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Members => introduction => Topic started by: Munch on January 09, 2015, 01:08:15 AM
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Hey, I'm Josh from Canada. I've been working on a 1992 Celica GT for the past year or so. When I bought it, it had a 3S-GTE swap with a e153 trans already, running on megasquirt, but it was pretty rough.
It was driven hard in it's past life, real hard, when I got it the engine was pretty toasty; pistons were fried. Had to pull it and send it off to the machine shop. A lot of interior pieces were missing too. I've been saving cash, hoarding parts, and doing some minor rust repair. The drivers side floor needs a little attention as well as the passenger rocker panel, but for a 22 year old car that spent it's life in Eastern Canada, it's pretty clean underneath.
I always try to budget it living first and car second, and as a result, it hasn't been the speediest build, but I'm sure I can get it done, in stages. Engine currently sits on an engine stand in my basement:
2nd gen 3S-GTE
-Bored .040 over
-Wiseco 87mm forged pistons
-Eagle forged H-Beam connecting rods
-Crank balanced & polished
-Stripped down, hot tanked, fully rebuilt with all new everything
mated to a E153 pulled out of an MR2 Turbo, previous owner installed a KAAZ LSD, so I don't need to spend money that way, haha
It came with some bonus parts too, tubular exhaust manifold, found a manual boost controller in the trunk, msd ignition stuff...
Sticking with the stock CT26 turbo (Which hurts me inside, but you know, build before boost!) hopefully only for a while, with some freaky deaky stuff planned for when I can afford it lol.
I've got a few oddball parts that I want to replace here and there, engine/trans mounts, crossmember bushings, stuff like that. I also have to re-wire the megasquirt efi because the wiring that was done is brutal. I bought the DIYAutoTune harness and connector kit, so it should look half-clean haha.
Few pictures:
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I'm currently in trade school, so the project is on hold until I'm no longer living on Kraft Dinner and noodles, but I should be employed again by May and back at it.
These forums are nice. It's good to have a 5th-gen specific forum. Have you considered a sub-forum for project/build threads?
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We're looking into a build section.
The intro part is to associate the Facebook group with the forum a bit better.
More or less put names and faces to the posts, enhancing the 5th gen Celica family.
Also the forum is more for stashing how to's and getting people's stuff all in one place to make it easy for someone to go "oh I want to see what exterior mods I can do" click, boom, there they are.
Btw awesome buy, sounds like you got a lot of cool parts with that car!
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welcome. if you have any questions please feel free to ask.