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Not quite right for this forum, but ive got a 1996 celica st204 and ive swapped in a redtop 3sge beams. Ive had some issues here and there and ive now pulled the head off because i lost compression on cylinder 1 due to some bent valves. but besides that, i found something i thought was weird, if...

I tryed to time my car with a strobe light today. In order to do this you have to jump E1 and Te1 in the diagnose port. I accidentally jumped Fp and Te1 then I starded the car and the engine light starts flashing so i turned the engine off and found out i jumped the wrong ports. Now my...

So my 5sfe idles at 1150rpm i give up trying to lower it lol. But I still want to crank my timing to 14 degrees for more power, am i good to go? or will it get worse

I know this will sound like a million other issues people have had, but I can't seem to find anything just like it written up anywhere and it's driving me NUTS. 91 5SFE M/T, freshly rebuilt engine but everything else is stock. Body has 215k on it. Before I rebuilt it, compression was down to...

Been having a hell of a time with Toyota tensioners & belts on my Gen2 build. I had two tensioners go out, both within 1000 miles. I replaced the oil pump to one from a 2000 5SFE, the oil drive gear has 25 teeth...this would mean I would have to use the Gen3 177-tooth timing belt, correct? The...

Hi there, I'm trying to set the ignition timing in a 1985 MR2. When I jump the pins in the diagnostic port as per the instructions, I don't get any change in the timing advance so I can't properly set the timing to 10 degrees BTDC. Additionally, when I try to just rotate the dizzy through its...

Last week I put in the dizzy per instructions (TDC, 1st plug, etc.) Since I didn't have an exhaust, I decided to take it to the local shop and get a nice magnaflow installed at a nice price. Car sounds nice. I noticed that the idle was hovering in the 2k rpm zone when cold, and once it warmed...