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 Jun 24, 2012 - 11:41 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 21, '12 From Cali Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)  |
I have a 1.8 limited edition 97 st celica the car has 220k on her and still runs great the body is still pretty straight and the interior is an 8 outta 10 i have six inch touch screen dash hands free blue tooth installed tweeters and all new door speakers powered by six hundred watt amp and a 13.5 JL W7 powered by 1000/1v2 jl amp. so six years ago a rearended someome so now the car has salvage title, should i do engine swap and exhaust or just move on to something new? See another thing is that this 7a engine has only seen synthetic oil its whole life. in the past two years the following has been replaced ball joints, right engine mount left wheel hub assemby. Shocks and struts brakes belts and couple pulleys o yeah and one cv joint. oil changed every 3k religously. so basically should i have motor professionaly rebuilt, or try to swap in new motor like a beams.
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Jun 25, 2012 - 11:30 PM
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Enthusiast  Joined Dec 8, '03 From Lancaster CA Currently Offline Reputation: 6 (100%) |
what do you want to do? the 7A-FE is a fine engine for a daily driver and gets fairly good mileage. is the engine burning oil? is it smoking? is it knocking? i have rebuilt 2 ST engines and documented the first build. look in the stickies in the engine section. where in CA are you?
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Jun 26, 2012 - 11:25 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 21, '12 From Cali Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
QUOTE (Smaay @ Jun 25, 2012 - 11:30 PM)  what do you want to do? the 7A-FE is a fine engine for a daily driver and gets fairly good mileage. is the engine burning oil? is it smoking? is it knocking? i have rebuilt 2 ST engines and documented the first build. look in the stickies in the engine section. where in CA are you? The only thing wrong with the engine is that it has a very very small oil leak nothing to even caus a drip. other that she drives great no problems no knocking or smoking at all like i said she has 220k. i guess I'm asking is it worth it to rebuild engine cause if i go that route i wanna add headers an exhaust then she would be perfect daily driver. I'm in nor cal up in redding |
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EL_Jive_Turkey salvage title 220k now what Jun 24, 2012 - 11:41 PM
SupraKid Fairly good mpg? The st gets crazy good mpg for th... Jun 26, 2012 - 12:02 AM Smaay there is only 1 HEADER and i dont know of any aft... Jun 26, 2012 - 11:33 AM EL_Jive_Turkey no i changed the timing belt like 20k ago so no ne... Jun 26, 2012 - 4:06 PM kurt95gt If you love the car its worth doing whatever you w... Jun 26, 2012 - 4:55 PM Smaay its really up to you man, personally i wouldnt tou... Jun 27, 2012 - 12:28 AM EL_Jive_Turkey Well lets off by saying thanx for the input. so sm... Jun 27, 2012 - 12:47 PM SupraKid Boosting a 7a is stupid. Plain and simple. Jun 27, 2012 - 3:02 PM dliverance I say post some take it easy on your motor. Drive ... Jun 27, 2012 - 5:04 PM EL_Jive_Turkey so if i really wanted to get crazy and decided tha... Jun 28, 2012 - 2:46 PM Smaay if i were you.....i would NOT do a 3S-GTE swap. i ... Jun 28, 2012 - 3:09 PM EL_Jive_Turkey I hear you on the cost amount for 3s-gte. it does ... Jun 29, 2012 - 9:23 PM
kurt95gt I can tell you first hand the 1mz feels very good ... Jun 29, 2012 - 11:07 PM |
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