The 2zr-fe engine swap guide

[tmontague]

thanks. I just was re reading the thread and noticed you updated it. Your ECU is not the original that came with your motor correct? You purhcased the ECU from an xD and the engine was from a Corolla?

[ArmstrongRacing]

Originally Posted by tmontague

You purhcased the ECU from an xD and the engine was from a Corolla?

Correct

[CrankyOldMan]

Originally Posted by tmontague

thanks. I just was re reading the thread and noticed you updated it. Your ECU is not the original that came with your motor correct? You purhcased the ECU from an xD and the engine was from a Corolla?

The trick for an MT swap is that you have to get the engine wire harness from a manual xD. Those are much harder to find, as they were a much smaller percentage of production. The body side of the ECU won't reach to the engine side of the Corolla/Matrix wire harness since it's next to the air intake/fuse box on the driver's side, whereas the Yaris and xD ECU lives on the passenger side. The alternative is to use the Yaris wire harness and splice the two together. That means taking them both all the way down to the wires, routing everything, and wrapping it back up with cable sleeves and tape.

Everything else from the swap posted here should apply. If you can score the midpipe from an xD, you won't have to have it fitted the way Armstrong did with his Corolla mid pipe.

If you can wait a few months, I'm planning to do this swap on my 09 M/T hatch. If not, you can get pioneer points for leading the charge. =)