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That sounds like something worse than knock. Like a busted rod. Time to go shortblock shopping. Maybe time to go 1.5JZ.

I do realise from the head gasket thickness selection thread that a 1.6mm gasket is about what I need in order to maintain the stock combustion chamber parameters. Wish I'd gone through that first. Still, it's not too late yet, and I could still go to the thicker gasket if it's really going to...

Okay, so I'm almost at the stage where it's time to bolt the head on, and I'm getting cold feet about the static compression ratio. The block and head have been milled 0.005" each, so this is about 0.25mm shaved off. I have a 1.4mm MHG on the bench, but I'm thinking that it may not be such a...

You sir, are the exception, rather than the rule. Yeah, I remember some of the original notes on the Lexus/550 swap. Exciting times.

Well at least at RCTS you will know that you get what you paid for. They'll also let you know what you can set boost to and what you should do for a next step. (Though, knowing Reg, his recommendation will probably be a bunch of HK$ hardware.)

Cool. I've been sitting on a full set of ES bushings for a year and a half because I wasn't sure about tackling this.

Princess Auto has a little specialty tool for holding pulleys in place for removing nuts, which is hugely helpful. Couldn't find it on their website though. It's a bar with prongs on the end to go on a stud/nut and an adjustable set on the side for another stud/nut. Overall, brilliant little...

This is where saving a few bucks up front gets expensive later. For my car, when I was getting the exhaust, I got the RT downpipe. My options were to buy a 3" cat ($300+), buy the regular version and a test pipe ($60) or get the "racing" version of the downpipe which eliminates the cat...

It seems to depend on location how much the shell is worth. Around here, the shells are all rusty, and good ones are spendy. If I were to buy another MA70, I would probably not mind something like this, because I'd want to rebuild the motor anyway, just to know for sure what's under the hood...

Patience, and maybe see if you can recruit someone with small fingers. I've had mine out a few times, it's never particularly fun to put back in.

You lean out the mixture when the fuel pump can't keep up to demand at pressure. If the pump is upgraded and your FPR can't keep up, what you get are pressure spikes when the FPR isn't letting enough fuel return to the tank. So, what we need to know is what you've done on the other side to...

Aren't there entire threads dedicated to weight reduction? Battery to the back improves weight distribution, but actually increases weight, since you need long runs of heavy wire to make it work. If you're serious about removing weight, though, the sound deadening is actually a fair amount of...

Would that be something like the 1.5JZ, where you use a 2JZ shortblock with 1JZ heads and control electronics to basically have a 3.0L 1JZ? There are still days where I miss having a V8. Not many anymore, but still, there's something about the sound...

Also, apply pressure to water in the cooling jacket, and see if any comes out the oil drain. Apply pressure to oil in the oil passages, see if any gets into the cooling jacket. For the head gasket, a metal head gasket is better, provided that you get the machine work done to support it. A metal...

I need to visit somewhere else to find a clean chassis...

Doing it again, I'd buy the turbo car. Blown head gasket or not, I'd plan to treat it as if it were, unless I knew that it had been done the way that I would want it done. Plan to spend a couple grand on the engine as well, but if you can get a clean, straight chassis for $2k and spend another...

I quite like my Koyo. Just get a 16mm by 1.25mm plug, for the 1JZ temp sensor location, and you're good to go.

I've seen a CF plate for the factory dash on eBay, and the white face gauge faces are cheap and plentiful as well. Tons of options out there. A lot fewer if you want a metric speedometer for Canada :(

So there's a couple of things here. One is what the actual law applicable is. Smog regulations are usually more administrative, which relates tot he registration and title of a vehicle, and as such, Canadian citizens are out of the local baliwick. If they're going to allow a Canadian registered...