2zR swap worth it?

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by Maritime

Cool. I wish I had access to a hoist. I have to do everything on stands.

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Yeah, I do a lot of my stuff on jackstands in my garage, sometimes for rustproofing too. I did my swap in the garage with the car jacked about 18" in the air. Getting the hoist at work is hit and miss. Just before I bring my '06 out in the spring, I'll be doing rustproofing touch ups in the garage with spray cans.

With regard to the turbo, Danny at JD Racing strongly recommends against the AEM FIC in favour of a standalone due to issues with FIC tuning. He says that fuel trims cannot be manipulated in any meaningful way and that the FIC and car's ECU will constantly fighting eachother. I was surprised by this as I've read about successful prepacked turbo kit installs from MWR and tubrokits.com.

[myfirstyota]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Yeah, I do a lot of my stuff on jackstands in my garage, sometimes for rustproofing too. I did my swap in the garage with the car jacked about 18" in the air. Getting the hoist at work is hit and miss. Just before I bring my '06 out in the spring, I'll be doing rustproofing touch ups in the garage with spray cans.

With regard to the turbo, Danny at JR Racing strongly recommends against the AEM FIC in favour of a standalone due to issues with FIC tuning. He says that fuel trims cannot be manipulated in any meaningful way and that the FIC and car's ECU will constantly fighting eachother. I was surprised by this as I've read about successful prepacked turbo kit installs from MWR and tubrokits.com.

Yea, not news I want to hear. I have plans to install one of them nifty tkc kits.

[CrankyOldMan]

Originally Posted by myfirstyota

Yea, not news I want to hear. I have plans to install one of them nifty tkc kits.

I looked into complete standalone stuff for my pipe dream twin charged 1NZ build and decided that the way to go was a MegaSquirt DIYPNP with the ECU connector from an Echo/MR2 so that I can use the original wire harness and connectors. They don't offer a kit for the Yaris/xD/Corolla ECU connector, so you'd have to fabricate something else. No idea if you'd pass emissions inspection with that since it's only rated for off-road use, but I would tend to think you wouldn't.

Holy crap, they're discontinuing a LOT of those connectors. I should probably get off my ass and buy one before they're gone!

[myfirstyota]

Originally Posted by CrankyOldMan

I looked into complete standalone stuff for my pipe dream twin charged 1NZ build and decided that the way to go was a MegaSquirt DIYPNP with the ECU connector from an Echo/MR2 so that I can use the original wire harness and connectors. They don't offer a kit for the Yaris/xD/Corolla ECU connector, so you'd have to fabricate something else. No idea if you'd pass emissions inspection with that since it's only rated for off-road use, but I would tend to think you wouldn't.

Holy crap, they're discontinuing a LOT of those connectors. I should probably get off my ass and buy one before they're gone!

I know megasquirt is a fav amongst the vw crowd. Emissions I'm not concerned about as the testing is extinct here in Ontario as of April. Score!