Completed Engine Swaps., who's got em. add your name and info. ;) Options

[Mynzeyes]

just like the topic says, i think this would be a very good little thread, just to give some insight for the newbs and dreamers as to what the swappers have done, what they went through, and how it's workin out to this day. feel free to add any info you wish, mainly the car type before, the new motor type, info about your personal swap (as all swaps are NOT created equal), a time frame, general cost, how is the performance, are you happy w/ it, etc... . let's see how big this list can get. .

-John-

edit: btw, only post if you are DONE and driving the car. that's what i'm lookin for.

[NEVERSTOP]

damn just noticed this post... well here goes


4.5 years ago started looking for a new car. I knew I wanted to do something with a turbo on it stock. After looking around for a while I desided that a 5th gen alltrac was the one with the most potential and one of the least modified turbo cars. I started to really look into the 3sgte and noticed that it could be put into a 6GC......hmmmmmm

April 99:
Started looking for 3sgte's

July 25th 99:
Puchased 94 GT liftback with sport package and TRD suspension upgrade for 8999 plus tax, title and a ungodly high interest rate 374 a month for 3 years.. u do the math

October 99:
Located a st205 R/C from a guy in Canada - Bruno.

November 11th 99:
Sent payment of 4,500 plus shipping for 205 3sgte.

November 14th 99:
Bruno calls and offers me a rearend out of a wrecked Gt4 that he was gonna use for his 5gc alltrac but decided not to. Offer him $800 for it with shipping and he accepts. Sent payment same day.

December 4th or 5th 99:
recieve 3sgte and rearend parts from Bruno. Get inspected and repackaged to wait until spring. Part locating begins.

April 00:
Start 1st teardown on motor.

April 16th 00:
Head is dropped off at local machine shop to be inspected. HKS intake and exhaust camshafts are installed along with HKS Cam gears. Full port and polish and replaning are done to head.

April 26th 00:
Head is picked up and intake manifold is dropped off for a full flush and deburing of runners.

May 3rd 00:
Intake manifold is picked up.

May 13th 00:
Lose drivers license for 60 days. Deside to mess around with the 5sfe and Port and polish the head on that since I need a new head gasket. Figured I could sell motor once swap was done. Also started to Port and polish the throttle body for 205 - did work myself.

May 20thish 00:
Take block to Machine shop to have it heat tanked and tested out. A previous owner of my motor had installed JE pistions and needed to make sure everything on them was good, check came out okay. Had new rings installed.

June 2nd 00:
Picked up block.

June 3rd 00:
Started putting motor back together - spent about 2 weeks. Replaced all gaskets.

July 12 00:
Got DL back

July 26th 00:
Relized about 30 seconds to late that knock sensors are important.. I had damged one when replacing the head and tried to jerry rige it... aparently it didnt work right and when my timing slipped the knock sensor didnt trigger and I made a big mess of my interals... only got to drive it for two weeks - and what sucks is I had just put on my body kit 3 weeks before

End of July 00:
Take out harness and start working on 3sgte harness. Takes about 3 weeks for me to go threw everything 3x's to make sure its right.

Mid August 00:
Pull out 5sfe motor and drop in 3sgte - not hooked up yet.

September 3rd 00:
Finish installing motor. Harness and hoses etc are installed.

September 4th 00:
Rear of car is jacked up and stock rear end is removed along with gastank and exhuast, portion of spare tire well is removed to allow room for GT4 rear end.

September 5th 00:
The big day! Start at 6am and work until about 5pm. Rear end is installed, rearend bolted up for the most part with only 2 weilds needed. Gastank is relocated into trunk and new fuel line is ran. drive shaft and front halfshafts are installed. 6pm - key is turned for 1st time... dosent wanna turn over, but kicks off on 3rd try. Test run... OMG! faster than I could of imangined and handles like a dream, bring it home and park it.

September 6th 00:
drive car to local exhaust shop and have custom exhaust made. Spend rest of day fine tuning and then replace fluids to make sure any dirt or dibre is gone.

Octomber 28th 00:
Put car away for winter

April 01:
Bring car back out Notice that when ever car is above 120 it pulls real bad to the side.... problem there, take it for 1st alignment.

June 01:
after multipul alignments decide that the rearend must be slightly off and is cuzing problems.

July 17th 01:
Lose Drivers license agian. 6 months this time

January 30th 02:
B-day also get license back

March 2nd 02:
Meet G/F - start of my problems LOL

April 7th 02:
drivers license is revoked due to unpaid fines $4k+ OUCH!

April 8th 02:
G/F starts driving my car

Mid summer 02:
After damaging my kit and messing up my subs and interior I take the keys from G/F and garage the car.

Week or two later:
Decide to redo the car Am still trying to finish it up.. yea its been over a year and a half but there are less than 10 things on this car besides nuts and bolts that havent been modified or replaced.. trust me one day we spent about 3 hrs trying to think of at least 10 things.. we came up with 7 - lol.

Heres how it stands right now.

Exterior:
About 90% complete
Still waiting on GT4 hood and trying to locate parts for Targa top conversion.

Interior:
About 70% complete
Still need my seats and to finish my Speaker wall thing... hard to explain but will post photos when done.

Motor:
About 80% complete
Removed AWD set up due to alignment issue discussed earlier. Am currently trying to locate a 5sfe bell housing to use on my 3sge transmission. I have also swapped the head and manifolds for a 185 setup (traded rearend for this) - am trying to do a few things with the T-VIS on the 185 head. Also need a new flywheel, clutch, and piping made for FMIC and BOV. Need to replace a few hoses that where damaged when pulling out 3sgte.

Suspension:
About none complete
Still have the old TRD setup and am currently working on purchasing parts for suspension.

Plans:
To break the 160mph mark next spring/summer. I am also going to try and break into the 11 sec bracket on 1/4mile this year.

Future Plans:
deside which head and manifold setup works better and then tear motor apart agian in 03/04 winter and install JUN stroker kit, Greddy T78 turbo kit and a few other go fast goodies.. 10's here I come

Future future plans:
R34... dead serious on this... nuff said

BTW said I wasnt gonna do the but oh well figure I should at least prove I even have a 3sgte.. so here yea go this was taken a few weeks ago and shows the 3sge trans and 185 top end.. please pardon the dust its been a while


will post more pics when car is completely done.