New Celica Owner Options

[Seven1Six]

Not exactly new, I've had it since the summer, but I'm just recently getting into it.
I got a white 1994 Celica ST hatchback.

Here's what's in my mind.

I recently slid into a pole in the snow here, I detached the passenger fender from the front bumper and messed up the fender, so I need to get a new one of those.
I need to get a new passenger tail light (broken when I got it, still lights and works, but there's a crack in it that I had to cover with the light tape).
There is a soccer ball sized dent that is rusted in the back driver panel, a crease/dent in the driver door, and rust along the side and bottom of the door on the driver side (all from when I bought it, but it ran fine and was cheap so I was fine with it)

It's got an automatic tranny, and is, as stated before the ST. It has 137k miles on it now.
This is farrrrrr to slow for my liking.

What I want to do is put in an engine from a GT, preferably a manual transmission, but I don't really have the time or money to worry about that so realistically the auto will do, so long as it's a larger engine.
Like I said I'm new to this so stay with me here, what type of engine am I looking into for this, and what would the cost be for it? My dad has a few mechanic friends so I'm sure they'll teach me along the way and help me put in it and all.
Once I do that I plan on fixing all the body work needed, and painting it, most likely black.

So I'll keep this updated as I go. I need all the help I can get, I'm 17 and my old work place closed down so I'm working on a new job, no one around is hiring though so I'm on a very very short line of cash for this, so any donations are GREATLY appreciated haha.

Thanks for taking your time everyone.

-Josh

[Euphoria]

hey mate, welcome to the site!

because you want to do engine and transmission conversion it shouldn't be too hard, but if you just wanted an engine the 5sfe out of the GT wouldn't fit onto the ST gearbox as they use different series engines.

you have a few options you could find a 4age somewhere and an ST gearbox and put that in which might be easier, the 4age should connect right up to your auto box.

Or you could find A GT 5sfe AND gearbox, with this you'd probably be better sourcing a 3sge which connects up to a GT's transmission and has a fair bit more power.

bearing in mind a lot of these engines might have too much power for the gearbox/diff, generally only bad when you have alot of power with a turbo etc. people correct me if I'm wrong haha.

This post has been edited by Euphoria: Jan 30, 2009 - 6:22 PM