Finished 99 GT 3S-GTE Swap from Dr. Tweak UPDATE W/PICS AND VID Page 3, Titled "The Thing That Should Not Be" Options

[Insanity-74]

Explain "lag."

Put in some heat shielding.... that exhaust wrap stuff would be your best and cheapest bet...put it on both the exhaust and the intercooler pipework great stuff at stopping heat transfer.

[Fastbird]

how much did you pay for it?

Pay for what, the car?? I paid $7500 for the car "buy it now" on eBay because I had seen a same condition higher mileage one go for 1K more just days before, and I was sick of the endless goose chase for a GOOD car as every one I was looking at was misrepresented in one way or another.

[celi_gt_racer]

ok... so i gotta ask - what's the total cost for motor/tune-up/all the electronics/ and the Dr. Tweak install and tune .... i must know how much i need to take out a loan for

[Fastbird]

We went well above and beyond what a "budget" swap would have cost. That said, I paid $7000 to Dr. Tweak for the swap and all associated parts, $1065 for the exhaust, and another $260 for dyno time for tuning.

I figure that if you were to pay Dr. Tweak to do a bare bones swap, meaning no aftermarket parts, mating the exhaust to your factory exhaust, no tweaking or anything, you could get away for under $5K.

[zipstrips]

dang, you got 130K on your 99? i only got like 66k on my 98. maybe i need to do more driving haha. did you 5sfe still run when it was taken out?

76k on my 1995!!!

This post has been edited by zipstrips: Jul 26, 2006 - 7:24 PM

[Fastbird]

Put in some heat shielding.... that exhaust wrap stuff would be your best and cheapest bet...put it on both the exhaust and the intercooler pipework great stuff at stopping heat transfer.

NEVER do the exhaust wrap. I've seen first hand what that stuff can do in the wrong conditions. I'm looking at a re-route of the piping, but given that the pipe are touching on the pre-intercooler side, I'm not overly concerned about it. I'd like to get the rubber intake issue taken care of first (3" custom tubing to AFM and a better filter).

[jgreening]

NEVER do the exhaust wrap. I've seen first hand what that stuff can do in the wrong conditions.

More detail please.

[Fastbird]

NEVER do the exhaust wrap. I've seen first hand what that stuff can do in the wrong conditions.

More detail please.

Know a guy who had a car burn to the ground because of exhaust wrap. Got a surprise oil leak, which ignited after soaking the wrap down good. Poof in mere minutes.

This post has been edited by Fastbird: Jul 26, 2006 - 9:41 PM

[celica47]

lagos better watch out then

[Fastbird]

Well, as long as you don't have everything happen at once, you'll probably be ok. I personally won't put the stuff on my car though having seen what "can" happen.

[lagos]

you guys are silly.

almost anything in your engine bay can catch fire if soaked in hot oil. hell even your throttle cable can start a fire, not to mention your fuel lines, or those tubular exhaust manifolds that glow red when you get on the throttle.

[Dr_Tweak]

Put in some heat shielding.... that exhaust wrap stuff would be your best and cheapest bet...put it on both the exhaust and the intercooler pipework great stuff at stopping heat transfer.

NEVER do the exhaust wrap. I've seen first hand what that stuff can do in the wrong conditions. I'm looking at a re-route of the piping, but given that the pipe are touching on the pre-intercooler side, I'm not overly concerned about it. I'd like to get the rubber intake issue taken care of first (3" custom tubing to AFM and a better filter).

Yeah and not only that, header wrap WILL eventually damage any exhaust parts which get real hot. I never allows the heat out which will bring the temperature of a header, for example, to near-molten state. This causes serious problems down the road.

That pipe touching is the reason that I'd like to someday do a setup with a top flow intercooler and both pipes running off towards the driver's side. At any rate, I would be far more concerned with upgrading that intercooler than relocating that pipe.

-Doc

[Fastbird]

That pipe touching is the reason that I'd like to someday do a setup with a top flow intercooler and both pipes running off towards the driver's side. At any rate, I would be far more concerned with upgrading that intercooler than relocating that pipe.

-Doc

No top mounts for me. Actually, a piping upgrade will probably happen at the same time as a new intercooler. Whoever it was that said it was on to something with the piping route being turbo -> driver side of intercooler -> out passenger side from intercooler up to the TB. There's just enough room on the passenger side of the motor to pull everything off without clearance issues it looks like.

Doc, what specifically is the size of that intercooler so I can find one that's the same and won't present installation issues?

[Dr_Tweak]

That pipe touching is the reason that I'd like to someday do a setup with a top flow intercooler and both pipes running off towards the driver's side. At any rate, I would be far more concerned with upgrading that intercooler than relocating that pipe.

-Doc

No top mounts for me. Actually, a piping upgrade will probably happen at the same time as a new intercooler. Whoever it was that said it was on to something with the piping route being turbo -> driver side of intercooler -> out passenger side from intercooler up to the TB. There's just enough room on the passenger side of the motor to pull everything off without clearance issues it looks like.

Doc, what specifically is the size of that intercooler so I can find one that's the same and won't present installation issues?

That's top-FLOW intercooler, verses side-flow like most intercoolers. Top-flow have the endtanks on the top and bottom and both inlet and outlet on the same side (normally), and are usually very effective and efficient. However, they are expensive.

I'm not sure, I'd have to look it up. By that time you could take a measuring tape to it and be done with it though!

-Doc

[Fastbird]

Insert sheepish grin here. Told ya I was new to this turbo/intercooler stuff.

thanks for clearing that up.

[tomazws]

The car looks very awesome... why you live so far Doctor Tweak?!?!?!

[99GT]

Everytime I research I get side track from another one haha...

[Negative]

99GT - Thanks for bumping these two old threads. Both were created during a time that I wasn't paying much attention to this site and I missed them. I learned a few things whch is always valued.
I really don't see why anyone would need to protest unless they were just bored. Besides the original creators of this thread may see it and feel compelled to update us with newer info.

[rjbibeau]

quick question...what size intercooler is that..i'm trying to size which size i'm gonna be getting and your looks like it fits really nice in there. what is the size from end tank to end tank?

[Dr_Tweak]

Should be about 28" long, 5-6" tall, and about 3" deep.

-Doc