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How much progress have you made with getting the 7A block and the stock intake to fit? I have some worries about the silvertop-fe hybrid I'm going to do about hood clearance so I'm interested to see how your swap goes. Have you considered using an ITB kit or an aftermarket RWD intake for your setup?...

Here's is my full plan overview now updated to suite the silvertop head. I'll be making the trip to get the head next weekend after I replace the head gasket in my Tercel. ignition I'll be using 1ZZ-FE coils with the adapter plate from SQ-Engineering, and no distributor which means no cam trigger fo...

Just measured the rods from the 2nd gen 4A-FE, 20mm little end and 42mm big end, which means all good to go for silvertop pistons.

4agerods3webia3.jpg Here's some 4A-GE rods compared. The 2nd gen 4A-FE rods look very similar to late smallport & silvertop rods. I'm fairly certain the little end of the rods I have are 20mm, but I'll check tomorrow to be sure of it. If not I'll have to source rods that have the 40mm big end a...

Well, I guess I should go over the development in my plans that I mentioned above. A friend of mine is changing out the head on her AE86 from a silvertop to a blacktop and I was offered the complete head minus the exhaust header. The only catch to that is I need to drive 2.5 hours to Yarmouth NS to ...

I didn't even notice the grinding
I'm gonna assume when people say the 4A-FE crank isn't balanced or forged that they're referring 1st gen and 4A-F engines.
I'd have no worries about running this crank in a 4A-GE swap for these Tercels, sure looks like they're up to the task.

While your head is off maybe have a quick read of this form oldskewltoy if you need some inspiration! https://www.aeu86.org/forum/Thread-OST-066-I-get-all-wavy-4AC-content If I'm not mistaken, isn't that an HKS side draft manifold? That'd be really cool to see on a 3A-C head, but I imagine those ma...

Finally got around to taking the bottom end apart. Was waiting for a friend to finish up with my balancer puller. Had to grind down the head of the crank bolt as it was rounded off, and I'll be replacing the balancer. Good news, the bottom end internals like the top end are in very good condition, c...

Go a set of exhaust valves, some timing gear, and a few odds and ends on the way. Thanks for the pointers everyone.
I can make the car work how it is until the stuff comes in, just have to go a little easier on it.

I checked the tops of the pistons, 1 and 2 are fairly normal looking. Not a whole lot of carbon but certainly not steam cleaned as you said.
3 and 4 on the other hand are for sure way too clean given the age of the motor. not sure how common that is?

I'll check what the tops of pistons 1 and 2 look like today. I'm fairly certain my exhaust valves should be fine, but I'll keep them in mind if I notice anything worn out. My engine only just recently went over 300000 KM (~186400 miles) so hopefully all is well. What are the OEM specs for the valve ...

Are you talking about the tvsv? The little plastic deal with 4 or so vacuum ports on it? If so, i may have one for ya. Yes sir! it's the TVSV that broke. For some reason I was thinking T-VIS, must've had 4A-GE stuff on the mind. If I can't source one locally I'll get in touch, thank you! It still r...

I'm finally going to pull the trigger on replacing the head gasket on my Tercel. For the past few months I've been trying to track down the coolant leaks that have plagued my motor, and while I have sorted out a lot of it, and the leak is much better, there is still 2 culprits that I'm left with. Th...

Agreed on going for the correct part. I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled for something. If I wasn't going to use the ITB setup an e-throttle would be interesting to use. Right off the bat I could see the 1ZZ-FE e-throttle and pedal being useful for stuff like idle control. Not sure if they fit on...

Got a little update about the TPS and IACV issue with the ITB setup I'll be using. To reiterate, the SMR2U 4A-FE kit does not include the appropriate TPS and IACV. Good news on the TPS, it's the same part that came off the 4A-FE throttle body, so problem solved there. Bad news (sort of) on the IACV ...