After many years and several celicas baby is home, xat swapped 3rd gen 3sgte with ems Options

[yarik83]

after groing through several celicas over the years I was finally able to proceed with a swap on a 2nd celica that i have.

its a 1994 toyota celica GT COUPE.. yes a coupe originally 5sfe now equipped with xat racing

Stage 2 Celica 3rd gen 3SGTE swap into US FWD Toyota Celica: includes 3rd gen JDM Celica 3S-GTE motor-set,
2nd gen MR2 tranny and jack-shafts, custom Front mount intercooler piping with Spearco core, Walbro Fuel pump, Greddy Profec B -II Boost controller, turbo back custom exhaust (photos show a different mufler which was later changed to megan n1 turbo), all fluids, belts, hoses, plugs, install, tuning, and 30 day warranty.... $6500

XAT Racing Stand Alone Engine Management installed into your 3S-GTE swapped US Celica -
$1400 installed and dyno tuned

EMS is made by a company called Spectre and model is called pro-ems

Final price including tax etc came out to $8542.88

Completed in about 1.5 months. Was supposed to be 2 weeks but series of mishaps such as first engine arriving with a crack and sent back and second one being held up at customs and brackets breaking and ada yada.

After spending a few days on dyno and playing around with EMS they tuned it to 262.07hp. I was told that car could go 310 easy with a few minor changes/upgrades.

car status: driven and tested by me in the dark cause its not registered yet. drives like a beast. Shifts craptastically because im still breaking in that clutch master cylinder thing that I changed over the weekend. Basically I think i should bleed the thing again and make it a bit looser or something.

While driving I unfortunately almost got pulled over by 2 police cars in an hour that I drove the car. Once around 7 11 he was giving me the eye while i was filling up and second time I just smoked integra and a civic and decelerated back to normal speed (on highway of course) and in under a minute I see a cop passing me and again giving me the eye. I did have a licence plate on it swapped from my daily driver celi.. so not sure if that stopped him from checking me out or he was too tired or something.

car still needs bodywork and air suspension installed.

following are a few teaser pics.

Edit: just noticed that date on photos does not match. I thought I took out the date completely. All shots were taken in past week.


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-27


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-27


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-27


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-19


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-19


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-19


By yarik83, shot with KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-11-19

This post has been edited by yarik83: Nov 27, 2007 - 9:43 PM

[yarik83]

to answer some of the questions.

I am not sure if this has lsd as I never asked, however from what I have been told they were converting it from 4wd.

Can I take a photo of engine mount? absolutely. I just need to figure out my intercooler piping. The pipe coming from FMIC to engine keeps falling off and its pissing me the heck off. Taking it to xat tommorow for a little chit chat. They are to fix my upside down steering anyways.

Why does the engine look like crap? I dont know and at this very moment I have little time to take care of it. I am tied up at work and other things so it will be detailed sometime.

Where do I live? I moved to Brandon, FL from new jersey.

how fast does it run and what does it do?

it is dynoed at 262 horsies at 12 lbs boost. I am not a professional when it comes to tellin how fast the car goes but it goes faster than my old one by at least 3 times. Tonight I took it out for a spit on my work's roads (miles and miles of mining facility closed ex (highways/freeways/stateroutes etc) Every time I hit 80 my intercooler pipe would fall off with a big bang.. like as if air pressure was released. I am having xat have a look at it tommorow cause its agonizingly annoying. I stopped and fixed it like 12 times today.

Paint/bodywork.

After some nitty gritty I have discovered that rear bumper is totally messed up. I bought it from a member here and it was supposedly made by vis. I bought 4 vis invader kits before and rear bumper was never shorter in width and never shorter in length. Now its missing about 5 inches in length and about 2 inches in width. I might end up buying a replacement rear bumper if maaco determines that its not fixable. I actually had to saw the rear in half just to attach it somehow. Why maaco? I do intend to paint it professionally but spending 6 grand on a fancy paintjob is out of the question at the moment. So for a year or so maaco paint will do just fine.