The xd Swap thread

[myfirstyota]

Pics added. Sorry for the poor quality.
I got a new phone now so they'll get better.
I also realized I did a poor job of documenting my swap. My apologies. I lost most of my pics when my phone died.

[Leegamer]

Originally Posted by myfirstyota

Pics added. Sorry for the poor quality.
I got a new phone now so they'll get better.
I also realized I did a poor job of documenting my swap. My apologies. I lost most of my pics when my phone died.

It's hard to stop and document things when you're excited and/or frustrated in the middle of a job.

I'm usually more frustrated and stressed out than excited, lol.

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by myfirstyota

Pics added. Sorry for the poor quality.
I got a new phone now so they'll get better.
I also realized I did a poor job of documenting my swap. My apologies. I lost most of my pics when my phone died.

Pics are great! Enjoyed looking at them. If find that 1024 x 786 or 800 x 600 make it easier to see them and keeps from having to scroll to read the text. But, who's complaining.

[myfirstyota]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Pics are great! Enjoyed looking at them. If find that 1024 x 786 or 800 x 600 make it easier to see them and keeps from having to scroll to read the text. But, who's complaining.

I'm pretty new to all this pic hosting and resizing stuff. I'll be honest... it's a miracle I was even able to get pics up haha. Engine swap.. cake walk. Posting pics.. it's been 3 hours on 2 devices just for what you see posted lol

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by myfirstyota

I'm pretty new to all this pic hosting and resizing stuff. I'll be honest... it's a miracle I was even able to get pics up haha. Engine swap.. cake walk. Posting pics.. it's been 3 hours on 2 devices just for what you see posted lol

Hell, miniscule inconvenience for all the excellent info you're providing. Love the new pics. I love the really meaty winter tires on the blue Yaris! Also, your axle/cradle 'restorations' are awesome. I once thought about removing my struts, degreasing, sandblasting (my neighbour a couple houses away has a sandblaster), priming and painting. I settled for spraying atf on them every few weeks. They look nice and black.

[myfirstyota]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Hell, miniscule inconvenience for all the excellent info you're providing. Love the new pics. I love the really meaty winter tires on the blue Yaris! Also, your axle/cradle 'restorations' are awesome. I once thought about removing my struts, degreasing, sandblasting (my neighbour a couple houses away has a sandblaster), priming and painting. I settled for spraying atf on them every few weeks. They look nice and black.

Yea the rear axle came out well considering I found it literally sitting in gravel. That's why I went with new bearings.

Cleaning and painting everything has literally taken 10-15 times longer than the swap would have if I just pulled and reinstalled the engines. But this is a build... Not just a swap.

Blucar is hopefully getting a 3-4" lift kit this week. A custom bolt-in idea I've been working on with inspiration from crashy, ctscotts plow/dump...car. If I get that working well, then there's plans for 215/75/15 A/T tires on some horribly offset rims lol. Gonna need to figure out some fender flares for that set up. But that's another build thread! Lol

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by myfirstyota

Yea the rear axle came out well considering I found it literally sitting in gravel. That's why I went with new bearings.

Cleaning and painting everything has literally taken 10-15 longer than the swap would have if I just pulled and reinstalled the engines. But this is a build... Not just a swap.

Blucar is hopefully getting a 3-4" lift kit this week. A custom bolt-in idea I've been working on with inspiration from crashy, ctscotts plow/dump...car. If I get that working well, then there's plans for 215/75/15 A/T tires on some horribly offset rims lol. Gonna need to figure out some fender flares for that set up. But that's another build thread! Lol

Oooh...Yarisworld is getting more exciting all the time. Will be following the 'lift' thread, assuming you do one. You know, you'll be going against the tide, here. Everyone seems to want to get lower to the ground, not higher from the ground.

You may have seen it already, but I think some guy down south or in Australia (EDIT: from BC, Canada) lifted one and made it into a desert buggy. Really cool. I'll see if I can find the pic. May be one of the ones you mentioned already though.

Here:

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58448

and...

http://www.subcompactculture.com/201...ota-yaris.html

[myfirstyota]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

...You may have seen it already, but I think some guy down south or in Australia (EDIT: from BC, Canada) lifted one and made it into a desert buggy. Really cool. I'll see if I can find the pic. May be one of the ones you mentioned already though.

Here:

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58448

and...

http://www.subcompactculture.com/201...ota-yaris.html

Yep. Seen those. Totally got me wanting to make a road legal side by side but with heat hahah. Both my first Yaris and the blucar were lowered through winter. Not the most practical when 6" of snow is possible overnight. 26" in the Maritimes lol

[WeeYari]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Pics are great! Enjoyed looking at them. If find that 1024 x 786 or 800 x 600 make it easier to see them and keeps from having to scroll to read the text. But, who's complaining.

Use your phone ;) but then the tradeoff is looking at a complete, little pic. I feel your pain tho with the huge ones viewed on a computer.

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[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by WeeYari

Use your phone ;) but then the tradeoff is looking at a complete, little pic. I feel your pain tho with the huge ones viewed on a computer.

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Yeah, for sure. Sometimes I use my phone, but then it's too small. I just can't be pleased.