New Guy with newbie ?'s Options

[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.

[95CelicaST]

Swaps into an ST can be really anything under the sun, provided you have lots of cash. The easiest one in terms of using old parts would be a 4A-GE 20V Silvertop. it uses the same motor mounts as the 7A-FE and can also use the same Transmission. Same goes for a 4A-GZE (Supercharged). These are both high Rev engines.

Once you drift into the S-series engines (3S-GE, 3S-GTE) you will need new motor mounts and transmission. A few people have swapped a BEAMS 3S-GE, which is nice because it has 200ish HP and N/A. The most common swap among all 6gc swappers is the ST185 3S-GTE. You can find enough info on that swap on here to answer any questions about it. Welcome to the Dark side, hope you enjoy your stay