Mods
It's a short list, of everything except for the body and panels... a just south of 200hp 3sge out of a later model half cut, height, damping, and camber adjustable coil overs, a shiny radiator, electro-hydraulic powersteering, some anti-roll bars not made from coathangers, all of the creature comforts including; two bucket seats, a lovely ROUND steering wheel, three pedals, a stick, kaaz 1.5 way lsd, and a heater that is mostly superfluous in the land of upside down. I also habour a dislike for late 80's wiring and relays so it has a PDM and a haltech elite 1000 for later tinkering to get to that reasonably north of 200hp.\r
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Brakes from the halfcut because late 90's is still better than late 80's, some tasteful bbs wheels, custom polyurethane engine mounts machined from poly bar not poured, a beautiful bracket (well crossmember) to fix the alignment issues created by said semi solid mounts and the now 8mm lower engine and gearbox...\r
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And some other things
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Brakes from the halfcut because late 90's is still better than late 80's, some tasteful bbs wheels, custom polyurethane engine mounts machined from poly bar not poured, a beautiful bracket (well crossmember) to fix the alignment issues created by said semi solid mounts and the now 8mm lower engine and gearbox...\r
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And some other things
Build story
It started out as my first car, and well... waste not want not I guess? After the original 300,000km engine decided milk was better than water and oil it got parked up in the usual place a young adult keeps bulky items that are fairly useless. Their parents' garage. Some moons later I took delivery of a half cut that was super easy to get onto the rented trailer at work with a forklift. Getting it off said trailer at home was a little less glamourous having only a 1500kg jack and an engine hoist with the most useless wheels known to man.\r
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Eventually all that got swapped in by my dad and I and it was driveable again. A bit of action and various bolt on replacement bits for the suspension later and then I undertook a solution to the known clearance issues with putting a late gen 3sge into a fourth gen celica with the standard cross member. Mostly thanks to the guys at Bad Obsession Motorsport for the idea, and other ideas (thanks for picking a 3s to work on guys), to fab up a new N-S crossmember. Obviously I had to break out the environmentally friendly CAD for this as I don't like wasting cardboard, so it was off to the computer. To go with this I spent many hours annoying my neighbours by cold chiselling out the inserts from the original mounts, nothing like a few solid hours of thumping... some high density poly urethane and stainless inserts later and the engine was finally mounted in a manner that I deemed suitable. Only took 8 years to get there after putting it in the first time. \r
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Currently it's in pieces again for a full rewire to put in the PDM and ECU, and a great thanks to the boys at the skid factory for the tip on wrapping looms. Even if you're not fond of the 3s.\r
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On the bright side, it now has some preliminary printed brackets to test how they go with temperature before going all out and printing the most elaborate bracket of them all.
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Eventually all that got swapped in by my dad and I and it was driveable again. A bit of action and various bolt on replacement bits for the suspension later and then I undertook a solution to the known clearance issues with putting a late gen 3sge into a fourth gen celica with the standard cross member. Mostly thanks to the guys at Bad Obsession Motorsport for the idea, and other ideas (thanks for picking a 3s to work on guys), to fab up a new N-S crossmember. Obviously I had to break out the environmentally friendly CAD for this as I don't like wasting cardboard, so it was off to the computer. To go with this I spent many hours annoying my neighbours by cold chiselling out the inserts from the original mounts, nothing like a few solid hours of thumping... some high density poly urethane and stainless inserts later and the engine was finally mounted in a manner that I deemed suitable. Only took 8 years to get there after putting it in the first time. \r
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Currently it's in pieces again for a full rewire to put in the PDM and ECU, and a great thanks to the boys at the skid factory for the tip on wrapping looms. Even if you're not fond of the 3s.\r
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On the bright side, it now has some preliminary printed brackets to test how they go with temperature before going all out and printing the most elaborate bracket of them all.