RMA

Ok I was able to finally get the rest of the dash from my friend . I think its ok it look fine to me , not perfect but its passable.
So after installing and connecting this thing I was able to see if the check engine light worked , well at first it didnt come on, but after a little trouble shooting it was only the bulb that was bad , thank god.

Here are the pics.





I still need to fine tune the fitment but overall its good.

I may also change the color, but later not now .

Lumpy

Looking Good man!!! Looks like a lot of work but I'm sure it's worth it...nice swap!!

toyminator2000

That dash piece turned out better than I thought it would.

RMA

Yea , your right about that man its alot of work , and thanks alot lumpy!!

yea it did come out looking pretty good, its a little shiny but that can be fixed easily..

RMA

well I was able to sell some more parts off the lexus , so I bought a used snap on scanner .

Here is a very crappy video of me trying to figure this thing out.
I will try to get better video once I learn to use this thing some more.


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laowBadHBSw[/YOUTUBE]

Slednecks594

My God i just can't get over that rumble. sounds so nice.

RMA

Yea thanks it does sound great.
Dude I will try and get some better video ,I have a crappy kodak and a older palmcorder vhsc im using .
That would make this thread a whole lot better .
and thanks for folowing man !!

RMA

OK I forgot to post some info on the fuel pump .

This picture shows FPR from ECU being used to run the single speed pump .
WEll It didnt look right to me when doing the wiring so I ended up using FC from the ECU to run the 3.0 single speed pump,and so far so good.

Adam F

Sounds good!

Whats up with the sticking tach?

RMA

Yea it was sticking when it was in the ls 400 , not sure if I am going to have it fixed , (Guy on craigslist fixes them) or just look for another one.

RMA

so it looks like I will be buying another cluster , the guy on craigslist wants $425 to fix the sticking tach needle . Dudes crazy I think. Ebay has them at $75 shipped so thats what Ill do ..

RMA

Ok so I had the exhaust shop finish the exhaust yesturday , and its crap..
I had them use the y from the lexus and a flowmaster I had here at home ( less than 1 yr old), they also used 2 1/4 pipe all the way through , Its super quite now ,like a car .
Also its super ugly the bends they made suck big time , I guess I will have to use this for a little while and come up with something to make the truck sound good , not to loud just something good.

Ill post pics of the crap later , Im not in a hurry really to show it off though .

I do like the fact that Im not setting off all the alarms on my street like before though.When I would drive down my street , by the time I got to the end like 20 car alarms would be going off , kind of funny but not cool ..

Smitherz

Oh man that Y-pipe from the Lexus is so tiny in diameter. You need to have a good shop make the whole thing for you. It's worth every penny. There should be plenty of shops that are interested in your truck willing to help you out with a nice exhaust for a good price. PLUS a good shop will really cringe at the sight of what you have now and do even better to show you their skills.

RMA

Hey smitherz , thanks alot for the reply man ,Yea this is how much I know about exhaust , 0 nothing man .

Love the color of your engine by the way, maybe I can do that on my next 1uz swap.

The y pipe is 2 1/4 and yea I guess it is small .I will look into having someone else do it again, do you know anybody in san jose that does this ?

Anyway I brought the truck to work today (30 miles one way) , man what a difference from the 3.0 I can actually pass people and climb the hills with out the truck going from 70 to 50 miles per hour .Its not trying to overheat and the fans came on one time in stop and go traffic.

Cruising at 70 has me at around 2200 rpms (redline is 6000) this is with 4:10's and 33", i wonder if I should put in the 4:88's I have and was going to install when i had the 3.0 but never did.

I will post pics of the crap exhaust later today , They did a crappier job than I first thought , no gasket at one flange and left 3 holes where they welded at 3 diffrent spots .
I fixed these things yesturday by the way .

TNRabbit

Where's the video?!?

RMA

Hey glad to see you found your way to my thread , thanks alot for the reply man .

There is a crappy video in post #153 and i will post some more later .


thanks !!!

TNRabbit

.....been following this thread all along; just didn't have anything to say~ good job!

RMA

ok here are some more crappy videos , wish I could do better but Im saving to buy a new stronger welder right now .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_AaCcOWmG8
went to pick up a part so i could finish mounting the computer, this is a local toyota only salvage yard . Its called Toy Connection ,locals can speak to Jeff they are in santa clara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnUDUqgdRg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuTSmDaUN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDHWkseBKAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlys3Uq7x0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldkn5AnEB0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDlReoAlBk

THe speedometer is off , dont know how much yet I will compare it to the gps and get better numbers .

RMA

Ok I went to an exhaust shop yesturday and they told me or suggested that I go see the referee with this current exhaust before I change it , they said this one would have a better chance of passing than a better flowing louder exhaust.

so Im keeping it like this until after the referee inspection.

other than that shes running fine for the most part , i do have to disconnect the fuse for the fans sometimes because when i stop somewhere and the fans are running they will kill the battery. I will hook up the wire for the fan controller to be able to shut them off instead of pulling the fuse.

She also idles kind of low sometimes , and need to look into this .

toylocost

I;m sorry if youve gone over this already but what do you have to do to make this legal in CA?