4eftetercel
Fresh Recruit
Here is my 4th Gen Tercel, I've been working on this car since 2007. It has been through a sit load of changes and the end results are below. I'm pleased with the current setup and can honestly say its been a reliable setup for 2 years now and it gets 33 mpg cruising at 80 mph. This is my daily driver! hope you enjoy! Id also like to thank this site for being an excellent technical reference, i was able to get all the part #'s i needed from here and was able to source all my parts from England (tmdevelopments) Jamaica and Australia. The car is in Fl, USA.
1994 Toyota Tercel Specs
Engine
- 5efte hybrid
- CP 74.5 mm forged pistons
- Carillo Rods
- ACL Glide bearing
- OEM seals and gaskets
- Hasting Rings
- Aeromotive Adjustable FPR
- 4efte Intake manifold
- 4efte oil pan and sump.
- Modified oil pressure valve
- Port and Polished Head (done at home)
- Custom Equal Length Turbo Manifold
- HKS external Waste gate
- Greddy Type R blow off valve
- Snow Performance water Meth injection
- OEM Head Gasket
- ARP Head bolts torqued at 62 ft lbs
- Power Flex Polyurethane Solid engine mounts.
- Toyota Supra 440 injectors
- Nissan Sentra SER Throttle body
- Front mounted 18” x 24” x 3” Intercooler
- 4efte ECU
- Apexi FCD (Fuel cut defencer)
- Apexi SLD (Speed limit defencer)
- Air Condition (Works)
- Mitsubishi TD05 20G turbo
- MSD 6AL Ignition System with 2 step launch control
- NGK iridium plugs gapped to .22
- Walbro 255 lph fuel pump
Transmission
- OEM Toyota C56 – LSD Transmission from the GT-Advance starlet
- OEM Transmission mount for this LSD box modified with Polyurethane inserts
- Royal Purple 75 – 90w gear oil
- Spec stage 3+ full face Clutch & Pressure plate
- Fidanza 7lb Aluminium Flywheel
- Custom axles from The Drive Shaft Shop to fit the factory LSD. Axles rated up to 600HP i didnt want to cut and weld an axle i like things done right so i had a set made.
Interior
- Toyota Starlet GT turbo front seats
- Toyota Paseo Rear seat.
- Paseo gauge cluster
- 2001 Celica GT Steering wheel
- AEM Uego wideband Air fuel gauge
- Autometer boost gauge
- Autometer oil pressure gauge
- APexi Super AFC Neo
- Apexi AVC-R (Electronic Boost controller)
- Water temp gauge
- Fire Extinguisher
- Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation server with bluetooth, ipod connector, DVD and backup camera.
- Sony Xplode front speakers
- Sony Xplode 6x9 rear speakers
- Custom short Shifter
- Ebay power window and door lock kit wired to work with the alarm system
- Lo-Jack and onstar tracking system
Suspension
- Whiteline 24mm front sway bar
- White line 20mm Adjustable Rear Sway bar
- Powerflex Polyurethane control arm bushings
- Powerflex Anti Wheelhop kit
- D2 Fully adjustable coilover
- 96 corolla front Rotors and Caliper
- 96 GT starlet Rear disc brake Conversion
- Custom made steel braided brake lines
Exterior
- Removed rub strips from doors
- Volvo 740 front bumper lip customized to fit Tercel front bumper.
- HID Kit
- De-badged
Future Mods
- Valve springs
- Camshafts
- 720 CC injectors
- AEM FIC
- Metal Head gasket
- New head with professional port/polish and 5 angle valve job
- GT2831 ball bearing turbo.
200 to 204 kph is where the speed cut kicks in, time to get off my lazy ass and install the SLD.
Tunining out boost creep at high speed.
The 4e to 5e build
Changed the wheels in 07.
Upgraded the IC
This was the setup i ran until i got boost hunrgy and cracked pistons #2 and 3.
Then i bought these cute lil things from Race Engineering along with forged pistons.
This is the tear down to install the new pistons and rods. I have no hoist so i took the motor out in sections and put it back in sections (Head, Trans then Block)
The setup was a T28 with a manifold made from the stock 4efe manifold and a Turbonetics wastegate.
Clutch of choice at the time (i dont reccomend ACT for reliablity or at all) i went through 3 ACT's the one pictured below eventually messed up my input shaft bearings so i had to get a new trans. the second one was a sprung 4 puck and the springs flew out, the 3rd was a sprung 6 puck and the center part where the input shaft goes grenaded. i was only making 240 WHP at the time :screwy:
ACT Release Bearing
Installed the LSD in the gearbox
Upgraded turbo to TD05 small 16G
Engine back in (i think) :lachen:
TRD suspension at the time. posted for P/N if anyone is interested.
Now the 5E :bananarock::bananamac:
Current setup
Rods and pistons assembled
Cryo treated the forged pistons
4e vs stock 5e pistons vs 5e forge pistons and rods
Stock 5e vs forge 5e
Crank
Cylinder notch
Block notch
Crank reinstalled
Pistons installed
Oil pressure sender installed
Transmission of choice
Spec clutch, pressure plate and Fidanza flywheel.
Drive Shaft Shop custom axle vs stock
Getting the exhaust done.
HKS wastegate and dump pipe.
In this pic you can see the solid mount and the anti-hop casters
The T3 i initially ran with this setup. Way too much lag for my liking.
After getting the motor done it was time for the cosmetics and fine tune.
power windows
GT Starlet front seats
Navigation unit, AVC-R and AFC neo
Rear sway bar
Front sway bar
Front lip installed
The Finished product!
1994 Toyota Tercel Specs
Engine
- 5efte hybrid
- CP 74.5 mm forged pistons
- Carillo Rods
- ACL Glide bearing
- OEM seals and gaskets
- Hasting Rings
- Aeromotive Adjustable FPR
- 4efte Intake manifold
- 4efte oil pan and sump.
- Modified oil pressure valve
- Port and Polished Head (done at home)
- Custom Equal Length Turbo Manifold
- HKS external Waste gate
- Greddy Type R blow off valve
- Snow Performance water Meth injection
- OEM Head Gasket
- ARP Head bolts torqued at 62 ft lbs
- Power Flex Polyurethane Solid engine mounts.
- Toyota Supra 440 injectors
- Nissan Sentra SER Throttle body
- Front mounted 18” x 24” x 3” Intercooler
- 4efte ECU
- Apexi FCD (Fuel cut defencer)
- Apexi SLD (Speed limit defencer)
- Air Condition (Works)
- Mitsubishi TD05 20G turbo
- MSD 6AL Ignition System with 2 step launch control
- NGK iridium plugs gapped to .22
- Walbro 255 lph fuel pump
Transmission
- OEM Toyota C56 – LSD Transmission from the GT-Advance starlet
- OEM Transmission mount for this LSD box modified with Polyurethane inserts
- Royal Purple 75 – 90w gear oil
- Spec stage 3+ full face Clutch & Pressure plate
- Fidanza 7lb Aluminium Flywheel
- Custom axles from The Drive Shaft Shop to fit the factory LSD. Axles rated up to 600HP i didnt want to cut and weld an axle i like things done right so i had a set made.
Interior
- Toyota Starlet GT turbo front seats
- Toyota Paseo Rear seat.
- Paseo gauge cluster
- 2001 Celica GT Steering wheel
- AEM Uego wideband Air fuel gauge
- Autometer boost gauge
- Autometer oil pressure gauge
- APexi Super AFC Neo
- Apexi AVC-R (Electronic Boost controller)
- Water temp gauge
- Fire Extinguisher
- Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation server with bluetooth, ipod connector, DVD and backup camera.
- Sony Xplode front speakers
- Sony Xplode 6x9 rear speakers
- Custom short Shifter
- Ebay power window and door lock kit wired to work with the alarm system
- Lo-Jack and onstar tracking system
Suspension
- Whiteline 24mm front sway bar
- White line 20mm Adjustable Rear Sway bar
- Powerflex Polyurethane control arm bushings
- Powerflex Anti Wheelhop kit
- D2 Fully adjustable coilover
- 96 corolla front Rotors and Caliper
- 96 GT starlet Rear disc brake Conversion
- Custom made steel braided brake lines
Exterior
- Removed rub strips from doors
- Volvo 740 front bumper lip customized to fit Tercel front bumper.
- HID Kit
- De-badged
Future Mods
- Valve springs
- Camshafts
- 720 CC injectors
- AEM FIC
- Metal Head gasket
- New head with professional port/polish and 5 angle valve job
- GT2831 ball bearing turbo.
200 to 204 kph is where the speed cut kicks in, time to get off my lazy ass and install the SLD.
Tunining out boost creep at high speed.
The 4e to 5e build
Changed the wheels in 07.
Upgraded the IC
This was the setup i ran until i got boost hunrgy and cracked pistons #2 and 3.
Then i bought these cute lil things from Race Engineering along with forged pistons.
This is the tear down to install the new pistons and rods. I have no hoist so i took the motor out in sections and put it back in sections (Head, Trans then Block)
The setup was a T28 with a manifold made from the stock 4efe manifold and a Turbonetics wastegate.
Clutch of choice at the time (i dont reccomend ACT for reliablity or at all) i went through 3 ACT's the one pictured below eventually messed up my input shaft bearings so i had to get a new trans. the second one was a sprung 4 puck and the springs flew out, the 3rd was a sprung 6 puck and the center part where the input shaft goes grenaded. i was only making 240 WHP at the time :screwy:
ACT Release Bearing
Installed the LSD in the gearbox
Upgraded turbo to TD05 small 16G
Engine back in (i think) :lachen:
TRD suspension at the time. posted for P/N if anyone is interested.
Now the 5E :bananarock::bananamac:
Current setup
Rods and pistons assembled
Cryo treated the forged pistons
4e vs stock 5e pistons vs 5e forge pistons and rods
Stock 5e vs forge 5e
Crank
Cylinder notch
Block notch
Crank reinstalled
Pistons installed
Oil pressure sender installed
Transmission of choice
Spec clutch, pressure plate and Fidanza flywheel.
Drive Shaft Shop custom axle vs stock
Getting the exhaust done.
HKS wastegate and dump pipe.
In this pic you can see the solid mount and the anti-hop casters
The T3 i initially ran with this setup. Way too much lag for my liking.
After getting the motor done it was time for the cosmetics and fine tune.
power windows
GT Starlet front seats
Navigation unit, AVC-R and AFC neo
Rear sway bar
Front sway bar
Front lip installed
The Finished product!
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