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

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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.

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I dont know about you manny but i love to solder once your done and everything looks clean. Its something to be proud of.

Your gonna be done with this swap before me!

Wow, I bet that wiring takes forever to do.. It's so clean though. Props.

i do enjoy soldering, it just takes time.
thanks.

i took a break from the wiring today (mostly cause i didnt have time to sit down and mess with it) so i just cleaned up the wastegate actuator, and installed the helper spring to help hold boost more consistantly.
i went over to ace, and bought a couple of springs, but in the end, i ended up using one i had around the garage.
i used a bike tire pump, and checked the wastegate actuator, to see when it started to crack the wastegate open without the spring, then messed with the tension and free length of the spring to get the wastegate to start to upen ~12 or so psi, and its fully open ~16psi, which should be perfect for what i want.
once it was all set up, i took it off, and sprayed it.
a couple of pics.

[Ted95]

looks sweeet manny, you use regular paint for that or does it require high heat? .. srry if its a noob question.. lol

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looks sweeet manny, you use regular paint for that or does it require high heat? .. srry if its a noob question.. lol

I did use high temp paint on the actuator, kinda as a "basecoat", then a couple light coats of normal stuff to get the same color as the other stuff I painted.

[Ted95]

looks sweeet manny, you use regular paint for that or does it require high heat? .. srry if its a noob question.. lol

I did use high temp paint on the actuator, kinda as a "basecoat", then a couple light coats of normal stuff to get the same color as the other stuff I painted.

ahh icic, makes sense. now since you used the high temp as basically a basecoat it should prevent the regular paint from burning off right? (in theory)

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looks sweeet manny, you use regular paint for that or does it require high heat? .. srry if its a noob question.. lol

I did use high temp paint on the actuator, kinda as a "basecoat", then a couple light coats of normal stuff to get the same color as the other stuff I painted.

ahh icic, makes sense. now since you used the high temp as basically a basecoat it should prevent the regular paint from burning off right? (in theory)

That's what I'm hoping for.... I dunno how well it's gonna work, but we'll find out!!

[Ted95]

looks sweeet manny, you use regular paint for that or does it require high heat? .. srry if its a noob question.. lol

I did use high temp paint on the actuator, kinda as a "basecoat", then a couple light coats of normal stuff to get the same color as the other stuff I painted.

ahh icic, makes sense. now since you used the high temp as basically a basecoat it should prevent the regular paint from burning off right? (in theory)

That's what I'm hoping for.... I dunno how well it's gonna work, but we'll find out!!

haha time will tell my dude! someones gotta try, why not you lol