- Great, you've done
what few have attempted, you've pulled your engine out of your car and now you're in the same
boat as my boy, Pumphrey. You got a big gaping
hole in your engine bay with nothing in it. Well, today we're gonna talk about putting something in that hole that hopefully has a
little more power, baby. - So obviously putting an engine in and getting it to work is a lot harder than just taking one out. So today, both Jobe and I are gonna be getting our knucks greasy. We're gonna talk about
engine swaps in general, we're gonna talk about why I chose this particular engine for this car. And then at the end,
hopefully we can prove that our research and due diligence is gonna pay off when it starts. (engine vrooms) - I'm Zach, that's
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get in our knuckles greasy, we got to talk about a few things. First off, why you're
even pulling an engine out of your car?
- I don't know anymore, I don't remember why we did this. - I honestly kind of am in the same boat, but there are a handful of reasons and we can kind of boil it down. Sometimes things break and you
need to take the engine out, so that you can fix it. And sometimes you just
wanna replace the engine with the same one, just a new fresh one, but sometimes, sometimes
you wanna replace the engine with a different engine, and there's a handful
of ways you can kind of go down that road. So there's kind of a spectrum to swaps and some of them are kind of easy, some of them are in the middle, and some are pretty hard. First, if you're gonna be
swapping an engine into a chassis that was designed by the
manufacturer to go there, well, it's not gonna be that hard. Then you can kind of get
into more difficult swaps where you're putting an engine into a car that was never designed to go there. Think like an LS swap in a Miata. Now there's a lot of
support for that stuff, so you can usually find the
parts to do what you wanna do, but it is gonna be a little
bit trickier and more custom. And then at the full difficult
end of the swap spectrum is full custom stuff that
nobody has done before. Think Ryan Tuerck and his 4586. (man laughs)
(car vrooms) (indistinct) - Yes. - So depending on where
you land on that spectrum will kind of dictate whether or not your swap is gonna be easy or hard. Now my man in the field, James Pumphrey, is gonna update us on
how our swaps gonna go. Pumphrey, over to you. - This is a fifth generation 4A-GE engine, so it's a newer version of the
engine that came in my car. These were made from like 1995 to 2000 and came in a bunch of Corollas in Japan and some other places around the world. It's referred to as a Black
Top because the valve cover comes from the factory painted black. So why did I want a newer
version of my old engine? Well, independent throttle
bodies add more power, sound very cool. Also this is a two liter, so compared to the 1.6 liter
that we took out of it, so a little bit more displacement,
a little bit more power. The tricky thing about putting
this motor into that car is that Corollas in 1995 to
2004 were front-wheel drive. So this motor was meant to fit in a car this way, this would be the front. We are putting it in a car this way, so this is the back. (laughs) Basically we're putting a
hamburger and a hotdog bun. (man laughs) You know what I'm saying? (laughs) And that caused a few issues. One of them being the distributor was on the back of the motor and would either hit the firewall and make timing the engine pretty hard. It's just like a space issue. So to combat that, we got a
coil on plug conversion kit, no more distributor. Awesome. For that same reason,
we got this really trick coolant relocation kit
to clear up some room on the back of the motor. Also it's very important to
just do basic maintenance on the engine before you put it in. So we threw a whole bunch of
fresh gaskets at this thing to make it fresh. No leaks, leaks is for geeks. So luckily a ton of people
have done this swap, so there's tons of
resources on the internet. We've done a ton (laughs) of research, we've talked to a lot of
really qualified guys, guys who've done this
swap a million times. So hopefully all of the
work that we put into it before today will pay off today. I hope. - All right, the time is now. I'm gonna put this thing in. Always up. - This reminds me of my
days on the railroad. - That's funny. - [James] Okay, you
come, come down a skosh. We're gonna have to
kind of slowly come down and push in kind of at once, so. (upbeat music) - Well, so we've got a couple
inches of tilt left here, so we're gonna try to max that out. Okay, yeah, we're just
gonna need to manhandle it. If you just push down, so
that clears, I'll drop. You ready? (upbeat music) - It's not cleared, but clearing. - [James] Okay, now I'm gonna bring the whole thing down to touch. - And push forward, you
gotta push that puppy. It's working. Look, how strong you are. - [James] I'm a strong boy, I'm a man. - Huh! Okay, so the progress is good. We've gotten the engine and transmission into the
general area they need to go. And that's really the trickiest part, you saw how much we had to tilt it and battle with that to
get it in, but it's in. Now the trick is actually just
lining up the engine mounts with their spot on the sub-frame. - So right down here, there
should be a rubber piece that goes between these, it's
like the OEM engine mount. I thought it was weird that it was just gonna be metal on metal. It turns out I was right, it is weird. We forgot to order a part that we need to literally bolt the engine in. So the cool thing about
working on cars is, you make friends doing it. We realized we need the rubber
part of the motor mount, and hit up my boy, Geo. And he was like, yeah, I have some. And I was like, can I have them? And he was like, boy, when? I was like, now if at all possible. Car friends are good friends. Thank you, Geo. - (mumbles) all the way down. Oh, beautiful.
- Beautiful. - That motor is in, dude. That motor is in for the
first time in months, we have a motor bolted in the roller. Really wishing I've
painted the engine bay. - But look at how much are the blacktops. (James laughs)
Now it's (indistinct) - Okay, so when you're putting
an engine back in the car, first thing you gotta do is
bolt up the engine mount, but the second thing you gotta do... - Is bolt up the trans mount. I'm gonna hop under the car. Right now we have a jack
under the transmission, I'm gonna put the trans mount back on and then we should be like... BattleHawks sitting pretty. - Sitting good, we got the motor in. The trans is bolted in, it's late so we're gonna take
a little break for the night, come back tomorrow, connect
exhaust, connect drive shaft, figure out the electrical
with the Panic harness. And hopefully fire this guy up. ♪ Pop-up up and down ♪ ♪ Stickers ♪ ♪ Pop-up up and down ♪ ♪ Stickers, stickers ♪ - Now available, it took
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cleaning some nuts and bolts. And I'm gonna go over what
we have left to do today. There is kind of a lot of stuff, but hopefully none of it will be too hard. We gotta get the radiator back in, we gotta fill this thing full of fluids, engine oil, trans oil, we gotta get coolant in it as well. We've gotta do the shifter,
exhaust, drive shaft, we gotta get the wiring harness installed and connected to all the things. So then once all that's
done, all we gotta do is connect to our ECU, our new Link ECU and fire this thing up. No problem, right? I am currently connecting the fuel line. We got a nice new braided line with an end fitting on one end. So getting this connected to the fuel, - I'm gonna hop under the car and put the drive shaft back on. Seem relatively right. (laughs) Welcome back to James's Lube Corner. Today we're lubing up my shaft. - [Zach] Corner, baby. - You know, is it immature? Yes. Is it funny? Yes. Sorry, I don't make the rules. It's how it works. With the precision of a surgeon. - I'm putting the heater
core hoses on right now, and it's pretty tight in there. Whatever, it just... - So, well, Joel is
goofing off in the front, not really doing anything, I'm gonna put the shifter back in. Like that sucks at working on cars. How's this go? How's this go? (upbeat music) - All right, most of the
big stuff is in place. So now it's time to
play with the spaghetti. This is our old stock harness, which we could try to reuse, though we're not gonna. - Instead we're going with
an aftermarket harness made by a company called Panic. It's made specifically to put this 20 valve motor into the 86. Every one of these is handmade, and should be plug and play
to get this thing started. We're also going with a
standalone ECU made by Link, and Panic has gone ahead and loaded up a base tune onto the Link, so we should be able to start it without fudging with the laptop too much. Clean up that bay, should have painted it. - [Zach] Should have painted it. - Should have painted it. - Well, let's jam that in here. (laughs) So I mean, there's a handful of things that at first glance I don't
really know where they go, but the nice thing about most
of these electrical connectors is that they're unique and you can't plug them
into the wrong place. So there's gonna be a
little bit of guessing, a little bit of check-in,
but it's no big deal. - Satisfying. - All right, so we're down
to the passenger footwell, where the stock ECU was. We've got our harness
fished through the firewall, and now I'm just gonna plug it into what it needs to be plugged into. We'll go straight into the Link ECU here, and then these plugs will
connect to our factory ones. Okay, plugged in there. So we've also got a built-in
map sensor on the ECU, so we're gonna have to
run a vacuum reference into the cabin straight into the ECU, and that will let it know
what's going on in the engine. (upbeat music) (Zach whistles) - Oh yeah. I'm not sure of the acoustic. Everything is pretty much wired up, we ran into some hurdles with
some unidentified connectors, but the dudes at Panic were awesome and helped us out toot sweet. So Jobe is finishing,
putting the header on, we've got to figure out exhaust, but I'm gonna start putting
fluids in this thing, all of them: oil, coolant, transmission fluid. (upbeat music) - [Zach] What? - This little guy, this guy
hasn't had anything to drink since he left Japan. - So we've got oil in the engine, we got most of the coolant
in the cooling system, and then we need to put some
gear oil in the transmission. (upbeat music) Okay, so Pumphrey got the battery in, which means the system has 12 volts for the first time in some time. So now it's time to
hack into the mainframe and get our ECU up and running. So I just plugged into the
ECU for the first time, and I brought up the Link software. Now I have to unlock the
ECU with the unlock code that Panic supplied us, and then we're off to the races, got to load a map, probably
do some calibration. I don't think there's too many steps between here and starting. - So while Zach is calibrating
the ECU, I'm gonna put on, basically the whole reason
that you get this engine, shiny trumpets for the ITBs. (laughs) Ah, yeah. I really wish I painted the bay. Just it would have taken five, six hours, just really wish I would've done it. Now there's an engine in there, I can't paint it now. (laughs) - I'd say this thing is ready to crank. - You never know what's gonna happen, but we know what has happened. Okay, we took the engine
out of this bird months ago. I spent all that time,
and even before that time researching, talking to
experts, making new friends. I started relationships because of this. We put the engine and
we wrestled the crane. - [Zach] It's working, push forward, you gotta push that strong. You are, you're a strong boy. Okay, keep pushing. - Oh!
- Okay. - Mm-hmm. - [Zach] We wired it up, we cleaned up gas. - [James] I really wish I painted the bay. - [Zach] We put on the
choke that's in now. - I really wish (mumbles) We're gonna try and start it. Collective fingers crossed. Come on, Money Pit nation.
- Everybody out there. - Come on, Money Pit nation.
- And you can do more in just one.
- We need this luck, baby. We need this luck, all right.
- Y'all got us. - Did we do a good job? - Now we're worried. Well... I think we're running, I think we just need to adjust timing. - Yeah.
- In a pretty, for real way, so let's get that figured out, and then this thing will run. You can see the proof. - All right, so I just went into the ECU and I attempted to adjust
our base timing at idle. So hopefully it will
be a little bit closer to where we need to be, and hopefully it'll run
a little bit better. (engine starts) Give it a little. Well, we gave it a little rev, then as it came back down, it shut off. I mean, not too sure beyond that, but I wanna make sure all
cylinders are making heat. Rear two are a lot hotter
than the front two. What does that mean? - There is a chance that it means we forgot to put gas in the car. - [Zach] The most precious fluid of all. All right, we got some gas in there. Let's see if she acts
like she wants to run now. - Let's see.
- Let's find out. (engine starts) (engine vrooms) We technically got this car started, and we're one step closer to driving this thing every weekend. - Shredding the streets, and I think this thing is
honestly gonna be a load of fun. The engine is sweet. It sounds pretty cool as is, but it'll sound great once it's shredding. So as we've been kind of
harping on throughout, Pumphrey did a lot of research
at the beginning of this and I did a little bit, which is important to making
a project go smoothly. And I think we had a lot of
I's dotted and T's crossed, but you can see that we
still ran into some issues, and that's kind of how it's gonna go. - I mean, this is a
relatively simple swap, but we did put a front-wheel drive engine in a rear-wheel drive car. That took a lot of little parts, little pieces to come together. The amount of research we did, the number of conversations
I had with people who have done this swap
before really helped out. And I can't wait to see
how fast we can do it the second time when I
pulled the engine out to paint the bay. (laughs) - Well, thank you guys
so much for watching. I hope you learned a thing or two watching us slam this
engine into Pumphrey's 86. So if you did, make
sure to like this video and subscribe to the channel. And you can follow me
on Instagram @Zach Jobe, follow Pumphrey @JamesPumphrey and Donut @DonutMedia. - And if you wanna see
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