SC on a 2002 Celica GT... - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

Surfjunkie44 · 11-12-2003, 07:49 AM

Aight, I'm a Honda guy, so bear with me on my lack of knowledge here as I'm sure I have no clue what I'm talking about. My girlfriend has an '02 Celica GT. She's getting into cars as a result of me doing my motor swap and turbo, and decided she wants to make her car faster. I looked into the possibilty of swapping from her 1ZZ-FE to a 2ZZ-GE (GT to GT-S motor I believe). Then someone had recommeded a TRD SC instead. The amount of the 2ZZ-GE motor would be pricey, not to mention time consumed in doing the swap. The TRD SC is listed as not being offered for her 1ZZ-FE, even though it is the same motor as the Corolla and the Matrix. I searched a bit more and found out that the only reason the TRD SC isn't sold for the Celica's is that there is a hood clearance problem, and either the stock hood would need to be modified, or a replacement hood would be in order. I was curious if anyone had addressesd this problem yet, and if successful, what modifications were necessary to raise the hood enough to add the SC. My guess would be a series of spacers on the hinges, but I don't have specs, nor one to look at to see if that would work or not. Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Brad aka Surfjunkie44

Surfjunkie44 · 11-13-2003, 03:32 PM

I'm assuming the lack of responses means that no one has accomplished the feat of SCing the 02 (or similar body styled) Celica GT. I heard from a friend that there is a guy (in Orlando) that shows up occasionally to the Saturday night import street races that has an SCed Celica. If anyone knows him, or is a Toyota Tech that might know specifics on the hood clearance problem, please respond. Thanks again.

Brad aka Surfjunkie44
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***Eye8Pussies*** · 11-13-2003, 05:34 PM

tn isn't really a celi site....we're more of a old school corolla and camry site.....you should check out celispeed

90CamryDx3SFE · 11-13-2003, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by Eye8Pussies
tn isn't really a celi site....we're more of a old school corolla and camry site.....you should check out celispeed

Unless of course it's an old celi with the 3S-FE/GE/GTE engine of some sort, and their willing to give us parts

Good luck on finding the SC dude!

Surfjunkie44 · 11-13-2003, 08:06 PM

I had a similar post on the Celica forum, but the extent of knowledge from everyone that posted was about the same as what I wrote in here. Everyone knew about the hood clearance problem, but no one knows actually the extent of work involved in correcting it. That's why I tried posting in here. Thanks for replying though. I'm going to find it really funny if I'm the first to do this SC on a Celica (girlfriend's car) and post the corrections involved in modifying the hood though; for the most part because I drive a Honda Accord with a turbo J-spec motor under the hood. Toyota is greek to me.

Brad aka Surfjunkie44

90CamryDx3SFE · 11-13-2003, 09:12 PM

Why don't you just cut an intake hole in hood. Use a nice direct ram intake.

Like the drag racing Celica on the cover of Import Racer! back in July...

Surfjunkie44 · 11-13-2003, 09:48 PM

I dunno if Nicole wants me cutting holes in the hood of her new car... Although Iceman does make a ram air intake that replaces the passenger side headlight for Hondas... I wonder if they make one for the Celica's. I'll look into the Iceman one, but if you know of a company that makes a ram air intake for her car, that would be awesome.

Brad aka Surfjunkie44