supershannon77's new 5SFTE powered celica, NEW DYNO RESULTS PG5 285+WHP! PG6 vid added! Options

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Hey all,
as some of you may know, shannon and jim (supershannon77) have a 3sgte swapped 6gc, that they bought from RJB on the forum.
They started off with a 91 auto GT, that they had a local shop install a "ebay special" turbo kit on. the shop installed the kit, and promptly blew the motor @ 5.5 psi.
shannon then had the shop source and install a 99 5s, and made ~147whp if I remember correctly, with the auto tranny, @ 5.5psi
They then blew said auto tranny. lol
So, IIRC, they sold the 5th gen to a friend, and bought RJBs car.
They have had a few problems with it, including a bad tranny, which Defgeph and I went down and replaced for them.
While i was down there, jims brother joe bought the old 5th gen back, with the blown tranny, and fresh 99 motor in it.
We disscussed diffrent options for it, including a manual tranny swap, but with the car having pre 93 electronics, and no knock sensor system, I convinced them the best thing to do would be to find a nice 6th gen chassis to swap the engine package into.
At that time, we also disscussed power goals, and to me, it seemed like Jim and Shannon were just looking for a streetable, everyday drivable car, with ~225 or so hp, to make the trip a bit more enjoyable .
Where Joe, on the other had, is really looking to build a BEAST down the road, 350+whp ect.
Fast forward a few weeks, and browsing the FS section here on the board, I see a nice 95 with a blown motor. http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=49717&hl=
Bing, Bang, Boom, Jim and Joe are on it, and go put a deposit on the car.
We set everything up, and a few weeks later, Jim, Shannon, and Joe, load the 5th gen INTO the back of a uhaul truck, put the 6th gen on a car hauler attached to the back of said uhaul, and drove them up here.
here are some pics and discriptions of whats gone on since.

They arrive with the cars:


We get the 6th gen off the car carrier:


HOLY CRAP, they really DID stick the 5th gen in the back of the Uhaul!!!!!


this was NOT as easy as it looks:


mmmm yellow nology wires!! LMAO


With that done, the following morning we got right to work, and got the cars up and draining, and prepped to get the bad motor out:




Then we pulled the motor and tranny out of the 6th gen:

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shannons car is back up here, getting the following installed:
8psi wastegate spring
"devils own" WI kit
we are also going to be ordering a set of the colt cams, ground to suit the turbo setup they are running, and are going to hopfully be installing the 2nd bodykit they ordered (the first was REALLY bad.)

so i went about installing the larger wastegate spring.
let me tell ya, this was NO fun.
#1, with the crappy design of the turbo adapter, getting the wastegate off, without removing the whole turbo setup (turbo, manifold, and DP) as one peice first was impossible, so, i had to remove the wastegate cover with it still in the car.
now, ok no biggie, right?
no. i had to remove the alternator, and still had a hard time even getting a allen wrench in there to loosen the bolts.
the cover is under tension from the wastegate spring pushing on it, so you have to remove the bolts in a circular pattern so the housing dont get cocked.
getting it off wasnt too bad, but getting it back together took a while.
i ended up using a c-clamp to help hold the cover in place so i could get the bolts started, and worked it back in.
once that was done, i took it out for a ride, to see what it felt like as i turned up the boost.
anything over 12psi and you can really feel the knock on pump fuel, so we're currently working on getting the WI installed ASAP, then heading over to the dyno for some tuning.
i will drive the car a bit more once i install the WI, to see how it responds to more boost with that, and if all goes as planned, i will prolly throw in a 50/50 mix of race fuel and pump gas and head over to the dyno and turn the boost up to 14 or 15 psi and see if the car has anything left in it before the cams.
i am quite eager to see if it will continue to make power over the 240whp they made last time @ 11psi.
i feel like we are getting close to the limit of the stock head, and this round of dyno runs will let us know if that is true or not.
more to come soon!!