Chino's Swap/Progression Thread, My journey Options

[Chinosan89]

Hey all its been awhile since I posted anything about my car. To start from the beginning as a recap. I bought a 94 GT and decided I was going to do a motor swap. After a couple months I sourced out a clip in Canada and had it shipped to me. Spent a little extra time pulling the motor and making sure everything was clean and perfect before I threw it on to the GT. Spent a couple months on the GT (prepping it for the swap) and all of a sudden I get into a collision. Luckily the motor had not been swapped yet, but the GT was totaled. The sad part was, was that I bought it with the ST205 hood and bumper on it, so there goes about $1000 bucks ish in JDM parts. So later I bought a Celica that already had an ST215 motor in it. Car was a rocket, it was awesome and felt so nice. However I still had the ST205 motor sitting in my garage and I wasn't satisfied with that. So after 8 months of owning the ST215, I sold it to a close friend who gave me what I paid for the car plus his Celica ST (AT200) as a donor car. And that my friends is where the story starts. Sorry for the long and boring intro.

First GT

Wrecked GT


This post has been edited by Chinosan89: Mar 29, 2014 - 12:36 PM

[Chinosan89]

Crap you all are gonna hate me, I just realized that all my swap pics are on my old phone which broke….. so I don't have any and have no way of retrieving them…… basically the engine was pulled and I sprayed the engine bay over a cold night with just a gloss white spray can. The colors match up pretty good, you couldn't even tell the difference, plus it was the engine bay and most of it gets covered up by the motor so I didn't get too carried away on it. Just a quick sand, prime, and paint.

Since it was an ST there were troubles getting everything to fit right. I had tweak previously rewire the harness to LHD. The major troubles we had were AC lines, power steering lines, and a couple other things I can't remember. I used the ST205 radiator, bought GT AC lines and used the ST205 AC compressor. The power steering lines were manually bent to fit but so far no leaks so I'm ok with that. I went with and E153 LSD Trans. MR2 inner and all-trac outer axles.

Needless to say….I got it in!