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I don't think that is a problem bc Corey Silver94CelicaOwner has the st205 swap in his car ...........he has the stock hood and I believe he had zero fitment issues as far as the hood goes..you can always look up his build thread to be sure.

EDIT: you should go by the shop and take plenty of picture and get them up...I would have the members on here look at the progress......maybe they could see if anything stands out that the mechanic might be doing wrong

This post has been edited by supershannon77: Oct 1, 2008 - 9:18 PM

yea that sounds good, will do.. imma take alot of pictures and put them on my photobucket page sunday night.. lol i hope time goes by fast.. im so anxious!! lol

case in point.

There are a bizzlion other things you don't know about your car and the motor you're having put into it. Research and knowledge is the one thing you can't buy or not have with a situation like this. Also, I would never hand my car over to a guy for this kind of work to be done and not have great communication with him. There are going to be issues/problems that pop up and with you and him not being to understand each other, eek. That scares me.

and with that said, as Shannon said the IC shouldn't be problem with a stock hood.
If you have any other problems/questions, post them up. I'm sure we'll all try to help.

Hey guys,

Ok I took some pictures when i visited my car for the first time in about 2 weeks.. My mechanic has my old engine out and is finally ready to put the new motor in.. we resolved the engine size issue, so hes ready 2 roll! i have an 3sgte album on photbucket with the pics, heres the link:

http://s396.photobucket.com/albums/pp42/GT...4/3sgte%20swap/

I would say the conversion will be about 65% complete when the motor is fully swapped.. the rear end is about 90% converted

This post has been edited by GT4Soldier: Oct 6, 2008 - 12:39 AM

LOL @ Cang seal.

lol i know.. and he was soo sure he was right in that pronounciation

what do you mean the rear end is 90% complete?

just as far as making the rear look like an celica gt4... i put on the raiser blocks and put an gt4 emblem on.. i wanna put on an rear spoiler too sometime.. so besides that i think its done.. thats why i said its 90% done

please don't put on a GT-Four emblem, it's just not right.
Your car is not a GT-Four, it does not have 4 wheel drive.

LOL o0o0o0o ok I thought you were talking about putting in a rear for the purpose of AWD. LOLOLOLOL fair enough, looking good man.

Well thats your opinion batman.. you go by yours.. I go by mine.. Im doing a complete celica GT4 project.. so when its its all said and done ill have the AWD drive conversion also.. thus the reason for the badge. Im not doing an "GT-2" project.. I want that AWD power.. or else i would have looked for that badge .. thanks for your opinion though

This post has been edited by GT4Soldier: Oct 6, 2008 - 6:46 PM

lol naw man thats too extreme for an AWD conversion haha.. but i do know someone thats cutting their whole frint end in half and welding in an 3sgte front nose.. lololololol crzy but he insists.. but yea hopefully when this 1st stage is done ill save up for that AWD drive conversion.. i think it may cost more than the swap though.. on ebay this guy was selling the st205 diffs, subframe, and axels for like $2500.. so put that with the price of installation.. eek imma need at least $5000 saved up lol.. and thanks 4 the complement man i appreciate it..

This post has been edited by GT4Soldier: Oct 6, 2008 - 6:49 PM

if you do have AWD I would agree you should have that emblem on your car.

Since you don't have AWD "yet" why not just wait put the emblem on when it's completed, or just keep it on and be a ricer, it's up to you.

everyone who owns a GT has a GT-2 (GT with 2 wheel drive), you just have a GT with a st205 motor in it, ...almost. Do you have the GT-Four brakes ? or maybe the GT-Four gas tank/rear floor/SS suspension/ect.. or just a US GT with a st205 motor in it ?...almost

just be realistic about it and just don't badge it a "GT-Four" when it's nowhere close to being one. That's ghey.

I see another robdrummer in the making...

cool man once again thats your opinion.. im not gonna get into argument with you about a badge lol.. so thanks for your opinion.. but i think ill keep the badge on my car

i agree with batman. but it is your car so its all up to you

This post has been edited by Projek_01: Nov 29, 2008 - 11:05 PM

And your about two months late....

Im really getting more and more interest into just turboing my 5sfe engine, i was checking out some turbo kits on ebay for an 5sfe engine.. and 1 guy is selling an rebuilt turbo kit taken out from his 5sfe engine for only 200 bucks plus 60 shipping.. so im just wondering if this is a good idea, not in terms of buying his rebuilt engine.. but turboing my engine period. I mean i still want an Gt4, but im thinking maybe ill hold that off till i graduate and just buy another GT and dp the swap.. b/c i really love celicas ... and I also think I can do it myself!!!

heres the link to the turbo kit taken from an 5sfe engine:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...T&viewitem=

i think u should just do the swap since you have the motor there already with you...there is no point in spending more money when u can dump the extra cash your going to use on turboing your 5s...but its really up to u if you want to do that..

turbo 5s or 3rd gen swap, i choose the third gen swap anyday..

dont do it.

Yes do that. Its perfect.
Everything you need for 150bucks. How could you go wrong with that?