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**Article: The Journey of Modifying a Toyota Chaser with a VVTI 2J Engine Swap**
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### Introduction to the Project
Welcome back to today's video, where we introduce an exciting new project returning to our channel. We are working on getting a stock VVTI 2J engine into this car. When selecting between two engines, we chose the one with a bit less crust—referred to as "Johann Dr. X JDM Orlando Jay-Z Expert." The engine has just enough crust without being too excessive, and there's a logical reason behind this preference.
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### Engine Selection and Inspection
The engine in question is compared to an SR (Honda S2060), which is renowned for its performance capabilities. However, the 2J differs by having two extra cylinders, which provides it with slightly more power—not because it's inherently better, but due to the additional cylinders. This comparison highlights the unique characteristics of both engines.
Upon inspecting the engine, we noticed that the bottom of the pistons looks flawless, resembling well-seasoned bronze pieces. To ensure everything is in good condition, we decided to pull off the number six bearing cap. This cylinder is the last one to receive oil, making it more prone to wear. By removing this cap, we can check for any inconsistencies or variances in wear across the engine.
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### Oil Cooler and Line Modifications
The decision was made to delete the factory oil cooler due to its inefficiency. The original design routes water through it to slightly cool the oil, which is deemed unnecessary and counterproductive. Instead, we plan to cap off the line and weld it shut for simplicity. Additionally, we will reroute the steel line to the heater on the firewall, ensuring a cleaner and more factory-esque appearance.
If oil cooling issues arise in the future, an aftermarket cooler can be installed using an adapter. This approach maintains flexibility while keeping the engine bay clean. Given that ethanol fuel helps keep cylinder temperatures low, an oil cooler is even less critical for this build.
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### Engine Bay Modifications and Future Plans
The engine bay will undergo significant transformations. We aim to remove unnecessary components, such as the factory insulation and black shield on the firewall, to make way for fresh pearl white paint. This process involves careful preparation to ensure a smooth finish.
Engine brackets are another critical consideration, especially for those planning 2J swaps in imported vehicles. The engine's footprint is nearly identical to that of its predecessor (1J), making it a relatively seamless fit in the engine bay. Unlike swapping into a vehicle like a Nissan 240SX, which often feels cramped, the Chaser's engine bay design accommodates the 2J effortlessly.
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### Workflow and Team Collaboration
Our workflow has improved significantly over time, with efficient disassembling and reassembling processes. This project is a team effort, involving meticulous planning and coordination. We even have plans to powder coat some components and zinc-coat hardware for durability, though we won't go overboard since the goal is to keep things clean without excessive modifications.
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### The Road Ahead
As we near completion of this phase, future plans include testing at the Freedom Factory for clutch kickers events. This move aims to bring more exposure to drifting while accommodating a wider range of vehicles and skill levels. The series has grown rapidly, with cars becoming increasingly powerful, which poses challenges for lower horsepower vehicles.
We are also looking forward to updating our E36 BMW for next season, balancing the excitement of drifting with the satisfaction of consistent performance.
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### Conclusion
This project is a labor of love, with many components still pending. Our focus remains on achieving a clean and show-worthy engine bay while maintaining functionality. Stay tuned for more updates as we progress towards completing this build!
Thank you for joining us today. We hope you enjoyed the video and look forward to sharing more exciting content soon.
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*Note: This article mirrors the detailed, unsummarized nature of the provided transcription, ensuring that each segment is fully explored for clarity and readability.*
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys welcome to today's video if you saw the last one we introduced this thing back to the channel and it is getting a stock vvti 2j we had two engines to choose from we chose the one that was a little less crusty johann dr x jdm orlando jay-z expert is going to give you a scientific breakdown on why this engine looks good so just by looking at it it has just enough amount of crust but not too much so like this thing like can you elaborate like i know you see a lot of different engines that come in so like i there is a little bit of logic to this yeah like for some reason the crest cjc's just don't die maybe now we might be drenching ourselves and like screwing ourselves right now but i don't know it's just magic that jittery and magic that's why a lot of times people say to leave the magic in the less you mess with the better we are going to pull number six bearing off just to look at it to make sure it looks good so we don't shoot ourselves in the foot if we could have chucked us fresh out of bearings in it but that will be in a second we'll take a look and see what we have inside yeah it's weird looking at this thing it's like it's kind of similar to sr just with like two extra cylinders you know yeah i mean it's more more like a i don't know that's what you would have to force it in for a g or whatever it was a joke sr is the only thing i can compare things to so everything's like yeah that goku motor is kind of like an sr just missing missing some horsepower you can't even compare an sr to anything or like i know they're that good right yeah i mean it's weird there's two more of these things than the sr oh yeah yeah maybe that's why they don't work maybe that's why the jg's gain a little extra power not because it's a better engine just because there's two more of those things yeah whatever those are that must be the trick it's gonna be hard for you guys to see but the bottom of the pistons look flawless it's a nice golden well-seasoned bronze looking pieces it's great so what's the reason for taking off the number six cap be quite honest like it's the last one on this on the cylinders but the oil pickup supply starts over here and it runs down the engine so this would be the last one technically speaking to be supplied with oil so i would think that this will be the worst one to be wearing um so you can i will say where you could take out the front ones and the back ones and then you see oh yeah like a variance at variance right yeah it makes sense well that was the main reason obvious all right what's the consensus on that looks normal like normal winds here um some of the coatings starting to wear off see a little thing there which i'll use my nail and see if like i feel it i don't see nothing mark on the crank which is good i mean worst case we could slap bearings on it but i mean we we can we're here so it wouldn't be a bad idea so this being a street car that isn't going to see crazy high rpm it's not like an rb where the oil temps go through the roof i am making the decision to just delete the factory oil cooler to simplify all this this is uh kind of like i don't know if any srs have this but i think arby's have it as well where water runs through it to basically like it heats up your water and barely cools down the oil so i think it's kind of stupid so you can run into a external like oil cooler i don't even think i'm going to do that so what is the plan of attack for the line situation so the line this will get deleted so we'll cap it off on the other side and get welded shut um that's one way to do it i don't know if there's a kit online you could get to just put a nice line over here but just to make things simple and quick we're just going to cap it here weld the shot still run this nice steel line this will go to the heater which we will still have heat right and then this will go to the other side of the heater uh which is on the firewall so this side will stay pretty much looking the same mainly it's all going to be on the intake side all this is going to disappear they sell a stud that comes out of the block so you can run the filter straight to the block and you won't have an oil cooler if we for some reason have oil cooling issues or like the oil stems are too high it's reversible so we could run a oil sandwich adapter and then run a cooler aftermarket cooler and it will still keep it clean cleaner than this i guess it's worth noting too with ethanol it's way less necessary to have an oil cooler just because it keeps the actual cylinder thames down so much that's why a lot of people find it interesting when we mention on pretty much all the race motors we don't run oil squirters on the box we actually run ge blocks because with ethanol the oil squirters aren't as necessary as when you're running pump gas yeah so that will clean everything over here on this they will get plugged with a regular plug over here this line like i said would disappear um and then also another thing i want to point out since a lot of people are going to be importing these cars or are importing these cars they want to do 2j swaps another thing to factor in is the engine brackets so once we remove the oil cooler i will i have access to the engine bracket which is different in my belief to a gs 300 which is the engine this came out of at risto in japan we have some here from the lga cs100 i believe the yellow one or this car those guests lap on here and then it will be a drop in engine one of the things i love about this is like 1j obviously came factory in the chaser 2j is almost the same footprint i think they're a little bit taller are they the cj's taller yeah but still it won't really feel like an engine swap car like when you put a 2j in a 240 because the whole engine bay design is around that footprint of an engine so like in terms of room for fans and radiator like everything can kind of be factory-esque in the sense of uh it's like putting an rb in any skyline right it looks clean you want to go into this i want the nah we'll make him wait for that we need to the audience retention we need to keep high so yeah okay exactly yep on their toes on their toes cool totals yeah all right i'm gonna go find some studs so all right we're going to tear into this bay so we'll do a dismantling i think we didn't tell you guys yet but we did make the decision we have a pretty cool abs delete kit i usually keep abs on this car i'm not super concerned with it i'm so used to driving so many cars without abs and i'll just clean all this up a lot i'm going to remove that black shield the insulation on the firewall pull some of this stuff out and start to prep it to lay down some fresh pearl white on this baby no birthday in five minutes i've never seen that face this isn't funny he just like lays there and takes it you're supposed to run away yeah and then we're going to have another failure what like that time you put paper stuff in my engine okay so yeah put that on all right where's garza does anyone know we're trying to order we're trying to get the list of things for this car order i wanted an intercooler that was 666 horsepower but then he got somehow entertained by this thing or you i was pointing at you i was going to do it too load me up i was really going to do it alright yeah we're making build less yohan go on sorry yeah we're just trying to make a builder so we can get this done in real well then he got a sidetrack by a toy it's a pretty good toy yeah i don't know if i ever talked about this and now what yo you know what i did to this i don't think i ever showed in a video i put a rc car lithium battery in it yeah but this is another one no this is the lithium one yeah you're sure oh i'm positive yeah that's still weak i don't think it sounds different bro dude this one gets down yours has tape you taped the batteries no i did two the other one's messed up listen to it hum it gets down let the disassembly begin satellites could use a little love oh my throttle cable forgot that that goes in the bumper from the factory the front of the core support is uh painted like a black line we're gonna paint that white report paint remover oh well so far yeah garcia drives i want you guys to take extra special attention to observing this area of the engine bay because all this is going to be out of there check it out we're all locked and loaded me and booth are heading over to the freedom factory tomorrow they're doing a little like clutch kickers testing day mess around with some different layouts if you guys haven't heard the news clutch kickers is going to be held at the freedom factory all season next year and one of my members only live streams i talked about a little bit in detail but i'm stoked i think it's going to be great for the series of clutch kickers just because i think it'll bring more exposure more fans from a driver's perspective hopefully it opens up some new layouts and opportunities i'm not the biggest fan of the bank but i think they're going to do their best to make sure the layout can accommodate all different levels of cars and can still be fun now mind you as the series grew uh it definitely got to the point where cars just kept getting crazier and crazier i know a lot of the drivers are building crazier cars so inevitably lower horsepower cars are gonna be at a disadvantage but i do think they're gonna do their best and i'm excited especially not having to make that seven hour drive out to the old track as much as i loved it and as much fun as it was uh we would lose friday and monday driving out there where now hopefully it can be a two-day fare going to the clutch carriers rounds but i am planning on piloting the e36 next year doing that as well as driving for rtr and formula drift both are super fun both are different types of driving different types of enjoyment and i'm excited so this will uh hopefully be one of the last sessions with e36 before we just tear it all apart redo the wiring redo a bunch of stuff maybe get a little bit of a different look for next year but probably still retain the blue i'm a big fan of it so it's been a fun day finally tearing into the chaser i kind of got a late start i wound up giving one of my friends a tour of the compound and as you guys can imagine it takes a while but hanging in there almost got it tore down and i think randy's gonna stop by soon to grab a little gas cap so we can go get the color matched for the paint i'm so stoked that we're deleting brakes on this brakes yeah no nobody needs brakes where we want it yeah that's what we're doing on bmx bikes or it's kind of natural to just continue that progression so it's just like let the weight of the car slow you down yep we call it brake less you just skid your feet on the ground like a flintstones car that works bye bye i'll miss you i can take this ugly black mat off love that hey now you can do the fun part no all you do fun part oh my god damn look at that crust damn it's a whole different bank i know it's like you thought you knew your bae you didn't it's like you thought you knew your bae but then you took the cover off and you're like whoa i didn't know what i was getting myself into you feel me it's your one-handed dog is that the full pump yeah this is a food pump we don't need fuel from where we're going it's mechanical now i'm stoked for that 1000 horsepower bust how dare you we could have sell that on yahoo auction usa look at that it doesn't even look like a car it's so weird it's like it never opens up a lot of space that you didn't have or con it for i've never seen a car without an engine before any minute now randy stopping by to come grab the gas cap from this car to make sure that we get the paint right the pearl on this car is really hard you can see we actually used the wrong tint of pearl when we did the mirrors uh toyota has one code but there's like a bunch of different variations from it one is like blue grey pearl which is like what your super is mike yeah and then one is more like a golden pearl which is what a lot of the chasers are like so i want to make sure we get it right um i know things kind of escalated but since we're going to be waiting a couple things for the engine this is really supposed to be like you know slap a 2j in but i think i won't regret since this is kind of more of a show car taking a little bit more time in doing the bay nice like the green s15 um it's cool i feel like we've gotten a good workflow of like taking things apart and putting it back together nor near mr tommy f yeah that dude's an assembly line assassin but i'm excited uh we're going to powder coat a couple things we're going to zinc coat some hardware but we're not going to go as crazy as other stuff because in the end of the day this is supposed to just be like the replacement for the celsiur trying to level up 2022 bigger things change v8s into six cylinders with turbos and manual it's funny because the celsius like practically this chassis just with a v8 in it that's what i'm saying but like gas mileage clout but uh anyway i know this was a slower one i can assure you guys the next couple days are gonna be jam-packed with stuff between the freedom factory picking up a new car from port and maybe tuning the new car whether we get more and a lot of other really cool fun stuff that's going on and many videos and it's exciting and i hope you guys enjoy this video and i will see you soon this isn't funny just like lazywhat's up guys welcome to today's video if you saw the last one we introduced this thing back to the channel and it is getting a stock vvti 2j we had two engines to choose from we chose the one that was a little less crusty johann dr x jdm orlando jay-z expert is going to give you a scientific breakdown on why this engine looks good so just by looking at it it has just enough amount of crust but not too much so like this thing like can you elaborate like i know you see a lot of different engines that come in so like i there is a little bit of logic to this yeah like for some reason the crest cjc's just don't die maybe now we might be drenching ourselves and like screwing ourselves right now but i don't know it's just magic that jittery and magic that's why a lot of times people say to leave the magic in the less you mess with the better we are going to pull number six bearing off just to look at it to make sure it looks good so we don't shoot ourselves in the foot if we could have chucked us fresh out of bearings in it but that will be in a second we'll take a look and see what we have inside yeah it's weird looking at this thing it's like it's kind of similar to sr just with like two extra cylinders you know yeah i mean it's more more like a i don't know that's what you would have to force it in for a g or whatever it was a joke sr is the only thing i can compare things to so everything's like yeah that goku motor is kind of like an sr just missing missing some horsepower you can't even compare an sr to anything or like i know they're that good right yeah i mean it's weird there's two more of these things than the sr oh yeah yeah maybe that's why they don't work maybe that's why the jg's gain a little extra power not because it's a better engine just because there's two more of those things yeah whatever those are that must be the trick it's gonna be hard for you guys to see but the bottom of the pistons look flawless it's a nice golden well-seasoned bronze looking pieces it's great so what's the reason for taking off the number six cap be quite honest like it's the last one on this on the cylinders but the oil pickup supply starts over here and it runs down the engine so this would be the last one technically speaking to be supplied with oil so i would think that this will be the worst one to be wearing um so you can i will say where you could take out the front ones and the back ones and then you see oh yeah like a variance at variance right yeah it makes sense well that was the main reason obvious all right what's the consensus on that looks normal like normal winds here um some of the coatings starting to wear off see a little thing there which i'll use my nail and see if like i feel it i don't see nothing mark on the crank which is good i mean worst case we could slap bearings on it but i mean we we can we're here so it wouldn't be a bad idea so this being a street car that isn't going to see crazy high rpm it's not like an rb where the oil temps go through the roof i am making the decision to just delete the factory oil cooler to simplify all this this is uh kind of like i don't know if any srs have this but i think arby's have it as well where water runs through it to basically like it heats up your water and barely cools down the oil so i think it's kind of stupid so you can run into a external like oil cooler i don't even think i'm going to do that so what is the plan of attack for the line situation so the line this will get deleted so we'll cap it off on the other side and get welded shut um that's one way to do it i don't know if there's a kit online you could get to just put a nice line over here but just to make things simple and quick we're just going to cap it here weld the shot still run this nice steel line this will go to the heater which we will still have heat right and then this will go to the other side of the heater uh which is on the firewall so this side will stay pretty much looking the same mainly it's all going to be on the intake side all this is going to disappear they sell a stud that comes out of the block so you can run the filter straight to the block and you won't have an oil cooler if we for some reason have oil cooling issues or like the oil stems are too high it's reversible so we could run a oil sandwich adapter and then run a cooler aftermarket cooler and it will still keep it clean cleaner than this i guess it's worth noting too with ethanol it's way less necessary to have an oil cooler just because it keeps the actual cylinder thames down so much that's why a lot of people find it interesting when we mention on pretty much all the race motors we don't run oil squirters on the box we actually run ge blocks because with ethanol the oil squirters aren't as necessary as when you're running pump gas yeah so that will clean everything over here on this they will get plugged with a regular plug over here this line like i said would disappear um and then also another thing i want to point out since a lot of people are going to be importing these cars or are importing these cars they want to do 2j swaps another thing to factor in is the engine brackets so once we remove the oil cooler i will i have access to the engine bracket which is different in my belief to a gs 300 which is the engine this came out of at risto in japan we have some here from the lga cs100 i believe the yellow one or this car those guests lap on here and then it will be a drop in engine one of the things i love about this is like 1j obviously came factory in the chaser 2j is almost the same footprint i think they're a little bit taller are they the cj's taller yeah but still it won't really feel like an engine swap car like when you put a 2j in a 240 because the whole engine bay design is around that footprint of an engine so like in terms of room for fans and radiator like everything can kind of be factory-esque in the sense of uh it's like putting an rb in any skyline right it looks clean you want to go into this i want the nah we'll make him wait for that we need to the audience retention we need to keep high so yeah okay exactly yep on their toes on their toes cool totals yeah all right i'm gonna go find some studs so all right we're going to tear into this bay so we'll do a dismantling i think we didn't tell you guys yet but we did make the decision we have a pretty cool abs delete kit i usually keep abs on this car i'm not super concerned with it i'm so used to driving so many cars without abs and i'll just clean all this up a lot i'm going to remove that black shield the insulation on the firewall pull some of this stuff out and start to prep it to lay down some fresh pearl white on this baby no birthday in five minutes i've never seen that face this isn't funny he just like lays there and takes it you're supposed to run away yeah and then we're going to have another failure what like that time you put paper stuff in my engine okay so yeah put that on all right where's garza does anyone know we're trying to order we're trying to get the list of things for this car order i wanted an intercooler that was 666 horsepower but then he got somehow entertained by this thing or you i was pointing at you i was going to do it too load me up i was really going to do it alright yeah we're making build less yohan go on sorry yeah we're just trying to make a builder so we can get this done in real well then he got a sidetrack by a toy it's a pretty good toy yeah i don't know if i ever talked about this and now what yo you know what i did to this i don't think i ever showed in a video i put a rc car lithium battery in it yeah but this is another one no this is the lithium one yeah you're sure oh i'm positive yeah that's still weak i don't think it sounds different bro dude this one gets down yours has tape you taped the batteries no i did two the other one's messed up listen to it hum it gets down let the disassembly begin satellites could use a little love oh my throttle cable forgot that that goes in the bumper from the factory the front of the core support is uh painted like a black line we're gonna paint that white report paint remover oh well so far yeah garcia drives i want you guys to take extra special attention to observing this area of the engine bay because all this is going to be out of there check it out we're all locked and loaded me and booth are heading over to the freedom factory tomorrow they're doing a little like clutch kickers testing day mess around with some different layouts if you guys haven't heard the news clutch kickers is going to be held at the freedom factory all season next year and one of my members only live streams i talked about a little bit in detail but i'm stoked i think it's going to be great for the series of clutch kickers just because i think it'll bring more exposure more fans from a driver's perspective hopefully it opens up some new layouts and opportunities i'm not the biggest fan of the bank but i think they're going to do their best to make sure the layout can accommodate all different levels of cars and can still be fun now mind you as the series grew uh it definitely got to the point where cars just kept getting crazier and crazier i know a lot of the drivers are building crazier cars so inevitably lower horsepower cars are gonna be at a disadvantage but i do think they're gonna do their best and i'm excited especially not having to make that seven hour drive out to the old track as much as i loved it and as much fun as it was uh we would lose friday and monday driving out there where now hopefully it can be a two-day fare going to the clutch carriers rounds but i am planning on piloting the e36 next year doing that as well as driving for rtr and formula drift both are super fun both are different types of driving different types of enjoyment and i'm excited so this will uh hopefully be one of the last sessions with e36 before we just tear it all apart redo the wiring redo a bunch of stuff maybe get a little bit of a different look for next year but probably still retain the blue i'm a big fan of it so it's been a fun day finally tearing into the chaser i kind of got a late start i wound up giving one of my friends a tour of the compound and as you guys can imagine it takes a while but hanging in there almost got it tore down and i think randy's gonna stop by soon to grab a little gas cap so we can go get the color matched for the paint i'm so stoked that we're deleting brakes on this brakes yeah no nobody needs brakes where we want it yeah that's what we're doing on bmx bikes or it's kind of natural to just continue that progression so it's just like let the weight of the car slow you down yep we call it brake less you just skid your feet on the ground like a flintstones car that works bye bye i'll miss you i can take this ugly black mat off love that hey now you can do the fun part no all you do fun part oh my god damn look at that crust damn it's a whole different bank i know it's like you thought you knew your bae you didn't it's like you thought you knew your bae but then you took the cover off and you're like whoa i didn't know what i was getting myself into you feel me it's your one-handed dog is that the full pump yeah this is a food pump we don't need fuel from where we're going it's mechanical now i'm stoked for that 1000 horsepower bust how dare you we could have sell that on yahoo auction usa look at that it doesn't even look like a car it's so weird it's like it never opens up a lot of space that you didn't have or con it for i've never seen a car without an engine before any minute now randy stopping by to come grab the gas cap from this car to make sure that we get the paint right the pearl on this car is really hard you can see we actually used the wrong tint of pearl when we did the mirrors uh toyota has one code but there's like a bunch of different variations from it one is like blue grey pearl which is like what your super is mike yeah and then one is more like a golden pearl which is what a lot of the chasers are like so i want to make sure we get it right um i know things kind of escalated but since we're going to be waiting a couple things for the engine this is really supposed to be like you know slap a 2j in but i think i won't regret since this is kind of more of a show car taking a little bit more time in doing the bay nice like the green s15 um it's cool i feel like we've gotten a good workflow of like taking things apart and putting it back together nor near mr tommy f yeah that dude's an assembly line assassin but i'm excited uh we're going to powder coat a couple things we're going to zinc coat some hardware but we're not going to go as crazy as other stuff because in the end of the day this is supposed to just be like the replacement for the celsiur trying to level up 2022 bigger things change v8s into six cylinders with turbos and manual it's funny because the celsius like practically this chassis just with a v8 in it that's what i'm saying but like gas mileage clout but uh anyway i know this was a slower one i can assure you guys the next couple days are gonna be jam-packed with stuff between the freedom factory picking up a new car from port and maybe tuning the new car whether we get more and a lot of other really cool fun stuff that's going on and many videos and it's exciting and i hope you guys enjoy this video and i will see you soon this isn't funny just like lazy\n"