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Supra 1UZ-FE V8 conversion


Paul Whiffin

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We've just completed our first 1UZ-FE conversion and wow, these are nice. Sexual V8 sound, bags of torque, smooth, lightweight, cheap and very tuneable. Its a conversion we can now offer to owners if needed. Looks like it was meant to fit in the Supra, what do you think?

 

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Blooming lovely! What was the cost in this if a v8 soarer was supplied whole as donor?

 

Labour wise about £1000 approx if we have to remove parts from a donor car as well. The worst part is the wiring, you have to splice quite a few wires at the ecu end, time consuring job.

Parts wise you just need some electric fans for the radiator, modify the fuel feed with a new pipe and fittings, exhaust has to be shortened and thats about it, everything else fits straight in.

 

You can pick a whole Soarer V8 up for about £1000, less if the bodywork is buggered. This engine, gearbox, loom, ecu, etc cost me £400! Nice conversion for an NA Supra, you can get about 300bhp from fitting manifolds, exhaust and air filter.

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Bloody hell that's a good option and a really good price, you could have a lovely sounding and pretty quick supra for a couple of grand. I'm guessing this is an auto? I wouldn't mind dropping one of these in mine with the w58 box, I wonder if I can sneak it past the wife???

 

Its an auto yes, not sure on the manual conversion though as you would need a bell housing or adaptor made. There's bound to be adaptors available I would have thought. There is a bell housing available for the R154 gearbox as that was fitted in the Soarer with the 1UZ engine, so its definately doable. Trying to find a used one would be a mission though I would have thought.

 

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Oh and this car is for sale, £6000, lovely car too.

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There are a number of Aussie and American (and Thai?) options for the manual conversion. How "plug & play" they are is another matter, though. :)

 

From the information on their site, the Quantum kit from the US seems to be one of the most sorted, but whether that's the case in real life, who knows?

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Its an auto yes, not sure on the manual conversion though as you would need a bell housing or adaptor made. There's bound to be adaptors available I would have thought. There is a bell housing available for the R154 gearbox as that was fitted in the Soarer with the 1UZ engine, so its definately doable. Trying to find a used one would be a mission though I would have thought.

 

Oh and this car is for sale, £6000, lovely car too.

 

There's no manual 1UZ from the factory. The R154 was fitted to the 1JZ-GTE Soarer only.

 

Manual conversion will set you back a grand with a W58, or ~£1500 for an R154.

 

Edit: - Gareth beat me to it!

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You can pick a whole Soarer V8 up for about £1000, less if the bodywork is buggered. This engine, gearbox, loom, ecu, etc cost me £400! Nice conversion for an NA Supra, you can get about 300bhp from fitting manifolds, exhaust and air filter.

 

I have 4-1 long headers on mine from Rush Imports. Neil doesn't seem to make them anymore but there is a company in Australia that does the same design. Had a thread about it here as I found it tricky to source after market performance headers. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?271621-Hurricane-1UZ-FE-Soarer-V8-Headers-manifolds

 

Nice work Paul. Hope you start selling performance parts for these engines :)

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I have 4-1 long headers on mine from Rush Imports. Neil doesn't seem to make them anymore but there is a company in Australia that does the same design. Had a thread about it here as I found it tricky to source after market performance headers. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?271621-Hurricane-1UZ-FE-Soarer-V8-Headers-manifolds

 

Nice work Paul. Hope you start selling performance parts for these engines :)

 

I'm toying with getting some manifolds made for it yes, and centre section too, so no cats, free flowing and plenty of noise!

 

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Sorry Paul, slight correction... unfortunately there was never a factory 1UZ manual in anything.

 

I'm sure I saw it somewhere last night when I was doing a bit of research, obviously not!

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