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:
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?
