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If you're 100% certain that you're not going to reuse them, you dont have to plug the ports on the radiator. You should IMO since you might need it later, who knows? If you order a radiator from somewhere like AutoZone or AdvanceAuto, you'll probably get an automatic radiator regardless, and all...

Nice find! Waiting to see what it ends at. That's quite a bit for a not-running car by most standards, but because its a first gen Celica, that's pretty fair/reasonable. Damn. If only I had the money..

Some of your injectors might be working just fine, whereas others are under-performing or leaking at 30-40% duty for instance. There's plenty of places you can ship your injectors of to that will "rebuild" them, clean them, and make sure they're all putting out the same and correct amount of...

...that you know of ;) The thing about engines and trannies are that they're meant to have oil at a certain temperature. It's possible to cool it too much, just as it's possible to overheat it. In most cases like with what you have, I highly doubt there would be much problem. It doesnt take too...

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I disagree with this idea personally. The cooler in the radiator gets the tranny fluid up to temp quicker, and both balance each other's temps out. The best route imo is to put an external cooler before the radiator

I can probably get the Gates hoses, but 1) I'm not sure if theyre blue 2) likely to take a few weeks to get 3) I'm not a vendor here so I cant give numbers

That I understand, especially at stock boost levels; but you'll find them on big, fancy, aftermarket turbos as well. Even the EFR series uses them, though maybe because they go for the idea of "here's half of what you need with a turbo kit, built right into the turbo."

I always had a spot in my heart for a 1UZ MkIII truck...with gullwing doors, because f*k it. Maybe if I am burdened with too much money, I'll get it done one day. Just maybe!

Actually, I still need to build my exhaust for my car. If there's enough interest, I might be able to get something set up to make everything behind the downpipe bolt up and make more. Unofficially of course. This is likely still a ways out, but the big name exhausts are all incredibly tough to...

Good to know!

Yes, block it off. You don't need that one for boost control. I'm not sure why it is placed there, to be honest. Might be some other magic/science behind it :dunno:

While we're at it, why not

No, Celicas. I've put very little effort forth into looking for them, and theyre just not around. A replicar would be a neat project though, so more people can enjoy it

Actually there was talk of a MkIII with a 4.0 4WD Jeep drivetrain a while back, and some blurry pictures. Interesting stuff, as the R154 is supposedly fairly similar to the Aisin transmission some of them have. Anyways, it would likely take much more work and money than you expect. With a...

I've heard of heavier pressure plates causing crankwalk, despite the car not being made in Normal, IL (DSM joke). As far as burning through clutches, I think you are free to do that as often as you are willing to split the engine/tranny and buy another set to put in haha. There should be a...

I'm not sure off of the top of my head, but do you still have the paperwork that came with the rods? You might be good either way, but in many cases you do want to make sure you have them facing correctly.

As someone who likes to routinely search for random stuff on the forums, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to find countless threads saying "search, it has been covered before," and not even a handful that have the right answer. Thank you for following up!