Chino's Swap, 5sfe to 3sgte Options

[Chinosan89]

Hey guys so before I get all into the swap I'll give a little background info about my celica life. Got my first 6gc after high school, it was a GT (5sfe) and it was automatic. At the time I wanted a car just to get me places with a little swag so that did the trick. After a little while I started looking into body kits and just fun stuff I could do to the car. You'll see my silver car on my profile. Ended up doing a C-ONE bumper, rear lip, painted my hood, new rims, just pretty much all cosmetics. After awhile of researching parts for my car I discovered the gt-four, 3sgte and this forum. After seeing all that I saw, I made no hesitation to act like a baby and just say, "I want, I want, I want".After some continuing research I realized ALL that I would have to do to get that motor into my GT. Auto to manual swap was do-able but didn't have the money for that, the motor, and all other components.

In conclusion I decided to buy a shell that was a manual, shopped around for a good while took about a year to come up with money and found the ride of my dreams. April 2012 I found a manual GT with 264000 miles on it. I bought it without hesitation, I spent $1800 on it. Which some of you think, maybe its a little much to spend that much on a shell, however it was driveable until i bought the motor, but what made this a KILLER deal is that it had the GT FOUR bumper AND hood already on it! So minus the hood and bumper, I spent about $1000 on the car. I bought this car from Dave, he has a black st204 swapped with awd. Met him on this forum and luckily he lived within 50 miles of my location. Talk about a stroke of luck right?!




So now I shop for the motor. I was in school at the time so shopping wasn't too easy as I was constantly overwhelmed with school work. But for some reason at the end of every semester, I find a good deal on something, this was god's way of telling me good job here you go. Last semester I found some konig rims and tires for $250 so yeah. This time, I found a GT FOUR clip for 3200, which is pretty good because it came with the HOOD and BUMPER which were in near mint condition, this clip has a TRD air filter and it is in pristine condition, almost looked like whoever had it just got it impounded or something, no accident marks. Sold the hood and bumper for $800 and threw in a paint job to make them look brand new, all in all knocked about $1000 dollars off the price of the clip.










As far as the clip is coming along now, my buddy trevor is helping me with the swap, some of you might know him, he has a 5th gen and he's known as tjdouble07 on some of the forums.
the motor has been pulled, the harness as been sent out to tweak and ordering some aftermarket parts for the motor!

[Chinosan89]

As I wait for the items to come in, I got the GTFOUR fogs and riser blocks, some rims and next are kouki tails!!









Riser Blocks







Don't have pics of rims yet more to come!

[dliverance]

HELL YES! My kinda thread.


can we get some pics of the wheels?

[Chinosan89]

The rims ^_^









Oh and I smoked the tailights too

[vplukas101]

Please tell me you are doing the RHD swap also?

[kurt95gt]

Looks good
But shes in need of eather lowering springs or coilovers

[Chinosan89]

Please tell me you are doing the RHD swap also?

I think down the road my plan is to turn it into an st205 RHD and AWD, I already have the pieces. I'm gonna use the st205 tranny for this swap, just taking off the transfer case, so I'll have that sitting around waiting for me to go AWD

I would do the swap now but its a lot of work to have to cut into the firewall and stuff, definitely wont be done by the end of summer.

[Chinosan89]

Looks good
But shes in need of eather lowering springs or coilovers

I'm actually looking for some lowering springs right now 1.5” or 2” would be nice, anyone know where I can get some?

[dliverance]

Can you use the AWD tranny for front wheel drive?

[Chinosan89]

Can you use the AWD tranny for front wheel drive?

I believe so, I'm taking off the transfer case that connects the awd and putting on a cover, if it doesn't work then I'll have to go with the e153, but it should be ok. I was originally gonna go with the e153 but my buddy told me that it would be ok so if it saves me money and it works I'm all for it.

[Chinosan89]

Update on the swap: got my ct20b polished, intake mani polished, heat shield ceramic coated!
Downpipe came in, clutch came in, motor is looking good, just some finishing touches and waiting on harness and it's go time! Posting pics soon!

[dliverance]

Sweet. Looking forward to seeing how the tranny situation works out. If it does, it'll save me lots of money and I can keep the tranny in my car while I work on my awd setup.

[Box]

Nice looking car! It's been discussed on here before, you can't just block off the rear of the transmission and use it as FWD. Can just use the S54 trans out of the GT for now.

[kurt95gt]

Update on the swap: got my ct20b polished, intake mani polished, heat shield ceramic coated!
Downpipe came in, clutch came in, motor is looking good, just some finishing touches and waiting on harness and it's go time! Posting pics soon!

Bingo

[Chinosan89]

Pics:

Kouki's



Downpipe, 2.5" ceramic coated



Clutch



Intake Manifold



Turbo housing CT20b



Heat Shield

[Box]

Yay shiny stuff!

[dliverance]

Very nice! Kinda jealous

[Chinosan89]

I'm going for the 0 miles look haha, hopefully i can get the motor to look brand new or at least very close

[blackliftback]

Where did u find the clip?

[Chinosan89]

Where did u find the clip?

Got it from Canada