7afe build, lets see if its worth it Options

[celica74]

So a little history. Have had my 94 st for over three years now. Has had two motors in it. Stock one was neglected so i replaced it with a 95 with half the miles. All the car has done to it is the basics. Short ram intake, exhaust with ebay header, dropped 4 inchs on drop zones(cheap rout i know but im happy with them. Voxx 7.5 rims running 205/40-17s. I love thos car. Cant believe i almost got rid of it for a genesis coupe. Havent done anything to the car in the past year because i bought a bike. But now im back in the car game and ready to spice her up. Have considered many options on what i could do to make then realiable eco friendly cheap slower then a single cam civic motor some pep. Yes ive gone over the 3sgte and 3sge swaps. Honestly there not for me. I almost turbos my car 2 years ago but lacked funds and patience. So the other day i took a drive up to virgia to visit a fellow 6gc owner(or have a one. Hes parting his car). I pics up some goodies from him for a good price. Dont wanna spoil anything. Pics will be up soon on what i got and what my intentions are.

This post has been edited by celica74: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:43 AM

[celica74]

Alright got lots of pics.
Finally got the rings i needed and got pistons and conrods in, also got oil pump on

Upper pan, baffle and pickup attached

Pulling the old motor, left all accessory's on except power steering. Just pull axles, disconnect wires and hoses, slave cylinder, fuel lines and some vacuum lines



Got the head resurfaced, i went with oem valves because i was sort on time and money, had them radius cut and a 30 degree back cut. SC mount was cracked so i had to weld that up. And when getting a new water pump on the 7a there are multiple part numbers dealing with the width of the impeller. Had a problem with it hitting the housing, went ahead and bought the pump with the housing. I would advise this even though it costs alittle more its less downtime.


Intake manifold installed and valve cover on.

Good view of how the SC is mounted. Pretty much just steel bar welded to make a frame for the SC to bolt to.


Spec stage 2 clutch and 8lb flywheel installed

Trans installed. Have someone help you, much easier to line up.

Engine bolted in place. What i did was remove front mount completely including bracket, unbolt everything from the rear mount and use the side mounts to line it up when dropping it in. Takes 30 min.

I also did some exhaust work. If you know what the ebay header for the corollas all the 7a guys use then you can see what i have done. After the header flange runners are about 3/4in to 1in diameter(too small to get good flow). So i opted for 1 1/4in pipe and extended them to the subframe to a 2 1/4in collector to a flex pipe, flanged it, then a test pipe for legal reasons. Vibrant resonator to 2 1/2in pipe back to a magnaflow muffler. After driving it it made a big difference mid and upper rpms.




As said before i need to back off the timing and upgrade the fuel system. So far Boost gauge has only read 5psi. Filter might need to be replaced. Have about 250 miles on it. Very fun to drive and very quick. Gotta love ZERO lag.

Build list

7a block bored .040 over and resurfaced
ross racing forged pistons
max speeding forged h beam conrods
toga bearings
toga high volume oil pump
8lb flywheel
spec stage 2 clutch
head fully ported and resurfaced
With the pistons, head and block resurface compression ratio is somewhere between 10.3:1 and 10.5:1
OEM valves radius cut and back cut
Vortec SC running 9psi pulley. Have to get a new intake pipe and filter, might have it set up for ram air and be able to put it back behind crash bar for when it rains
315cc injectors
2 bar map sensor


Once i get it broken in and all the kinks worked out ill hit the dyno to see when she can put down

This post has been edited by celica74: Mar 30, 2013 - 11:30 PM