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May 2002
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Re: ta22 transplant
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Sat, 21 May 2005 09:06
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If you want "fairly easy", scratch the 3S off your list. This is pretty much the ultimate transplant for a TA22 but it's difficult and expensive to do it properly, mostly because the 3S was never manufactured in a north-south layout.
The 3T-GTE is the old favourite for the TA22 and the results can be extremely good, especially with a decent turbo, cooler and management, but they're quite old now and some parts are getting hard to find. You'd have to budget for a rebuild if you went down this path, and that bumps the total cost up a long way.
For some reason I've always been bored by the idea of a 4A-GZE, but it's looking like the best relatively simple transplant for an old Celica these days, unless you want to look outside the Toyota parts bin of course (eg SR20 *spit*). They're small, relatively powerful, can be converted to RWD with minimal effort, easy to get parts for, and there's a huge knowledgebase for anything 4A related. You could certainly do worse that's for sure.
If it was me I'd be very tempted by the 3S option though. 
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