he wants to be more balla haha GTE is nice! and maybe the stock motor has too many miles being an SC =P

 

For some of these prices he could definately run a healthy NA-T set up with a conservative tune for daily driving.

 

After seeing enough people spending enough money boosting the current motor. They had attempted to do the cheapest boost, which is not doing internal work, or having it port polished. Just custom turbo and intercooling... What originally started a less than 1k project can turn into 20k of repairs and parts just trying to figure out why the motor blew out, and once repairs are done. Why isn't it running properly? So it's either overhauling the whole motor to handle boost or swap that's known to handle it...

 

Where did you copy that ^^^ from?

stock NA block is perfectly capable of handling boost. Any project can turn into a 20k project, but I dont think anyone plans to spend 1k and go NA-T.. if they do then its no doubt they were a little misguided.

 

I'm just talking motors in general... 2jz are whole other animal depending how much power you planning to put into it and for what particular driving style...

 

ah, yeah that makes sense. These little "projects" do have a tendency to get outta control kinda quick. I thought that was someone commenting on the 2jz swaps vs NA-T.

 

The gte is a really strong motor. One of the strongest motors next to the RB26dett that nissan came out with. Both motors are capable of 1000whp stock internal its just how long it will last. But the GTE internals are definitely stronger and should hold up to what scott wants to push =D. Just make sure to keep the maintenance done right and so on thats all you need to do. Most swaps mess up because of ignorance or lack of attention to detail when you should change this and ignore it.

 

Main reason to try to get away from doing NA or NA-T, is changing plugs... Gotta love that intake manifold...

 

Scott just wants the extra v-tak.

 

Yeah baby!

 

would it be nice to open our own type of diy shop where you could rent lifts etc!

 

Got that right. And to think I had a shot at a slightly used lift (14 times) for $600 about a year ago...I could kick myself.

 

so did you get the price you are looking for? i have done a few swaps with bryan which is no longer with snap per. and now works for ross. we would buy new wire harnesses from toyota because the old ones were to brittle to work with and would break. i would help you out, but i do not yet know how to weld aluminum.

 

I did, thanks for asking. I found one deal that, at least initially, stands out better than the others with less of the foreseen b.s. There were conversations I had with some shops where it felt like you were already adversarial with them, it was stunning. They must have so many negative experiences with customers, that they're just anticipating the negatives and attempting to head them off at the first conversation. There were some shops I spoke with where you could tell you would be the guinea pig/their-1st-2J swap.

I'm going to take David's (Snap) advice and go with a new Toyota harness; he said it's the only way to guarantee all of the Lexus car functions I'm used to, while at the same time eliminating the fear of breakage. The fun now is finding it at the best price. I'm also intercooler (and the associated piping) shopping. Once I've got all that, I'm ready to roll since I'll be using the stock twins and stock ECU (for a while ).

My main debate right now is doing this with the NTL gang over X number of weekends, versus dropping it off at a shop and being done with it until it IS done.

 

The S is actually getting an intercooler and Greddy bov installed this coming saturday over there... Let's see what other goodies are there to purchase... Mu-ha-ha-ha...