My 3sgte swap thread, The diary begins TODAY! Options

[Defgeph]

You need mounts and brackets from a GT. All four GT brackets and three GT mounts. You can use your ST rear mount.

[LewFX]

http://www.car-part.com

[brianforster]

junkyards and car-part.com dont come up with engine mounts

[Chanh55]

You can buy brand new mounts here for a lot cheaper than Dealer Pricing.

Home Page:
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/ind...840&catalogid=0

Mounts Selected: http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/ind...995&catalogid=1

[playr158]

mmk well i stand corrected i must have miss understood sumthing down the line good stuff

[brianforster]

ordered the front and rear mounts overnight from toyota they will be here at 7:30 tomorrow morning

looks like this swap is possible after all

its crunch time boys

edit: 142$ i didnt have though

This post has been edited by brianforster: Mar 23, 2006 - 12:10 PM

[yungazzdriver]

kool guess you guys are set afterall!!! well then glad to hear the mounts are solved and well we all make mistakes and good luck maybe i can come check it out on friday before work

[snapshotgt]

Just to warn you, more random stuff will come up...and if you don't have $142, you maybe should not be swapping

...but good luck on the swap, and keep us posted.

~snap

[brianforster]

i know snapshot, i have an emergency credit card for situations like the 142$, and ill pay it off myself as well, i just mean its an unexpected 142$, not that im literally going to bounce a check or anythign

[snapshotgt]

i know snapshot, i have an emergency credit card for situations like the 142$, and ill pay it off myself as well, i just mean its an unexpected 142$, not that im literally going to bounce a check or anythign

hehe, i see...

[brianforster]

ok update, i removed the engine harness, hopefully to solder the connections tonight.

but a few things
i have serious doubts in my ability to put the harness back

one of my fuel injectors (or so im asuming) plugs , a wire got ripped, but like RIGHT at the connector, so no idea what im gonna do though

and one of the middle plugs, like, its got two prongs and two wholes, but in one of the wholes is metal like you usually see and one is missing. i didnt hear anything break, nor did i see the prong, im not even entirely sure its possible for the piece im talking about to break, but it looks like it comes from the fuel rail into the throttle body

[yungazzdriver]

the only one i i know of is the tps=throttle body?

[celicast3sgte]

not to put you down or nag, but you should have pulled the harness first thing and maybe taken that inside and work on that once the sun goes down outside you go in and work on the wires. would have been more time effective to reach your said goal. but all that aside good luck man! hopefully your swap goes more smoothly than mine (still working on it months later)

[Defgeph]

Show us a pic of this plug

[bigal004321]

I am glad you have the mounts taken care of...but wiring is going to take a little while i would assume. But hope you figure out what that "prong" is or was!! Good luck again...little stuff is always what kills a deadline! Nothing ever seems to go right when you actually need it too!

Bigal

[brianforster]

the motor is in, and 3 mounts are bolted down, with the 4th ready and lined up for drilling tomorrow.

oh yeah anyone interested in keeping the power steering on their ST for the swap without sourcing too many parts check it out:

i got a power steering resevoir from a wrecked GT, and i mounted it in the stock location. then i took the return line from the 7afe (remember how it unnecessarily looped back on itself?) and cut it right behind the resevoir, and attatched the return line, voila, it all mounts in the same positions as well, you just have to get: gt resevoir, gt high pressure line, and a long enough piece from the gt resevoir return line to attatch to your stock (hard line) return line.

tomorrow, boiled down to a simple phrase, is "plug and play". although i do not expect to get the motor running tomorrow, im just saying that the connections should be made.

although i do know that i will need to take pics and ask questions here as there are some plugs, vacuum hoses, etc, that i do not know where to put

[brianforster]

all mounts are bolted down and most of the electrical stuff is done, now i just have to connect all the hoses galore.

friends are done helping for the weekend though, so its just me, im gonna try and get some of the interior finished, its just kind of depressing because tomorrow i go back to school and wont be able to work on the car in my free time.

id say theres a solid day of work to do, if i had someone here that knew the 3sgte well, with just me, who knows how long it will take. there are hoses that arent labeled everywhere.

bit depressed right now, but ill get over it.

edit: im gonna try and get some pics tonight of stuff im not sure where to mount, like the injector resistor pack, and hoses i cant find leads for.

This post has been edited by brianforster: Mar 25, 2006 - 1:46 PM

[bojangles_8686]

Here are a couple pics I took today..






More work was done after those pics were taken tho, so its a little better looking than that

[lagos]

good work man


i feel like im watching Extreme Makeover: Celica Edition. lol

[x_itchy_b_x]

sweet deal man