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I picked this Soarer up from Pakie last summer. I drove it all summer long with no issues but it started to smoke on loaded decel and warm start up. The valve stem seals are brand new so I ruled those out pretty quickly. At least the engine looked good!

 

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Since bearings for the factory turbos are hard to come by I was going to try and use 1JZ turbos but that is a no go, or at least too much work to make work. I took the turbos off and found the rear one was toast. I can say that taking these things off is a PITA:

 

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Once the snails were off I noticed oil in the exhaust ports so I had to tear the head off to make sure I wasnt getting blow by or something else horrible. Butterfly technology LOL

 

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The intake was super duper nasty inside. It sat in a parts cleaner for a day and still gunk was coming out of it.

 

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Distributor internals looked good, although the cap and rotor has seen some mileage.

 

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I Pulled out the super JDM boost controller............:dumb:

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After many many many hours of scraping and stones I got the deck surface all cleaned up and the pistons de-oiled.

 

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When the car was running I always had a different engagement with the clutch pedal so I drained the "fluid"...... more like someone spit in the reservoir . I also found a leak on the inside of the car and pulled the master, swapped the guts out of a USDM one into my housing.

 

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Starting a collection f parts in the trunk to hide fom teh wifez:

 

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Once I got the head back from the machine shop I thought long and hard (:lolguy:) about going single or staying twins. If I went single I would need either a Y pipe made for the factory manifold or a whole new manifold. I then remember I have a fellow Ginger bro that can glue things together so we rubbed our ginger facial hair together and came up with a plan.

 

 

Head after cleansing:

 

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I picked up a "30R" from Chad at ON3 for now. dual ball bearing with a V band exhaust housing. Will be running a Turbosmart 40mm wastegate dumped to atmo and a 3" downpipe. A/R on the housing is small at .48 but this is a small motor.

 

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It depends really. Some of the JZ stuff works and some of the 3M stuff works but it is really hit or miss. All of the suspension and brakes are the same as a MKIII except my steering wheel is on the right.

 

If this is the case and you are interested in big brakes you may be able to make the Mercedes S500 brake kit in the front work assuming you have the same braking system.

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The 1G is like the 7M and uses a composite gasket but unlike the 7M it doesn't suffer from blowing head gaskets. I contacted Cometic and they made me a new composite gasket, but the more I thought about the more I wanted to run an MLS gasket. Lucky for my Rock Auto sells EU parts and the 1G-FE uses the same head gasket but in MLS. I ordered two different brands and a new set of alignment dowels.

 

 

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I dont have any photos of the head going on but its pretty standard. I used ARP main studs for a 2JZ for head studs and torqued them down to 75 ft/lbs.

 

i also ran into a problem with the cap and rotor. Since this engine was never sold here I could find replacements stateside. I did find a BNIB cap from Japan which is good new, but the bad new is the rotor isnt made by Toyota anymore and no one makes a replacement in the aftermarket. Magnacore makes plug wires for it so I ordered those.

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Is that a cracked cylinder wall or is it just a shadow? Its the closeup pic of the block like 6 pics down in your first post that I noticed it

 

Not sure which picture you are talking about but the cylinder walls are buttery smooth.

 

Such awesome. Make ginger re do my amazingly welded inter cooler pipes would ya! Can't wait to see and hear this thing again.

 

We are going to redo them to accommodate the.... new things.

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