 Change of plans for my Celica, I need a 7A-FE shipped to Puerto Rico |
 Sep 10, 2004 - 7:22 PM
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Enthusiast  Joined Aug 30, '02 From San Juan, PR Currently Offline Reputation: 4 (100%)  |
Well guys, as some of you know, I changed plans about doing a swap. Since I already have the Supra and have plans to pretty it up, it would be a waste to try to make the Celica fast by swapping another engine and manual tranny in. So what I want to do is get another 7A-FE installed, put all the turbo stuff in there but leave it low boost...and leave the automatic tranny...works fine when boosting and the car is just for cruising. Then, I can get forged rods and pistons for the original engine that has a bad piston in it. That way, I'll have something ready to rock if I ever break the other one. I'm trying to go to Puerto Rico in December 30, so I have plenty of time to source the engine, get it shipped home and have a buddy of mine pull out the broke original one and install this one. I leartned a lot of mistakes from the setup and plan to open a post with my experiences. I already did a topic like this, but I want to start another one. Anyway, I need a 7A-FE in perfect running condition. I'm willing to do a cool trade and money or whatever so I can get that engine sent home...should be like $200 shipping. It's easier to source it here than to try to find one in the Puerto Rico forums...people with Corollas are not willing to pull the engine out for me.
 Anyway, I think this plan will save me a lot of money and makes a lot of sense. What do you guys think? -------------------- Past - 7A-FTE: Will never forget you
Present - 3rd Gen 3S-GTE: Swap in progress QUOTE (SinisterSinner @ Dec 19, 2009 - 10:52 AM)  I dont want to even think of turbos, they blow up way too often... |
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Sep 11, 2004 - 1:50 AM
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 Enthusiast Joined Oct 1, '02 From Minnesota, USA Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
I like sccelica's idea! It's fun to have two cars...one for cruising and one for speed. I used my Rex for speed and Eclipse for cruising for a long time. Now I just have two AWD booster cars.
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OOBE Change of plans for my Celica Sep 10, 2004 - 7:22 PM
DustyBurns30 if i had a supra, i would take a sledge hammer to ... Sep 10, 2004 - 7:57 PM lagos OOBE... you know how it is with cars....youll neve... Sep 10, 2004 - 9:37 PM 97sccelica i say go for it
then get a sticker on the celica ... Sep 10, 2004 - 11:32 PM 97sccelica QUOTE (snadman @ Sep 10, 2004 - 10:50 PM) I like s... Sep 11, 2004 - 1:58 AM
OOBE I was thinking of that, but I want the Celi to be ... Sep 12, 2004 - 5:34 PM |
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