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Stock talk about the Generation 1 and 1.5 Toyota Solara which were produced from 1999 to 2003.

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Postby Turbosolara » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:15 pm

depend on your resources.

you need a
manual v6 tranny with shifter stuffs
manual ECU
manual padels
i am not sure if you need to replace you master brake cylinder, i think in solara it also serves as clutch master cylinder
a honest skilled mechanic

typically $2000-$3500

not worth it in my opinion, you are better off in selling your car
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Postby ---CAMRAZY--- » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:20 pm

Turbosolara wrote:depend on your resources.

typically $2000-$3000

not worth it in my opinion, you are better off in selling your car


Why so much negativity with you?? I'm pretty sure thats wht you herd when you wanted to turbo your i4... "What??? Turbo i4 Solara?? Sorry!!"


Anyway your price range is about right with labor and parts, 50-70% off that if you do it yourself...


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Postby Turbosolara » Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:29 pm

CamrySE-soCALlara wrote:
Turbosolara wrote:depend on your resources.

typically $2000-$3000

not worth it in my opinion, you are better off in selling your car


Why so much negativity with you?? I'm pretty sure thats wht you herd when you wanted to turbo your i4... "What??? Turbo i4 Solara?? Sorry!!"


Anyway your price range is about right with labor and parts, 50-70% off that if you do it yourself...


Milt


ok let's say if he throws in the $2000 to modify the tranny, it will not add any value at all. he, as the owner, of course will enjoy it but it is not a smart way to spend his money. Since he has a low mileage SLE, i am sure he will able to get a good value on the car and he could just buy a SE V6 solara 5MT. with the excess money left the from the difference between SLE and SE, he could use the money to add more modification if he likes. another example is if someone spend $1000 to modify his SE with a autoclimate control from SLE, do you think the person will able to recovery any cost from this modification?

yes when i attempt to turbo my i4 solara, most of my friends tried to stop me. my brother's buddy works in XS engineering even refused to do it for me because he thinks it is not a good decision. i did it anyway, it was fun and i learned alot of knowledge about cars. but l learned it is not a smart way to spend the money since my wallet got smaller and i gain more financial sense from my schooling. i had a wasteful behavior a while back because i often had opportunities to earn some easy money, but now i do not have that kind of opportunity anymore. I did not take any money from my parent to modify the car either.

overall the lesson i learned is that If you have money and decided to do something crazy, that is cool. But if you do not have money and decided to do something crazy, that is fool. However, if that is something you really care about, it is passionate.
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Postby Sp33d » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:47 pm

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overall the lesson i learned is that If you have money and decided to do something crazy, that is cool. But if you do not have money and decided to do something crazy, that is fool. However, if that is something you really care about, it is passionate.[/quote]

that is a good lesson turbo solara, i like that one ALOT.

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Postby DatSRBoi » Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:17 pm

CamrySE-soCALlara wrote:
DatSRBoi wrote:You oculd buy my car.. Its in texas though.



Too bad the internals aren't that great, from what I have heard.


As for the topic at hand... Manual swaps are feasible and not that expensive, depending on your wallet.


My internals are fine and ran compression check. I dont know what the numbers were but the guy said it was in great condition


As for the authro of this topic. if you want Im wanting a stock solara. If you want to do a trade read my other post in the for sale section. A great deal. Im getting old and want stock for awhile then go down even more to a civic.
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Postby hari-bhari » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:28 am

i was in the same boat as you. 4cyl automatic, wanted a v6 stick real bad. tranny swap wasnt worth it because 1) you void your warranty and with such a huge overhaul, if something goes wrong, ur in deep doo-doo, 2) its expensive. i ended up selling my 4cyl auto for 10k, gettin a v6 stick for 9.5k plus tax. it took me two months to find, and i had to fly to texas and drive it back, but it was damn worth it. my advice to you: keep searching autotrader and ebay for the v6 stick that you want, then sell your car and go buy that one. i personally got mine off ebay, but i called the guy up and had the whole car inspected by a third party company before i actually bought it. and try negotiating with the ebay seller cuz outside of this forum, a v6 stick doesnt have much demand...

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