New Addition to Our Family, Painted page 7!!! Options

[hurley97]

So me and Dustin (Batman722) decided to postpone the wedding another year and buy another 6th gen project instead...
That and the 99 Solara I've been using as a winter car is going to my sister in a few weeks so we needed to have one available to each of us as a 'winter beater'.
We have my green 97 ST turbo, Dustin's blue 95 GT ST205 swapped, his silver 95 ST

And let me introduce the new addition to our Celica family,
1994 Celica GT, 5spd, black interior, sunroof, Florida car without New England rust.
Very bad rod knock and a very bad radiator meant we had to have it towed home where it stayed until it was again towed to Manny, Jenn and Randi's garage.





We decided to swap in a Redtop 3S-GE Beams
We cleaned it up, timing belt, waterpump, tensioner, prepped to go in











^inside the intake manifold, taken through the throttle body







And as of tonight, it is in the car and running,











And Manny fabricated the whole exhaust, from the b-pipe all the way back. I do not have good pics of it, someone else will have to insert them.
We should be able to take some better pics tomorrow in the daylight. So far, very fun

This post has been edited by hurley97: Jul 1, 2010 - 4:49 PM

[Batman722]

haha we never had a 5sfte

your guys opinion, how does this compare to 5s-fe and the 7a-fe? since we never really got those motors over here (though there are a tiny amount of NZ new with the 5s)

it's definatly faster and more responsive, much much faster in above 3-4k rpms

very impressive stuff.

Why are you still using the stock air box?

thanks. The intake is kinda touchy with the AFM, too much air and it runs rich, too little air and it runs lean. We just went with a K&N drop in filter which is just fine for us, for now. The other option is to get a CAI or short ram for a 01 v6 camry with the AFM adapter, but it's very important that the pipe diameter is the same as stock or the rich/lean issue comes up.

thats just a cover over the valve cover right as it appears? Can that fit a 5s valve cover?

yes, it's just a valve cover cover. I haven't tried it on a 5s but I'd have to say I don't think it would fit.

on another point what are you using for the guage BEAMS or a modified preBEAMS one?

modded non beams tach. We didn't want to go with Beams white face gauges so we are using a Dakota digital tach adapter and the tach works just fine. I do see a little jump with the needle now and again but nothing serious.

njcc, I'll PM you a pic.

[hurley97]

thats just a cover over the valve cover right as it appears? Can that fit a 5s valve cover?

yes, it's just a valve cover cover. I haven't tried it on a 5s but I'd have to say I don't think it would fit.

The valve cover is more like a 3SGTE valve cover, it has the inner gasket with the cams almost individually housed, like this...


The 5S valve cover doesn't have the holes that the valve cover cover screws into or the oil cap in the right location. There's probably a few other problems you'd run into but those are the most obvious without actually fitting it to a 5S.

[razor7]

or the oil cap in the right location.

That would actually be a good thing for me, my strut tower bar gets in the way so I have to use a funnel when filling.

-TC