3sgte in New england Options

[Cevax]

Just a quick question, is there any shop in the northeast area that has experience with a 3sgte swap. I want to pretty much buy a shell and dump it somewhere and have a motor swapped in as painless as possible.

[Cevax]

I know I don't have the motor yet but this is like an addiction to me, I have to be working on something otherwise I am just bored. I purchased the service manual and started doing research on the 3s before I start looking for a chassis. It will either be a mr2 or an already swapped 3s due to the time and cost, I only have 10 thousand to spend and the swap will eat up most if not all of that. I been doing lots of research the last few days on how to approach this motor and I found lots of info that just doesn't seem correct to me. Also doesn't help that not a lot of people have really pushed these engines which is really a shame considering how well they designed they appear to be. Anyway what I gather is between 275-320 horse and considering the cars weight I am looking for more around 350 to 450 at the wheels. I really don't see the motor failing at these power levels considering the size or the rods, compression and pistons used, as long as timing is conservative, egt's are under control with no knocking the engine should hold up well. I drove around a 220 horse single jingle and those things have rods the size of number 2 pencils in them, the pistons and rods came out like new when I pulled it to rebuild it. I still have the Honda and now that I am determine in making this my next project there are a few parts I am not going to part out. These being the garrett turbocharger, aem wideband, profec b, timer, precision injects, 255 pump, tial wastegate, map sensor and the egt sensor . Obvious things that have to go is are the head bolts, complete exhaust and and out of experience Toyota ecu's are not very "tuner" friendly, but I did have an aem series 2 ems before and those things are awesome so looking into getting another one of those. So scrapping the fuel delivery and adding a real turbocharger I should see the gains I am hoping for, people give in your 2 cents please

One thing I am worried about is my turbocharger, I purchased a rather large one due to my compression only being 7.4.1 and needed to run about 20 to 30 pounds to get it to about 500 horse. The turbo does NOTHING between 6 and 10 psi and comes alive above 13 the 1.6 liter spooled it at around 4500-5k rpm made boost all the day to 9000. I hope this changes with a 2 liter motor since I would like it to spool sooner.

This post has been edited by Cevax: Jan 29, 2011 - 9:54 AM