC 4 valve setup can be a llittle cleaner and slightly more efficient, but with modern port design, the difference...

Sorry, no update at this time. The fuel is 1/8 old and 7/8 recent fill. It fired righ up on 100% old fuel, and ran fine and then the tank was topped up with fresh. I hope to be having a trip back to Chicago in the next couple months to get it all dialed in road worthy. Right now it is snowed...

That looks perfect. You say the seal is a different size? Will the stock one from the 4Runer A340H fit in our A341E? Is the shaft still supported properly? Any year range I need to look for, 95 and up maybe? If the price is not crazy, I will just buy that from Toyota. It should be a small drop...

Sorry I dodn't see your question sooner. I have been busy with other projects, and I didn't get the notice e-mail I usually get from this site. As for your question, the RA-64 is a live rear axle, right? This will add a little complexity as you need a slip yoke in the trans for the rear...

The only update I have is that the state of Illinois is sending me all the forms needed to make it legal for the road again. Then I have to save up for a trip from LA back to Chicago to clean up the install a bit more and make it road worthy. Then I should be able to do some testing and make a...

I am guessing that you have a vacuum leak between the air flow meter and the cylinders. That causes mixture errors that change alot with air flow rate into the engine. It goes rich and starts to stumble, then leans out and revs up again. My programmable MAP ECU based ECU would hunt like that...

Unless you have already gotten a blower and started fabbing, I would not write off a turbo setup. If you look back into the 80's you will see the Buick GNX had a 3.8 litre (pretty close to 4.0L) pushrod V6 with a single little T3 that made 300 hp all day long and 330+ lb ft of torque with very...

Thanks for this info. I will certainly be needing it soon. My Lexus swap into my Celica has no high idle at all. Once warm it runs great, but you need to keep your foot on it for 5 minutes until the engine warms up. I suspect the ISC is frozen. The motor is a 1993 LS400 1UZ.