Prodigy515's build up thread Options

[Prodigy515]

After driving my celica around for the past couple weeks I have come to the conclusion that I need more power in the car. I was thinking of doing some bolt-ons such as an axle-back exhaust, short ram air intake, and maybe a throttle body spacer. One other thing I just found is a speed chip that is supposed to add a great deal of power.....and maybe a cheap supercharger

the chip


This is a picture of thhe supercharger that I found...


It seems pretty legit and yes I do realize it isn't going to really give me 100hp....but I figure between these four mods that I would be able to net about 100hp.

I am pretty excited to see what the celica can do with all the added power it will have, if anyone has experience with these mods advice would be great......

Thanks in advance for any helpful info





















































Sorry I was kidding about all that stuff...what I was really going to say was it is time for an engine swap.....
Several days ago I just got my 4th gen 3SGTE (ST215) to my buddies garage.



Got a pretty good deal on it because the seller didn't have the ECU with the engine, so I need to track that down. I have heard the wiring is difficult...but I figure it can't be that hard and I have changed a few lightbulbs before plus my friend has done a b16 into a honda civic and he did the wiring for it himself and said we should be able to figure it out.

The bad news is my quaife lsd is still about 3 weeks out, so I might run the S54 tranny for a few weeks before getting the real E153 in. Stay tuned for updates..

This post has been edited by Prodigy515: Aug 4, 2008 - 12:24 PM

[Dr_Tweak]

Thanks guys We spent quite a long time planning out this thread, we thought it would be funny to add in a few practical jokes, like the first post and waiting until the very end to reveal who the "friend" behind the swap was.

This was by far the fastest 3S swap that I've ever done. (This is prodigy's only car so it HAD to be done by Sunday night). First, we did a lot of planning to make sure that we had everything ready to go, and we did everything possible that could be done before actually starting the swap, such as the Walbro fuel pump, the boost gauge, hanging the intercooler and doing as much of the piping as we could, plus doing the timing belt/seals/gaskets etc on the engine.

Then we brought everything over to the shop and got to work. We ran short on a couple of small things, like a few clamps and one coupler. Thankfully we had some extra around from other swaps that we were able to pull from, that saved us a potential problem. Of course I sent prodigy off to the parts store a bunch of times to pick up little odds and ends.

Once we got everything put together and warmed up we took it out on the street to make sure all was well. Of course it wasn't long before we opened it up We did a little bit of V8 hunting and then went back to the shop and spent a couple hours cleaning up. After that we parted ways and I went to get my wife some flowers for being gone all weekend

About 10 minutes after I get home, my phone rings and I'm like, uh-oh. I look and sure enough it's him. I answer and he's like, "Hey, the Celica started making a racket and I pulled over, now my battery light is on". Right away I though, alternator belt, and sure enough, he checked and it was all shredded. By pure coincidence he happened to be less than a block away from the shop. So I said, "take the alternator belt off and head over to the shop on battery power, I'll be there in a few minutes". Turns out that the parts store gave him a 6-rib belt instead of a 5-rib belt, I didn't notice when I put it on. So we stole the belt off easternpiro's car and got that installed, then it was all set. Now I need to buy a new belt for piro's car

And yeah, it pulls nice

-Doc