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Without spacers yes. Tomorrow I'll be putting something on the car and doing a test fit for reference purposes on the specs of these wheels.

So the engine blew. Still have no concrete evidence as to what happened but the head is fine. (nothing broken in it)

Sounds like it threw a bearing. Block is unharmed, pistons seemed fine. We'll see. Tomorrow I'm going to check out a new engine (97-2001 5SFE from a Camry)

Here's a pic or two:

So I was at the engine importer, and I bought a 5S... however here's some misc pics:

how much more was the 3S?

About 1500~ more...

How much more was the beams.
Had my second one delivered for $15XX

Beams were ~$2000

That's nuts! There must be huge import duties to make it that expensive. In Ireland I can buy a WHOLE CAR for 850Euros! Yes a BEAMS! And a good low mileage one for 1500euros! That's with all the JDM trim (splitters, skirts, electrically folding mirrors etc).
Seems like some one is lining their pockets.
Here's some examples if you don't believe me:
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4160744
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4325870
Many are cheaper because they need a new clutch or have old super strut.

+1 for the V6, you can get 1MZ and 3MZ for 1000 bucks all day long, complete with harness and ECU

North America -- mostly because of the US I think -- was deprived of the 3SGE after the 5SFE was introduced. Europe has an internal supply of 3SGE engines, which by dint of having a cheap supply forces the price of any imported engine down to match. North America gets tagged twice: once by there being no other means of obtaining a 3SGE newer than 1989 aside from importing it, and; the enthusiast tax, where the only people asking for it are those looking to upgrade.

Yep, the enthusiast tax, that's a killer. In Ireland we got flooded with second-hand cars imported from Japan in cargo ships. Kinda handy, because it made all five year old sports cars very cheap and now it means these rather rare machines are very cheap and plentiful. I got my first car down at the quays, a '93 Integra. Wicked. Was never sold new in Ireland. Seems to have been much easier to import in Ireland than in England where I think the regulations are stricter. Japanese imports seem to be very rare there.

Also I think a big recession and large yearly car taxes on bigger engines (2L ??!!) have destroyed second hand values in Ireland.
Ireland seems to be a gold-mine for the enthusiast if you can get the parts sent to you or pick them up yourself.

Well it's not the import duties per say, since we only have to "ship" engines from the USA, Dominican Republic and or Japan. Most rare engines are shipped from the Dominican Republic, only a handful are really shipped from Japan.

Things like these are just more expensive over here, cars included.



That's awesome. I can get a 1MZ here for $1500 and that's just for the engine, without accessories, harness nor ECU. I woulda gone V6 if it wasn't because I can get as much power out of a 5S turbocharging it and tuning it with a Megasquirt (which I've already got)

he aint kidding, cars here in puerto rico are damn expensive, ive seen rusted banged up hachis for $3000. hell, a salvage yard wanted to sell a 94 celica drivers side door with no panel, no window, no power window mechanism for $175! just the shell



he aint kidding, cars here in puerto rico are damn expensive, ive seen rusted banged up hachis for $3000. hell, a salvage yard wanted to sell a 94 celica drivers side door with no panel, no window, no power window mechanism for $175! just the shell

So I finally cracked open the block... pics of what I found will come later today.

All rods are damaged, all bearings screwed up, clogged oil pickup, and tons of shavings. All pistons are incredibly fine though. All rings look near-new, no cracked pistons or anything. They're all OEM pistons from 19 years ago.

I know it's been a while but it's just that I just haven't gotten any parts yet for the rebuild. I went to a couple of machine shops and none will grind the crank down to accept 3SGTE rods. All of them say "that's way too much material, we could do it but it's not our problem if it breaks" which I hear as "we'll do it but we'll blame the fact that it's over 0.020" of material instead of any possible bad machining on our part".

Anywho I'll be biting the bullet and getting a set of rods for the 5S. I'll be posting pics when I get them; I'll be the guinea pig for the 6GC community for the first time, but I have the feeling it'll be worth it.

d-d-d-double post.

This post has been edited by Syaoran: Mar 26, 2013 - 2:51 PM

The new crankshaft was left off at the machine shop to have it polished. Waiting on the new pistons to arrive to take the block to the machine shop and have it bored, honed, decked and cleaned.

Sounds like a good time. Upping the compression?

why didnt you just contact ATS racing and get a crankshaft from them and use yours as a core? grinding down the 5S crank is perfectly fine, i even have one in my All-Trac