PegGTS' officially low and slow ST204, Now featuring low! Options

[jordisonjr]

Wheels look way better gold than the previous look.
What is Dank Squad?

[kloudkicka]

Agreed on the gold wheels, waay better look

[PegGTS]

Should do a 1MZ swap, wouldn't really cost all that much more than another 5S.

I actually would prefer the 5S over the 1MZ personally. I'm not a big V6 fan so I'll probably find another 5S for cheap, especially since it would require the least work.

Wheels look way better gold than the previous look.
What is Dank Squad?

They're a group based out of Florida that Oliver and a few others started up over here. I'm not all for the name haha but the people are awesome.

Agreed on the gold wheels, waay better look

Thanks yeah I'm definitely liking the look a lot more. Eventually I'll get some gold wheels but for now I think the dip looks pretty good!

[Box]

So you're not a fan of being faster I see. BE THAT WAY.

[PegGTS]

Haven't gotten too much done with the car since I've been so busy with work and fixing a few things on the Camry all while trying to save up for a new engine. So lately I've just been tackling the rusted driver's side floor.

It started with this, a nasty rust hole where the drain hole should have been in the driver's side floor.




So I pulled the carpet back, chipped away at the deadening crap on top of the floor and proceeded to cut out all the bad metal.





And this is after cutting out all the bad stuff and hitting the rest with a wire wheel, excuse the crappy low light cell phone shots...




Sprayed some rust inhibitor on the surface rust and let it sit and do it's magic. You can see the pile of rusted crap on the floor through the hole




Here's the patch panel I had made up.




And here it is sitting in the floor, waiting to be welded in.




Once I get that welded in, I'm going to clean the floor up a little bit more and try and get as much of that surface rust off as possible, then POR 15 the whole floor, and it'll be (almost) good as new! Sure beats spending over $700 on a new floor pan

[PegGTS]

Update time!

So I got a patch welded into the floor and will be going over the top with POR 15 when I get the car back in my garage. Will update with pictures when I can.

ALSO, I have a replacement 5S on the way! It's coming from a nearby city and should be here in the next couple days! 165k kms on the clock.

[jordisonjr]

Where'd you snag that from? Good find. Going to keep the camry now too?

[PegGTS]

Girlfriend's dad works for Winnipeg Honda and he got it through one of his customers for a really good price. Couldn't pass it up. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to afford to keep both cars since I'll be starting school again and not working so I'll probably end up selling the Camry. Know anybody looking?

[Box]

Yay on finding a new motor!

Well if you're not doing anything with the Camry but basic maintenance just use it for school/work and make the Celica into a fun weekend car and maybe start autocross and the like with it.

[kloudkicka]

Nice find, and i second what box said, camry =daily, celica=pleasure

[sircalebwhite]

Agree also! But maybe 5sgte?!

[PegGTS]

I'm still debating whether I should keep the Camry or not. I'll see how much money I have saved up by the end of the summer and if I'll have enough to survive until the spring when I'm done school again

This engine would definitely be a good 5SGTE candidate though.

This post has been edited by PegGTS: Jul 30, 2015 - 9:40 PM

[sircalebwhite]

I know as soon as I take the engine out of my celi the build begins! Hoping to autocross it in the next year or 2.

[PegGTS]

Got my engine today! Had it shipped to my work since we had a forklift and I'll be bringing it home tomorrow. Another 5SFE with 165k kms on the clock, not bad. Any preventative maintenance I should do with it before I put it in?

[Box]

I'd go ahead and do timing, water pump, and perhaps the oil pump if it hasn't been noted when it was last done.

[PrimeLuxeZ]

I would also do the front and rear main seals, and give it a good degrease, and power wash. Maybe check the thermostat as well?
I had bought a used engine and I found a partial thermostat sitting in the housing.

[sircalebwhite]

Seals for sure. One thing my previous owner didn't do when installing the new engine in my Celica was he obviously did nothing to it prior to dropping it in. Now I have many oil leaks at every bad place to have one apart from the valve cover gasket.

[Box]

Yep seals and thermostat would be good too. Any newer/better parts off your old engine like maybe spark plugs and wires or header for example would swap over too. The engine does look pretty clean from the pictures though.

[Celica_MKVI]

Toyota typically offers a complete gasket kit for their engines, but I do not see one listed for the 5S-FE. Aside from what has already been mentioned above, if you really want to clean up everything, you may want to do the head gasket. If you go that route, since the head will be off, do the valve stem seals, spark plug seals and valve cover gasket.

[PegGTS]

I guess I can update this a bit.

Been extremely busy lately with life and other things so my car has kinda been on the backburner for a while. Here and there I've been slowly taking the engine apart and getting ready to take it out. While doing that I've also been putting the interior back together slowly and working on the surface rust on the driver's side rocker panel.

But tonight I FINALLY got the engine out and it's such a relief. I was having a lot of trouble with the driver's side axle but after asking Daniel (richee) for advice he told me I could just pull the whole thing out with the axle, which is what I ended up doing. I'm glad to finally have one step out of the way.

Here's some pictures:


Got the floor patch welded in and sealed



Then I used POR 15 on the whole front floor to seal it in




Now onto the engine!







And it's out!





Old poopy engine



New engine on the hoist ready to go onto the engine stand to get some work done on it




And of course:



This post has been edited by PegGTS: Aug 21, 2015 - 12:00 AM