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do you have the car yet? easiest way is to open up the hood and either read the engine tag, or just look for a carberator.

north america got 4 basic types of the ae82:

1. 4 dr sedan (4a-c powered)
2. 5 dr liftback (aka seca)(4a-c powered)
3. 2/3 dr hatchback FX (4a-c powered)
4. 2/3 dr hatchback FX-16 (4age powered)

they all use the same engine family and chassis. The 4a-c is a 1.6L SOHC carb-d engine (something like 80-ish hp at the fly). everybody knows enough about the 4age. depending on what model your starting off with, a swap is pretty straight forward (although theyre all pretty straight forward). 4age's, 20valves, 4agze's all bolt in and line up. Biggest thing is wiring, specially if you have the carb'd engine. That means you'll have to make a EFI relay amoung other things (or have someone else do it). you'll also have to change your fuel system over if you have a carb'd engine to start with. the carb'd uses a mechanical fuel pump located off of the valve cover. best way to change it would be to go with atank out of a EFI corolla (ae82 fx-16, or possibly a ae92, which i'm using, i'll post up my experiences with that when i mount mine) and using the in-tank fuel pump with the tank.

it's really pretty straight forward if you take your time, i got a '87 ae82, with a 4a-c that i'm working on fitting with a 20V silvertop.