I need help on engine swap

[camryman]

Ok, I have a 2001 camry with an auto tranny. I am wondering if I can swap a 3sgte into my car, also should it be the celica all trac version, or the mr2? Also do you think it would pass the emissions in Maryland, and how much for the swap? Thanks in advance....

[Jai_Jai_Binks]

^^ you didn't say if you currently were a i4 or a v6. If you have money to burn, this swap is going to cost you equvalent to buying a gen5/or 6 celica and doing the swap. For the price/cost entailed, just go do the swap on a celica (where its an easy drop-in). In regd to your camry, if your a v6 do the m/t and then s/c it. If your not, then just turbo your 5sfe! Good luck!

[camryman]

it is 4 cyl. Or should i just trade in my new camry and get a 95 or so like swegytian or some of the other guys from the other forums and make the swap. I dont think turboing my 5sfe is fast enough. Waste of money......

[Biggi_e]

where in MD are u located?

[SoCalieSolarie]

It fits, as long as you have the cash for it 6-8 grand

[ECale3]

i believe emissions in MD similar to emissions in cali, in which case you have to have a motor from the same year as your car or newer to swap in in legally.

[onefiend]

MR2!

[PhreakdOut]

When you start looking into unusual engine swaps, you have to really ask yourself: "Is this car worth the effort?"

We've all seen some amazing Camrys out there. A couple can be found in this forum. OK, someone has been there and done that. If you're set on doing the Camry, get to know these guys. Learn what they have done. (Buy their spare parts! ) They'll be glad to share what to do and what not to do.

Lastly, this had better not be your main source of transportation. No engine swap goes smoothly. Add in the complications and expense of custom work and you may get heartbroken over this never ending project.

Take your time with a project like that. My advice, do most of the work yourself. But before you loosen the first bolt, research it to death. Make a plan listing the order of things to be done. Make a budget for what you will spend. Run it past the guys who've done it. Then double everything. LOL

Good luck with your decision.

[Mandarinsolara]

$2k should cover it

[camryman]

I live in a place called Hagerstown. Prolly never heard of it. Yea i will have about 5-6k at the begining of july. I know it sounds weird to swap the engine in a 2001 camry, but im using it only 4 the drag strip, not to be used as a daily driving car. I have a dodge ram 50 custom. But back to the camry. Recently, I was looking on the internet, and found out the the v6 solara/camry tranny will work, the axles. I have went to the junkyard and bought those all ready. All I am waiting 4 is a little bit of patience. Also, i hear that the all-trac engine has a slighly better advantage over the mr2.

http://www.toyotacelicaonline.com/celica1/3sgteswap.htm

Or should i just trade my camry in for about 8 grand and get something else? If I trade it in, I still want a toyota car. Because their pretty much reliable.

[TadS]

I am confused, as to why you have a concern about reliability in a strip only car. You might want to consider doing something rwd, like a Supra or Cressida, if dragging is all you're looking at doing. Since we don't have emissions here, I think that the swap is a great idea for a daily driver, provided not too much other stuff is done to it. Personally, I would want a reliable daily driver, and a really fast strip car. I wouldn’t go to great expense to ensure factory reliability on a race only vehicle. You only have to make a couple of passes, and then you have all week to fix what you may have broken. This is just my perspective though… anyway, I believe that if that only requirement is based on year on the motor, there maybe some suitable JDM motors for your application, but they might not meet other local emissions requirements. Good luck any way you go.

[Somedude]

When you start looking into unusual engine swaps, you have to really ask yourself: "Is this car worth the effort?"

We've all seen some amazing Camrys out there. A couple can be found in this forum. OK, someone has been there and done that. If you're set on doing the Camry, get to know these guys. Learn what they have done. (Buy their spare parts! ) They'll be glad to share what to do and what not to do.

Lastly, this had better not be your main source of transportation. No engine swap goes smoothly. Add in the complications and expense of custom work and you may get heartbroken over this never ending project.

Take your time with a project like that. My advice, do most of the work yourself. But before you loosen the first bolt, research it to death. Make a plan listing the order of things to be done. Make a budget for what you will spend. Run it past the guys who've done it. Then double everything. LOL

Good luck with your decision.

if the engine swap makes a car unreliable then what is the point of doing that?

[Jai_Jai_Binks]

^^ no one said it would be unreliable. But to get the system to work (on paper) and for the system to actually work are two different things. If you do it right, and do the fixes (all swaps will need fixes) right (not just a band-aid job) the swap will be reliable. If you do a lot of band-aid jobs then the swap will unreliable! I was all set on 3s swap on my celica 5sfe! In the end..i decided not to as got cold feet! Wanting to do, and commitment to go ahead are two different things.

[Biggi_e]

i know where hagerstown is, im bout 45 minutes away or so.

[theprodigy79]

I'm about an hour and a half away from Hagerstown (assuming no traffic)

The 3SGTE swap into the 2001 Camry is doable, but it would be a pretty big pain in the ass... I was planning it for my '93 Celica GT (when my 5SFE spun a rod and shot a piston through the block) and it would have taken around $3500 for me to do the majority of work myself (assuming that everything went right)... I, instead, decided to purchase another 5SFE with 42,000 miles on it for $500 and do all the work myself... I'm cheap like that