Hello Mud,
I bet that title got your attention, I have been working on this swap for about 6 months at this point. To keep it brief, the goal was to design a system to allow the installation of the Cummins R2.8 crate engine into an FZJ80 Chassis that required absolutely no cutting or welding on the chassis.
This will be where I hope to also receive some assistance from veteran FZJ80 owners because I do have a few small problems that need to be sorted out, but we will get to that later.
I started with a locked 1993 USDM FZJ80, so no need to say it came with the 1fz-fe and auto trans. This project has been an huge challenge to say the least, almost every part for this conversion has needed to be designed from scratch.
The power players in the R2.8 swap community did not seem all that interested in helping me, so I had to be resourceful and think outside the box.
Here are the ingredients I will be using.
Here is the crate motor from cummins
Here is the new H151 transmission
At this point you may think that I have backed myself into a corner because as far as I know there does not exist any mounts or adapters to mate these components together. Even worse than that there does not seem to exist any useful drawings or CAD files on the web that would allow you to design what you need.
I began to research companies with CMM machines, as you would expect that were not too intrested in helping me after I said that I dont represent a multi-million dollar corporation, so I struck out on that one. Even then CMM's would only give me information on several dozen points in space, and what I really wanted was a CAD file that would allow me to design something that looked professional, not just a aluminum ring with holes in it.
I got lucky and made a contact at a company that has a blue light scanner, he agreed to scan my parts for me. So the H151, R2.8, and 1FZ needed to be cleaned, transported and scanned.
I built some dunnage to allow for safe transport and loaded everything up
The end result was well worth the trouble, even working on a budget and not opting to scan the entire engine in detail, I was able to deduce an incredible amount of information, way more than Cummins is willing to provide in their so called installation manual.
Armed with information about the 1FZ, R2.8, and H151 transmission I began to design motor and transmission mounts, as well as adapter system that allows the use of OEM 1fz manual transmission parts, obviously trying to keep it as much Toyota as possible.
To be continued...
I bet that title got your attention, I have been working on this swap for about 6 months at this point. To keep it brief, the goal was to design a system to allow the installation of the Cummins R2.8 crate engine into an FZJ80 Chassis that required absolutely no cutting or welding on the chassis.
This will be where I hope to also receive some assistance from veteran FZJ80 owners because I do have a few small problems that need to be sorted out, but we will get to that later.
I started with a locked 1993 USDM FZJ80, so no need to say it came with the 1fz-fe and auto trans. This project has been an huge challenge to say the least, almost every part for this conversion has needed to be designed from scratch.
The power players in the R2.8 swap community did not seem all that interested in helping me, so I had to be resourceful and think outside the box.
Here are the ingredients I will be using.
Here is the crate motor from cummins
Here is the new H151 transmission
At this point you may think that I have backed myself into a corner because as far as I know there does not exist any mounts or adapters to mate these components together. Even worse than that there does not seem to exist any useful drawings or CAD files on the web that would allow you to design what you need.
I began to research companies with CMM machines, as you would expect that were not too intrested in helping me after I said that I dont represent a multi-million dollar corporation, so I struck out on that one. Even then CMM's would only give me information on several dozen points in space, and what I really wanted was a CAD file that would allow me to design something that looked professional, not just a aluminum ring with holes in it.
I got lucky and made a contact at a company that has a blue light scanner, he agreed to scan my parts for me. So the H151, R2.8, and 1FZ needed to be cleaned, transported and scanned.
I built some dunnage to allow for safe transport and loaded everything up
The end result was well worth the trouble, even working on a budget and not opting to scan the entire engine in detail, I was able to deduce an incredible amount of information, way more than Cummins is willing to provide in their so called installation manual.
Armed with information about the 1FZ, R2.8, and H151 transmission I began to design motor and transmission mounts, as well as adapter system that allows the use of OEM 1fz manual transmission parts, obviously trying to keep it as much Toyota as possible.
To be continued...
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