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If you are looking to make the brakes bite harder, talk to CarboTech. If you have an old set of pads, they can re-face them in several different materials depending on your use. I run their SSF compound on my 83 Celica and it stops like a new Vette. Not too bad on dust, no squeal, and the rotors...

I currently don't have my manuals here, but I would suspect you can us a jumper or something and read the error code. That should tell you what the TRAC ECU "thinks" has failed. On board diagnostics may not be perfect, but they sure can help show you where to look. When I do get my LS400 motor...

I think you will also have to swap over the oil pan and pickup from the LS400 motor as well. The GS has the cross member in a different place. Besides that, use all of the components from the GS and you should be okay. As long as the ECU is concted to all if it's equipment it won't know the...

And another pic with it almost in place.

Well, not much progress to report, but here is an update at least. ELHSupra is selling me his old set of stock LS400 exhaust manifolds so I will have more material to work with, while keeping it stock looking for the emissions inspection, but in the meantime the car is sitting outside my friends...

Sorry it took so long to write back. I worked 53 hours of OVERTIME the past two weeks. For $10 + shipping I will certainly take those manifolds off of your hands. You can contact me directly at [email protected]. I will send you my shipping address and once I have your address I will send you a...

I may take you up on the LS400 manifolds. How much do you want for them? I talked with another guy driving an "engine change" car here in Cali and he did mod the rear manifold and "Y" pipe a bit for clearance (Transverse Camry V6 in a front drive Celica) and they let it go since evrything was...

From the firewall back, the MA60's and RA60's are virtually identical, the problem in the celica is that the cross member and steering rack is aout 6 inches closer to the firewall. The steering rack out of the LS400 is about 6 inches wider than the Celica one so the exhaust fits between the...

Eric, your headers look pretty good. Are those stock flanges? Were you able to weld to them easilly? What size pipe did you use for the primaries? I am picturing a 4 into 2 setup on each side like Heartland did, and I have to make them small enough to fit under the stock heat shields as hand...

He is going to use TIG and even purge the inside of the pipe with argon dueing the weld so it does not oxidise any further. They are tubing, and actually look in very good condition for 12 years old and 180,000 miles. I am starting to wonder if my donor car had a new engine installed, everything...

Thanks for the pics. That doe slook just like a mirror image of what we are running into. Right now they are pulling the exhaust manifold off and putting the steering rack and motor back into proper position. He is going to cut the manifold and re-shape it to clear outside of the steering shaft...

Hmm. If I knew the code, it does not seem too hard to just change rpm values in the tables. I programmed my TEC II on my turbo 22RE and I have written microcontroller code. The problem is I don't know the assembly code of the Lexus ECU or the location of the tables, so I have no place to start...

Progress is moving ahead. I finally got some pictures of the V8 under my hood. This is my first time putting up a pic. I hope this works. Oops too big. I'll try the smaller one, okay, it went. I will down rez the others and send some later. Gary M.

I am only hoping that they can do a rev range increase. Any change in mixture can be learned out like you said, and timing advance will only hold if you run good high octane fuel, something rare here in CA. At least it can't learn to lower the rev limit. Firmer shifts should also be possible if...

While trying to find some performance parts for the 1UZ enigne, I came across the Jet Performance web site. They don't list any 1UZ aplications, but they can do customs and have done Supras. All I really want is the rev limit and shift points raised a few hundred rpm. I figure 6500 should be no...

I also posted this under fabrication. My engine swap is well under way, but we ran into a snag. The driver's side (left US car) exhaust manifold of my 93 Lexus LS-400 motor is running into the steering shaft in my 83 Celica. After much measuring, it has been decided that we will cut the...

My engine swap is well under way, but we ran into a snag. The driver's side (left US car) exhaust manifold of my 93 Lexus LS-400 motor is running into the steering shaft in my 83 Celica. After much measuring, it has been decided that we will cut the manifold and re-weld it to clear the steering...

I will see the pics soon, but from what they told me, the port is about 1 inch forward of the steering shaft, so there is som ehope. The motor could go further back, but the head hits the brake booster. That is what is keeping the port far enough forward. I might look into other boosters, but if...

Thanks Peewee, I figured that was going to be the case. I am going to ask them to pull off the manifold and see if the motor and steering all fit where needed, and then see what the manifold would have to look like to go in there. Gary M.

Hi Heartland. I got the 1UZ under the hood of my RA65 Celica, but I am running into a problem. I know you are right hand drive, and I am left hand drive, but I am curious if you ran into the same (other side) issue. The steering shaft coming out of the rack is running right into the exhaust...