3rd & 4th Generation (1992–1996 & 1997–2001)Toyota Camry Discussion for years: 1992-1996 & 1997-2001
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Hi, I am swapping my blown 99 Camry engine for a JDM that I picked up. It is suppose to be a 2000. I was wondering what all needed to be swapped over. It looks like intake manifold, and exhast manifold. Anthing else, I see some posts mentioning the oil pump due to crank sensor, wondering if this applied to my model year. Thanks A lot for the help. Jeff
The guy said it was a 2.2 out of a 2000 camry. It is my brother-in-laws car actually and me and my dad are swapping the engines for him. Never really worked on toyota's really. How would I know by looking at them, is there any obvious differences. THanks for any help. Jeff
ASG said you might need some help. Best thing I can tell you is set both motors side by side remove ever one of the sensors off the old motor, including but not limited to distrib, vac. VSV's. Also if it is a JDM, most motors do not have a knock sensor so the harness that comes with is useless. Then you need to find out if yours is fed or cali emission. After you have done that you need to start moving sensors form old motor to the new motor. once you have all sensors on and misc brackets that hold harness. Also some JDM did not have A/C systems so you need to make sure that you move every thing over to the front and rear of the motor as it came off yours. Next if your motor came from a celica or mr2 you need to get rid of the mounts and brackets cause they tend to be useless do to being made for a diffrent subframe. As to there being a crank sensor, I dont know off hand. But most cars I have worked on have not had them on oil pump. They are mounted on the transmission bell housing close to the flywheel. Now back to the cali and fed emission. I have heard from a few friends that some of the JDM motors not haveing the balancer assm. in them. Just like the 3s. I helped a friend swap a JDM race motor in to a mr2 and there was not one and it was reading knock all the time due to it missing for cali emission. If yours if fed you should have no problem. Also if it is fed you can use the header off it as long as it has the O2 sensor. Once you pull the motor you will know if it has a crank sensor cause you need to pull timing cover off old one when removing some of the harness. I did, so i would not damage plastic on harness snaps. but you will see a wire running in to the oil pan or the timing cover if the old motor has it on the front. ALSO change the timing belt on new motor now while out. It will pay off in the long run first of youll have longer be for next time doing it, and then if the old one was damaged during shipping youll be sorry. Another good idea is change the oil and water pump seals as it is common for them to fail. This is a lot easier to do out of the car then in it. The best way to do the engine swap is to do a sub-frame drop. This is all covered in a FSM but you unhook the steering shaft and tank laid on the the motor. The unhook the houses to rad and fire wall and the pedal cable. The unhook harness, and lay it on it and the unhook tranny cooler, and the dog bone.. the unhook the knuckles from struts and unhook brake calipers and suspend them the unhook the 18 some odd bolts and drop the frame and you can pick the car off the tranny and motor.
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Last edited by 3rd Gen Camry; 08-16-2008 at 10:33 PM.
Thanks for the help, still not sure which engine I got though. If it is a 3sfe, if I swap all sensors, use my original harness, swap exhast/intake manifolds, brackets, etc, should I be good Thanks for any help. Is there any easy way to see which motor I got? Jeff
And in all honesty, if it IS the 3SFE, resell it and get a used 5SFE. Several people on here have had many issues trying to swap them, plus it has a little less power.
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THe number on the block that I got starts with 4s (jdm engine) Can somene tell me what that means, I see that there was or is a 4s engine just don't know anything about it. ANy info would be nice, engine doesn't look much different from the 5s in my camry. Looks like I will be taking this engine back though.
I'm not saying its a 4s-fe if there is such a thing. Like I said I know nothing about Toyo engines, I am just swapping engines for my brother-in-law. The block numbers start with 4S. Also on the timing cover sticker it has a 4S and an A20 if that means anything. The engine is at my dad's and I am back home. Can post pics tomorrow. The engines look similar, manifold pipes are different but looks like the 5sfe would bolt to it. Has a crank sensor pretty sure. I don't know any help is appreciated. Mainly is there such a thing as a 4s engine and where might it had from. Its definately a JDM engine btw.
yeah, it could be a 4S-FE ... not unheard of, just not very common ... only used in Japan, and it could be found in the SV-30 Chassis which is the 3rd Generation "Camry" in Japan, which was different from our cars - the Scepter
easy mistake to make, you want a 3rd gen camry engine they give you one ... but the 3rd gen camry in japan is a car we never got, and the 3rd gen camry in america is really the Toyota Scepter in japan
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hard to tell from the pics ... looks like the 4S-FE intake manifold but the bottom end is identical to the 5S-FE of course, since most S-block engines look the same
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