Where we’re you when I was on the hunt to make a TRD sc work without the 5th injector harness and piggy back ecu?Yep. Take the stock ECU (or any ECU that will plug into your existing harness) and desolder the female plug off it. Bend the pins on it straight. Then go to a junkyard and find a car where the male ECU plugs plug into your ECU of choice, and cut them off. Then you find the ECU pinout for your 5 speed Corolla ECU, and the pinout for the 2zz ECU you chose, and match up the names of the wires and solder them together. It ends up looking something like this one I made to run my Prizm on a 2003 XRS ECU. View attachment 395411
I should note that if you need to pass an emissions test, the 03 XRS ECU is best. It's the only 2zz ECU I've been able to get to set all the emissions monitors, though it should be possible on 00-02 Celica ECU's too. Also, I have all the 1zz and 2zz ECU pinouts, so whatever you need, let me know.
All I got was the blower and the throttle body. I priced it out, and it was not feasible. The hard part to source, was the piggyback. As the only one that worked, was the Greddy e-manage blue.Woah those trd superchargers are rare, did you ever get it working? Personally I'd run a 5th injector and control it with an Arduino or raspberry pi. Probably with inputs from the tach wire, throttle position sensor, fuel trims, and a wideband.
As for resistors, I didn't need any. VVTL-I is controlled by a positive wire and a ground wire coming from the ECU, I just wired it directly there. Same with the oil control valve, straight to the OCV pin on the ECU. You also need switched 12v to the IGSW pin, I learned that the hard way.
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My bad I was mistaken.89661-01040 2003 Matrix 6200 lift point no air pump
89661-0Z110 2004 Matrix 6700 lift point & air pump
89661-02C50/89661-02F80 2005 Matrix 6700 lift point, air pump, & immobilizer.
The 05 can be flash tuned, but you would need the immobilizer module, key, and ECU from the same Matrix to get it working in an 8th gen. I'm currently working on getting mine running on the 05 ECU but it's a pain. The 03 Matrix ECU is the best and easiest IMO.
I’ve seen some gnarly wiring over the years. Some owners were putting resistors inline to control and adapt the lift. I think that was using a celica gts ecu with a 1zz harness. Most likely, my memory doesn’t serve me right now.All the ECU stuff is super confusing. I've been compiling all the info I have on it as well as ECU pinouts I've put together. When it's done I'll post about it here.
Definitely easier to create a jumper. Though, some repinning required?Years ago, someone recommended using the 00-02 Corolla 4 speed auto engine harness for this swap, that way you can repin it to match the Celica GTS ECU and use the extra automatic transmission wires for lift. Then you can just splice the lift plugs into the A/T Wires. I wouldn't really recommend this because it's easy to mix up these wires and they don't really sit well with the rest of the harness. I just ran seperate wires with the lift plugs spliced onto them from the OCV to the ECU. I had to cut a small slit in a rubber grommet to pass them through the firewall, but It all works great.
I really don't recommend repining a harness like that. It's really easy to mess up a wire because you have to shuffle several wires at once. When you make a jumper/adapter, you can build it 1 wire at a time, and having the original harness in tact makes troubleshooting way easier.
With the addition of the ac idle up, I’m wondering if it cancels the switch to close when the ect opens. Would you be able to control it with a resistor inline or is that just for resistance and preventing the circuit from surging itself.Not really, but you do have to add a couple wires for the OBD port, one for the AC idle up (not 100% sure), one to provide switched 12v to the IGSW pin, and the lift wires.
There's also some issues with the radiator fans being stuck on. I haven't figured that out yet.
I keep forgetting it’s a gen 8 chassis.I'm not sure about any of it. I do know that the 8th gen has a standalone controller for the AC, so I believe it's a signal issue, I need to let the ECM know that the air conditioning is running so it'll idle up.
Maybe go electric power steering instead of belt driven.Once you get the 1zz out, and the 2zz in, you can lay the wiring harness on top of the engine in roughly the right spot, and everything will line up just fine. It doesn't look like it will, but it does. When you get to the point where you need to put the vacuum lines on, I'll send you detailed pictures of my setup.
One thing you have to piece together is the power steering pump. For that, set the 1zz and 2zz PS pumps next to each other on a workbench and look at the fittings. Theres a big bolt on both pumps and if you unbolt both, the fittings for each pump will come off and you'll be able to put the 1zz power steering pump fitting on the 2zz pump. That way you'll be able to retain all the power steering stuff without any custom hoses.
What's your AC setup like? Do you plan on keeping the AC?
I get it. But then again, 2zz blocks have gone up in price for some reason.I think he's already got the 2zz bolted in the chassis lol it's too late to go back.
As for cost of 2zz swap vs just buying a 2zz car, the used car market has been insane lately, that coupled with the increasing number of 2zz swaps and people with experience doing the swap, it's easier and cheaper than ever to just 2zz swap what you have. Just my 2 cents.
