My JDM Engine Swap Begins

Where did you get your JDM engine from?

 

You can just Google JDM importers You could put New Jersey That's where a lot of this mess started and you'll see the companies that pop up the one over there right on the water they advertise they've been in business 25 years That's the guys you want and then if you need somebody closer to where you really are you ask them hey where your guys closest to me here in Milwaukee and they'll give you a number to call boom that's it A lot of these fly by night use JDM in their name of their company Matt's JDM engine supply. Anybody can use that three letters but most of these companies that will pop up in your search feeds they opened yesterday or last week or what have you The real JDM importers in New Jersey over there on the shore and there's a couple of them I just can't think of them all have to find my receipt and then I can put up their number but they advertise heavily that they've been in business like 25 years or something like that so those are the guys all the other ones you know you won't be able to tell how long they've been in business all their advertising and stuff online is brand new cars and brand new parts and another way to tell us if you look at their site and if you look under engine swaps or front clips the people that know what's going on will have you'll hear terms like Lexus beams front clip that has a special 3S GE engine and it called the beams best engine advanced management system or something like that that was stood for and they will have front clips from Toyota soers which are equivalents to supras with the two Jz with all the trimmings on them. That's somebody that knows the game knows what they're doing and is probably been here for a long minute.

 

If you mark the guide pin locations on the engine and transmission with a permanent marker or crayon, measure the top of the engine to the center of the clutch plate on the motor and transmission, you can just measure off the top of the motor with the level laser line. The ratchet strap is to spin the motor. You can use two if you’re out of level from the transmission side to the mount side. I tried doing it the mechanic way with my dad and couldn’t get them to line up. Laser level is what a carpenter would use.

 

That's exactly why I asked.

(I think. Someday, we're going to have to tell you how to install paragraphs and how to structure a sentence.)

 

Do you need a direct link and a contact person's name and a telephone number of somebody you can pick up the phone and call right now?

 

The JDM imports up in valley stream New York That's who you probably want to be talking to then you can call around from there if you think you can shave a couple hundred dollars off It may be possible the people in valley stream can put you in touch with somebody closer to you if New York shipping is prohibitively expensive for you like if you're out in the Midwest.