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LOL. Well, I have a couple of 1/24 scale Mk3 models, which have room that a motor and control could be mounted in it. ;)

The harness that you already have will work fine, you just need to swap over sensors that may have different connectors. The motor mounts that you have will bolt onto the other block just fine, but the late '89+ (round) mounts won't bolt to the crossmember for an '86.5-early '89 (square) mount...

Fuel usage is dependant on the amount of POWER that your car is making, or rather, power made is dependant on using fuel. If you are driving in closed loop mode, the amount of power made to keep your car at a constant speed is the same, and since it's the same engine, the amount of fuel...

If you're going to go with an EBC and the MAF-T II, why not just get the pro, which has the boost control built-in? It seems like a more elegant solution, and probably lower overall cost.

As I understand it... Those injector may have some trouble with resolution at idle. They have a finite response time, and therefore a miniumum non-zero flow rate, which is going to be (at the very least) horribly rich at idle. They're WAY more than you need for your power goals. They may...

Well, I can understand not swapping in all of the stuff from the '87 into a car that didn't have it from the factory, it's a lot of work. You've got to get the wheelspeed sensors, the actuator, all of the plumbing, and the wiring harness. But to not have ABS because you need to connect 5...

Yeah, I had a mouse family make a nest in my AC. That was an expensive fix, having a shop rip the dash apart, but I didn't have the time to do it myself. I use a litle dab of loctite on my VC screws, though I have hex head cap screws in there, now, just becasue I like the look better, and...

I just don't understand why people don't like ABS. I know that the ABS has saved my car more than once. I also know that I can do "threshhold braking" just fine with the ABS in place. It doesn't kick in unless I screw it up and lock it up. It can also do things that are frankly impossible...

The Tanabe is a nice exhaust. I'm very happy with mine. FWIW, I assembled the cat-back, and installed it as one piece.

RIGHT! Yeah, I remember that now. That's the one... Okay, the thicker red.black, black and yellow ones go together and there's another connector that has a couple of wires in it that get the white/red and white/green wires. I used the connectors from the other sides of the harness to...

@gsmokez: I bought 100 each of 3mm red and blue. I have other uses for them as well, but if you want, PM me. we can arrange for you to send me a cheque, and I'll mail you enough to do your CC unit.

I don't have a torque wrench that goes that low, but I've never had a problem with the gaskets leaking... Well, not until they start getting crusty, anyway, then they leak, 'cause that's what they do. The thing is that the gaskets have enough give and are soft enough that they seal fairly...

Headlights: This just seems to be an issue that the '87 or '88 ECU supplies enough of a ground on the ECU pin that it activates the headlight relay. I resolved this by running a new wire from the #1 integration relay to the headlight relay, bypassing the factory harness for this function...

If the harness plugs in, you've got an early model '89. This would then be the same situation as I had. I used the '87 wiring harness, with relatively few issues. There were some differences with the ABS system, that I had to resolve, and the thing with the headlights, but other than that...

The best way to do this is to get the JDM motor, rebuild, or at least overhaul it, and when you swap it into the car, swap over any sensors that are different. Keep your original wiring harness, ECU, motor mounts etc. The mechanical differences are minimal enough that you don't have to worry...

Ah... Okay, I've been reading these threads in the wrong order. ;) As I said, my car is an early '89 model, so things weren't that bad. I also had the entire '87T car to pull parts from to make stuff work, not just a JDM engine. Anyway, '89 was a bit of an odd year, because some of the...

Hey there. I answered your PM. First off, you need to determine which '89 chassis you have. An early '89 will be different from a late '89, and this will determine which ECU/harness will be a better fit. The fastest way to check is to look at the motor mounts. If they're rectangular...

Well, I bought some 3mm LEDs... Waiting for them to arrive. I'm thinking that to go with my deck, I'll do the buttons in red, and the indicators on the climate control in blue. I'll probably also change over the lamps in the instrument cluster to red at the same time. I already have a...

I did a write up of my repair (with pictures) here: http://www.supraclub.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=1988

Sorry, I got the LIPP elbow. It looks like that one has a bung both for the stock O2 sensor, and a thread-in for a wideband, which is a plus.