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Removing the water bridge.........you're just trying to make it easy for yourself:):). Starter motor removal, recondition and replacement cost £45 as I didn't break into the water system and just got the starter itself reconditioned. True it was a complete pig of a job doing the bolts up...

Matt, Would a smaller filter help. I am led to believe that a Renault 5 Turbo filter is half the depth and fits fine. Having said that I wonder if the LS 400 filter and oil cooler location would work better than the soarer as it comes out from the block at an angle and not perpendicular to...

Guys, Just saw this thread detailing a scratch built special using VW body, self built chassis and Lexus LS400 engine, box, and anything else he can fit in.. www.ikcc.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?t=718&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 This guy certainly has some awesome car building skills...

FFS, if I can get a standard ECU to work in a transplant you can. Drop me a PM with your email addy and I'll drop you the wiring diagrams that will spark up the standard ECU. So far the first 1UZFE powered Cobra has done 3000 trouble free miles miles since June when it passed its test and...

Hi Gary, welcome to the best 1UZFE resource on the globe. Best get your hands on that LS400 sooner than later as the prices for donor LS400 have been rising quickly as they are becoming ever more popular as the donor engine of choice for specials. Expect to pay about £600 for a decent, ie...

Mat, As a founder member of the "Bosch burnt out fuel pump club", I killed two, I came to the conclusion that modern FI pumps arent made for sucking but they are excellent at pushing. Hence I now fit a swirl pot into the fuel tank with the return line feeding right into it, stick a...

Marcus, yep if there's water coming from inside all the plastic timing belt covers either your water pump or the connections on the water bridge are fubar..... The 1UZFE water pump is readily available from most motor factors and is about £65. They don't come with a gasket, instead, like most...

Check your plumbing........... the hose to the thermostat goes to the bottom of the radiator, the hose from the water bridge goes to the top of the radiator. Set an air bleed from the top of the radiator to the radiator expansion tank. Check the raditor expansion tank is higher than the water...

Excellent........... Cheers, Tony

Here's some piccies showing the route of the kickdown cable. Its the thin black cable going from the throttle body over the bellhousing and down to the right hand side of the gearbox, looking from the front of the engine. I do know of a guy who lives London building a Viper replica (in...

Hi Marcus, I'm in Redditch just south of Birmingham just off the M42. I'll have a look for some piccies but the Cobra body is now fitted to the chassis so I cant take any atm . Let me see what piccies I've got. Cheers, Tony

You're right Marcus, its a kickdown cable. There's also an electric kickdown switch fed from the ECU that switches to earth when the throttle is fully opened. It normally works from a switch beneath the throttle pedal but I've cheated and just put a microswitch mounted on the throttle body...

Marcus, I'd first of all get the engine running right before you confuse the issue with putting a turbo on it. Once the basics of the engine are OK then you can start playing with turbos etc. Where is the popping sound coming from, the inlet or the exhaust. If the inlet you may have a...

A local garage owner here in Bromsgrove had a Dax Cosworth 4x4 Rush that he was trying to get the 0-100-0 record with. Looked very uncomfortable as it was stripped for lightness and even the drivers seat ( carbon fibre shell) had been drilled, look like a Gruyere cheese, to save weight...

I was offered an Aristo 4x4 1UZFE over here quite cheaply after I had fixed the body onto my Cobra and I was sorely tempted to rip the body off get a new chassis made to cope but lack of funds stopped me. I'd have to completely redesign the front end of the Cobra and move the front diff about...

If these buggars cant help you out no one can www.thinkauto.com/ ( Mocal oil coolers and fittings) or try www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/OIL-SYSTEMS/c162/index.html?gclid=CIymq6fh9psCFU0A4wodz0p7_A Both will do next day delivery and have fittings suitable for the 1UZFE Cheers, Tony

Raymond, Send me an email or pm with your email address and I'll send you an alternative pin out for the 28/16/22/34 plugs that sparked up a UK spec 1993 LS 400engine and box. Alternatively you could ask Lexus technical help if you have the VIN number of the car, their charges are miniscule...

Hi Mat, The fuel pressure regulator is in the fuel rail in the LS400. I've put a swirl pot in the AK Cobra fuel tank into which I have fitted the standard LS400 in tank fuel pump running at a constatnt 12v . I have plumbed the return fuel line to a return feed into the tank so that the...

Hi, That pin/plug configueration is used on a 1996 4 litre Lexus LS400. The wiring diagrams and pin outs for this ecu are within the technical information / engine specs tutorials parts of this site. Click on the link at the bottom of the page en titled "Engine specs and diagrams" and the...

Hi Siddley, Nice to see another Lexus afficianado in the UK. However I thought I got a Lexus LS400 cheap at £300 never mind £100! Good purchase..........mind you we have MOT'd it since and done over 5000 miles in it since, just to check the spare engine is Ok of course..... Re transaxles I...