Tore
7th October 2011, 09:02 AM
Hi all
I`m sure I`m going to be asking A LOT of questions here.
Suffice it to say I`m from Norway and I took ownership of an abused AE86 a few years ago, and also own another relatively rare (At least in bodystyle) old school Toyota, so suffice it to say I have the same car as most of the members here should approve of :)
I`m not going to be talking about the whole project in this thread as this is where I need some very important Intel on how to get the hardest (IMHO) job done so I`d like to keep it clean, i.e 20v Wiring on AE86 only.
And I can`t arse my mechanic about every single thing, neither can I ask him to do the swap for me, first of I can`t get a loaded trailer over the mountains and into the south coastal areas of Norway now (It has started to snow) and he`s got enough to do with the engine work and a tanut-load of customers right now, plus I want to do the swap myself, but alas I need some intel :)
I`m in the preparing stages right now, my friend (and mechanic) is preparing the 20v Blacktop (I.e, waterlines and such) for RWD use.
I`ve also got another engine build in the works but it`s going to take much more money and time than I have right now, so I`m just putting in something I`ve had laying around at my friends place for years to just get the old battle machine up running again for the first time in 2 years, I`ve probably driven it less than 10 miles in the time I`ve owned it (And it has less than 15k miles on it but it`s been through rally and race use so you can probably guess the condition the mechanical bits are in!), and I had some pretty huge plans for it, but now I`m just back to the original idea, to get it working, have fun with it, and take the rest from there, i.e I`ve taken a realistic ground level perspective, for now, so I can get some results (I.e, get the car working).
Right.. Once the engines waterlines is modified I will be picking it up, and I plan to use OEM Blacktop ECU and a distributor relocation kit.
The most critical reason I ask about wiring instead of the mechanical things right now is because I`ve never read, found or heard ANY pointers on how the complete foolproof electrical part of 20v swaps into AE86 goes, like which connectors go where, which one needs main power, which one needs power from which relay, etc.
What I`d love to get a solid tip on first is IF I have to buy EDM OEM 16v Bigport ECU engine bay harness, and where I can find it. Because it`s one of the things that my car..
21956
Doesnt have!!
It`s been housing a typical carburetted TRD 1600cc A rally 190-195hp spec 16v 4A-GE engine since 1988 (The block was blown years before I bought it, the A spec head was then slapped on a AE86 block some years before I bought the car, and the head has NEVER been overhauled) so the ECU engine bay harness is loooong gone..
I`m sure I`m going to be asking A LOT of questions here.
Suffice it to say I`m from Norway and I took ownership of an abused AE86 a few years ago, and also own another relatively rare (At least in bodystyle) old school Toyota, so suffice it to say I have the same car as most of the members here should approve of :)
I`m not going to be talking about the whole project in this thread as this is where I need some very important Intel on how to get the hardest (IMHO) job done so I`d like to keep it clean, i.e 20v Wiring on AE86 only.
And I can`t arse my mechanic about every single thing, neither can I ask him to do the swap for me, first of I can`t get a loaded trailer over the mountains and into the south coastal areas of Norway now (It has started to snow) and he`s got enough to do with the engine work and a tanut-load of customers right now, plus I want to do the swap myself, but alas I need some intel :)
I`m in the preparing stages right now, my friend (and mechanic) is preparing the 20v Blacktop (I.e, waterlines and such) for RWD use.
I`ve also got another engine build in the works but it`s going to take much more money and time than I have right now, so I`m just putting in something I`ve had laying around at my friends place for years to just get the old battle machine up running again for the first time in 2 years, I`ve probably driven it less than 10 miles in the time I`ve owned it (And it has less than 15k miles on it but it`s been through rally and race use so you can probably guess the condition the mechanical bits are in!), and I had some pretty huge plans for it, but now I`m just back to the original idea, to get it working, have fun with it, and take the rest from there, i.e I`ve taken a realistic ground level perspective, for now, so I can get some results (I.e, get the car working).
Right.. Once the engines waterlines is modified I will be picking it up, and I plan to use OEM Blacktop ECU and a distributor relocation kit.
The most critical reason I ask about wiring instead of the mechanical things right now is because I`ve never read, found or heard ANY pointers on how the complete foolproof electrical part of 20v swaps into AE86 goes, like which connectors go where, which one needs main power, which one needs power from which relay, etc.
What I`d love to get a solid tip on first is IF I have to buy EDM OEM 16v Bigport ECU engine bay harness, and where I can find it. Because it`s one of the things that my car..
21956
Doesnt have!!
It`s been housing a typical carburetted TRD 1600cc A rally 190-195hp spec 16v 4A-GE engine since 1988 (The block was blown years before I bought it, the A spec head was then slapped on a AE86 block some years before I bought the car, and the head has NEVER been overhauled) so the ECU engine bay harness is loooong gone..