Aready jumped... 2JZ
#30
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Panama City, FL
Posts: 18
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Good GOD...got run down by banks and work. The car has had no love but the house is finished and all is refinanced. Moved the car back into my main shop and will be back on track soon. I have help now from my friend Patrick who is also my business partner as we are hoping to use the car for some promotional work. I will be posting a bit more regularly now and am still looking at the major job of cutting the firewall and setting the 2JZ back and low.
#31
Living the Dream
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: SD
Posts: 366
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Good GOD...got run down by banks and work. The car has had no love but the house is finished and all is refinanced. Moved the car back into my main shop and will be back on track soon. I have help now from my friend Patrick who is also my business partner as we are hoping to use the car for some promotional work. I will be posting a bit more regularly now and am still looking at the major job of cutting the firewall and setting the 2JZ back and low.
good luck to you
#32
Senior Member
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Mississauga, ON
Posts: 661
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by roachdiddy
cutting the firewall?? why would you go and do that?? then the trans wont go up through the stock fd trans hole???
1. bumpsteer, the steering rack can stay in the stock location.
2. stock hood, yes it'll shut with the steering rack in the stock location.
3. weight distribution. the JZ is longer, heavier, then the 13B and LSX.
4. the stock R154, with stock shifter, will fit right through the stock shifter hole in the transmission tunnel.
or you can lower the steering rack. then you'll have to deal with weight distribution, modified shifter, and of course, bumpsteer.
yes, you can blindly slap on a $100 bumpsteer correction kit and hope that it'll be as good as stock. why did i use the word "blindly"? because i have a feeling you (please correct me if i'm wrong) don't know how much the steering rack has been lowered comapred to stock. from personal experience, you probably have lowered the rack more than you can ever correct for using a bolt-on type bumpsteer correction kit.
Originally Posted by roachdiddy
good luck to you
howi
#33
Living the Dream
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: SD
Posts: 366
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
because it's the only proper way to do this swap. by cutting the firewall you'll solve the biggest issues encounter with the JZ/FD swap:
1. bumpsteer, the steering rack can stay in the stock location.
2. stock hood, yes it'll shut with the steering rack in the stock location.
3. weight distribution. the JZ is longer, heavier, then the 13B and LSX.
4. the stock R154, with stock shifter, will fit right through the stock shifter hole in the transmission tunnel.
or you can lower the steering rack. then you'll have to deal with weight distribution, modified shifter, and of course, bumpsteer.
yes, you can blindly slap on a $100 bumpsteer correction kit and hope that it'll be as good as stock. why did i use the word "blindly"? because i have a feeling you (please correct me if i'm wrong) don't know how much the steering rack has been lowered comapred to stock. from personal experience, you probably have lowered the rack more than you can ever correct for using a bolt-on type bumpsteer correction kit.
good luck to you too.
howi
1. bumpsteer, the steering rack can stay in the stock location.
2. stock hood, yes it'll shut with the steering rack in the stock location.
3. weight distribution. the JZ is longer, heavier, then the 13B and LSX.
4. the stock R154, with stock shifter, will fit right through the stock shifter hole in the transmission tunnel.
or you can lower the steering rack. then you'll have to deal with weight distribution, modified shifter, and of course, bumpsteer.
yes, you can blindly slap on a $100 bumpsteer correction kit and hope that it'll be as good as stock. why did i use the word "blindly"? because i have a feeling you (please correct me if i'm wrong) don't know how much the steering rack has been lowered comapred to stock. from personal experience, you probably have lowered the rack more than you can ever correct for using a bolt-on type bumpsteer correction kit.
good luck to you too.
howi
will you be road racing this car in comp.?