Topic: brown bomber goes choco taco? need help!!!

[wakkjobb]

Good Lord I want to do this swap too! How hard was it to find an engine?

[85yotabox [OP]]

does the new name fit?  is the motor enough to become the chocoTACO? need imput.
anyways.....
woo! the oil pan came in today and the dipstick and tube should be here tomaro!  all thats left is all the fluids, bleed the clutch and brakes, bolt on the down pipe and o2 sensors. and i need to find some gauges but i can atleast start it before that.      
i hope i can   tonite, im so excited its sooo close!!!!  

Good Lord I want to do this swap too! How hard was it to find an engine?

i looked for about a month before i found mine, i called all the junkyards i knew of about twice a week.  but it also depends on where you are.

[85yotabox [OP]]

opps, forgot the pics.
nothing to mind blowing but still an update

[88_Pathy]

Try the 10k resistor on the tach and see if it works..

[chunkybutfunky934]

This is coming around very nicely!!

[85yotabox [OP]]

i finally fired it up yesterday!!!!
it started after about 5-6 turns and ran fine then i shut it off pretty quik because it was just an open header and i dont have gauges yet.  so i got the egxaust mocked up and im getting a gauge cluster tomaro so i can go to my friends house to use the bender to run it all the way back and then it will be driveable!
its so gratifying to hear it run! and to be able to say i did it all 100% myself with only a few diagrams and advice from other people. and all in my driveway at that!

[THK Matt]

i finally fired it up yesterday!!!!
it started after about 5-6 turns and ran fine then i shut it off pretty quik because it was just an open header and i dont have gauges yet.  so i got the egxaust mocked up and im getting a gauge cluster tomaro so i can go to my friends house to use the bender to run it all the way back and then it will be driveable!
its so gratifying to hear it run! and to be able to say i did it all 100% myself with only a few diagrams and advice from other people. and all in my driveway at that!

hell ya man!

[85yotabox [OP]]

it runs and drives!!!  i drove it around the block today and it was awsome!!!  it wasnt running quite right because i only have the 02 before the cats and nothing after.  my question is, i only have one cat which is the one right off the mini-header and i still need the second one so do i need a special one or will any normal cat work?  its out of an 01 tacoma, pre-runner,auto tranny and the stock egxaust goes
o2 sensor-->cat-->cat-->o2 sensor.  any body know whats leagal for the second cat in CA?
thanks,
anthony
p.s. still need imput on the new name??

[crawlnbeaver]

sick man good job