A 900 dollar engine..........

You expect to get service at that price???
That's a good number to start at for a rebuild.

I'll shoot you straight dude. I have a 91 na 7mge 5 spd.
This auto has shat on me sinse it arrived. I have had it one year as of april 12th.

I put 3.5k miles on it and she blew. This is the stock engine. I have learned what I know, from the last year of planning every bit of my build with carefull precision and it's hard enough to keep a schedule on a stock engine.

The JDM is this many x10. So the wise money buys you the engine you really want and then rebuilds it from the bottom up.

WHY?????

Because if you don't it's still going to weigh on your pocket book to keep it running. So throw the money and the parts at it right off and fix everything that could cause you problems and then....................................,

Install It. No $hit. Plain and Simple.

I don't know everything nor do I claim to know, opinionated is another story. But I'm NOT telling you wrong..., your mechanic pally IS.

He's trying to pawn you off on an engine he knows you are going to bring back to him time after time to RE-service and you will build a rapport and become nearly his best friend.

WHY??????

Because every body wants to make a buck and some of the guys involved lack integrity.

DO yourself a favor and do not go jdm.

I'll be doing signings in the front lobby right under the banner, you can't miss it.

My friend had a similar situation with a Celica awd turbo thing... altrac I think?

Anyway after it all was said and done, a 3-week $2000 JDM swap-out turned into a 2-month thing, in and out, costing a little more than twice as much as quoted..

Well my mechanic that im speaking of is a family friend. He quoted me $3000 to rebuild my current engine and $1000 of that is labor. Well then i said well maybe i will find a JDM engine and he said oh ya " i put one of those in a celica like two years ago it worked out great , gave me the # to the guy and i called him and he confirmed. He quoted me for the engine swap $500 for labor. HE is doing this all on the side not at a dealership or a shop. He is doing this at his place. He actually works for toyota and he asked around and did some reseach and found of course some horor stories but most were good. He actualy said that he would by this car from me and then i said well then what would you do rebuild or JDM. He said JDM. HE said that you could beat the snot out of them. Well thats my story. now most of you guys are saying not to by 7m. Is the 7m really that bad? Well thanks for helping me out and i hope this all turns out for the better.


ps. If any of you have any good/succesful stories about the JDM 7mgte i would love the hear it

If you do get the jdm, at least replace the headgasket while its out of the car and torque it down properly.

ya what should i torque it down to i have heard 70 and 75? Also will it help if i torque it down as soon as i get it while i save for the HG JOB. Is this safe? Also the company says that the inspect there engines as well they do a compresion test so in therory it shouldnt come with a BHG. Well wish me luck

I have one question for your buddy with the JDM swapped celica? Is it a 7M? I didn't think so.

Good stories with a 7M? You aren't going to find one. These motors come out of the factory with a blown head gasket JDM or not.

Compression test? Yeah, too bad my motor with a BHG had 180psi compression across the board. A compression test will tell you nothing about the HG in a 7M. A block test will.

Do like kwnate said and replace the head gasket as soon as you get it. Then you can just prey that it won't throw a rod. That's the reason most of us steer towards rebuilding what you have already. Because whats the sense in buying a motor just to rebuild it when you can just rebuild the one you already have?

OK....., so it's not just me then right???

This kid is stubborn I guess. I can't speak any sense to him. I mean kwnate has supramanias car of the year and he won't listen to him either.

SO all that can really be said is. Enjoy your new jdm. Followed by you had better be planning on becomming a mechanic. Because there are going to be times where the car will not let you take it to the shop. He'll be lucky to get it home to fix it.
I hate to be that way but he comes here where we all drive these cars and work on our own autos and he trusts a shady mechanic.

No one here can tell ME the mechanic is not playing this kid because if the mechanic doesn't know about 7m jdm's. He might be inclined to push one off.

So good luck with it dude. We can't help you if you don't want to be helped.

Well I am currently installing a jdm engine in my car right now
Turns out sumbody has been playing around with this thing from japan
It has a hks headers, bored out, pistons,rod crank, built from top to bottom

So this can either be luck or me being deep in debt
Like the other guy said flip a coin
Cuz I could have gotten lucky I got a built motor,
Or I got f'd in the a if the motor is junk
But I will keep you guys posted on how its gonna turn out

I am doing my 1JZ JDM swap I hooked up my gas line from my car and cranked it up runs awsome couldnt ask for a better sound. Dont get me wrong I still have to do the wiring under the dash and extend the harness but still not a bad deal. Well also doing all my suspension stuff at the same time might as well get it all over with all at once right. I carnked the motor in the clip by the way so as not to get ahead of myself.

1jz's are much more dependable than even a 7mge. SO I believe that.

Supra2nr: Man it sounds like you may have an engine there.
It's just a roll of the dice. I hope it works out well for ya dude.