5vz Rebuild! 

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

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

@@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.

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 .

​@EivinSukoi Japan swap new motor every 60k miles

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

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.