toyota swap

lews930 · Aug 17, 2016

Exhaust is tucked up so that it's not visible without looking underneath

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dlbarb · Aug 30, 2016

Ok time for some video!!!

Rockwell · Aug 30, 2016

Yes please

lews930 · Aug 31, 2016

It's not running yet. Still have to plumb the intercooler and do the wiring

dlbarb · Oct 5, 2016

Making any progress?

lews930 · Oct 6, 2016

Haven't touched it since the exhaust system install. But i did look at it the other day

lews930 · Oct 10, 2016

Finally got some cooler weather here in Florida. Got my plan for the intercooler install. It'll be in the opening of the valance

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lews930 · Oct 10, 2016

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lews930 · Oct 15, 2016

Any idea of what cfm fan I should use?

for cooling the radiator, condenser, intercooler

Frankenyota · Oct 16, 2016

Nissan quest/ mercury villager mini van fan fits toyota radiator almost perfectly and moves a lot of air. It has high and low speed too. You can pick it up at the junkyard for cheap. There's a write up on yotatech I think. It's what I'm using in my junk.

lews930 · Oct 16, 2016

Ok. Guess I should have mentioned I'm running a v6 radiator. No engine mods.

IL see what I can find

jimbote · Oct 27, 2016

lews930 said:
Any idea of what cfm fan I should use?

for cooling the radiator, condenser, intercooler

not sure on cfm but i would avoid the flexalite... just had mine fail for the second time in six years, and it really only runs when the AC is on ... going with an OE fan from here on out

joewrench · Oct 31, 2016

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Did you make the gas pedal bracket yourself?

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Rockwell · Oct 31, 2016

I'm going to need to make a bracket like that, I don't want to drill holes in the firewall. I bent the Toyota pedal and attached it to give it a factory look in the factory position.

lews930 · Nov 2, 2016

Yes. Real easy .

No holes were drilled with my pedal install

lews930 · Nov 9, 2016

oil pressure sender wire

Can someone please tell me the correct wire color and location in the engine compartment for the oil pressure sender

my truck is a 91 toyota v6 it has a gauge in the dash

Please? ???

I'm literally minutes away from 1st start but I want the oil pressure gauge hooked up

jimbote · Nov 10, 2016

which side? the toyota harness or the vw harness ?

jimbote · Nov 10, 2016

if you hook the Toyota light directly to the VW pressure switch the light is going to come on as soon as it makes oil pressure because that's the way the switch is designed

lews930 · Nov 10, 2016

I need the wire in the toyota harness. I'm using a toyota sender

Ranch · Nov 10, 2016

Which mounts are those? Sidekick?? Still compiling parts and/or sources for my swap. (94 toyo) And which way did you go with the trans adapter?
Now that I took possession of my ALH today, I can finally start putting 2 and 2 together! lol, It was hard to 'visualize' some things in posts.
Isn't that the cutest little turbocharger??

Just off-the-cuff, I'm still considering jimbotes' front mount system.. re-use the front hanger, and maybe go with a 'mid-plate' type mount..
That AC pump sure covers a lot of the side of the block!! (my yota is non ac anyway.)

Ranch · Nov 10, 2016

lews930 said:
I need the wire in the toyota harness. I'm using a toyota sender

LOL, I hope that sender can 'handle' REAL oil pressure!! Mine has been 'recording' Toyota's famous single digit PSI for so many years, that I'm afraid a jolt of honest pressure may overwhelm..
.... sarcasm here^^^

But i'll bet the gauge will be pretty close to pegged!

lews930 · Nov 10, 2016

Yes samurai mounts

jimbote · Nov 11, 2016

i'll try and dig up the wire color for you ... i still have an older toyota book somewhere

lews930 · Nov 17, 2016

I never could find the wire (yellow with green tracer) in my engine compartment harness.

so I pulled the instrument cluster and tapped the appropriate wire and now i have a working oil pressure gauge

I'm very close to first start. Will upload a video to YouTube soon

lews930 · Feb 7, 2017

It's alive!

Woohoo

Trying to understand why my oil pressure gauge isn't working. Temp gauge is fine

Video coming soon

papasmurf · Apr 10, 2017

I have read that of the appropriate oil pressure sender/switch isn't used that you can basically burn out the gauge. Did you by chance get it working yet?

Rockwell · Apr 10, 2017

If you have an oil idiot light use a pressure switch, if you have an oil pressure gauge use a pressure sender (sensor), a pressure switch will burn out a pressure gauge.

lews930 · Apr 11, 2017

It was a bad ground preventing the gauge from working.

I'm working on correcting the ill fitting acme adapter now.

Ls3ase · Apr 13, 2017

What's wrong with the adapter?

lews930 · Apr 13, 2017

Like all acme adapters it's not properly aligned. Hope that's the right terminology.

My starter won't engage the fly wheel.

I've read stories about premature clutch failure due to this

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