This afternoon when I got out of bed, (whiskey is NOT your friend) I made a phone call, and had my celica 3SGE dropped off, as arranged.
Which is impeccable condition. 8)
30,000kms old, from an ST202 front cut.
I can see why no sane person would want to try and mount a FWD engine in an MR2, a few things are quite a bit different. :? Mainly to do with coolant lines etc however.
So the fuel rail, coolant lines, flywheel, clutch, Rocker cover cover, Intake manifold, water pump lines, front pulley, extractors, coolant neck, alternator + bracket, and RHS engine mount got swapped over from the MR2 engine. I didnt need to swap the intake manifold and rocker cover cover, but the badges are the wrong way up on the celica ones. :P
This is the celica motor:
MR2 motor: (Note that the oil pump pulley looks different? weird!)
Celica engine with MR2 bits on:
One interesting thing that I noticed, is that the celica front pulley has two different sized pulleys on it... It would seem that the celica runs something at about half speed compared to the other... Perhaps the MR2 spins the alternator faster than the celica, to compensate for the extra load from the EHPS?
Hopefully if the weather holds out, and I can get someone to help, I will be able to get the motor mounted in the car tomorrow.
Practice really does make perfect! I can get the motor in/out in only a few hours, and mostly by myself now... Just need help getting the left and right mounts in.
whereas the first time we put it in, it took pretty much all day, and there was about four of us.
Although having four of you + beers is probably not the most efficient way to do a two man job.
