Hey all, I recently picked up a 1989 Toyota Supra. It’s a 3.0 7mgte I6 Turbo 5 speed, Hard top Supra. I bought the car, it is carfax certified a californian car. It has the body to prove it, there is not a single spec of rust on ANY location of the car.
I bought this car with intentions to do some serious work to it, but for now I’m getting it to the best possible running shape before I get down and dirty. This is my first build, so please if you have any insite please share it!
1JZ swaps are pretty straight forward in your car, and the motor set can be had for pretty cheap if u get one without vvti. the r154 tranny is pretty beefy, like someone said be u can put them on a 2JZ with no worries of breaking.
if your serious about this car n wanna go fast, ditch that shitty 7m as fast as u can
if you end up needing a hand with the 1jz swap, the hardest part is the wiring harness. give me or gravesdu99 a heads up and we will give you a parts list and any help we can give. love the new motor and power. WAY better than the 7m
Theres nothing really hard about doing the swap. The most expensive single part was the wiring harness. It was more than the motor minus shipping. If you can take the 7m out and put it back in you can put in a 1jz with no problems. Its a great starter motor, and if you blow it (which I have heard about maybe 7 blowing up) you can get a 2jz-gte block and put under it (about 1.5in taller) or get a 2jz-ge block(sc300,is300) and I think just use a turbo headgasket. The downfall to the 1jz is weak turbos and lack of tq. A complete swap should be around 3-4k.