Holy crap..its finally starting Options

[BigRog95]

Well guys, just dropped off my 89 celica GT-S with one of my friends dad who specializes in Toyotas, cars and trucks. He's going to be doing this engine swap for me. So tomorrow i'm going to see him and he's going to tell me what we need to get out of my 89 celica to put the 3SGTE engine out of it, and put it in my 95 celica. I know I already need the wiring harness, engine (of course), and the GT brackets...

I'm really excited, i'm going to drop my 95 celica off with him tomorrow and he told me he should have the swap complete by Monday, so i'm wicked excited about it. I'm going to go help him sometime this weekend when i'm not hanging out with my gf.

I'll post some pictures sometime this weekend and keep ya'll updated..

Were all of you guys this excited when you knew your plan was finally becoming reality..I'm really excited about it..

[Culpable04]

how much money are you losing .. I mean putting into this ?


the first gen 3sgte barely has 200 hp at crank, and that's on a healthy engine, so after you're done ( if they can get it to work properly for you ) you'll have ~ 170 hp at the wheels ( assuming the engine is healthy ) the 3sgte will not work with a ST tranny ( I said it again, I know ) you're dropping an almost 20 years old motor in your car, which is not being rebuilt before swap.

I don't know much about swaps and even I know that set-up will get you nowhere.

don't take our comments as hating, is just that we know is not gonna work like that, and to make it work you'll spend money that you haven't planned to spend and then you won't be happy with the results ( power / cost ratio ) . Some members have made the same mistake you're about to make, just do a search and read on some swaps and see what kind of problems people have. organize your ideas do the job the proper way. Everyone here loves a 3SGTE powered celi, but we wanna see a happy owner with a properly working car, not a big headache that will disappoint you and make you hate your car.