1998 gs300 build, aristo 2jzgte swap
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Yes good call when I did my swap the beginning of the year I still needed my car to daily drive so I couldn't afford the down time. But now that I have a daily driver I'm setting aside my parts to go single hopefully will have everything come jan-feb to start the project.
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RECEIVED engine and turbo kit
Just picked up my engine and turbo kit today. I guess next time I should read the fine print because I received a much bigger turbo then what I was expecting. But that just means more free HP. The turbo is a 87mm turbo with everything included that I could see
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Looks good! Dont worry too much about lag, you have enough displacement to move it. Lol I remember in my evo days people were saying that the 35R was too laggy when it hit the market. Now you see them with 7175's on 2 liters. Good luck with the build.
#21
I'm also trying to piece together a single conversion. I'm just stuck on what to get. It's my daily right now so when I get it all, it'll have to be a weekend project minus the tuning obviously. I'd like to go standalone but don't know yet if that'll be possible so any suggestions on what the next best thing would be? I have a 00 aristo swapped, bpu
Sorry man just seeing this. standalone is the best way to go just because with that you are able to control everything exactly how you want it. they are just more expensive than lets say a piggyback. DM me anymore questions if I know the answer I will try and help I'm new to this stuff too ( meaning a swapped GS) but I have a few friends with swaps so I get to use their knowledge
#22
Nice. Yeah the only thing with a bigger turbo is the lag but you seem like your going to compensate for that
#23
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Wiring
So i'm partly ready to pull the motor and am reading up on the wiring problems people are having. So from what I can tell I will have to wire in the tach wire from the ignitor. And does anyone have a link on which plugs have to be swapped on the ecu? other then those wires is there any other wires that need to changed around?
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Local members that have done this swap?
If there is anyone in Utah or Las Vegas area that has done this swap can you pm me for some local help it would be appreciated.
#25
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The old motor is out. So just an update of the whole process. I have access to a lift so instead of disassembling the whole front end I pulled the motor from the bottom. And I had to swap the aristo tranny with the lexus because one of the oil cooling line fittings that is casted into the transmission case was broken off so until I can find a solution for that the lexus tranny will have to do.
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so far I am not sure of that part yet until I get the electronics hooked up. But I would almost be positive that I might run into problems with that once I get it started
#28
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So I did run into some problems with using the stock lexus transmission while mounting the engine but a few simple fixes with the motor mounts and making a transmission mount bracket fixed that problem.
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So an update for over the weekend. I did get the car to start and turn over but it would not stay running. I am thinking it might have something to do with the theft system and key so I'm gonna have the computer rewritten for the lexus key to see if that helps. If any one else has any suggestions I would like to hear them.