SHE'S ALIVE........again ^_^

[YESCA]

A new engine is being dropped in her in a week I am so happy! I'm glad the ol' gal will be running again!

[02AspenGreen]

Wonderful! Any more pics?

[Your Uncle Moe]

What the hell happened to the old engine???? The poor things are made to last forever!

[Hamsterman]

where are you getting the motor from B-RETT?

[Fresco Bob]

are you just replacing it with what you took out? 5sfe or 1mz?

[YESCA]

Well heres what happened..........

3 days before Christmas I went to get my oil changed and well, a few days later on Christmas, on the way to the folks house my car lost all sorts of power and all sorts of black smoke from the tail pipe. anyway I found out that they had put twice the amount of oil in the car, and therefore was just pumping foam through the engine. The car still ran untill I had MY mechanic rip it apart and eventually tell me that the engine was shot, and it was beyond repair. Anyway I found a Re-manufactured engine in Cali. a place called "King's Engines"(I think) Everything in the engine is new new internals, and everything. So I'm having my shop drop it in either this week or next. Goes to show you that if change your own oil.....like me, do it and don't get lazy and have someone else do it. So I dropped $2000.00 on the engine and it's going to be another $600.00 to drop the new one in. Soooo It will look like I may have some RIPP mod headers for sale along with a Unorthadox crank pulley, and maybe my custom CAI. Anyway I'll get some more pics of the car whenever I get it back up and running.... I will even try to get the shop to take a bunch of pics for me, unless they have pulled the old engine already

[YESCA]

Originally Posted by Fresco Bob

are you just replacing it with what you took out? 5sfe or 1mz?

Just replacing my 5SFE

[DAMON]

glad to hear it man, can you get anything out of the shop that screwed you over? thats rediculous...

[supra06]

did the people where ever u got ur oil change give u any money? u suit them?

[YESCA]

I fought as much as I could.... It was pretty much this arguement..... "How do we know you didn't put more oil in." It is complete Bullshit, but I have contacted the BBB and have written a letter to Corprate HQ of Meneike and well........ we will see what goes on from there.... But so far this is all out of pocket. This whole ordeal has been a real PITA!

[1shot1kill]

congrats

[keithy]

I am happy for you man!
Hope the whole thing can be resolved by going through BBB. Good luck.

[05Cam-Weasel]

cant wait

[YESCA]

Originally Posted by UfoZ

$2 grand for a stock 5SFE?? That sounds kinda steep... Add another $1K and you could have just had a fully built motor.

It seemed a bit steep to me as well. But the engine is a OBD@ engine as opposed to the gen 3 Camrys. I can buy a gen 3 Camry 5SFE engine all day long for about $700-$800. But I have looked everywhere for a replacement for mine, I found one with 70,000-1000,000 and the guy wanted $1700 for it, Then I found one which had 35k on it and he wanted $1200 for it(bastard sold it from under me) Anyway I came across this outfit and they offer a re-manufactured engine(pretty much a brand new engine) and a 3 year unlimited milage warrenty with it. I figured I'd pay the extra bit of cash to get that because if I buy a used engine how do I know 3 months down the line that the engine does not crap out on me. I pondered what I wanted to do since January and this is what I finally decided.

I don't consider myself to be part of the "Cheap Camry Community"

I originaly bought the Black 3VZ Camry I have now to replace it, make the new project car, and part out the other Camry and call it a day. But I have alot of wrench time, blood, and sweat in and out and under that car. I would have to say that 99.9% of everything done to that car I did myself. Plus my wife really really wanted that car So shes stocked about it and and am happy that she is no longer a ginormous paper weight anymore.

[YESCA]

Originally Posted by UfoZ

I forgot about the changes to the gen 4s 5SFE... Yeah, when I bought a used 5S for my engine project last year it was only 600 bucks... Figured id be rebuilding and replacing everything anyways so it didnt matter too much if it had like 100K miles on it.

So youre going back to driving the gen 4 and your wife gets the gen 3 or the other way around??

It will be the other way around. She can't drive a stick and I have become acustomed to the power increase that I can't go back....Plus it's just so much more fun to have the manual