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Sorry I haven't had time to post up....but wow the car feels great. When we finished the swap on sunday my 30 minute drive home turned into aout a 3.5 hour long drive all around the surronding area. First and second gear do not have traction as of now I am looking forward to seeing what the lsd will do for it. Also need to do some brake and suspension work on the car to help it handle the power.

All in all the car is amazing, it is nice to be able to tell people that I have a swapped car and that there is NO check engine light on, I have cruise control, a/c, and power steering. oh and it is pretty fast too.

Alright good news...........



the harness is done.....got started working on the celica about 8:30-9:00. My friend and I are still working away on it but I figured an update would be nice.
Right now it is about 3:00 AM......redbull ftw

Harness plugged into the engine:


Taking the car apart:






Dropping the engine:




The 5s is out:






Here is a picture of my friend, who happens to be my boss, and I after we dropped the engine.

Well guys, another update for you. Last night we built some brackets for the intercooler and got that hung, as well as fabricating all of the intercooler piping that we could without the engine actually installed. Also got the boost gauge installed so that's ready to go.

The intercooler brackets





Bolting it up







Boost gauge



There's going to be a lot of this involved this weekend



Intercooler piping











So yeah, the engine swap is officially starting TONIGHT at 6pm. We're going to have a camera and laptop on-site and will be updating as often as possible. Our goal is to be completely done with the swap no later than Sunday. I am going to go and continue to work on the wiring harness.....I need to finish it in 4 hours hoping for a miracle...

UPDATE.........lots of pictures, finally got some work done on the celica.

Got a large shipment of parts in........precision intercooler....and lots of vibrant piping.



I was also able to install another package that I received......



Worked on a little test fitment of the intercooler.


it is beautiful...



the metal was in the way...



the hole cut was about perfect



Currrently I am in a battle with the wiring...



I am really hoping to start the swap this friday and have it done by sunday.....allot depends on how this wiring goes. I will update later on this week to let everyone know how it is going.

motor without ECU was $1600 shipped.....and I should have a package waiting on me today hopefully I will get picks of it..

I got a competition clutch stage 4 sprung 6-puck with a lightweight flywheel.....it took some getting used to but now it feels great to drive.....it can handle power and it isn't overly difficult for a daily driver

Sorry i haven't updated recently but between college and my job there isn't to much time, unfortuanetly the swap is being pushed to the 5th and 6th of september, but on the other hand I do have some good news.......



it looks so mean, waiting on one other thing to get shipped to me aswell. I will keep the thread updated.

Went ahead and got the walbro in....it was a little difficult because the high pressure line refused to get loose so the install was a little tight....





Also got the wiring harness off the engine and a few seal done....





I have decided to push the swap to labor day weekend...the wait is killing me I am ready to have it in the celica.....



easternpiro1 we might have to run them when they are both up and running...and DEATH i thought they also gave about 60hp if tuned correctly...

yeah I'm thinking about doing adjustable cam gears, I haven't done the timing belt job yet as toyota had given me the wrong water pump.....I went ahead and put the walbro in so that will be one less thing I have to do, I will try to get some pictures up today or tommorrow

Just got some packages in today, pretty happy with the contents of them....

A friend of mine was able to get the ECU from some contact he has.

the awesomeness actually blinded me alittle

and here are some others...autometer cobalt boost gauge, aem dryflow air filter, and a walbro fuel pump


I am currently planning to start on the swap friday the 15th and have the weekend to work on it...I will take some pictures when I do the seals and gaskets and get them up here

Yeah I am sorry that was mean...but I couldn't resist... and yes standalone is very tempting...but it is going to be my daily driver so I am going to wait awhile before going crazy on it. I was very happy with how clean the motor was, I looked in the oil cap and it is a beautiful gold shade, so I am very happy with it.

I just got in all of the seals and gaskets, water pump, and timing belt so I am going to go ahead and do those sometime this week. I will keep the thread updated.

After driving my celica around for the past couple weeks I have come to the conclusion that I need more power in the car. I was thinking of doing some bolt-ons such as an axle-back exhaust, short ram air intake, and maybe a throttle body spacer. One other thing I just found is a speed chip that is supposed to add a great deal of power.....and maybe a cheap supercharger

the chip


This is a picture of thhe supercharger that I found...


It seems pretty legit and yes I do realize it isn't going to really give me 100hp....but I figure between these four mods that I would be able to net about 100hp.

I am pretty excited to see what the celica can do with all the added power it will have, if anyone has experience with these mods advice would be great......

Thanks in advance for any helpful info





















































Sorry I was kidding about all that stuff...what I was really going to say was it is time for an engine swap.....
Several days ago I just got my 4th gen 3SGTE (ST215) to my buddies garage.



Got a pretty good deal on it because the seller didn't have the ECU with the engine, so I need to track that down. I have heard the wiring is difficult...but I figure it can't be that hard and I have changed a few lightbulbs before plus my friend has done a b16 into a honda civic and he did the wiring for it himself and said we should be able to figure it out.

The bad news is my quaife lsd is still about 3 weeks out, so I might run the S54 tranny for a few weeks before getting the real E153 in. Stay tuned for updates..

UPDATE:
ST205 mounts from japan are going to be here in about a week, and then my pride and joy comes in two weeks.....the Quaife ATB differential

Finished the clutch job, my friend and I got a late start on it but got it finished up by about 1:30 in the morning. I was hoping to hold out for ST205 mounts witch should be here in a week or two....but the clutch would slip with anything over about 20% throttle.

Picture of the clutch that made a 300 mile drive + three weeks of daily driving...a little suprised it made it as long as it did....



stock flywheel



Here is a picture of the tranny dropped down...



To clarify everything, I have an E153 transmission, stage 4 clutch for E153, and a light weight flywheel for the 3sgte. Since this was a temprorary fix I got a clutch made locally with a 5sfe disc and 3sgte hub. The 3sgte flywheel worked fine all I did was use different flywheel bolts. Also used the stage 4 pressure plate. All in my stock GT tranny.
3sgte flywheel

All in all I was very impressed with the feel of the pedal now, it is quite firm, and the flywheel is amazing. The celica will easily chirp going into 2nd gear, and trying to take of from a stop was interesting the first couple times I drove it. It would either stall or spin...luckily I have got the hang of it before spinning the tires next to any police.
I am on edge waiting for my ST205 mounts and one other thing for the E153, hope to have it in the celica before to long...

After driving my celica over two weeks, I have realized I am definatly not going to be able to hold out on the stock clutch for any longer, I have not been touching the clutch...rev matching FTW.....I was hoping to have the E153 ready to go, but it looks like I am just going to throw in a stock disk. I have the E153, stage 4 clutch and lightweight flywheel...but I am waiting on some other parts to go with it so I would rather get a temporary clutch then try to rush replacing the tranny. Me and my friend are going to replace the clutch this friday after work, I figure while I am in there I will also put the lightweight flywheel in, then have it resurfaced when I get the E153 together.

A quick picture...


I will take some pictures of the install this friday...hopefully we will get started by 7pm

I need to correct myself, the camshaft was not perfectly upside down, the cam timing was extremely off, when we rotated it to top dead center...made for a late night to get it running correctly now it just needs a clutch. Thanks for the welcome.

For the clutch I am thinking about putting an E153 transmission in, so the car would be ready for the possibility of a future swap.

My name is Bennett, I am 18 and for the past couple of months I have been looking for a toyota celica to replace my current car. Finally I found what seemed to be a good deal on one and it was only about 2.5 hrs away. I brought money and had a friend drive me to the car. I had already talked to the owner several times, and the engine/transmission were in "good" condition. However once I got there it was easy to determine either the slave or master cylinder had an internal leak, also the CV boots were ripped. However the owner would not budge from his 2300 asking price, claiming he could get more for it in it current condition. This made it seem as though I would never find celica, however I was able to get in touch with Auto Gallery which had a 94 celica gt.


Though the car was another 4 hours south the trip had to be made. Upon arriving I looked over the car and aside from the paint (previous owner had it lime green, then the dealership did a black spray over it...) the car seemed to be in good condition. As I began the test drive I went wot, followed by being thrown forward as I hit what seemed to be rev limiter. I looked over to my friend as the rev limit was at 4k. I tried going past 4k in every gear and it would cut every time. At idle the rpm would stutter, and up to 4k this car had zero power. The check engine light was on, so after running the code I determined that it was the distributor circuit. The clutch also felt a little soft. After making a huge deal about these problems I was able to get the salesman to come down to 2200 dollars (yes I am 18, but I work and paid for the celica and bought my first car). Finally I had gotten a celica, however I wasn't sure if it could make the 6.5 hr drive back.

The usual 6.5 hour drive became an 8 hour limp topping out at about 80-85, and if you have tried this on I-95 it isn't to great for merging.... I knew the car wasn't running well especially after a full tank was empty after 150 miles. Amazing enough I made it back by 2am.






The next day my friend and I set out to replace the distributor to see if that could be the problem. After we swapped the distributor (took off of an extra engine) we wondered why the distributor pointed to cylinder 4 when the engine was at top dead center. My plan for an oil change and distributor swap turned into a timing belt job.....Prior to me purchasing the car the timing belt had been replaced, however someone messed up. So in the end this celica was a tough sob making an 8hr drive with the camshaft upside down. So if you are looking for horrible mpg, no power, and 4k rev limit...have the camshaft upside down(really don't it is pretty bad). Now she is running like she should, hopefully I can replace the clutch soon, I will try to get pictures of it once I get to clean it up.

The car needs some work and I am starting to put a list together of things I need to do:
- replace clutch
- remove window tint (fogged up can't see oout the back window)
- more to come.....glad to finally have a celica