Identifying Gen3 Motor Age - Incl JDM :)

I don't know I bought a JDM spec motor for the Gen 3 exactly like I had just with a buttload last miles My car has 240 on it or so so. I'll just run this engine until it fails and we'll see how long that takes with my maintenance and what have you I don't know what the people did before. But anyway I only paid like $1,024 plus shipping under $200 so I didn't think that was a bad deal I could have spent a whole lot more farting around Glad I didn't

 

I think you can buy a Toyota short block for around $1900.

 

Hell I didn't see any oil usage on my persona 13 until 230 and then very quickly the head gasket and then very quickly to rod break and now I'm back to what you're saying is 37,000 mi even if it's 60,000 I've got whatever 180 something a thousand miles to go. For a cost of about $1, 900 or something. So yeah to me that's a smoking deal by that time at my age this car should be long somewhere and I'll be in God knows what or dead so it's perfect. Time I buy a short block for $1,900 pay money to get that assembled to the other parts then I need to do something with the however high mileage head one has needs to be valves ground and all of that stuff and then I'm back to square one and 75,000 mi high oil usage not here. At least not yet

 

I have not been witnessed to the 75,000 mi z engine high oil usage I had a one NZ and a Corolla that went to $490,000 miles and then the oil consumption came. And that's the only other z engine I've owned. I've had a few one NZ's. And the host of engines y'all never heard of in older cars.

 

That should be pretty easy in Toyota . I'll have to go talk to my parts manager buddy Thomas way up in Raleigh North Carolina I know that it was doable in the original Toyota days up until about the '90s or the early 2000s you could look at a production number off an engine block and get it pretty close to manufacture date whether that's still holds true I don't know I know the VIN numbers have changed enough that makes a lot of it a disaster I used to be able to just describe my cars by the first four of the VIN like TE27 or what have you and everybody knew what it was. But today oh no you have to say RAV4 hybrid number four trim whatever.

 

I was going to say that's how you can tell because they don't have that funky intercooler and EGR valve hanging off the motor which will be there from the JDM importers if it came with the engine if it goes on the engine rather so I guess once you see that not there you can assume that's JDM or that's a Gen 4 right and doesn't that fall into the range of your problem being fixed or not it's got to be a Gen 4 and 2 years or something I don't know

 

I'm also waiting for these engine owners with this Gen 4 fixed rings and fixed pistons or whatever it is I'm waiting to see them post that they're at $250,000 plus miles and then we'll start talking like it's fixed I think maybe that's a little early yet I don't know.

 

Im also looking for later year engine; what is the product number for the EGR and intake manifold that we WANT to use--in order to determine that it is a later year engine.

I called my local JDM engine and they couldn't determine the year of which the engine was made. ie 2010 vs 2015 engine.

EDIT: I think i understand which product number we need; we need P/N
egr: 25620-37120
intake: 17120-37054

where on these devices are the product number's listed? is it on the side of the device?

 

Awesome! I just found a JDM engine that has those specific product numbers on the engine for 1.5k. Hopefully engine swap goes well; my old engine had 240k on it already.