The Progression of KAOS, ... from then 'til now. Options

[KAOS]

I've made so much progress in the past few weeks with my car (thanks mostly to local board members) that I thought I would jump on the band wagon & start my progress thread too.

This thread, just like the car; is a work in progress.

My Car was purchased back in 2006 and was meant to be a project car right away, but unfortunately I was busy with my career at the time and she was quickly neglected.

1994 Celica GT-S w/ ~224K kms on it (approx 139187 miles)

Interior was in great condition, nothing special done to it...

Exterior was in decent shape, except for the driverside fender, which was mashed in, punched back out, and rattle canned. The most unique feature of this car, was the dual exhaust.

Dual Exhaust Sound/Video Clip

This post has been edited by KAOS: Dec 22, 2014 - 2:55 PM

[Outsider]

Amazing work.

As for my exhaust, I just made a $30.00 adapter to mate the BEAMS b-pipe to my original exhaust.

The open wiring harness pictures brings back memories of mine

Yes, I hope to be at the meet this summer. (work permitting)

You gonna have the car done for the meet?

[enderswift]

lol at flicking off the old harness. I know that kind of rage, but mine was towards the superstrut balljoints

[KAOS]

Amazing work.

As for my exhaust, I just made a $30.00 adapter to mate the BEAMS b-pipe to my original exhaust.

The open wiring harness pictures brings back memories of mine

Yes, I hope to be at the meet this summer. (work permitting)

You gonna have the car done for the meet?

The plan is to have it back on the road late may early June - that'll give me a couple months to iron out the bugs and get it ready for the long trip out to BC in August.

So far so good!

lol at flicking off the old harness. I know that kind of rage, but mine was towards the superstrut balljoints

To be honest, I almost didn't want to go through with the swap looking at that ****ing rats nest of wiring... LOL. I'm so glad I was able to find a whole one instead.

[kurt95gt]

Cant wait to see this done
Should be a sweet lookin celi

[KAOS]

Trying to order some bits and pieces for the rebuild; will these work on a 3SGE head?

http://arp-bolts.com/images/releases/Image...s/203-4207.html

[Rusty]

yes they should work as the Gen 3 3S-GE and 3S-GTE are the same

[delusionz]

Not sure what this is, but I figured I would document it anyways:



A/C idle up VSV?

[Rusty]

yup A/C idle up valve

[3WayStunna]

New harness came in the mail today - finally, Canada Customs had it for about a week.

3WayStunna - you're a life saver dude! Thanks for the hook up!

Side by side: (see the mess I had to deal with, ugh)





Fusebox Included:



New ECU:



Can anyone tell me the differences between these two?

Your welcome mate....also the ECU i sent you was either from a 96 curren, or celica...not sure of the celica year though, but they had the same part numbers....

[bsamps4]

I'd better see a dope paint job on that valve cover sir!

[czwalga]

FYI, do you have a separate? The coil is separate from the distributor unlike the 5sfe, also doesnt bolt the engine bay so it most likely didnt come with one.

This post has been edited by czwalga: Mar 27, 2012 - 6:39 PM

[KAOS]

FYI, do you have a separate? The coil is separate from the distributor unlike the 5sfe, also doesnt bolt the engine bay so it most likely didnt come with one.

Crap - youre probably right...

Pics and part numbers? (if you have them)

I'd better see a dope paint job on that valve cover sir!

Challenge accepted good sir.

... actually I have something decent in the mix.

[SwissFerdi]

^ Hah...paint...in the mix...I see what yon did there.

Good luck with the rest of the progress.

[KAOS]

^ Hah...paint...in the mix...I see what yon did there.

Good luck with the rest of the progress.

Pft, nicely done Ferd.


So - I had to hook up a battery directly to my driverside window motor on Sunday. Long story short, I didn't roll up the driverside window prior to starting the engine swap; so for the past few months the shell has been sitting on my driveway with a huge piece of cardboard taped over the open window and then a car cover, followed by 2 tarps... some friends needed some parts that I just happened to keep in the car when I "sealed" it up, so this weekend I tore it all off and didn't want to put it all back on again and there was bad weather coming THAT night...

*breathe* ...whew!

So I hooked up a battery with the help of "sodap0p" and we were able to get the window up. Yay!

Tonight when the weather was decent I put the door card back on and installed the TRD (knockoff, doesn't bother me) shift knob...

The knob needs to be polished (yeah, I said it ) and the interior is a mess from the swap right now. I also took a pic of the 7th gen steering wheel to add to this archive.

Not much, but enjoy!








This post has been edited by KAOS: Dec 22, 2014 - 3:02 PM

[KAOS]

Does anyone know where I could find an aftermarket charcoal canister? I'd like to dress up the engine bay a little bit with one... but can't seem to find any.

I've tried Summit and a few other places, but maybe I'm using the wrong keywords?

LMK

This post has been edited by KAOS: Apr 24, 2012 - 11:06 AM

[KAOS]

Took off the oil pan today to reveal this:



Most likely from sitting too long.

Tonight I was able to get the oil pan, the distributor assembly and the valve cover off.

Oil pump looks to be in decent shape:



Look at the special treat that welcomed me when I took the Valve cover off:


CLEANLINESS!!! YAY!






This post has been edited by KAOS: Dec 22, 2014 - 3:03 PM

[kurt95gt]

Oooooh she be purty lol
Least the head makes up for the oil pan

[bsamps4]

Brings back memories of mine! I too had a very clean motor!

[KAOS]

Kurt/Brent; it was such a relief when I saw the internals... I was so happy!

Picked this up off the Calgary Kijiji today:



Dirt cheap. The guy was just trying to get rid of it... sold his MR2 awhile ago and just had it lying around. Pity.


This post has been edited by KAOS: Dec 22, 2014 - 3:03 PM

[KAOS]

Took the water pump off:



Whats the best way to remove the rust deposits from the coolant lines, etc while the engine is OUT of the car?

This rust deposit shouldn't concern me too much, right? I already know the engine had been sitting for awhlie...

THOUGHTS??


This post has been edited by KAOS: Dec 22, 2014 - 3:03 PM