But that was posted on Nov 12, 2002..... when Coomer's join date is Aug 23, 2002. I think the first thread would have been alot earlier.
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heres my first post

-forkee+Nov 16, 2002 - 1:27 AM


i never did fix that front neon, lol
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Interesting numbers... Curious how with those simple mods...minus the 65 shot you can push over 110 hp at the wheels... meaning you're getting better than 140-150 at the crank... that's 30-40 hp over stock. Geez... from a 7A!?

On my old 94 ST, I ran low 15's and can hit high 14's back when I was shooting a 75 shot... but my other engine mods were more extreme. Port Polish head (valves, seats, retainers, everything), CAI, 2.25 exhaust w/ free-flow cat, ASP underdrive pulley, modified hp headers, and SAFC. Running all motor... I only managed high 15's...even low 16's . On a dyno... heh...with nos I'd venture a guess around 170-180 whp. Without Nitrious... well, 100 whp or so. But I say again...my mods are somewhat more extreme than yours... and that motor eventually blew a head gasket and fried the internals. It was a 5speed...

My current ST... a 95 only runs mid 16's with CAI, Exhaust, and Underdrive pulley...for now. All I need to do is find someone that makes custom exhaust manifolds and have them do a 7A turbo manifold for me. After that, I can custom fab almost all of the plumbing for a turbo kit.

Either way, interesting numbers. I do have a friend who ran a 14.1 with is 3200lb Honda Prelude Vtech, shooting a 75 shot with an Auto tranny... so I'm not totally doubting you... just skeptical...

I have timeslips of all of my runs somewhere... so I do have proof.

im a huge celica.net fan, however since this site opened its forums, the responses from you guys are 10X faster and alot less flaming than at celica.net. its awsome! i usually chilled in the 6th gen forum at celica.net but yea, everyother forum was way too 7th gen based.

How do you get the shifter off on an auto?  I took out the little screws, but it just came up about an inch.  Then I unbolted everything down to the shift indicator thing and cannot get the shifter out.  I have an Aluminum interior kit, and cannot get the last piece in because I cannot get the freaking shifter out!
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I paid 11,800 after all california tax and licence about 8 months ago. 97 GT, fully loaded except ABS and leather. I had to replace the clutch in the first month, and my tires are pretty bald. Car just needed some general maintnance but otherwise in good condition. had 100k miles though :-/ I guess thats an alright price. Could prolly get 11k max out of it with luck

I keep getting contradicting info. One site says the engine will not meet smog, and yet people have swapped the engine into US Celica's. I Live in California where all the regulations are the strictest, is it legal to swap in the 3s-gte or not?

is it possible to make the 3rd gen 3s-gte smog legal or not? I also heard that it would take some work making a 2nd gen smog legal also... What I heard is that an EGR would be really hard to add because the engine would need recasting in certain areas, and a 2nd gen would be smog legal but only for 93 smog specs, not 97 like my car is... The guy I talked to about all this said that in his 74 toyota the engine head was cracked or something and he went to a junkyard and got a 73 head, but 74 was the first year an egr was added... therefore he had nowhere to put the egr plugs. He said he just put some holes or something and made it look like the egr was made to fit. Would this be possible with a 3rd gen?