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Re: 3SGTE coversion to a Camry	Sun, 17 July 2005 10:08

Be very careful about this. I've got a 96 Caldina which I was looking into the same conversion for. In NSW, you need to fit an engine with the same or better pollution gear than what your car came out as factory with. Usually, here that means fitting an engine the same age or newer than yours (easiest to justify to an engineer). As a 96, you need to find either one of the very late Celica GT4 (Gen III) engines (SSS in Sydney have a half cut in stock at the moment for about $7k), or a GenIV from a Caldina (Tweakit had one for ~$4k, dunno if they still do) I don't know if the rules are the same in Qld (I haven't lived there for 9 years) but you might want to check. The Gen IV is a better motor (except for trying upgrade the turbo) than the Gen III, but the GT4 has better other bits like 4 spot brakes. Looked at a V6 conversion? I looked at his too after finding out 4wd conversion was too expensive. Will be a bolt in to your car, easier to engineer & I reckon could be made to go just as hard. Last time I asked, a front cut from an Oz 97 Camry V6 was $2k. The 97- V6 manual boxes accept the MR2 turbo LSD & there's a TRD supercharger kit for them. I've seen one of these engines in an SW20 in the US with NOS & Supercharger running 550hp at the wheels. [Report message to a moderator]

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