Some New Pics..., some great, some horrible Options

[Coomer]

Hey guys,
Yesterday I finally got to see my 20 valve silver top 4A-GE engine which arrived wednesday, and I took some pictures of it. The engine is actually very clean, and looks like it'll be great once it's in the car. I got it from Storm Performance for $870 shipped, with the transmission, axles, ecu, harness, AFM, and ignitor. Before they sell you anything, customer service is great, but once they get your money, they kinda slack off. My engine was supposed to arrive a week ago on friday, but on monday I found out that it was just shipping that day, and when it arrived, it didn't come with the ECU, third plug for the harness, or axles. It didn't have the AFM or ignitor either, but that was expected because they told me ahead of time that they'd ship later. So on monday I'm going to have to call and see what's up.

So tomorrow we're going to take apart the engine and tranny and check on the condition of the clutch and some other stuff. I may buy a new Exedy clutch, and today I ordered a new timing belt and water pump. I still need to find the idler pulley for the timing belt, and a couple of gaskets and seals, but I cannot find part numbers anywhere, and I posted on Club 4AG but didn't get any help.

Anyway, here are the pics of the engine:








I'm not doing the swap by the way, because I know I'd screw something up. A local shop is doing it for me, but I'm gonna hang out as much as possible and help out and try to learn. They've never worked with this engine before, but the owner of the shop who I talk with a lot does some incredible work. His '96 Neon puts out 432 horsepower to the wheels through a sequential transmission at twenty PSI of boost, and he said that sometimes he takes it up to 30 at the track. I rode in the car, and it's incredibly fast! Also, I've seen plenty of other cars who have had work done by this place, and they're all very nice and the owners are very pleased, so I'm completely confident that my swap will turn out to be very nicely done.

On another note, here are pics of what I found when I walked down to my car in the garage this morning:





Apparently when I was working on my car's remote start, I grounded out a wire for my safety switch, so when I started my car from my bedroom this morning, it was in first, the safety switch wasn't working because of the wiring, and so it went into the cement wall of my garage, even though the parking brake was on.

I don't think that any damage was done besides the front bumper, but I think I may need a new front bumper, and I definitely need new paint. The entire bumper has wavy cracks in the paint, along with a nice hole that's shown in the second pic, and the Toyota logo is completely destroyed. So tomorrow I'll take it down to the guy who painted my car and see what he thinks, and then I may be in need of another front bumper for my car.