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[JDM_Celica]

I just bought a 1995 toyota celica st yesterday and I know not 1 thing about these cars. I recently owned 2 gs-r's 95 civc hatch and 91 prelude so these toyota engines trannys and ecus are way different then what I am used to wiht honda-acura stuff. Anyways I browsed the site for a good while and now I have questions that need answred. 1st how can u tell if your car is st205 or 165 or 185, second what is the engine code for my model like in hondas they have b16, b20, b18 is its 3gste if not whats that? and please explian the 5 afe and 7afe after these r answered I will be set in making a clean jdm celica.

[Batman722]

also, this is from another celica site I saw and thought to post

The Chassis number is commonly used in the international Celica community to identify similar celicas. Confusion can arrise when referring Celicas as simply by trim number. For example, The 6th generation (round headlight) GT trim had different engines in Europe (180 HP 3S-GE) and in the USA (135 HP 5S-FE). Trim designations can also change by region. The same exact celica can be sold as a GT in the US and an SX in Australia due to different cultural perceptions. Thus the chassis is usually used to identify a celica. The Chassis number can be found on the firewall of FWD celicas.
The chassis number can be loosely looked at as a four-six combination of numbers and letters. for simplicities sake, first start by looking at the chassis number as a combination of four spaces.

1 2 3 4
The first space represents the engine family located in the car. For all Toyota engines this is the first letter that appears in the engine code.
8R, 18R, 20R, 22R = R family of engines
4A-FE, 7A-FE = A family of engines
1ZZ-FE, 2ZZ-GE= ZZ family of engines
The second letter designates the car as a "Celica". The letter will either be the letter "T" for FWD Celicas or "A" for RWD Celicas.
The third letter represents the generation of Celica. These are either a 1-digit (RWD) or 2-digit number (FWD).


Generation
Generation Code
1----2
2----4
3----6
4----16
5----18
6----20
7----23


The fourth space represents the various types of celicas that are available in each body style. this is a combination of different engines, suspension and steering available in each particular celica. Usually, there are anywhere from 2-6 celicas made at any one bodystyle.
Using the 6th generation Celica as an example:
0 = FWD, 7A-FE (US-ST Trim)
2 = FWD, 3S-GE (Europe GT Trim)
3 = FWD, 4WS, 3S-GE (Japan GT-R Trim)
4 = FWD, 5S-FE (US GT Trim)
5 = 4WD, 3S-GTE (Europe/Japan GT-4)
Thus looking at various chassis codes....

1 2 3 4
RA24 = R A 2 4 = R- series engine, Celica, 1st Generation, 4- style
AT200 =A T 20 0 = A- series engine, Celica, 6th Generation, 0-style
ST204 =S T 20 4 = S- series engine, Celica, 6th Generation, 4-style
ZZT230 =ZZ T 23 0 = ZZ- series engine, Celica, 7th Generation, 0-style


This post has been edited by Batman722: Jan 31, 2006 - 12:37 AM