EEngineer's 5SFE auto to 3VZ 5spd swap thread

[EEngineer]

as an inaugural post, i publicly announce that the WERKS has started
the works are being conducted by none other than the three legends on TN:
Tony the Tiger, Eye8Pussies, ASG14

of course my friend cruisn76 helped out a great deal today as well.

pictures will soon follow cuz i was too tired to snap shots of the work done today

but here's what's going on so far

i bought a 3VZ5spd camry as a parts car and swapping everything to my car and then turboing it next year.

and today the donor car was prepped to be gutted...lots of parts came out lots of things taken apart...tomorrow the engine gets dropped with the subframe and it'll be taken apart to be inspected..cleaned...etc.etc.etc

stay in tune for more ass kicking build


actually i got 1 picture

the parts i bought from ASG14 to prep for the engine and tranny swap



wish me luck fellas

[Zviator]

I can see you are making your way to become one of the TN legend as well

[bigbird]

nice dude. i figured somthing liek this was comming. adams trips are usually multi pronged projects. best of luck man.

[chronoti]

i love that fidanza flywheel there nothing better

[Eye8Pussies]

good progress last night- 3 guys tearing into one car = subframe almost ready to drop, plust 5-speed interior parts ready to go

just gotta keep the beer flowing

[Gothmog3VZ]

Sounds awesome
And you got Tony working on it for you?
I'm so jealous

Keep us updated, this sounds interesting

[Gerson]

Thats awesome! This should be a sticky! U will have as much power as my ES300 . Are u dong a rear disc swap too? I notice the backing plates in a gold color. Need hubs? I got a pair from my ES300. In good shape but it has no ABS rotor for ABS system...

[Red_T_SwiftCam]

!Subscribed! I Like what you guys are doing. Im sure you guys are throwing a pair of MLS head gaskets on the 3vz. The early composite ones from Toyota are.......

[Luckynumber5]

Awesome man, Im in the middle of a swap myself, it's fun work lol!

[midnightmach]

keep us updated with pics!

[a94autoCamry]

awesome, keep us updated with more pictures yeah??

[EEngineer]

i'll be going back to the shop in 2 hours and i do however got the toyota OEM head gasket and i saw the composite material and i was like

17 years..and they still haven't gotten to change the gasket material to MLS
maybe i'll get someone to make a custom MLS gasket

[Red_T_SwiftCam]

Originally Posted by EEngineer

i'll be going back to the shop in 2 hours and i do however got the toyota OEM head gasket and i saw the composite material and i was like

17 years..and they still haven't gotten to change the gasket material to MLS
maybe i'll get someone to make a custom MLS gasket

Head over to Mr2oc im sure they have some, and Good luck Its always nice to have Some extra hands especially since your extra hands are Toyota Experts.

Ya know what here::http://www.mr2oc.com/showthread.php?...al+Head+Gasket

Toysrme Gives some good info and options when it comes to MLS and 3vz

[Creeps228]

i should go to tonys place and get my 5sfte up off paper and into actually progress. But nice work man! wish you best of luck!

And how easy was dropping that sub frame?

[2wickedtoyz]

i'm glad you guys are documenting this, cause i didn't

adam knows what to do and how to do it. i would change out the brake booster and mastercylinder also that way there is no confusion when it's time to replace.

oh and btw start parting out the parts car

your keeping the hydrolic fan right? are you going to keep the ac? if so mount the electric fans to the front and hook it up to a switch to help your ac work alot better.

if there are any question you can alway call me adam has the number.

also what kind of v6 camry is it? le xle se dx? sunroof?

good luck man