Camry/ES engine swap project!

thanks all there are still some imperfections that you can see up close, but overall the car looks and runs vastly better than it did in june when we bought it. and it still cost us less than buying another good-shape camry. time investment doesn't count, since we had more of that than money.

we can expect probably another 100k out of this car if properly taken care of, giving the car a total of about 250k miles. that will easily carry us through the current rough times and at least until the prius is paid for.

we've had 2g camrys with that kind of mileage on them- DH drove this one for a year, sold it, and we ended up with almost zero net cost except gas and insurance. and it didn't get the big engine/trans seal job we just did on our current one...

 

i can't believe it's been 2 years. the car has 190k miles... DH wasn't driving it much for the last year or so, but it's the daily driver again.

it wasn't sounding perfect lately, and idle was a little off, so DH did some digging around under the hood. he put in a new fuel filter and cleaned out the injectors. it's like a different vehicle! sounds beautiful, runs beautiful. gonna run a top engine cleaner through it soon, see if that makes it even better.

also replaced the conked-out sunroof motor, so things are going pretty good in the old car.