To swap or not to swap, Got my 3rd gen 3S-GTE Options

[Negative]

Ok so I now have my Caldina clip sitting at my house and I was so excited at first but now I'm having second thoughts. I can't find anyone in Houston that I think can actually do the job correctly and I don't want to spend 2 weeks in Florida so that Hux racing can do the swap.
I am one of the founders of the Houston Toyota Club which has around 100 members but I worry that we will be able to get the job done or will I end up with my car messed up and driving my POS daily driver - 92 FORD Exploder.
Also I only paid $1500 for my clip because I found it locally and the clip shop had no idea what they had - naturally I jumped the gun without thinking and just bought the clip. Now I have offers to sell the clip for $3000+ and I am really hung on my descision.
If you look at my profile you will see that I have been modding the car with the intention of swapping and I have tried to build th car intelligently towards that end. Hell I even bought the car (traded my '95 for it) specifically to swap. It would be my dream car and I have no doubts I would keep it forever but why am I feeling so jittery about it? is this normal for people who start the swap?
Has anyone on here actually completed a swap from a Caldina? How did the wiring go?
opinions?

This post has been edited by Negative: Jun 2, 2005 - 4:39 PM

[playr158]

here is an option

mechanically its not too hard to get the engine into your car so you should be able to handle that

i take what you are worried about is wiring?

if so try and contact DGperformance via PM
he does wiring and might be able to do your harness for you that way all you need to do is physically switch motors and then reinsert the harness...hopefully he can do it for you

[Negative]

here is an option

mechanically its not too hard to get the engine into your car so you should be able to handle that

i take what you are worried about is wiring?

if so try and contact DGperformance via PM
he does wiring and might be able to do your harness for you that way all you need to do is physically switch motors and then reinsert the harness...hopefully he can do it for you
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Yeah - you pegged it. The wiring is what's got me worried. We are swapping a MKI MR2 right now with a 4A-GZE Levin clip and the mechanical part was easy. We finished it in two days. The wiring is still going but it's much easier than the Caldina/Celica swap because there are very few wires on both the MR2 and the clip.
Just asking though - DGperformance is not the guy who makes the "Red wires" is he? We had major problems with the last Celica we swapped due to the red wires we bought from someone on 6GC.net. If not I will see what's up with that.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm starting to feel easier about this just from talking to you guys. Has anyone on here done the Caldina swap successfully yet?