Yes the orginal, 1jz powered widebody starion. Been a long project thats wrapping up slowly. I got the idea about 2 years ago, and then actually picked up an engine maybe... about 15 months ago. cut the firewall, and transmission tunnel out, rewelded and fabbed up mounts for the engine and tranny. Since then, I've been broke for the most part. Here is a quick deal on the progress of the car.

I gotta give mad props to 2 guys in australia who gave me motivation to do the swap. Forgot your names, but one of you has a running narrow body starion with a 1jz, and the other has a narrow body with a 2jz.

The beginning. the ol g54b pulled out. The whole reason I decided to swap was because I failed to change the timing gear, and the upper balance shaft guide broke off, resulting in the chain slipping on the oil pump sprocket, which in turn ground the teeth off the oil pump sprokect sending metal shit all throughout the engine scoring up bearings. The engine actually wasnt bad as I caught it as soon as the oil pressure dropped, but I figured the bearings had been torn up after I pulled the head and timing cover. When I tore her down, Iw as right. At this point, i wasnt sure if I should rebuild it or what.

After looking for a subaru engine for my old legacy, I stumbled across the 1jz, did a lot of research, and came up with the conclusion I had to have the engine. I had always loved the sound of a inline 6, so I figured why the hell not. Picked up a engine setup from a jzx81 chaser for 1708 shipped to the yellow freight dock in portland.

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A little comparison of a toyota r154 vs a km148 starion transmission

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My friend Dean helped me out more than I can ever thank him for with the fabrication of the new firewall, transmission tunnel widening, and engine and transmission mounts.

Unfortunately I didnt take any pictures of the car without a firewall or transmission tunnel...

A few pictures of the new tunnel and firewall being pieced together.

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Yes those welds on the transmission tunnel are horrible, but give me a break, it was my first time welding..

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The engine mount. We decided to just adapt the stock starion engine mount to the 1jz. Unfortunately at this time the engine sits too low, and im going to have to make some spacers or redo the mounts to set the engine up about a inch, as my oilpan is sitting at least an inch below the crossmember. With the car lowered, I could probably take the oil pan out on a highway rut...

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Transmission crossmember mount. Even though we didnt use the starion crossmember, they were suprisingly simial to the jzx81 crossmember.

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A few pictures of the hotty all bolted in with the transmission

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A few pics taken a while back of the 1jz bolted in parked by my other 86 starion

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One thing I wanted to do was upgrade the rearend in my 86 to an 88+ since it used 6bolt axles and a larger spline. I figured I will eventually be pushing a lot of horsepower so what the hell. I picked up 2 rear ends and a set of axles for under 100 bucks. Unfortunately the rear end I put in needs one of the ears chased with a tap as the threads are a little screwed up. Hope I dont forget to do this before I take her for a test drive :)

Also, putting the rear end in wit the subframe still on by yourself is a real pain in the ass, that diff and torque tube isnt light!

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Gotta love metric. Everything on the car has been pretty easy to adapt. 25 dollars worth of parts and I have a new clutch line for the 1jz slave cylinder, that bolts right to the starion hardline for the clutch master. The only thing left to do a 180degree bend at the end of the hardline.

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Here is a little lesson in wiring, never get drunk and try to rewire a stock 1jz harness, otherwise this is what you end up with..

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Winter came along and motivation for working outside on my car went to zero.

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My 1jz spent most of the winter in my room keeping me company.

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The harness was a lost cause after my drunken engineering. So I started looking into a standalone. I wanted something that would run off all my stock electronics, ie ignitor, iscv, cam and crank sensors, etc... I decided to go big.... I ended up deciding on a haltech e11v2. For the price it did everything I wanted it to, had the best resolution maps, for 1600 or less. All I have to say is this rocks me hard core, I absolutely love it!

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Some pics of the car gradually getting wired up. I must say, haltech support is great, even though they didnt have a whole lot on 1jz wiring, they had a lot on 2jz wiring which is basically the same when i comes to the ignitor and what not. They also gave me a nice 2jz base map, which might I add, fired the engine right up after a screw up on my part with the fuel pump wiring.

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I had a little money sitting around, so I decided it was time to get a intercooler. Ebay special. 30x12x3 with 2.5 or 3inch outlets. cant quite remember. 160 shipped, cant beat that with a golden stick.

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A little short video of me getting her fired up and running :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYJhCT7QoA

Recently I ran into the problem of getting the damn radiator to fit in. I think eventually I will use a double outlet on the drivers side radiator to solve the issue with water necks running into my alternator pulley. For now, I removed the power steering pump and relocated the alternator to the power steering location. Temporary.

My other big problem right onw is a driveshaft. Luckily, my friend chad has made a spicer 1350 adapter for the rear torque tube, so now all I have to find is a spicer 1350 weld on yoke with a roughly 2inch od. After that, she should be streetable after a bit of tuning.