Used motor for a 2007 FJ Cruiser

Hi, my first post and I joined the community 5 minutes ago. Bout time. Here is my question. I have a 2007 FJ Cruiser that blew a head gasket and it is shot. Long story short. I bought it with 225,000 miles on it and drove it maybe 80 miles when it went. Moving on now. I see a few used Tacoma motors with fairly low miles, but they are mostly 2012-2015 vintage. I know that was when Toyota stated putting this emissions air pump on them. What type of modifications will I have to do to make it work in my 07 Cruiser? I am having a hard time finding out exactly what needs to be done to make these air pump motors work. Seems like it should not be to hard a fit. Thank you for any help.

 

2005-2015 all are the same block and heads, the difference is the exhaust manifolds. You would re-use your harness and intake anyways.

You can also use 2004-2009 4runner 4.0's as well.

 

Thanks. Now thats what I needed to hear. I heard that you also need to block something off on the motor?

 

I was on another forum and was told I needed:
1. Electrically-driven air pump;
2. Electronic driver module for the air pump;
3. Check valves and solenoid-actuated air valves on each exhaust manifold;
4. Pressure sensors built into each of the air valves;
5. Expanded-function engine ECM with drivers for the air valves and additional firmware to control air pump and air valves, monitor pressure sensors, and all the new OBD diagnostic functions for the above components;
6. Expanded wiring harness to connect everything together.

I guess that would be so if you wanted to keep the newer motor an air pumper.

 

There is no emissions/air pump on the '07, if memory serves that was a added to the '13-'14 model years.

To get a '10-'14 ( Dual VVTi )_motor to work in your '07 (single VVTi) is a large undertaking

 

Thank for the reply. Sorry I worded my question all wrong. I was wondering how much of a problem it would be to use a motor from a 2012 to 2015 Tacoma. One of the members said just use the exhaust manifold from my 2007 and it ould then be good to go. Others have told me there is more to it then that. Even though the the Tacoma motor is single VVT, it does have the air injection pump thing installed where my 07 does not have that pump set up.

 

As long as the block and heads are the same, your 07 parts should bolt right up. You wouldn't need the injection pump or hardware.

**Please do not take the above for Gospel**

 

I know this thread is a few months old, but since I have experience with it, I thought I would contribute. I installed a 2012 Tacoma engine in my 2007 FJ Cruiser. You have to delete the SAIS and use block-off plates on the exhaust manifold ports for the SAIS. I made the plates myself out of some scrap steel I had laying around. I do not see how the FJ exhaust manifolds will work on the 2012+ Tacoma heads as they have extra exhaust ports on the heads that the Tacoma manifolds won't cover. With that said, I have seen where the earlier long tube headers with the 2012+ exhaust gaskets do seal up those extra ports. I don't have direct personal experience with that, though. Everything else is 98% plug and play. There were a couple sensors that had different plugs that I had to transfer over from the old engine. I don't recall which ones unfortunately but it was very simple to do. I removed the engine harness from the vehicle (it is a pain to remove it from the firewall, so prepare for that) and installed the harness on the engine before dropping it in. In my opinion that was much easier.