3sgte (4th gen) basic to advance modifications?

[st.celica]

guys, i've just bought in a used 4th gen 3sgte, chopped from a crashed caldina gt.
planning to have it bolted on a W59 tranny. but i don't have any experience in modifying this engines, heard of hydra nemesis ecu but it only supports 2nd and 3rd gen 3s..

[jonathan yee]

the gen 4 eng is pretty much the same as the gen3 but with CAS and COP and weaker conrods.

i'd think any decent ecu could be adapted to be used with CAS+COP as that's what most new eng's have anyway. same as ecu's can be setup to get the crank angle signal off the dizzy and using multi coil packs.

what's power/budget? budget ecu would be adaptronic, seem to have all the controls and output's of more expensive ecu's.

but yeh, there's a couple thread's about the stock rods being weak, so first thing is to change them either to gen2/3 rod's or forged aftermarket items.

[obrim]

This site is great http://www.mrcontrols.com/primers/power.htm even though it's for a gen2 it's helped me a lot and is very straight forward.

[st.celica]

read about it before. there's been a big difference from 2nd/3rd from 4th gen gtes.
might as well switch to unichip or greddy e-manage.

BTW im selling my 3sgte 4th gen stock top mount intercoolers for $250

[jonathan yee]

where's san pedro?

if you were in australia i'd def take it. or is it just the topmount IC?