ST205 Camry - 1 Year update, At least its a Celica motor! Options

[phattyduck]

Hey guys, going back a reading my threads I noticed that it has been just over one year since I drove my Camry with the 3s-gte on the street for the first time... I figured it was time to make a little update thread.

The short story: Things are going great!

After the swap, when the motor had just an intake and exhaust on it, it put down 269 crank hp. (Pic below is from that dyno day)



After my first trip to the drag strip, I found out the input shaft seal on the transmission was leaking (and causing the clutch to slip) and had to fix that. I went back to the dragstrip and broke an axle where it goes into the hub:



So I fixed that one. Yay for $90 lifetime warranty axles!

After a few more trips to the drag strip, I have gotten better. Just last night I had my best 1/8th mile run so far:



According to my calculations, this would translate to almost exactly a 14.0 second quarter mile time. This is on street tires with just an intake, exhaust and boost controller. Too bad in one week, we will be down to only one public 1/4 mile track in all of Southern California.

I still have a plans left for the Camry:

- Water/Methanol injection should add a few HP and help the motor run safer at high boost
- 50-75 shot nitrous. This with drag radials should allow me to get low 13's in the 1/4
- paint / bodywork... right now, its UGLY and I want to fix it somewhat

I've also been toying with the idea of finding a decent condition All-trac Camry. They seem to be pretty cheap (sub $2k) and I'd be able to swap everything over easily. I'd then have a cleaner, nicer looking and faster (off the line) car that would REALLY blow people's minds...

What do you guys think?

-Charlie

[jdg371]

Nice work. Ive always like the Alltrac Camrys and swapped Camrys. But it seems close to impossible to find an Alltrac.. last one I saw was in the Junkyard with the rear end pulled out...

Do they have more room to work with than the 5GC Alltrac?