My 3rd Gen 3SGTE Swap Thread, It lives!!! Pg8 Options

[presure2]

So as most of ya know, i've had jenns 94 GT setup with a 5sfte for just about 5 years now, and its time to move on.

after going thru all the options we decided on a 3rd gen 3sgte for all the obvious reasons.
_jim_ has been selling 3s motor sets and clips to a few diffrent members here, and is a good friend of mine, so i gave him a call, and discussed my options with him.
he set me up with a great deal on a clip minus body panels ect, since we already have the '4 front end on jenns car.
he delivered it to my house on friday.
we're pretty sure the clip is a 94, it has ~34,000 miles on it (~55,000km) and is in GREAT shape.

some pics of the progress so far.

once we got the hood and bumper off, this is what we had:





it came with a blitz BOV, blitz spark plug wires, and blitz ground kit.





the turbo has virtually NO shaft play, and spins super free and smooth as butter.



the leader and supervisor of team "JDM guy"



this morning i dropped out the 3s, its much easier to just remove the suspension, crossmembers, motor and tranny as one piece out the bottom.

this pic shows how i lifted the clip up over the motor once i dropped it onto a dolly



the motor with the intercooler off out of the clip:





the suspension and crossmember



and chassis tag:



more to come as progress is made.

[presure2]

ok so to follow up here are the pics of the stuff i talked about in the last post.

this first pic is the coolant line that runs from the water neck, to the coolant hardlines that bolt to the side of the intake manifold, which in turn feeds the throttle body.



this is the other line. it comes off the water bypass pipe that runs alongside the motor, under the waterneck and distributor.



this pic shows the hardlines that the coolant lines pictured above feed into. (its the silver lines)



next is the TVSV. in the pic below, you can see the TVSV, and the line im pointing to goes to the hardline that you normally cap off when you install a boostcontroller.



the other line goes to the air bypass hardline, which is why it dont have a clamp on it (it never sees boost)



and finally the airbypass hardline, which connects the air intake to the IAC.



thats part of the stuff i am eliminating, and will clean things up a bit in that area.
in the above picture, the line to the left is the one talked about above, and the one on the right goes accross the back of the motor, to feed the power steering idle up valve.



here is where the line connects to the valve. you can see how i marked the valve to show where the lines go:





the other line connects to the back of the intake manifold:





this is what it looks like with the other line removed:



once that was all set, i removed it all, then removed the intake manifold



ill shave off the stuff i dont need on the manifold, clean that and some other stuff up this weekend, and then send it all off to be powdercoated. luckily we have a guy who is right local to the house that does a good job for us.

then i pulled the turbo/manifold/DP off as one peice, i just disconnected the water lines for the turbo, disconnected the manifold/turbo braces, and the oil feed line from the block, moved the clamp on the return line, removed the bolts and pulled it off.



ill be doing the helper spring mod to help hold boost better as well.
more to come!

[Ted95]

looks good manny, but 2 things just to clarify. ur removing those lines completely from the back of the manifold? are they not neccesary for the swap or is it because you have another reason for doing so that i may have missed, i went back to a couple posts and i just want to understand that.

also if you could breifly explain a little about the helper spring, brentton mentioned the spring last night to me and i was curious about it. and i did read jims how to thread on it but still a lil confused on what it does.

This post has been edited by Ted95: May 8, 2010 - 5:15 PM

[presure2]

looks good manny, but 2 things just to clarify. ur removing those lines completely from the back of the manifold? are they not neccesary for the swap or is it because you have another reason for doing so that i may have missed, i went back to a couple posts and i just want to understand that.

also if you could breifly explain a little about the helper spring, brentton mentioned the spring last night to me and i was curious about it. and i did read jims how to thread on it but still a lil confused on what it does.

im removing the lines from the back of the manifold, except for the one that goes from the PS pump vsv to the intake manifold.
99% of swappers leave all that stuff. im just removing it cause i can.
ill cover the helper spring when i install it. ill prolly do that by next weekend.