Mighty Mods Yaris engine swap

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by CrankyOldMan

About damned time! I was a bit disappointed in the overall tone of "there are rumors on the internet that it's possible" or "we don't know if it will work" when there are at least half a dozen confirmed builds on this forum alone, most of which are excruciatingly detailed and list what parts you need to make it happen...

Yeah, I saw it and couldn't agree with Cranky more. I didn't buy any of the fake coy acting about not knowing if it can be done. It's been done many times by our friends here

To your point, later in the video they made mention of "the internet" being right or wrong several times, so I'm sure they spent plenty of time here doing their homework.

Nonetheless, this is part of the "Yaris" attention I was referring to in the few posts about the site crashing and decaying.

Originally Posted by mitch9521

Wonder how much there would be different swapping one of these into a 12-14 Yaris..

All of the ones I've seen are done using 06-11 cars.

Seems the 06-11 cars are easiest because you won't run into some of the immobilizer issues they did.

[mitch9521]

Originally Posted by ern-diz

Seems the 06-11 cars are easiest because you won't run into some of the immobilizer issues they did.

I wonder if you can get around that issue like MCM did by sticking the Corolla key near or attached to the transponder in the steering column. It'd be crude but it would get you running.

[stidnam]

Originally Posted by mitch9521

I wonder if you can get around that issue like MCM did by sticking the Corolla key near or attached to the transponder in the steering column. It'd be crude but it would get you running.

Or you could try the official Toyota procedure to register a new ECU with the immobiliser computer. Goes something like this.

1. Bridge pins 4 and 13 of the OBDII connector
2. Insert an existing key into the ignition and switch the ignition on and then leave for 30 min
3. Turn the ignition off and remove the bridge from pins 4 and 13
4. Start the car

Here's the procedure being performed on a Lexus ISF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QocuEYNE6KM

atomic_hoji on this forum performed the same procedure on his Yaris 2zr conversion with success.

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/sho...2&postcount=36

[Ausecho]

Originally Posted by mitch9521

I wonder if you can get around that issue like MCM did by sticking the Corolla key near or attached to the transponder in the steering column. It'd be crude but it would get you running.

Australian models have transponder keys , you can just cut the chips out the key . Easy to get an new transponder key cut and programmed if the key that came with ecu is the MASTER key