My 3s-gte Thread, rebuild project (pics) Done! Options

[95celgt]

Hey every one, this is my thread dedicated to the 3sgte in my car.
Im making one thread for all the projects that will be done to the motor itself.

Info: Since I bought the car from Chanh55, I was wondering why it was not performing as it should, I did various tune-ups, only making marginal difference.

The biggest project I did up to this point on this motor was when i took out the piping and FMIC to clean it out(this made a huge difference BTW). I addressed this due to massive blow-by coming out of the valve cover PCV pipe. clean up project

Well after that, I decided to check compression and the numbers were as follows: 180:170:95:180
As you can tell my #3 cylinder is gone for some reason....so the tear down began:

Stage 1:
Bolt on accesories taken off(TB,ALT, FMIC stuff, etc.) as well as harness plugs.

radiator out

turbo and manifold out (this was probably the hardest step lol)

Head off:I had to go to pep boys to get the t-55 hex bit for the wierd toyota head bolts.


This post has been edited by 95celgt: Sep 25, 2006 - 12:06 AM

[95celgt]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Jeremy, im not a fan of anything nissan, but your st would be nice:P

Bigal004321, It was alot....and I mean ALOT, everything was replaced except the block/head of course, since they were in perfect shape, but all the machining etc. cost a pretty penny.