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How can you tell? Are the indentations on the cam gears no in the same position on both sides or somethin?

wow (just read 13 pages of work) nice

anyway, your engine bay needs a tidy up..when you get the motor back in. also is it me or the light/camera but you might want to think about replacing your filter foam?

But I think you need a colour scheme, blue? to go with your gauges

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Engine is out so i can do a complete tuck and rebuild. going to replace the filter in the filter in the process and clean the whole bay/ hide most of it.

just got home again for xmas break.. back until jan 6th.. a little bit of skiing, some family and hopefully some motivation to work on the celi.. or atleast the engine.

only problem... we got a little bit of snow..

Start diggin' Jesse!

..doesn't look that much

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A little bit is an under statement bro.

Holy Crap!!! I just started reading this thread from the beginning to the end!!! This thread gives me so much motivation to get my car running the week after xmas. That'll be the first week I have off and the first week where my car is actually by my side to work on. This project has been in progess for about 2 years now and I never got around to finishing it. Anyways, thanx for the motivation Jesse........maybe I'll do a thread like yours and update everyone on my progress.

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glad i could help

and definitely make a thread

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This is exactly what I was thinking! lol but I definitely don't have enough experience to take on something as big as this. Start small I guess, right? Anyways great job on the car, keep us updated and keep up the good work!
Btw, where have you been getting all your parts from??

This post has been edited by Stogbob: Dec 23, 2007 - 6:58 PM

Update December 27th

-shoveled my way to the celica
-removed gauge cluster
-fitted GT4 PC board, rpm gauge and fuel/boost/eng temp gauge into USDM gauge housing with the TRD speedometer
-removed some things off of the engine.. mainly the exhaust manifold w/ turbo set up

here are the pics

Gauges:





Engine:



anyone wants this its for sale


The story with the gauges is as follows.. why didn't i just use the housing from the GT4 cluster? well the tabs broke off in shipping so i just transfered everything over to a USDM housing. when i say housing i am referring to the white housing that all of the guages mount into.. Well there are a few differences between the USDM one and the GT4 housing. The only difference that really needs to be altered is the screw holes.. where the boost gauge is added there are not enough holes on the back there for the screws to mount the gauges etc. so i just drilled new ones and it all lines up.. I used the PC board (more of a card) as the template to make sure they are in the right places. If anyone is wondering what i mean when i refer to PC board i am talking about the green printed circuit "card" on the back of the gauges that connects the plugs to the gauges.

pic for the fun of it.

love the silver trim around the gauges, sets it off real nice
so not alot left now to do? or have you got a secret you are not telling us?

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wait and see

I can't wait! -so the guessing begins...
new turbo, extrators (or header as you call them) engine degreased and shiny as? new intake? new GT-4 front? tidy interior?

or you've got it up and running?<<I have my $$ on this

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well the longblock is going to MCS when i have enough saved

looks like your making good progress jesse!
while the engine is out, and the turbo stuff is off, replace the hose from hell, and hose from hell on earth. (the hose going to the oil cooler from the water bypass pipe, and the one from the cooler to the waterpump.
trust me, you dont wanna have to pull the turbo again just to replace a 10$ hose.
if you need PT#'s, just let me know, i just did those things on jim and shannons car.

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if im running a different turbo set-up then this will all be different correct?

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no, unless you plan on removing the stock oil cooler.

gotchya, yea part numbers would be awesome thanks manny

1628388381 this is the water pump to oil cooler hose

1628288380 this is the oil cooler to water bypass pipe hose (the one with the heatsheilding on it)

December 29th 2007

Removed more parts from the engine, about to look inside and see how the head gasket looks and the walls etc.

pics:








enjoy

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Dec 29, 2007 - 6:54 PM

damnit jesse, i keep waiting for a shot of the gears straight on, with the crank @ 0
get out there and take one before you tear her down!
looking good man!!!!

hmm some HKS adjustable cam gears would look nice:P

going to give the head and pistons a clean?

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haha well you would have had that yesterday, but i have to take the engine of the stand to do it.. the pegs on the flywheel hit the stand when i try to rotate to TDC so i'm going to have to figure that one out today.

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pull them out.
a few twists with a set of vice grips will get them out no problem.

edit: gonna need some bigger vice grips

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Dec 30, 2007 - 9:07 AM

update.. nothing on the engine, but some with the car..

i was pulling off the DCW triple pod to get the guages out and the adhesive was so strong (3m double sided body mold tape) and the car was so cold that it ripped the vynl right off of the dash... so i guess now im going to be either getting a new dash or molding the pods in and then having it upolstered of something..

suade is nice right?

oh hellz yes..lol. Is you do saude it will look sick. Check out the newest issue of modified mag with the silver S14 on the cover. He did his entire dash and door cards in saude and it looks sooooooooooo nice.

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ooo i love s14's i'm going to buy one someday and mod it haha

for the humor or all.. here is my interior at the moment! what a mess





and the DCW safe inside


This post has been edited by jcbass7: Jan 3, 2008 - 4:29 PM