1MZ-FE into my MR2, Building a 3SGTE these days. Options

[HectortheRican]

Idiot

that's the rear bank - it's pointing straight back.

Man, I'm so excited to see this progress. My best friend has a '91 MR2 that said he might want to do a 1MZ... but he doesn't get on forums much. I'm forcing him to check yours out.

[Bitter]

.... Alright, I'll trust you on this. Haha. There is a place down the road that'll ceramic coat them for $165 in a standard ceramic color (most likely just a natural color, nothing like black or blue), or $195 for ceramichrome finish. I'm getting a bonus this week so that'll be covered... Money easily earned is money easily spent!

Called THMotorsports this morning to figure out what their major malfunction is. I've been waiting for over a week for them to ship my flywheel. They said it shipped on the 30th, and it'll be here on the 10th.... I asked if they were having someone walk it from NJ to WA, because 12 day shipping wasn't going to cut it.

A word to the wise: NEVER do business with THMotorsports.

well having not ran them uncoated you won't know how much to thank me

I recently had a package from china take nearly 5 weeks to come in....12 days is nothing. Atleast you get updates, I had to threaten a charge back on a sway bar to get it shipped from this one site...

[95CelicaST]

Well my flywheel has been sitting in a Fedex building in Keasbey, NJ since the 30th. I called Fedex today to see wtf is going on. They put in an inquiry and someone from the Keasbey building will be calling me tomorrow - otherwise I'll call them directly. This is ridiculous. I'll be telling them to put it on a flight to Seattle.

The funny/irritating part is that my order with THMotorsports says that it's shipping UPS... Which I am going to be calling them back about this as well. I ordered a flywheel and selected UPS as my shipping provider, and they ship it out using Fedex.

[Ted95]

wow looking good dude, good work

[95CelicaST]

FedEx says it'll be here tomorrow, but it's still in Keasbey, NJ. We'll see if they can work some sort of magic.

[presure2]

looks good so far man! keep it up!

[95CelicaST]

Thanks Manny.


Performance Coatings isn't open on the weekends... So I'm dropping my headers off on monday to have o2 bungs welded in and ceramic coated. My only dilemma is what color to have them coated... Satin silver, or satin titanium?

I can't find any good examples on their site of either color.

And my Toyota technician friend is going to run the VIN from the motor thru their system to see what maintenance has been performed at it's last dealer visit.

[95CelicaST]

Well I'm eating my words today. I dropped my headers off to be ceramic coated and when I got back I had a fedex box. I also went and bought a new impact gun to take a crack at the crank pulley... Which is pretty well stuck.


Pictures to follow!

[Johnnyny]

sometimes when u ship via ups it might end up in fedex's hands and they finish shipping it and vice versa

[Bitter]

Oh, what kind of gun did you get?

[95CelicaST]

I actually bought two. I initially bought a cheap craftsman gun for $100, but was underwhelmed by it's performance with my small air compressor, so I bought a dewalt power impact gun as a backup for $170, because the air one is pretty weak by comparison. After this project is over I'll return one. Part of me thinks a power impact gun is a sin, but it works much better for my limited setup. Perhaps if I had the money to upgrade my compressor the air would be favorable, but at the moment neither make me happy, as the crank pulley bolt hasn't budged despite several baths in penetrating lubricant, heating it with a propane torch, impact gun, etc. I'm going to try to jam something in the flex plate to lock the crank, then break the bolt.

[Bitter]

Yes, for you...get a pipe and breaker bar and some longer bolts to thread into the flywheel end of the crank. use a board or pipe between the bolts to hold the crank and break the bolt on the other end with pipe and breaker bar.

I use a IR 2135Ti at work at 110psi on a double tank (120 gallon) compressor and even I have to ride the crank bolts on some cars to break them. That electric impact is good for lug nuts, maybe some axle nuts

[95CelicaST]

Yeah that's my plan for this afternoon is to rig something to break that bolt. I'll be using both guns, but i'll probably hang on to the air gun.

[Bitter]

what size/airflow is your compressor? the one at work is large, the one at the barn I work on cars in (my own cars) is BIG. its a 2 stage with like 100 gallon tank regulated at 110 but going upto 150.

[95CelicaST]

It's just an inexpensive Husky 6 gallon compressor 135psi max. I need to upgrade it eventually, but for little things here and there it does an okay job.


I returned the dewalt this afternoon. Sinful piece of machinery.


This afternoon I bought a large pry bar and used it to lock the flex plate while I hung on my 24" breaker bar... and got nowhere. So I slid on a 6 foot pipe and gave that a whirl... and it finally broke loose. Huzzah! Once that was off a smaller pry bar and mallet took care of the pulley, and now everything is exposed. Finally! Progress!


My friend who works at Toyota told me he isn't able to pull up Lexus info in their system, so I'm going to call a local Lexus dealership tomorrow and give the VIN to them to find out what exactly was replaced and when - provided it was done at the dealership.

I couldn't take pictures of the motor tonight due to horrible lighting in my garage, but here is one of the Fidanza flywheel and the newly acquired impact gun and impact ratchet.

[95CelicaST]

Huzzah!

[95CelicaST]

Double post ftmfl

This post has been edited by 95CelicaST: Jan 10, 2011 - 3:20 PM

[HectortheRican]

Crank pulley: terminated! High five!

[95CelicaST]

Crank pulley: 0

6ft breaker bar: 1

yessssssss

[Bitter]

Congrats! one thing I've noticed on more than a few 1MZ's in Lexus...a coolant leak under the intake manifold between the heads somewhere. one of those long slow leaks...Haven't fixed one yet to tell you what it is, but something to maybe think about. I don't know if there is a hose, gasket, or O-ring in there that leaks with age, but it looks like its in a tight spot.