1996 Celica GT: The Roadtripper, 1MZ swap: 90% there Options

[bnr32celica]

I'll just skip to the good stuff here as no one likes a long story.

Bought car, lowered, blew head gasket, fixed. Put in some 5GC cams and a header at the same damn time. Drove, let friend drive for a while, got back. Head asked blew again, did again. Motor started knocking, and here we are.

The go:
--1MZ swap in the bay, awaiting wiring
--S54 with welded diff

The stop:
--5x114 swap in progress (I still need wheels)
--V6 Camry brakes

The dance:
--Tein Stechs
--GR2s
--Rebuilt rear end
--GT4 rear tower bar

The show:
--2post
--OEM 15s painted black (for now)

The beats:
--Sony Bt2900
--Alpine Speakers

The glasses:
--HID lows
--Yellow highs

This post has been edited by bnr32celica: Oct 12, 2013 - 6:16 PM

[presure2]

i am totally fustrated with the level of bull**** here.
justin, im sorry, but your nothing but a liar.
i have 0 respect for you, your car, and what youve done.
i hope that someday you will learn from this thread, and the people that have taken time out to try and help you, only to be lied to, and be made a fool of.
ill tell ya this, you will never make a fool of me, or any of my friends again, in any way if i can help it at all.
guys like you shouldnt be allowed on 6gc

[bnr32celica]

http://www.ratko.org/automatic-to-manual-t...ta-camry-v6-le/

This is required reading for guys who are using the 94-95 1MZ.

I was trying to explain this to Dustin tonight, but I wasn't near the iPad. It explains how to fool the ECU among other things. This is what I sent my harness back out for, replete with a printout. I cannot wire engines (stereos, sure, but reading diagrams for wiring isn't something I do well at all), so thus I was at someone else's mercy.

I'll have to go over there tomorrow and snap some good pics for you guys, I'm on a burn phone right now.

I couldn't understand 80% of the conversation we were having tonight, so if things were misconstrued or misunderstood.

Here's a timeline of events since the 1st tomaybe bring everyone on the same page:

10/1: the motor is sitting pretty in the bay, harness builder comes over to check and see if harness is good. It starts the car. Woot!

10/1: harness builder and I pull the engine from the bay, I remove harness from engine and hand to him with a copy of the article. We agree Saturday to meet, with Sunday as a worst-case. Transmission was not installed at this point, we achieved the above by holding the starter and using jumper cables grounded to the frame. Scary stuff, that starter has some recoil!

10/2: my car breaks down in RI. This has effectively killed two days of prep time.

10/5: I receive a call that my harness should be delivered to me by 2pm on the 6th. I'm excited, this means when I get the flywheel mated up to the engine, she should run well and I can get it into some gears.

10/6: manny, Dustin, and Stef show up. We find out that my 4runner flywheel isn't going to work without some work. Oops, should have measured...but I didn't have anything to go on as my engine was from an automatic. Manny gets me some measurements, we get the motor pretty much ready for the transmission. Harness builder doesn't show, doesn't return calls.

10/7: car towed illegally! However, I'm literally a flywheel away from a complete swap, so I figure I might as well finish the swap and hope I get my harness. Drop the flywheels off (Manny brought an ST205 one) and explain what I need. Without the ST205 unit, I couldn't have even begun to explain what I needed done.

10/8: car located and brought to my uncle's. Flywheel is done and ready for pickup...but I'm too busy moving a motor and transmission (and most of my stuff too) from my house. No response from harness builder still, at thi point I'm reading the writing on the wall. I know he has a V6 project going on in a 6G himself, I'm assuming the worst.

10/9: the real work starts. Flywheel picked up, we mate it, it looks gorgeous. My existing new 5S disk and the 3SGTE pressure plate (thanks Manny!) are mated to the engine. We also clean the interior with vigor. We get the transmission on the motor, a couple bolt holes are off, we get one retapped all nice, so as of right now, I have 3 bolts in the transmission in addition to the two starter bolts. Looks like the S54 only uses about 5 bolts anyhow to mate, so one more would be nice.

10/10: the moment of truth. Before installing the motor and transmission back in the bay, we jump the starter. Good news, it engages just fine, but thanks to the 36 beers we've already downed, my motor leaps off the pallet with vigor. No damage. We decide to go ahead and throw the bitch in. As I'm lowering the motor into the bay, I hear a nasty crunch...and that would be my phone. Where I work on this thing, I have very little service, if any, but I found if I rest it on the transmission side mount, I get SOMETHING. Famous last action. I spend $10 on a cheapass phone to slap the SIM and in while I lube up the asshole for the raping I'm gonna get buying a new phone out of contract. No camera, but I can text. Good enough.

10/11: she's perma-set. My uncle puts the car 3' in the air with his air jack and we analyze the exhaust situation. The rear o2's final placement is decided, and we thread a plug into the rear manifold and block off the EGR. The Chevy y-pipe I got for free has an o2 port on one of the pipes. Puts it straight up in the tunnel, but that's better than fighting with a steering rack, eh? He also mocks up an axle mount that kicks ass and is overbuilt. I hope I don't break it. I have a habit of being able to do that sort of thing. You should have seen the carrier mount on my Escort GT!

10/12: STILL no word from my harness builder. There goes $300 and my harnesses. Luckily, I have spares. I'm resigning myself to the notion of paying mr220v the $630 or so for him to do it. The budget is now officially not just broken, but shattered. This swap is turning into 10lbs of sh*t in a 5lb bag, but hey, I signed up for it.

10/12: Dustin calls me back, I can't understand a good 80% of our conversation at all. Something about posting a picture of the bay was mentioned, I was unable to do so at that time thanks to no service for one, and also, I'm on a burn phone. My integrity is questioned.

Listen, I'm not trying to say I'm the world's most virtuous guy, but for having a really bad couple weeks on a personal, professional, and mental level, I've been doing a job holding it together. I don't normally drink, but when I do, I become a hammer and do things. I also get angry and am pretty much intolerable...but don't call me a liar when you know that I've been doing what I can. I caught a break and had some extra hands, and we hammered out. Of course, I imposed the break myself and probably burned a bridge, but this car needs to be done.

I'm hoping tomorrow to get over there and take some decent pictures for y'all. I have a couple questions that I can better ask if I have pictures to show.