Blasphemy101's Quick & Easy Build Thread, Rebuild it, and they will come... Options

[blasphemy101]

Hi guys! I'm blasphemy101, a mechanical engineer from Central Florida. I just picked up a Celica GT hatchback from a friend with the hope of giving it a new lease on life. The last couple of years haven't been too kind to the car, and in its disassembled (and broken) state, it doesn't run. As you can see, the car is full of parts (e.g. the front brakes are in the trunk), but I think most of it is there. The body and interior are in great shape as well. I intend to get the car back on the road first, and if everything goes according to plan, things might get more interesting towards the end of summer...

When I get a chance, I'll create a "laundry list" of things that need to be taken care of in order to get this thing back in shape. For now, pictures...







This post has been edited by blasphemy101: May 6, 2015 - 11:12 AM

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For what it'd cost to turbocharge properly I'd look into the 1MZ swap, without doing a good rebuild on the 5S you couldn't push high levels of boost safely anyway. Could just drive with the 5S until you get the harness worked out and so on to minimize downtime.

[blasphemy101]

For what it'd cost to turbocharge properly I'd look into the 1MZ swap, without doing a good rebuild on the 5S you couldn't push high levels of boost safely anyway. Could just drive with the 5S until you get the harness worked out and so on to minimize downtime.

Sound advice, but where's the fun in that I have most of the turbo supplies on hand, so I know it won't be cheaper to do any kind of swap. The top end of the motor was gone through by the previous owner (a friend) before I bought it, so the top end/headgasket situation was already taken care of. As far as I know, the bottom end hasn't been touched, so that IS concern for aggressive driving. With a couple of mods, the motor should hold up to boost just fine, though.

You may be right about the harness, I still need to get everything back together and drive it for a while to see if any more issues are going to pop up. In any case, it needs to get on the road before I can make any decisions about pushing things further.

All in all, it's pretty cool to see that it's 1 parts order and a weekend's work away from being road-worthy.