Kstyle55

hey I am planning on doing a full Aristo conversion to my GS and want to have an Idea of what needs to be done and around how much will it cost. Thanks in advance. Can't wait to be tearing some people up

johnee78

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If your serious about doing a swap, PM me and I will give you the information to a buddy of mine that does swaps on the first gen gs300..I will tell you now that your looking around $6500 and up depending on what kind of horsepower your wanting to make..And no there is no cheaper way to do a swap unless your doing it yourself...

gompka

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thats 6500 just for the work right? No parts included in that estimate.

johnee78

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Parts and labor..
thats just basic 300-350hp..The more you want the more it cost..

gompka

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thats a great price.... I was thinking about doing the swap sometime with my dad in the garage cause he is a mechanic. I know i can tackle the simple things.... but where i think i'd have trouble is any custom fabrication and on the electronics swap. I know there are a ton of wires that have to be either swapped or extended when you do the swap. I figure a turbo kit cost like 4-5k and for that much i could have the same hp and a much lower mileage engine.

johnee78

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The swap is very time consuming and if you don't know what or how to do it then it can very challenging..He has done many GS swaps and he is currently doing a swap in a 95 SC300..This swap also includes converting the twin turbo set-up to a single turbo so that it fits in our car without having to remove the heater core housing..

johnee78

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He actually owns a 94 gs300 that dynoed at 455 to the wheels at 19lbs of boost and his tranny was slipping.His car is a beast...

Kstyle55

thanks for the replys. hearing you speak of his tranny slipping is a concern of mine to how much can the stock trannie handle befor it starts to slip and what can I do to stop it from doing that

gompka

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you can get your tranny built to shift better and handle more power. might as well do a highstall torque converter while at it. Last time i checked this was pretty expensive though.

Kstyle55

yeah I know it's expensive but I would rather spend a little extra money on buildind a trannie that can hold the power then to keep buyins stock ones that I tore up. Wont the high stall will make driving a pain I want the best of both worlds. Having luxury and speed is the best combo to me, I dont want to have to rev to three grand just so I can pull off from a light

gompka

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well you don' t need a super high stall one just something a little better than stock to get ya off the line faster.

Kstyle55

true does anyone know of the companies that will do this?

gompka

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look on supra forums there was a company name started with a "B" did auto tranny upgrades for supra for like 1800 thats including a tranny i think. Complete valve job and everything up to like 800 wrhp.

johnee78

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I believe the companies name is boostlogic..

gompka

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yea thats it thanks johnee