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What do you think of filling it with oil instead of diesel, and hand-cranking the engine for a bit with a regular oil filter on. Then basically doing an oil+filter change? I would just be kind of nervous about possibly not getting all the diesel back out of the crankcase...

Yes on the carb cleaner/compressed air. I plan on flushing the coolant system with water but whats the best way to clean the oil system? I've tried my best to keep crap out of the oil inlets but I'd really like to ensure there is no wire brush/crap down in the crankcase. If possible I'd like...

Well here is the progress so far with the engine: I know its not the greatest, but from just hand/wire brush I think so far its turning out pretty well =]

From what i've been told, its not mirror image. Though I only tested it quickly... brb... Oh snap! So I was told it couldn't be done so I only quickly tried by rotating the upper intake, not the whole thing :rolleyes: So you are correct... I feel both dumb and awesome at the same time...

Potential intake problem: In the SLC, the engine goes up against the rear bulkhead and leaves basically no room out front for an intake. People using LSx engines just flip the intake around like this: The VVTI 1UZ has the intake out the front similar to the LSx style intake. However it...

UPDATE: I talked to the scrapyard and they said regardless of swapping, they will give me the non-vvti engine for $200... thinking about picking it up. Then if I frag the bottom end on the vvti, I could use the beefier bottom end. Thennn if I frag that, go forged. For $200 it almost seams...

#1, not going with an LS4 either way. #2, Can a 1UZ even fit? And not a big fan of FWD... And "go" is only 1/3 of the reasons behind going with the SLC. The other two are: no donor vehicle & supercar looks (Apex looks sporty, but not supercar realm whatsoever)

OK I need some more input. Turns out the scrapyard that sold me the engine made a mistake. They had two 1uzfe's in stock. One is a '94 for $250 and the other a '99 for $1200. They sold me the '99 VVTI engine for the '94s price. Now it was all legal so I legally have the '99, no hard...

Thanks! As far as the oil pump, anything specific I should look for to ensure its still in good running order? And yeah that was my concern with going stock ECU, and I wont have a regular trans to plug into among other things.

Picked up this from a local yard last week: From a '99 GS400 T-belt changed @90k although unsure on overall mileage. Overall its looking like a well maintained engine all things considered. Goal for SLC build: I want to go for a street-oriented build that may go to the track occasionally...

Will the throttle body fit a vvti?