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Old 05-09-15, 02:07 PM
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For anyone asking yes I named my car Topanga! I've had her for a little over 3 years and finally had some extra money to do a 1jz swap! Bought it with about 172000 miles on it and it has about 207 now. Only things ive done to it so far
New headlights and tail lights. New mufflers too.
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Started my swap last saturdayTopanga Build 1jz-20150503_201607-1-.jpg
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Probably gonna sell the 2jz. Got no use for it really. Willing to ship
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Jdmenginedepot didn't send me an igniter with my engine so now I have to wait on that. They cut the wires and tried to hide them in a wrap with the main engine harness... Hopefully they'll get it here by Friday
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Got my igniter but i still get no spark. idk whats going on with it
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Everyone has their own style but those head lights, tail lights and wheels dont do the car justice....It makes it look cheaper IMO

But good luck on the build
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Originally Posted by Dtaylor3
For anyone asking yes I named my car Topanga! I've had her for a little over 3 years and finally had some extra money to do a 1jz swap! Bought it with about 172000 miles on it and it has about 207 now. Only things ive done to it so far
New headlights and tail lights. New mufflers too.
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Clean i just pick up a daily driver IS300 MT and will be adding a swap my self .
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Originally Posted by CatManD3W
Everyone has their own style but those head lights, tail lights and wheels dont do the car justice....It makes it look cheaper IMO

But good luck on the build
I respect your opinion... Been following your build for awhile now.
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Not much progress still trying to figure out the spark issue
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I did get my cluster from Tannin

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Igniter in. Doing some checks I found that my crank angle sensor was reading 1157ohms.
On a thread on the supra forums, i found that is suppose to read anywhere from 1630-2740 cold
So I bought a new one and it reads the same thing
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Was a hassle getting back down to that sensor to get it off.

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So I finally got this thing running... Turns out I had a VVTI ECU.
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Good start point, glad you were able to get her "fired" up!
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It's been awhile.. Been busy with the car mainly... I've went with the single turbo swap on my 1jz. I've painted my rims all black. I also got some ls400 calipers put on. I got a 97+ bumper that I'm going to be painting and putting on in the near future





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