99 camry le 2.2

Just picked this car up.it has a bad engine.it has 147,000 on body and lots of new parts like sway bar,struts,brakes,tires.it had a cheap 300 paint job,and body will need some attention.

What all year engines would fit in mine?

Could i put a different engine in?

What all toyota cars would motor be compatible with?

What all could i do to soop up motor before installing?

Ill have pictures soon.the trans worked but a little ruff on shifting,dont know forsure if that is because it was getting hot.

You guys got any pics of these cars fixed up?it got all the power stuff so want to fix up,and interior nice,just needs couple simple things i can fix easy.

Really need some opinions on these cars and the motors.

I'll be watching this one. If you can, document it with lots of pictures so we can watch your progress.

In reply to JoeyM:

Yeah ill take pictures tomarrow.looks like im going to repaint too after the engine.300 dollar paint job isnt that good.hopefully ill find some camry guys to help out with some tips.

3sgte swap? MZ v6?

In reply to Swank Force One:

5Sfe

Right. I'm telling you to put one of those in it.

In reply to ilovevintage:

I was gona go to pull apart and hopefully find one wrecked.ive been reading on turbo,but not going to do that.i dont have emissions here.

Wonder how it would run without cat converter?

In reply to Swank Force One:

Will one of them moters fit with same trans?

What all would i have to change and modify?

5sfe, 99-ish 5sfe exhaust manifold. Head shave, intake, exhaust, light flywheel.

Should be entertaining enough.

ilovevintage wrote: In reply to Swank Force One: Will one of them moters fit with same trans? What all would i have to change and modify?

Yeah both will. Might need some pressure plate trickery for v6.

3sgte bolts in, the wiring is the worst part.

V6 is more work but probably easy. Youll want a whole v6 camry donor available.

When i bought it it had oil oozing out behind the ac compresser.so i put some thick oil in made it about 4 miles here wierd noise and lots of smoke.pull over and you can see the dang rods inside hole about size baseball,but still runs that tells you these motors got to be tuff.no water leaking.wish i would of towed sooner may have fixed the other leak with weld or something and it was shaking bad motor mount i think,

This is GRM, you're supposed to be encouraging him to use something like two-stroke snowmobile engine, rotary, LSx, cummins diesel, or whatever the heck was under the hood of a trabant.

In reply to ilovevintage:

So i will need exhalst and all that stuff and wires too?3sgte parts will work on the 5sfe.i was reading about getting more power like that.can you define what them letters mean.i really dont know. Heres whats written on reciept.L4 2.2L 2164cc fi gas n 5sfe.

I used to have a chrysler newyorker with the 3.0 i love that car.i burned like 3 trans up in it through from reving up in nuetral and jamming in drive quess i liked burning rubber.would be nice to have a little power.

That is all.

In reply to beans: Are there other toyotas with same motor because i only found 1 at pullapart from that year.

Didn't the mag have a project Camry or something?

A 92 5S-FE Camry was my first, awful car in every way from a performance aspect. Would barely spin cheap kumhos on wet pavement, more or less gave up accelerating past 80mph or so. Despite being mostly rust free the chassis was so floppy I could jack a front corner high enough to change a tire, and the rear tire wouldn't quite lift off the ground. Drove like a Buick.

Trade it out for a Corolla if you want something reasonably entertaining and upgradeable with a Toyota badge.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: A 92 5S-FE Camry was my first, awful car in every way from a performance aspect. Would barely spin cheap kumhos on wet pavement, more or less gave up accelerating past 80mph or so. Despite being mostly rust free the chassis was so floppy I could jack a front corner high enough to change a tire, and the rear tire wouldn't quite lift off the ground. Drove like a Buick.

That's because the Camry is an American car.

sethmeister4 wrote: Didn't the mag have a project Camry or something?

Yep. A miserable, dismal failure of a project car that couldn't even complete a lap of the track without blowing its engine.

ilovevintage wrote: I used to have a chrysler newyorker with the 3.0 i love that car.i burned like 3 trans up in it through from reving up in nuetral and jamming in drive quess i liked burning rubber.would be nice to have a little power.

This, why would you do this?

Why would you do this two more times after the first time?

And most baffling, why would you announce this on a public forum?

This is not smart.

I imagine because he was trying to do the equivalent of "drop the clutch" in a car with an automatic transmission.

You can grab a 5sfe out of any 94-99 Camry and it should bolt right in. The ones out of the Celica's and MR2's will work but you will need to swap some bracketry, etc. as they have some slight differences. Don't plan to do ANY performance driving with this engine as they have serious oil starvation issues. We used this engine in our '94 Chumpcar and are now on our 3rd motor. Our 1st motor, while having over 150K, had a fresh oil pump, etc. and lasted 20 minutes on the track before having a main bearing go. Our fresh rebuild (total overhaul) let a rod bearing go after 6 hard laps and we were running an Accusump.

I just picked up a used 5sfe out of an MR2 for $400 so they are out there. Just keep watching CL. The swap isn't too bad (now that we've done it so many times) but the wiring harness can be a bitch to deal with. Get new crush washers for the power steering lines.

jstein77 wrote:

sethmeister4 wrote: Didn't the mag have a project Camry or something?

Yep. A miserable, dismal failure of a project car that couldn't even complete a lap of the track without blowing its engine.

I remember the results...my question was sarcastic but I forgot to add the proper emoticon.

Ok got some of it apart need to know about the flex pipe and 2 cat converters.is there a way to take flex pipe apart.i cant get the 3 bolts loose on header.so i was going to cut pipe somewhere close to