7afe build, lets see if its worth it Options

[celica74]

So a little history. Have had my 94 st for over three years now. Has had two motors in it. Stock one was neglected so i replaced it with a 95 with half the miles. All the car has done to it is the basics. Short ram intake, exhaust with ebay header, dropped 4 inchs on drop zones(cheap rout i know but im happy with them. Voxx 7.5 rims running 205/40-17s. I love thos car. Cant believe i almost got rid of it for a genesis coupe. Havent done anything to the car in the past year because i bought a bike. But now im back in the car game and ready to spice her up. Have considered many options on what i could do to make then realiable eco friendly cheap slower then a single cam civic motor some pep. Yes ive gone over the 3sgte and 3sge swaps. Honestly there not for me. I almost turbos my car 2 years ago but lacked funds and patience. So the other day i took a drive up to virgia to visit a fellow 6gc owner(or have a one. Hes parting his car). I pics up some goodies from him for a good price. Dont wanna spoil anything. Pics will be up soon on what i got and what my intentions are.

This post has been edited by celica74: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:43 AM

[celica74]

Alright a small update. Been busy with work and what not. Honestly hate coming home after working on cars all day long and it kinda makes me lazy enough to not work on mine. But anyways, look who i ran into the other day.

BEN! Went to his work to pick up a 12 point 10mm socket for the robs bolts.
So today i got the oil pan off

Looking at the pan and even the oil pickup its clear the person who opened it up last used way too much RTV, and oddly enough put it towards the inside lip of the pan.

Previous owner stated the head gasket went twice on him in the little time he had the car before parting it. Leaving a nice milky goo in the oil pan

I honestly think this motor wasnt cleaned when the guy before him had it, the rear main seal, pistons, oil pump and everything look new.
Got the upper oil pan(baffle) off as well, i cant understand why toyota decided to use allen bolts on this, almost rounded out 2 of them.

Good look at the crank and rod assembly, again way too much RTV. Remember too much is just as bad as too little.

Oil pump off, gasket again looking newish.


A nice view of my working conditions

And finally, this is the reason i kinda was out of the car scene for a while




Hopefully tomorrow ill get my act together and pull the crank and pistons and hopefully the robs and crank journals will be ok, seeing the RTV all up in the pump pickup. Monday is payday so i might be ordering some parts. importperformanceparts.net sells oem and hp rebuild kits. Looking at getting the oem kit and maybe .040 pistons. Does anyone know what that will do to the compression? The bore would be 82mm then. Ive tried using the online calculators and for some reason i always get a very off number.