I've been planning to do a 1j'd s13 for the longest time, I had mount kits, wiring everything sitting here just waiting to buy the engine. But at that point, my buddy got sick of taking this car from shop to shop and getting it screwed up. So I bought it from him, sold my parts and started gettin' dirty.

Still got a long way to go with this, waiting on more parts to arrive. Gonna pull engine, paint bay, gotta get new carpet, install turbo timer, boost controller, etc.

Here's the work I did over the past weekend. Car is a black hatchback

Stripped interior

There were termites everywhere. Scubbing bubbles > termites.

Foamed up dead spaces

Sanded it all down, then wiped it down with lacquer thinner

e-dead v3 sound deadening paint. This stuff has the consistency between JB Weld and cake frosting

Cake's done!

Gauge pod I'm finishing up

Best damn part of the car

Ignore the wiring. I've got another harness that's going in. MTR butchered that harness, along with the turbo and a few other things.

I've got Evo Brembos going on the car, along with some new rims, 180sx body parts, and too much more to list.

My daily / parts donator (once I get my company vehicle):

As of 11/2/08

Gauge pod almost finished, can see a few small imperfections. I'm too much of a perfectionist for my own good.

Here's what my calipers look like so far:

Supplies:

Before:

(I forgot to take pictures of it stripped)
After:

Adapter brackets:

Some work to the car, mainly got it ready to pull. Gonna order the engine bay paint soon. Took out the harness, disconnected hoses, took off turbo, downpipe etc

George workin hard

Modified by ngibson at 5:56 AM 11/4/2008

im currently doing the same into my car as well!

Nice, what kind of setup do you have planned?

Got another update for ya:

Got a lot of work done today.

My roommate working on takin' manifold off

Tools

Engine puller / forklift

Here she comes

Dirty damn engine bay

After some scrubbing bubbles - that's me with the hose

Sanded ready to paint. I ended up using epoxy appliance paint. It's reallly tough stuff, ever tried scratching the finish on a refrigerator? I tried chipping some of this paint on a test piece earlier in the day, it takes some force to even scratch it a little.

Here she sits at the end of the day

Best thing for cleaning engines:

This is what happens when your car sits at ter-tech for a year:

1JZ, bitches.

Junkyard carpet

Here's a quick preview of my gauges

Blitz boost contoller

Injectors came back from Deatschwerks

550cc's

does the 1j have forged internals like the 2J? besodes displacement, whats makes the two motors different?

you're doing great, and I'm learning.

Thanks for the compliments.

I'm not sure about the forged internals. I'll have to check that out.

Other than displacement, there isn't much difference. A lot of the parts are interchangeable: rod and main bearings, valves, seals, injectors, head gasket, pistons, water pump etc. The heads are completely interchangeable as well.

Here's a good list of 1j / 2j parts FAQs
http://www.supraforums.com/for...92754

I like the way your gauge pod came out. But no radio?

Also I don't have proof but I have heard the "rumors" about stock JZ forged parts but from what I read on the JZ and Toyota forums those rumors are false.

Just spray it on, it usually lifts most everything off but on thicker grease I use an old toothbrush. Then hose it down.

The radio will be mounted in the glove box, I always use my mp3 player in my car. Can't stand regular radio so no real need to see it all the time.

Now I'm going back and forth on rebuilding my gt40, or going with gt28 twins.

But going twin GT28s is serious money!
What is your power goals with this project?

For stuff that is caked or burned on, you need a heavier duty degreaser though. I use scrubbing bubbles on engine bays, a lot of the heavier degreasers can fog up clear coats and paints. Depends on the paint though.

But twin gt28's would be so baller, with 500+ rwhp at lowww rpms.

If I get mid 500's I'll be perfectly happy with the setup. I'll probably be on around 18 pounds for daily, 22 when I wanna kick some *** on the high way haha.

My dad build this box over our toolbox a few weeks back. Just got this light installed, made a huge difference

Painted the block - semigloss black

This is the best thing you can do for yourself when working on any project, buy a box of ziplocks and a few sharpies.

My diagram for removing headbolts / camshafts

Not too dirty, nothing worse than can be expected from a 10+ year old engine

I had almost **** myself when I saw this

Then I realized it was from me not taping the intake ports off well enough, and was just water from me hosing it down.

Six cylinders bitches!

New headgasket installed

Time for a Dew break

My drawing was less detailed than needed, so I printed out portions of the fsm.

Dropped the oil pan. The lower portion has a bigg dent in it. And I felt the need to reseal it all, and paint bomb it.

New 2jz water pump and thermostat

Here she sits at the end of the day:

Got a bunch of work done today:

ARP Head installed

Less dented oil pan arrived

2jz water pump pulley from OHRLY

When I was removing the head bolts I broke an extension in the tool, after fighting with it to remove the broken piece I just bought another one.

Headstuds in and cams reinstalled

Painted timing cover

Cleaned and painted fuel rail

Installed 2jz injectors

Removed timing gear to install new front main seal

New front seal, painted lower cover, timing belt installed

sandblasted and painted oil cooler tubing

Dirty alternator

All cleaned and installed

Here it is at the end of today

New cam gears

Installed

Cover reinstalled

Blitz!

Drew out my mounting template

Do work!

Cut out

The mounting hardware

Clamp it up to bend, used a rubber hammer to bend it over nice and flat

This is where it's going to be mounted

I had to bend it some more to get the angle I wanted, here it is bolted in, and this crazy strong double sided tape to hold it on

The material for the mounting bracket

Damnit! I needed to paint all that ****!

Before

After - the button emblems were taped over

They sure will. About 90% of the parts are interchangeable, he can use 2j bearings, rods, pistons, wrist pins, oil pan, waterpump etc. Cams however are not interchangeable.

Look at this thread, you might have to registered to look though
http://www.supraforums.com/for...92754

2jzswap.com. You mail in your ka harnesses and the jz harness. They match em up, connect all the necessary wires and leave the ones tagged that you need to hook up to the chassis. Very clean job, they recover and retape the whole harness too.

The parts donor!

Hooray blown suspension! Fell out when I put it up on jackstands.

Do work son!

Parts parts parts

My roommate helpin out

My roommate being... special

That's where I left off today. Tomorrow, I'll be swapping brake lines over. Installing the front suspension, mounting the Evo brakes, installing exhaust and swapping interior over.

From these guys:

My shifter extension! Been waiting so long for this to come in. Now the engine can go back in.

Speedo interface box. The Tach one is backordered.

Removed the uncracked dash

Sparco wheel

Dash reinstalled

Removed these ugly bastards

Plate to mount my TT and Boost controller

Extended the TT wires into the harness

Went and picked these up for power distribution, top for power and bottom for ground.

My roommate came up with a good idea for once

Break time with brown people haha

Me doing some wiring

Messing with some more wires

Final coat of clear on the cluster

You can see us in the gauge

Stock speaker covers installed

the 3 pod gauge setup looks awkward...but its not a big deal.

I like it, saw one on another s13 at one point - wasn't as nice as mine, but I liked the idea a lot. I was going to put them on the A-pillar but I didn't want to worry about getting them stolen.

Installed the shifter extension

Mounted intercooler

The holes for the piping has been bothering the hell out of me, so I fixed it.

Cut cardboard template

The material

Bend it down with a big #$^&ing hammer

Riveted in place. I forgot to take pics of the other side. I also treated that rust, rubber undercoated the bottom and spray painted the top.

Got my new rims

Glued the door panel fabric back on

Loosening flywheel to install rear main and ARP flywheel bolts

New rear main installed and pilot bearing

The bracket for my Evo brembos was too thick, the backside of the caliper was rubbing the rotor, so I machined it down.

Tires mounted

Brakes installed

Time for 50mm over fenders

Transmission on

Lifted - notice my fancy shifter hole cover.

It was definitely a tight fit, hard to clear the firewall and the rad support while going down

And it started hitting the Suspension Techniques sway bar. Had to drop it down.

And she's in!

Before

After

Firewall clearance

Needed to make a spacer for the sway bar

I didn't take pics of the bracket after - I need to take them back out and adjust the size of the holes a little bit before the sway bar can be bolted back up perfectly.

Sway bar clearance

Group shot

Here you can see the condition of the polishing

After a little touch up on runner number one

Sanded down the valve covers before polishing, went from 120 for the bigger scratches all the way up to 1500 in about 8 stages of grit before polish

After 1500 grit paper. Started to polish it

Wiring and intake mani installed

I painted just about every bolt before installing the parts

Bracket for the resistor pack

Installed my Koyo

$#%@#$ Fans don't clear. So I ordered pusher blade kit for them, just mount them on the other side of the rad

Boost Gauge sensor

fpr mounted

Got my axles back from being rebuilt

Mounted fuse box - all that wiring is going to be cleaned up more after I finish the little wiring I need to do still

Bought some of these clamps to clean up all my wiring, hoses, lines

Pusher fans and 240 auto to manual conversion line, this bolts straight up into the r154 slave cylinder. I did't wanna reuse the stock hardline, this looks much cleaner

More parts

Dyed the door panels

And my downpipe:

I never answered your question pardon:
Its the way they're layoud out, instead of being in a straigt line, or a gride with 4 - 2 up 2 down. the triangle to me looks unbalanced

I agree that the A pillar is wack, those always suck.

doesnt matter much tho, go with what you've got