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where exactly did you get that engine set, and was there any certain part u had to find that wasnt with the set

thanks for the compliments
Me and the woman have been spending a lot of time the last few months with our Beams swap.

I got my motor set (everything pictured) from JHot-imports-TX from ebay.





my updates...
painted my engine bay black
installed fully adjustable coilovers
rolled fenders and installed 15mm spacers
swapped my seats from my 97 parts car

installed and wired
st205 wrc heatx spray bar
96+ headlight stalk w/fog light switch to work with my 95
JDM fower folding mirrors

and I'm going to install GT-Four front brakes in a few weeks

I've been driving the car daily with really no problems for about 2 years now
the problems I've had in that time was a bad driver's axle (I had a 17 year old all trac outer that wasn't any good so I replaced it with a new reman one) and a slight fender bender (been repaired since).

all in all I've just been driving the car. It starts, runs, drives, and boosts better than any car I've ever owned.

SMH.. you know JHot sold me this engine set last august.. and I sent it back for Jim's motor.. I'm hoping JHot will still have ST205 engines in stock when Im ready to do the swap again

it wasnt THIS set, its been in dustins car for 2 years.

should have reworded that.. a set similar that one.. mybad

this is the engine that made me want to buy my own 3rd gen
thanks again dustin! haha

oh and thanks to manny for introducing me to the celi world lmao

This post has been edited by Ted95: Jun 26, 2010 - 10:51 PM

WOW. you guys made it seem like butta. And its so clean. I thought the GT axles could be used on the 205 swap, so why did you use the others?

dustin (batman) used a v6 camry E153 tranny. the GT axels will work if he used the stock s54 tranny like manny (presure2) did and like im doing with my swap.

i am 99.99% sure on that statement lol

This post has been edited by Ted95: Jun 28, 2010 - 3:46 PM

Damn it, I want one of those alternator intakes.

okay, thanks. why choose the E153 over the s54 though? not that i'm questioning the build in any way, i'm just trying to learn (=

LSD

The e153 has longer gears and is better suited for the power goals that Dustin had. The S54 will work just fine for a stock-ish 3S, but anything over ~300whp is better off with the e153. Plus a lot of the e153's had LSD, and the S54 doesn't (in most cases.)

only reason why im using the s54 tranny is basically bc i cant afford the E153 right now lol.. the s54 will hold up just fine for now. my goal is about 330whp, maybe a lil more. so in order to reach that goal safely ill have to upgrade to the E153 tranny. but in the mean time, my ol' s54 will work. once i save up another 1100~ ish ill get a E153.

geeee....a E153 cost almost as much as a whole 3s then...wtf..lol how easy is it to source the E153 by itself?

^ you gotta get lucky

not sure to b honest, i would guess a lil tricky, but if u kno the right ppl it shouldnt b to hard

This post has been edited by Ted95: Jun 30, 2010 - 2:36 PM

After 3 years I decided to do some maintenance.
Over the last few weeks I've have been working on my car slowly just taking my time with it, because it's been a little neglected.

I put in a new clutch, lw flywheel, new outer axles, Blitz ECU, GT-Four front brakes, fresh rears (rotors/pads/new caliper), kirk mount inserts, re-painted front bumper, and a nice buff and wax.



I had a spec clutch and OEM fw and over time the shifting was getting worse. I feared the springs in the disk were getting worn and about to pop so I decided to pull it before anything catastrophic happened. The disk was glazed and the springs looked moved a bit but still in the disk. I went with an Exedy stage 1 this time and so far I'm extremely happy with it. Good pedal feel, smooth engaging, great for daily driving. I also went with a chromoly lw flywheel for shiz and giggles. I picked up new st185 outers, greased the crap out of them and put those in.
I picked up a Blitz tuned st205 ECU a while back and never installed it until recently. The car seems to pull harder with it but it doesn't run the w2a IC set up like stock so I wired the w2a to run full time when the car is on.

The GT-Four front brakes have been on the back burner for about a year now and this was the best time to install. I replace my rear pads/cut rotors about a month ago and the fronts were toast. Details on the install here. I was going to install the GT-Four rears also, but I don't really care about those right now.
Edit : I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate bleeding brakes. Thank Jesus my wife can put up with me and do the most simple tasks I just cannot do.

I did have a problem a few months back, my car would shut off after about 16 seconds. I traced it to the fuel pump resistor and also found out it's a common fault for st205s. A new 205 resistor is unavailable in the US and the st185 one (same resistance) is double the price meant I had to get creative. After a ton of research I found out the fuel pump resistor from a mid 90s Landcruiser part # 23080-66030 has the same resistance and was about $40 from Toyota. Bought it, swapped the plug, drive the car again. Without the resistor I just ran the fuel pump at full power all the time (bridged fp and b+ in the diagnostic box), not really a bad thing but I wanted to keep it like stock.

Other than that, no real problems, I just drive the car.

This post has been edited by Batman722: Jul 31, 2011 - 7:48 PM

Dude...your car is gorgeous....keep up the good work !!

^ been there before. the car looks great dustin!