I just pulled this motor out of a 92 Camry from the yard. I got the motor at the house and start stripping it apart. I found out that they did the timing totally wrong. When I got the pulley to TDC 0, both of the cam circle points down when it's suppose to be up.

I measured the cam and crankshaft play and met manufacture specs. I found 1 blown piston and the rest are okay. Now looking at the picture is this head reuseable? and what do you recommend?

nope the head is toast man, all that roughness in the chamber will be hot spots and the valves are toast. might be easier for ya to find another longblock thats in good condition to start from. unless you know what your doing. but then again you probably wouldnt be asking us for help. lol jk man

cant be boared out?

yeah. timing is kinda hard. i helped my friend rebuild a acura Integra engine, ane while i was out buying sparkplugs. he put the head on and didn't align anything, AND there were no timing marks on the crank pulley. so i had to figure that out. the first time we tried to crank it, it sucked on the exhaust side and blew out the intake.. anyway it runs now.

you putting the 3VZ in your celica??

i'm not sure weather to put it in the celi or in the mr2. I have other plans for the celi. I never encounter this before so that's why I wouldnt know.

are any of the valves bent?

any signs of the the valves making contact with the pistons?

If nothing has gone wrong, it should be rebuild-able.

i say Celica it:)
im planning this swap for mine.

if all 4 valves in that chamber are flush (none sunken in) then the spark plug may have broken off and bounced around inside there. if one is sunken into the head deeper than the others then its likely you dropped a valve seat.

oh yeh and one more thing, i remove the head bolts from different sequence that i should remove it, Will anything happen or will it be just fine if i put it back on w/ the right sequence?

the valves are all flushed and spark plug was fine. I think it was detonation from timing being installed wrong..


I must just have to pull another VZ out of the yard.

nah, that looks like something got in there and bounced around.

Bitter, i believe you're right. So, I went to the yard and got another 3vz for $20, this one is in great condition. The weekend is over so I'll have to wait till next weekend to work on it.

what yard are you going to?

hang onto the ****ty one for parts or keep it to build and swap into the mr-2 later on.

you pull it, it's in grand prairie, tx. There's another place call awesome and it's any motor for $50 and tranny for $25 bucks but both place requires you to pull it yourself. . I'll try to update this project as much as possible.

i should go there lol