What to Look for when buying, a 3s-gte Options

[Doge]

Ok guys..gonna be rollin' with all you big dogs here pretty soon as soon as I find the right engine. I'm gonna take a couple months to look around and see where I can get the best deal. But what I wanted to know was a few things:

1. I already asked this in a different topic but...Where is the best place to deal with? I know toyosport is definately not the way to go. But which place knows their stuff and will try and help YOU and not themselves?

2. I know the clip is the way to go, and I'm definately going with the st185 for ease of installation. But what is the 2nd Gen. 3sgte? I saw on a diferent forum that it said it had the water to air intercooler on the top like the st205. But besides that what are the other visual differences? I just don't want to come across and engine that they think is just a plain 3s and it being a wrc for the same price and me not buying it cause I dont know that its a WRC. And besides visual differences what other modifications does it have that seperate it from the regular 2nd gen?

3. And last and more importantly. Lets say for the sake of pure knowledge I just order an engine and not the clip. What parts do I NEED to make sure it comes with. I'm talking the parts that are going to be almost impossible to find in America. I know I don't need the tranny and stuff like that that my gt will accomadate. But im talking a list of all those little parts that are going to make my world a whole lot easier when the swap process comes along. If anyone could provide me with this info I would be a very happy kid. Thanks alot.

And i'm sorry if any of you get annoyed if you think I'm reposting any questions. But rest assured i've been a part of this web site for about 10 months and I read the forums every day. It would just be nice to get all this info in one topic instead of trying to sift through all the topics and trying to piece everything together. And who knows...mabye if you guys provide enough info i't will help alot of other people out on the way..so they don't have to go through the hours of hell that I did trying to find every little piece of useful info in the 8 million topics on the wonderful forum. Thanks again guys. Hope you arn't mad about my reposted q's.

This post has been edited by Doge: Oct 16, 2003 - 8:02 PM