Trying to remember if they did the same with the Solara or not, oh well.

Just want to give a shoutout to everyone that's helped out thus far.

Kurt for countless tidbits of advice and just being a good guy.

Jeff (Smaay) for that 1MZ conversion mount. I think that should be on everyone's shopping list if they do the swap.

Manny (presure2) for the ST205 clutch setup. Because of that, I was able to get my flywheel machined correctly and on the car. Also, for not being afraid to speak his mind. I respect that.

Dustin (Batman722) for that ST throttle cable and giving me hell for talking junk. Enjoy those foglight brackets!

Stef (hurley97) for being cool as hell.

Mike (mkernz22) for being lenient with my pickup of the bumpers.

Liz for the world's best shifter boot.

Uncle Si for being a pisser and the use of his garage, tools, whompers, and trucks.

My best friend Felicia for killing the 5S and jumpstarting this project. Love you boo! Also, this is your fault haha.

Lastly, the king of chaches, Robbie Repko, for selling me this car two years ago for $500. You DEFINITELY didn't expect the car to last this long at all. Also, thanks for the Saab too!

And to everyone else, thank you too.

what year is the 1MZ from. mine and my dads 02 Solara do not have the raised letters on the timing belt covers

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1995. I can get you one if you want.

Starting over a new leaf, and this is EXACTLY where project roadtripper stands:

I'm on all 4 mounts. Also, the exhaust is about 60% done, as in, it's out of the bay. I still need to install a driver's axle, but I ordered one today. $55, not too bad at all.

My next step is bleeding the clutch system out with a new slave cylinder. At that point, once the driver's axle is in, I'm 99% done with the mechanical work. I would like some new brakes and rotors, but that can wait.

I didn't get my harness as promised today, and it's looking more and more like I'm either going to A: send my backup harnesses to Tweak, B: just get a whole new harness made up or C: pray to whomever I worship that I somehow miraculously learn how to read a wiring diagram and do it myself. I'm leaning towards option B.

I'm just beside myself with the whole harness thing, and I'm really just nervous it'll never run. Spending $700-$1000 on wiring is a killer right now, and while I could just float it all, I don't want to. If ANYONE can make sense of the diagrams, PLEASE, I am BEGGING of you, I need help. I can do the work, but I can't read the diagrams.

No progress today.

We had a '73 Triumph come in, and it looks like I'll be doing a clutch on it. It's ok though, because it's just more money for the project.

I'm going to try to make some sense of the diagrams this weekend, if I can't, I'll have to order a harness. Funny, because I can wire up an old British car, but can't wire a swap.Wiring up a British car is as follows: one GIANT ground in which 17million little wires come off it, then a couple sensor leads here and there haha. Why can't a 1MZ be this simple?

Meh, try posting the diagrams and I'll give it a go. I still like wiring a pre-computer domestic car, only a few wires critical to the car running.

I had a trade offer the car today. I'm going to take it depending on how good the tickets are. I have always wanted to see my Red Sox in the World Series, and the opportunity to see them twice is something I really cannot refuse.

Car>baseball.

Lmao, you're going to give up the car for tickets? Thats kind of pathetic in my mind.

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After reading this whole thing. I hope he is Joking.

Tickets can't be that expensive can they? I was going to try to help on wiring, but if he's going to give up so easily... Then again it would benefit me and others in the future...

This post has been edited by Box: Oct 20, 2013 - 9:15 PM

i would not trade the car for tickets to the WS, yeah being there is cool, but then you have no more car.

Trading an active project car for some tickets? Wow...

Well, I'm going to the World Series...

...but I still have my Celica.

I paid through the nose, and it's possible more downtime for the car, but it's worth it.

Box, I'll talk to my buddies and get you the wiring diagrams.

Ever seen the movie Fever Pitch? I'm Jimmy Fallon. I would trade my soul for World Series tickets.

What he was going to do with the car is put the 1MZ in his Camry and scrap the Celica, so I said no way. I love my Red Sox, but I love my Celica too. Would have been a shame considering I have this black and purple dragon on my arm that's apparently permanent. They told me it would wash off, Ithink they lied. Healed pics soon.

Who from New England wants to go see the Sox win? I have two unspoken tickets in the Monster.

This post has been edited by bnr32celica: Oct 20, 2013 - 10:15 PM

Thought you already ordered a 1mz harness from tweak??

That's what you told me on the phone anyway.......

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It's all set up to order,,I've filled out the paperwork, boxed up the harnesses, and have the credit card opened for business, I just have to part with the money, and there's so much more I could do with the money than spend it on something twice. That would mean I spent almost $1200 on wiring. Ouch.

I want to do it, but I feel like my deficiency with wiring will harm me later in life, so Ineed to at least attempt it. If I botch it, Iat least tried, and then I'll pony up.

I could afford the $850 or so for a new one, but like I also said, I'm wiring deficient. I had to learn how to weld to finish some aspects of the project, I need to learn how to read a wiring diagram.

Right about now, I'm at the proving things to myself stage, and to fail to learn how to read a wiring diagram means I'm failing myself, the car, and others who are in my boat.

I'm glad Box can help me better understand the diagrams, because aside from my harness builder telling me I need a resistor to step from 12V to 8V on the COR, I'm kinda lost.

I damn near trade the car, and Ihave this stunning moment of clarity about the whole deal. When I started this project, I couldn't weld. Now Ican weld anything with the best of them. I couldn't design something, but I ended up researching an alternative option for fabricating a carrier mount bracket. I didn't know a lot of things I know now, and to basically throw away my canvas for what I've learned would be a crime.

Wait until I learn bodywork, I'm predicting that'll ocme out well too. Just need to pick up some bumpers and I can start on that. Have the fenders and doors already. A color change is imminent, but to what I will decide later.

I have a very, very short attention span, and that is my downfall. However, they make pills for that, and I gotta get me some so Ican actually focus on the car. Things like baseball, girls, and life cause me to run the train right off the tracks.

I think I'm just frustrated Idon't have a harness yet, and I'm tired of seeing her lifeless.

Time to burn one and sleep for a while. These racing thoughts of what is and how it should be keep me awake and restless. I feel like I haven't slept in weeks with all that's going on. I'm pretty much living in my car, I don't have my best friend anymore, and I'm tired of always coming in last or not at all. I mean, at this point, Ifeel like throwing in the towel and saying screw it all. I'm at a standstill with a lot of aspects in life, and Ihate that.

wow dude, You need to get rid of this car before you have a mental breakdown. I have never seen so much depressed toughts in a single post before. GL

No what he needs is to work through it. I know very well of a v6 build that gets derailed and a sidetracked mind. Justin at least you don't have a marriage and a kid keeping you derailed. Lol if it wasn't for me Kurt would have given up a long time ago. But he is happy to drive his. He keeps saying its not done it still needs work but to see the look on his face when he drives it makes up for all the crap we have went through with that car. I can only hope he takes the same pride I do when I talk to people about it and know that we did it together. Stick with the Celica and you will be very happy. As long as you have talked to my husband and taken his attention from me..... if you give up next time we are headed that way I will personally have Kurt come by your place and I will kick your arse!!!!!!!! I didn't make you a boot for your car for you to give up and trade it off. You owe it to me to show a finished project.

Daughter, yes. Wife, no.

The mental breakdown's already happened Berto. You try losing your fiance, your sobriety, and your place to live in the same week, and you tell me how it works out.

This thread is a roller-coaster ride...

IN-B-4 purple polka dotted orangutans...

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I disagree, I think the best thing to do at this point is to get it finished. Though do it a manner so that it doesn't disrupt his other aspects of life, maybe take a step back and proceed with a steady pace. To give up now would be stupid, not only would there be the huge financial loss but everything he's gone through would now be in vain. He should take a small break until bigger life priorities are straightened out though.

OP, what you seem to lack is a plan and self-confidence. The former must be stoutly implemented and followed; the latter gained by completion of the former. On one hand you state fear of wiring multiple times, on the other you tout your achievements and the things you've learned, as you should. Find a balance, stick your balls down and finish the harness. Once the engine starts motivation for the rest will follow, but for the love of Neptune's bearded nipples, ****ing finish the harness.

Still plugging away (literally).

Been enjoying fall this week, going places and doing things.

There's a plan for sure, and it's being worked. Just taking my time and doing what I can when I can.

My priority isn't the car right now at all, but myself and my daughter. The car gets a budgeted 8 hours per week of time, and now there's no pressure. It went back to being fun, and really, that's what it's about.d

Besides, if it isn't fun, why do it? I enjoy the nights where I crank up the tunes, smoke a bit, and wrench. Now that we're in the phase we're in, we can have fun and attack things as they come.

Switched the plate number, and I couldn't do that without doing something else, so something else happened and soon I can POSSIBLY daily drive this car. Needs tires and brakes before then however.

My plan right now: one day at a time. Oh, and Venza wheels. I think that's a good plan.

YOU CAN DO IT.

You don't have to make the same mistakes again. You can finish the car and you can get back on the wagon.

Best of luck!

ive got to say it. you just love to type a lot

Think I have about run course with Stage 1. 5000 miles on the swap (split between two different cars, long story), chassis is sorted enough to be confident, and it's winter. Throwing her in the heated garage for winter while I hoon around in a VR4.

See you all in the spring, time to go live on 3si.org like I do every winter.

Can't catch a break.

Someone decided that they needed the harness, my dual throttle body manifold, and my intake a week or so ago. I immediately called the police, who chided me for not filing earlier...but I was away for the weekend when it happened.

The car was fingerprinted for evidence, and in their search for evidence, they found a nice little note. The note basically said "Go **** yourself." Now, only 4 people on this board know the car stays at my house (and have seen it there), and maybe 2-4 other people outside of here know where the car was as well. That being said, I find it very hard to believe this was random. Parts were taken that would be a key factor to a V6 swap into a 1996-1999 Celica GT. I'm surprised they didn't just steal the car and strip it down, would have been easier, quicker, and THE KEY WAS IN THE IGNITION!!!!! Oh wait, they did steal it and left it in a park/ride. Imagine that phone call, they were trying to call me as I was talking to them.

The car is in a holding lot right now, and should be released this week to me. I'm kinda disgusted to see how badly the fuzz tore my car apart. When the car is released, I'll take some pictures just so I can look at how some punkass wastes of life decided they wanted to **** with my car.

Plans now are gut it, run full standalone, and turn it into a track car that I can drive every day. This way I have an excuse to keep it in a garage. Or, I may just sell it as it for a very cheap price. I haven't decided. If I sell it, I make no bones that parts are/will be missing. I'll probably want like $850 if I do sell it. At least I can recoup the shell money.

Rest assured I will be watching local forums and here. I pay for my ****, so should you. I might not be the worlds most awesome dude, but I don't steal from people. I've been scammed twice on this build, had stuff stolen off the car several times, just finally got a title for it and it registered, and was in a spot where I was about to ship it off for bodywork. **** it though, right?

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so basically you are accusing members of this board for stealing your stuff? members with a v6 swap can be counted with the fingers of 1 hand, or maybe two.... lol

This thread is full of win. You are awarded the Fail cup of win....