3vz-fe V6, 5th gen....., my conversion Options

[fibrewizard]

thanks

[manphibian]

nice project

just moved to off-topic to tidy up, as it's not a 6GC

[fibrewizard]

nice project

just moved to off-topic to tidy up, as it's not a 6GC

all good....

[richee3]

This is an awesome project. Keep up the good work.

[fibrewizard]

ok so got bored today so thought id do something with the celica while my kids were playing and the wife was studying........

So i started on the airpod filter... and boxing it off to make it legal....... photos are of first process.........

makeing cardboard walls then fibreglass a base.......... still lots to go but you will get the idea........







and just an updated pic of the celica as it was when i got it off the delivery truck...lol.....just cause i can.....lol



hey guys..... progress again... slowly but getting there.......


ok... thermostat housing.... this is a part of the conversion that wasnt forseable.......anywho.lol.....

due to the 56 mm radiator, and the pipe that slots into the thermostat housing, the clearance was not enough to allow a hose to be connected, so the pipe had to be cut shorter........ however doing this deleted the mounting bracket from the pipe to the alternator bracket, and as the pipe only slid into the thermostat housing, thus when pressure built up the pipe blew out so the only way to fix this was to weld a pipe to the housing and whalla......the end result...............

[Johnnyny]

make it legal? you cant have the filter showing or you have to have stock air box or stock looking ?

[fibrewizard]

make it legal? you cant have the filter showing or you have to have stock air box or stock looking ?

ok so got bored today so thought id do something with the celica while my kids were playing and the wife was studying........

So i started on the airpod filter... and boxing it off to make it legal....... photos are of first process.........

makeing cardboard walls then fibreglass a base.......... still lots to go but you will get the idea........


just incase you didnt read the whole post...........photos are of first process......... gotta make the walls before i can make the lid dude.......

although i do have to add....... i could (if i wanted too) rubber line the top of the box to form a seal with the bonnet and then use vents to get air from outside the car.......this is also legal and dont need a lid as the bonnet forms the lid......FYI...... this is not the way i am going........

[fibrewizard]

ok well pic is of the versions of thermostat housing that evolved through the build lol.....

in the middle is the stock 3vzfe camry pipe and housing.......
compare that with the one above it (top of pic), and you can see that cutting the pipe short deleted the mounting bracket and as the pipe only slides into housing then is bolted into place.. so removing it caused problems, so solution was to get alloy pipe welded to the housing to make a solid housing and pipe setup and that is the one on the bottom........

have installed it now, and once other little bits are done i can do a pressure test and hope all is sealed and sound........



till next time......grant

[fibrewizard]

gearbox swap is in progress.....just waiting for new exedy heavy duty clutch to arrive..
also waiting for gt4 cv to arrive.....

heres some teaser pics to show some progress......
ok the old 184 cables....bottom of pic..... and the 185 cables now needed to fit the e53 camry gearbox

replaced rear crank oil seal while gearbox was off.....

ok how the celica sits atm

and the difference between 184 and 185 front to rear crossmember........top of pic is 185.. bottom 184

[fibrewizard]

new vid after.....E53 camry 5sp conversion

[fibrewizard]

seen some in the uk, so will be looking for something over there..............

update on some new pics celica is finally ready to have engineer look at it, and its at the point where is as close to rego ready as i can get it............

so this is how it looks as of today.....

[Cuts_the_Pilot]

We dont take kindly to your type around here. (5th gen)

[fibrewizard]

so extremely close to rego,

nothing left to do, for rego anyway.......

bonnet finished and all painted, awaiting a date from the engineer, and the uvp from the rta

[fibrewizard]

been so long since i have updated this thread, and let me remember everything and get up to date.............


ok so for engineer all i needed to do was to lower the engine approx 8mm, due to the timing cover contacting the brake line off the brake slave cylinder, so had some 8mm thick washers machined to be placed between the body and xmembers to lower enough to clear........

thats all that needed to be done to get engineered and registered,

custom powersteering lines for blueslip,

i had an issue with drivers side (rhs) gt4 drive shaft popping out at the hub join, so had to use a camry axle with gt4 joints to give me a little extra length.....

so has been registered since june last year and had other issues, unrelated to the conversion but problems none the less.......

spun a big end bearing and needed a new crank, so had bottom end rebuilt with honed bores and new rings, new water pump, oil pump, complete gasket kit.... and re-install........

straight after rebuild i had a code thrown in ecu and it would stall and not start, and after a few weeks of searching and more trips back to mech who did re-build, it turned out to be a bad connection at plug of distributor.. so easy fix but took a while to find it.....as it was a very intermitant prob.......

after this a few weeks of driving it around and had planned to take it away with me on holidays, but on x-mas day i lost all electric power, and literally wouldnt start.......so parked it up and went on holidays on wife's 6th gen.......

once back i started trouble shooting the issue, after swapping ignition switch, starter relay, starter motor, and fuses, i found i had +(positive) power coming out of the engine at the point where the earth lead melted on me when it shut down..... so further investigation found that the wiring harness was rubbing on the starter motor and had rubbed through insulation to the alternator wiring and shorted out on the starter motor sending + power through engine, hense the shut down and loss of all starting circuit.....
after replacing the melted earth lead, and starter motor, as well as fuses and relay's it still wasnt starting, so off to auto electricians to fix..........

few bad earths and a poor connection in harness, problem solved and i can now drive it again,

so has been a very eventfull 6 months, and most of it has been in the mech, getting service or fix......

hopefully its the end of it, ( never say never)

next project has started...........

GT4 st185 3vz-fe turbo AWD conversion................

Grant

[GMan]

been so long since i have updated this thread, and let me remember everything and get up to date.............

next project has started...........

GT4 st185 3vz-fe turbo AWD conversion................

Great Thread Grant ! Thanks for the update !

Good Luck on your next Project. You will be the 3rd AWD V6 ?

Regards !
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[fibrewizard]

been so long since i have updated this thread, and let me remember everything and get up to date.............

next project has started...........

GT4 st185 3vz-fe turbo AWD conversion................

Great Thread Grant ! Thanks for the update !

Good Luck on your next Project. You will be the 3rd AWD V6 ?

Regards !
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how many turbo awd v6, i know of one in the states, ..

i am sure there would be others out there, but only can find the one....

[fibrewizard]

well back after a long hiatis, since buying my gt86, FR-S for the yanks, the v6 celica has just sat there, nothing done and it has gone to a bad place.......
no trouble or problems just neglected........

so time to strip it down, completely, and re start on the gt4 v6 turbo build,

New GT4 shell is being delivered on Thursday (3 days time), and it will be a track car build, so no need to comply with street laws and regulations, only need to comply with class regulations for time attack.......