Japanese Import Engines

There's a guy on one of the Surf forums that did that exact thing to his 4runner when the motor crapped itself. He reckon's it unreal. There was a reasonable amount of work to it but it fits good. He is also posting some pretty unbeiliavble milage too!

G'day,
A mate of mine has fitted a 1uz-fe with twin turbos to a VL drag car. The whole engine with wiring harness cost $1200.00 minus the turbos and other ancillary gear from an importer in Sydney. But if you want to see the same engine fitted to a 4Runner have a look at www.boostedrunner.com there are some great picks.

Sorry mate that web site is http://www.boosted4runner.com/

Olly

I don't know about the idling being any more than a Diesel engine in Sydney or Melborne... Put new injectors in it if they are gummed up. My 1kz-te in the surf is comming up to 150k and still runs good. It was a little smokey when I got it but a few takes of injector cleaner and some good long runs sorted that out. But rebuilding a diesel maybe a cheap option anyway.

Its substantially different . . . apparently.

Also the advantage in Aus , is the ability to take it for a good long fang , to clear it up . . . Cant do that in Japan.

I guess there are two questions.

Whats wrong with the motor ?

What sort of budget ?

Diesels are expensive to rebuild regardless of whats wrong . . . it just goes from Expensive to VERY expensive.

On a limited budget , an import may be just the ticket (was for me).

Ok so I havn't actually BEEN to japan, however I have been through aisa for work including Honkong and Taiwan. (both small islands). My wife is from New Zealand (two small islands) and my brother in law from Tazmania (do we need to say anymore about that one??).
Now I can't imagine japan being THAT MUCH different to somewhere like Taiwan or HongKong. Dense population, small landmass etc etc. They still have freeways, you can still go for a drive in the country in Taiwan. You can still give your car a "fang" if you want to.
Our patrol at work does a daily trip of about 14kms to and from the office plus a little bit of running around the suburbs with the occasional trip into town. I'm sure there are a lot of diesel 4bies out there in the cities just the same as that. I think scooping all the jap motors up and putting them into the same basket is being a little heavy handed. I also think you've got just as much chance of having a low miles engine with heaps of idle time and no long runs in Australia as you do in any of these places. I also find it hard to beleive that there are no freeways or country roads in japan and that all Japanese drivers do is sit at traffic lights idling their diesel 4wds and listening to the radio.
But hey! I might be wrong, it's all MHO.

Never been there either , thats why I said . . . apparently.

I have spoken to quite a few people about this though , when I was looking at buying a Delica (TD Van import).

Also when I was discussing my new motor for the PJ.

It was a similar thing.

There is fair more POTENTIAL for problems in these diesel imports , because its a different way to drive.

They dont bother going for a fang , because there is no need to. They only keep vehicles for 5 years or so (thats why imports are often a good deal)

Fuel is quite expensive (equivelent to about $1.50 AUD a litre) . so they dont just . . . go for a drive.

I guess the other point (and it wouldn't matter whether it was local diesel or import) , is being able to get it checked out.

Makes it difficult , to have a motor sent interstate (like I did) , find its a dud , and have to send it back.

You can do all the inspections you like , its really not till you have the thing running that you find the problems (like I did).