1995 Toyota Celica ST coupe Engine noises 2/24/16, Video on machine gun noise. Link to video (PLEASE WATCH) Options

[PrimeLuxeZ]

Member name: PrimeLuxeZ
Market: USDM
Year: 1995
Model: ST
Frame & Type(optional): AT200
Engine: factory 7A-FE
transmission: Not sure

Significant other mods:
CAI


Hello everyone, my name is Marcos im 21 and I live in Dallas, Texas.
Like I posted in the other thread I have a Blue 1995 Toyota celica st coupe. with roughly 245,xxx miles on the odo.
Originally from Illinois I think and I think I'm the second owner too. Came with every service record since 1995. Has been well taken care of.
But with the high miles comes more maintenance. Only thing I've done is oil change basically a week after I bought it. Because the
I haven't done much to the car so far. But pictures are more fun then words.

Here it the car with a cold air intake my first upgrade basically. Notice the paint fading on the hood roof and trunk. I plan on painting it all a matte or flat black, so itll be a black and blue scheme and so the car wont look so old. Im hoping it will look nice.









The second thing I did to it was paint the black steelies, since it only had three hubcaps when I first got it, and I hate hubcaps with a passion so those came right off as I got home that day. First I was maybe thinking on painting them red since I have red pinstriping on the car and I found a can of paint that had a red hue to it.
And it was dark so I was like that will work so I lifted the car cleaned the wheels with some degreaser and a scrubbing pad and gave it a go.

Both wheels cleaned




And the car lifted up.



So what I did basically was take all the air out of the tire and I had some index cards laying around so I placed them between the tire and the rim to protect the tire from overspray, fairly easy for anyone who wants a different color on their wheels and doesnt want to waste money on unmounting the tires to paint them a different color.



Heres the paint that I thought was red. (My paint specially made for graffiti artist)


So I did a coat of it and it came out a dark pink color, so I was like whoa thats bad and wouldnt look right on the celica.


So I had a can of fresh white paint for backup just in case I didnt like the other.
Its a nice white and fast drying


So I have it about a couple of coats of that white on the two wheels that I had cleaned and it came out okay, I ended getting overspray because I did a bad job on the covering of the tire.



You can see the overspray here, it bothers me that you can see it but ohwell and I was too lazy to cover it with black so I just left it alone, I was just anxious to see how the looked on the celi, and I really liked it with the blue color.








What yall think?
So I only had enough to do two wheels that day so I was rolling around town with two white and two black steelies lol, tacky but no biggie.

So later that week I had some more time on my hands and said well Ill knock out the front wheels too.

So I lifted the front and got to cleaning them, I also inspected an oil leak I have, I cant seem to find the source but Im leaning towards the front main seal.


So I leaned from last time and prepped the wheels better this time, and removed all the air I could to easily fit the index cards better to prevent overspray and this is what I got.



I put them long ways at first then the second row I just filled in the spaces, for anyone else who wants to try this.

Close up


So I only had enough for one more wheel, so I only have one black steelie and three white, lol and I have no money right now to but more fresh paint, since I dont want to buy a diff. white and it be off.


But if you're on my left side you'll see them like this. And I also rotated my tires since they where wearing more on the front then the rear.

I have other Ideas for it, I have some fog lights of a Lexus es300 they are yellow projectors, and I have a wink mirror form my del sol I just need some time to install it.

This post has been edited by PrimeLuxeZ: Feb 24, 2016 - 6:43 PM

[ricochet1490]

with 235k miles I'd hardly say it's your fault. changing a main seal is a big pile of work.

probably the best thing that could have happened for the sake of your motor longevity. But for the money and time, your best bet is to just get another 7afe.

[PrimeLuxeZ]

with 235k miles I'd hardly say it's your fault. changing a main seal is a big pile of work.

probably the best thing that could have happened for the sake of your motor longevity. But for the money and time, your best bet is to just get another 7afe.

Yeah that is true,
So recently what happened, I thought the coil was out so I ended just replacing the coil to the Dist. And it was after barely making it home, the car didn't turn on anymore. Which is lucky. Since I didn't see water in the oil, and I eventually got it fixed, and basically verified that the head gasket was blown.
Im guessing it was between cylinder 3 and 4 since those he two pistons in those two cylinders where black, and number 1 and 2 where still clean.
And The rings scraped up the cylinder walls, and number one piston has a slight ding on one of the edges, only noticeable if you look closely at it. Im curious on what could have caused it.

And I never got to painting the other wheel white.

But recently I was reading up on some different swaps and at first I wanted to go with the 4afe head and 7afe block, for good power on the low end and top end, then i figured out it wasn't much of a noticeable difference.
So I looked upon doing a 5sfe swap but the motor doesn't have much of a hp gain for the price of just rebuilding the 7afe.
So I threw that out the window.
Next I thought up how about turbo and thought of the 3sgte and read up on that swap and seemed it wasn't for me since you could have a v6 with almost the same power, and threw out that idea of the 3sgte because, well v-6 why not.
So I remembered i saw a thread of a v6 swap that kurt95gt was doing and I fell in love, At first it seemed like to much custom work, but upon reading all 58 pages or how ever many there are, it didn't seem so hard.
Just how awesome would a v-6 1mz 1995 toyota celica coupe, lowered on some nice wheels sound, that sound like an eye catcher to me.
And i was already researching prices and i can find the engine around 200 to 350 dollars depending on mileage, which isn't bad i might say.

So what does everyone think?
I want to run a poll on what engine swap I should do to the coupe, even though im leaning more towards the 1mz.

I also want to note that I want it to be functional and all with working a/c since I do live in Texas, and Texas weather isn't a joke if you have no a/c, trust me I know.
Ill post photos of the 7afe and the damages that was done to it once my internet speeds up.
I also posted a video on my Instagram, for those that have an instagram.
My user name is evolmarcos, follow if you don't mind photos of baby photos, i just had a girl shes a month and 4 days old.

[mgnt232]

Next I thought up how about turbo and thought of the 3sgte and read up on that swap and seemed it wasn't for me since you could have a v6 with almost the same power, and threw out that idea of the 3sgte because, well v-6 why not.
So I remembered i saw a thread of a v6 swap that kurt95gt was doing and I fell in love, At first it seemed like to much custom work, but upon reading all 58 pages or how ever many there are, it didn't seem so hard.
Just how awesome would a v-6 1mz 1995 toyota celica coupe, lowered on some nice wheels sound, that sound like an eye catcher to me.
And i was already researching prices and i can find the engine around 200 to 350 dollars depending on mileage, which isn't bad i might say.

I would keep researching on the v-6 swap if that's what you are leaning toward, just reading through Kurt's thread may make it look easier than it is. It will come with a big headache, lots of hours, and money being thrown away. And I'm sure you may realize (and i don't mean to insult you whatsoever) but your going to spend a lot more than 250-300 bucks to actually get a v-6 working, just wanted to throw it out there.
But if you do the research you can get a v-6 in I know Kurt loves his

Side note if that doesn't work out I have a low mileage 7a FS, but it's in NY.

way to throw out my baby 3s she's wonderful and you gave her no chance lol.. jp, do what you want. Not what other people want, it's your car!

[PrimeLuxeZ]

I would keep researching on the v-6 swap if that's what you are leaning toward, just reading through Kurt's thread may make it look easier than it is. It will come with a big headache, lots of hours, and money being thrown away. And I'm sure you may realize (and i don't mean to insult you whatsoever) but your going to spend a lot more than 250-300 bucks to actually get a v-6 working, just wanted to throw it out there.
But if you do the research you can get a v-6 in I know Kurt loves his

Side note if that doesn't work out I have a low mileage 7a FS, but it's in NY.

way to throw out my baby 3s she's wonderful and you gave her no chance lol.. jp, do what you want. Not what other people want, it's your car!
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Oh yeah I understand on the price, ,but 250 to 300 price range for the 1mz seems good.

Well it was more of a firestarter for me, I understand it can get pricey, but I want something different, or not the norm, like in the area where I stay.
Maybe even turbo the 7afe slowly but surely. But done right the only thing I can seem to find forged are the rods.

Are there any threads in the forum talking about different swaps and how much they usually cost on average?

I can only imagine how it would feel driving the Celi with a v6.