1983 Toyota Carina 1UZ conversion

[irmantas]

Here is my son 1983 Carina 1uz conversion we did last week.After drifting BMW e30 for a while,he sold it and bought this Carina as a project.Some pic when bought it...

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Than I we bought 1994 SC400 as a donor...

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Did order adapter clutch/flywheel kit from the USA for W58 gear box.Box I bought from the member on this forum and it will be story about it later

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We had to swap SC400 1uz oil sump to front bowl sump which I had from my previous conversion

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So we put flywheel/clutch on,1uz bell housing on W58 and got it ready for trial fit...

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After masage on firewall and tunnel we seated engine where we wanted.We cut original engine mount bracets,rewelded them in different position and we used Rover V8 engine mounts and engine is like it belongs here:)

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Here it is at home...

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we modified original Carina gear box crossmember and it bolts on in original place
and shifted is almoust in the original position

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We had to reweld one exhaust manifold to clear steering colum shaft,and I welded prop shaft just to be able to test how everything works.
Plan is to put Ford Explorer rear LSD axel,so propshaft will be done properly again.
So next fun part,wiring.But I was familiar with 1uz wiring as it was my second 1uz conversion....
Here is in the morning

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And later on

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Here is first start.Sorry poor quality
http://s630.photobucket.com/user/irmantas1970/media/Video0041_zps85bf8868.mp4.html?sort=3&o=0

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And second start with everything conected,poor vid again,sorry
http://s630.photobucket.com/user/irmantas1970/media/Video0042_zpse675f855.mp4.html?sort=3&o=1

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We managed to to put Lexus fuel pump in to Carina fuel tank and used Lexus fuel lines to feed engine.
So we got clutch working,put propshaft on and was ready to go for test drive.I put it in to the 1st gear,relesed clutch car didin't move,2nd 3.. 4.. 5.. reverse... the same story...WTF...
So after pulling engine/gear box out we split them and find out that box not engaged any gear,so we took gear box apart and discovered this:(

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No gear teeth at all!!!This box was very hard abused or been runing without oil,but that does not matter.
The thing is that seller said that it is in working condition.I bought it and it had no shifter,seller promised me to find one which he never did...I send him few emails he responded in to one saying that he is still looking for this shifter.I never got it.Finaly after waiting for couple month I found one on ebay in USA and bought it.
And now after I emailed him about this gear box thing he is not responding....
So now we stuck with our project,he is not responding.I will wait for couple more days if he will not to reply,I have to tell who he is publicly.
We are looking for another box at the moment and have find couple.So I hope we will can continue it again...

[ELV-iS]

cool build

best of look sorting the box and throw up some videos of it driving when you get it goin

[kenneth]

cool project.
it's a balls when lads sell stuff dishonestly and then can't be got hold of.
he would have known that it was a shit gearbox !

[irmantas]

cool project.
it's a balls when lads sell stuff dishonestly and then can't be got hold of.
he would have known that it was a shit gearbox !

Thanks.I think he knew,that's why he stays quiet,but that is his choice.It won't bring him any luck....
On a good note,we got gearbox and installing everything back in:)
Will be some update soon..

[ali-d1936]

that sucks about the gearbox man sucks when people sell stuff knowing it wanked!! not particulay hard to see who it was also!
hope ya get it going anyway and dont let that knock ya off the site there is a good group of lads on here for the majorty of it anyway.

[irmantas]

that sucks about the gearbox man sucks when people sell stuff knowing it wanked!! not particulay hard to see who it was also!
hope ya get it going anyway and dont let that knock ya off the site there is a good group of lads on here for the majorty of it anyway.

Thanks guys for support.Everything is fine now,we lost only a bit of time and money.But we got box now and we happy that everything moving forward again...I know that here is more good people and this is great!Cheers

[twincam 20]

Fair play nice bit of work, i want to drop one of these in my ta22 shouldnt be too different from the carina?

[irmantas]

Fair play nice bit of work, i want to drop one of these in my ta22 shouldnt be too different from the carina?

Should be similar,only issue is steering column with exhaust manifold...

[DAVEO]

wow cool project. nice lil sleeper drifter :)

[DAVEO]

hey any update on this....did you sort the gear box??

[irmantas]

Gearbox issue sorted.Need suspension and LSD now.Project on halt at the moment,lack of funds..But I think very soon things will improve:)

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Did try some wheels on...

[cooks86]

Nice build should be fun drive

[hoopsbhoy]

That is class.

Love seeing builds like this. Best of luck with the rest of it.

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Bmw e30rear axel and welded diff installed...

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Here is quick video....:)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/58z1glre0ls0pi0/20131019_163138.mp4

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http://ekirslys.blogspot.ie/2013/11/toyota-carina-klaipeda-lithuania-will.html?m=1