Either buy a matrix xrs or Corolla xrs donor car. Or, you are due to upgrade. But, it will be difficult to find one that's low mileage and in good shape. It took me 2 years to find my Corolla xrs. It was a 1 owner and low mileage example.
I know the harness is expensive, but they are becoming harder to source parts. AFAIK, I have only seen 2 Corolla xrs and 3 matrix xrs in the junkyards in my area.
So my issue is that I have sc'ed 1zz with a spin bearing, I got the car with everything already installed. I decided to go with the 2zz because it's my daily but when preping for everything I found out that it had the TRD and URD piggyback installed and can't understand how everything is wired so I'm trying to find a fresh engine harness to start new without breaking the bank
Engine has already been through a lot the super charger yoiked the mating surface off the first head I had on it from mwr. When I pulled it off again I found the crosshatching looking pretty bad and one of the arp studs had gunk on it leading to water jacket failure. The only think I could really save from the thing are the rods and pistons really. The maintenance on it got old pretty quickly as well, it was methonol injected and would constantly need bleeds and refills about every week racking up the dough
It was done diy, the only thing the guy didn't do was the tune (sleeves and everything). However he isn't being the most of help when j asked sadly. Thank you for that guide by the way it should help out some!!!
I wanted to give the internet a (mostly) comprehensive list of what all is required. Hint: it's more than you'd probably think for a swap between two engines of the same family. Here's a short list of everything you need: 2ZZ-GE, has to have the cable throttle. The '03 and later Celica GTS...
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What you should try to do is trace the wires. There is a 5th injector wire. Not sure if it's wired to the ECU or into the fuel rail or after the last injector. This way, when you go to sell the sc, you can omit this to the buyer so that they can rewire it.
I think I know why there's two piggy backs now!!! There's a fifth injector wire for the TRD and URD piggy back. Maybe one for tuning one for something else?
Yeah I saw two sets of sensors that plugged into the fifth injector. But it seems like I was able to get everything out and I'm back to stock!!! I hope.