5vz Rebuild!

[@Nessal83]

Man, I don't even feel like a 5VZ is worth spending all that time and money rebuilding. You can get a low mileage JDM 5VZ for like 1.5k and run it for another 300k. Swap the motor in 4-5 hours taking your sweet time. Only worth it if you enjoy doing rebuilding engines.

[@shagsshop112]

We had thought, but we wanted to gain the experience and break down the engine to learn more about it for hands on!

[@El_Scorcho_]

Where are these $1.5k jdm engines you speak of? 🤔

[@Nessal83]

@@El_Scorcho_ for some reason youtube deleted my response. Last attempt. That was the price that we used to pay for them. Looks like ebay has USDM ones for 1.5-1.7 which is better since its a direct swap. You can pull your own from a junkyard for 700 bucks.

[@EivinSukoi]

I heard JDM engines gave a bad reputation, some are garbage , it seems they are just pulling engines out of high mileage vehicles without testing them .

[@ItsGeezee]

​@EivinSukoi Japan swap new motor every 60k miles

[@flinch622]

Bucket shims... what kind of numbers did you see before the rebuild [and how many miles were on it]?

[@shagsshop112]

Well it had a blown head gasket so we are not sure what the numbers were. It had about 250,000 miles.

[@Nessal83]

You have to measure them yourself since everyone's is different. However, I just did mine at 230k and they were all still within OE specs. Only two of the exhaust side was on the lower end of 0.010" which I could technically I didn't need to adjust and check after another 100k. This is the general consensus I've seen of other 5VZ but I have also seen reports of people with almost no clearance on some of the valves. You need to do the work and check. It will give you peace of mind.