4AGZE Swap Options

[mikecelica]

I've been planning on turboing my st for a while now, got all the parts, but after going through all the costs with parts and labor I've come to a total of $3100, which I think is waay too much for 40-50hp (If even that). I wouldnt be getting much horsepower, plus risk damaging the engine, and say goodbye to the toyota reliability. So Im thinking now of just swapping in a 4agze, Ive been reading up alot about this and what i wanna know is why people think its such a difficult swap and that only few people have attempted it? Ive gone through this with a mechanic at toyota dealership that I work at. And he too says its the most simplest of swaps. All i really need is the engine,ecu,wiring harness,4age flywheel with using my 7afe tranny and same motor mounts. Thats pretty much it, unless I put in FMIC, but I've heard they benefit more from TMIC. The 4agze from the Levin from has about 170hp at stock psi (7psi) and at full boost (14psi) it should reach around 190hp or more with some pulleys and an safc. Plus another advantage would be that this engine was built to handle boost so its alot more safe than a 7afte. This mechanic has a 88 corolla gts with the 4agze and an mr2 4agze and they are faast. So I just wanna hear some thoughts on this. thanks

This post has been edited by mikecelica: Mar 14, 2008 - 7:21 PM

[Culpable04]

The only thing holding me back right now is that I'm in the process of moving, so until I'm established and find a Corolla 1997 to drive around as a beater this will be on hold, this engine completely stock ( internals ) just by adding a turbo you get ~ 200 hp at the wheels, the stock ECU takes boost from the turbo like it was meant to be like that, but It'll run a little rich so some tuning will be needed to have a nice A/F ratio. The only problem I've seen with this so far is the lack of stronger trannys for this set-up, so I'm gonna try to stay ~ 200 at the wheels for daily and ~ 250 for " fun days " for ST guys this would be as easy as putting a 3s in a GT, no more drilling holes for new mounts and playing with axels and such, and the best of all this engine sets ( including a tranny that may come with hydrolic LSD ) for less than US$1600.00 plus shipping. so I'm thinking of US$3000.00 budget for this to cover the extra parts and little things that will come up.