'94 5sfe head, Blown headgasket. Wanna do a mild build while its off. Options

[pokemeintheeye]

My 94 Celica GT (5sfe) has a blown head gasket. So I figured I might as well do a mild build. I'm not looking for big power. Just a little more. I don't have a goal in mind or any future plans of big power. I was just fine with it stock but with the blown head gasket a mild build wouldn't be such a bad idea. Maybe just throw on a set of cams and be done with it.

I've been using the search and I'll find bits and pieces of information here and there. Will search and search some more. I'm hoping to attract the attention of someone who has done a build on their 5s head. What they've done and what they might suggest. So far it seems like regrind cams are the way to go but will require the valves to be shimmed? 2jzgte valves will work but will need some modification? Seems like stock valve springs should work just fine.

If anyone has any input please let me know. I wanna get going on this soon so I can get the car back on the road.

[RabidTRD]

Tigawoods is the one to talk to about that.

[Syaoran]

Webcams 294 grind, mill the head 0.040" for a bump in compression and call it a day.

Building the head for power without changing the stock rods for better units is pointless since you'll be RPM-limited by the rods to 6500RPM stock redline.

[Tigawoods]

ya beat me to it.
Then grab a SAFC2 and THEN call it a day.

(hooking up and street tuning the SAFC2 is part of that day)

[Smaay]

holy crap .040" is alot!

to the OP, there really isnt much you can do with the 5S. yes a set of cams will be nice but they are expensive. get a metal head gasket from a 98 camry and call it a day. if you have a ton of miles, i suggest pulling the engine, replace the rings and bearings, hone the cylinders. basically a complete refresh. if you have a pre ODBII turn the distributor up to about 15 degrees and use mid grade gas. thats a good step up.

[pokemeintheeye]

Cams it is. If no other issues arises.

holy crap .040" is alot!

to the OP, there really isnt much you can do with the 5S. yes a set of cams will be nice but they are expensive. get a metal head gasket from a 98 camry and call it a day. if you have a ton of miles, i suggest pulling the engine, replace the rings and bearings, hone the cylinders. basically a complete refresh. if you have a pre ODBII turn the distributor up to about 15 degrees and use mid grade gas. thats a good step up.

I've read that about the 98+ Camry gasket. It looks slightly different though. Should work with no problems on a '94 5s? '96+ looked the same as the 09+ Camry's when I looked up those parts but the '94 & '95 is a tad different.

[presure2]

you can use the 98+ metal gasket on the earlier motors.
cams is the single best mod you can do on a 5s.
i would either go with the colt cams, or the webcams, but the coltcams are a bunch cheaper than the webcams. iirc the webcams are around 400+, the colt cams are like 250 or somthing like that.
i've tuned both on the dyno, the mildest sets from both companys make very similar power, but the colt cams were easier to install, and were cheaper like i said earlier.

[Syaoran]

holy crap .040" is alot!

to the OP, there really isnt much you can do with the 5S. yes a set of cams will be nice but they are expensive. get a metal head gasket from a 98 camry and call it a day. if you have a ton of miles, i suggest pulling the engine, replace the rings and bearings, hone the cylinders. basically a complete refresh. if you have a pre ODBII turn the distributor up to about 15 degrees and use mid grade gas. thats a good step up.

Then you definitely haven't seen people shaving 5S heads here to 0.080" lol...

[Raggan]

Same question I have a 5sfe 94 and i'm thinking about rebuilding the head can someone tell me what parts I will need in order to do it I want street performance only my motor has 130,000 Kilometers.