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

[celicast3sgte]

nice work man, your doing all that im going to be doing next year.

[95celgt]

thanks, I wish you luck, its alot of time consuming work, but its not as hard as it seems, and you learn alot from it, as long as you take your time to do it right:)

[95celgt]

SO....i didn't have time to update, so here's what happened.

went back a few weeks later, had a really hard time sourcing a few parts for this motor, since everything was gonna be brand new....here's the long block assembled:


then a few days later we brought the motor home upon completion:


My turbo and manifold(this will do the job for now )


The ACT stage 2 re-installed(the disk was still in great shape)(the flywheel had also been resurfaced/machined)


Tranny all cleaned and de-greased(even the cake-build up on the bellhousing)
The axle seal was also replaced with a new one.

[Chanh55]

^ WOW! Sweet man... I'm not sure how I should feel right now...

[LewFX]

just georgous, ahhh i want it...take off that fram filter and get a k&n filter

[lagos]

looks like your making good progress with it. good luck man.

[95celgt]

Now, for part 2:

After a few hours of squirming and re-adjustment of the input shaft we got the tranny bolted up:



Now it was ready to be held in the engine bay(noticed how daylight dissapeared as soon as I took a hour lunch break ):



Once it was "sitting" in there, I proceeded to install the intake manifold, water pump hardlines various hoses, etc...


This is me on probably the end of the 2nd day working nonstop on the car, putting in that darn cold-start injector..(Laborday weekend!)...
In major need of a hair cut, food, and sleep!!


Turbo on after a couple of hours putting in new hoses and all:

[Batman722]

I am impressed.

[Chanh55]

Very impressed. You're pretty knowledgeable for how young you are.

[95celgt]

Indeed the block was in great shape, the head also had no warpage AT ALL, the smallest guage shim didnt fit through the cylinders. After the honing, I was impressed how the walls were, but I went ahead and did a 20 over-bore, and a 3 angle valve job as well.

[Jeremy1210]

Looks great man. Now you got yourself a sweet car inside and out. Hows it running??

[95celgt]

thanks! The car runs REALLY smooth, im still breaking it in, but I can feel its perfect! i'll update more when i go out to take pics today.

[Jeremy1210]

No more thoughts of getting rid of it i bet

[y2komar]

Wow.

nice job.

Hope to do the same to my 94 gt
thanks for sharing

[Pyros777]

Hey, I'm 95celgt's neighbor, and I'd just like to say... HOLY $#!^ good job man. Too bad I'm flying out of town tommorow or I'd go have a look over the weekend.

[95celgt]

Ok, so here's the pics of the finished engine, my camara broke and I couldn't take more step-by-step pics(even though there wasnt much left to finish after that last one:P).

[azian_advanced]

that is one great looking engine bay!

[brianforster]

wow i am hardcore jealous of your engine bay

[Chanh55]

Nice car!

[massbrandon]

yeah ummmm WOW. nice job man.