Recent content by Zuffen

Ah, you may be right, no most likely right. I have an LS3 as well as the 1UZ and I thought it odd to have a 1UZ kit. Just getting old and losing it.

I saw an ad on Facebook marketplace for a mob in South Africa who do conversions. They appear to have cast iron manifolds in their ad. They're called Dictator Conversions and Tuning. No association with them.

If you give the car a tune up (plugs, new air filter and if needed wires) it will run cleaner. Good luck with it.

If it took several attempts I would lean toward an issue with the power feed to the solenoid. I would try bypassing the ignition switch to try and jump start it by powering the solenoid feed, if that works it could be the ignition switch is faulty?

Timing belt off. Smart move is replace the belt and idler at the same time.

12 horsepower is around 5KW. A good Lexus alternator will put out 140 or so watts, so about 7 mins of charging for 1kw. So you need to run the engine or 5 mins to cover 1 minutes use of the supercharger, Now this assumes the vehicle doesn't have any load on the alternator. If the car needs...

Well done! Things like this can be a bitch to track down and the engine is 30 years old so you're always wondering if the ECU is at fault or not. Kelvin must have saved a heap of people a lot of heart ache! I know he's helped me out.

The return line is a steel fitting cast into the rear water-bridge.

If you scratch around there was a guy in Australia who built a super high revving 1UZ. Cost him a lot of money to end up with an engine that had very little bottom end and quite a good top end, but nothing outstanding. If I can think of his name I'll post it so you can find his thread.

Contact Gloverman a could of posts above. A good guy to deal with.

They are within a couple of mm of each other. Safe to work on the 700x700x700 cube.

I think you will find an LS is about the same as a 1UZ. I have an LS3 in one of my cars and I'm sorry to say it beats the 1UZ hands down. That being said the conversion will be nice and the old 1UZ does sound awesome. Getting more power out of one isn't cheap as the ECU is pretty well...

The factory uses quite a few engine based ground points. Do it just as the factory has and you shouldn't have any issues. These engines aren't hard to get running in a different vehcile. I've been driving a swapped 1UZ in various guises for almost 20 years. I haven't been stranded on the...

What you suspect is an ignition problem could in fact be a dud injector or a fault on that side of things.

I'm not sure I would use a rivnut as a ground. I'd rather use a stud screwed into a captive welded nut or a nut and bolt. I'd also ensure there was bare metal under the ground strap. As for engine grounds, just do it as the factory did. They probably know what's best.