Hi people.
I have an old 76 Toyota Corolla E55, which i recently blew the engine in. I was talking with friends and we decided on trying our first engine swap, placing a newer 4 cylinder into it. The problem is, we don't know much on the engine mount and engine compatibility issues. We know we can put almost anything in there, but we want to do the majority of work ourselves, and keep it within a budget on labour. We were liking the SR20DET, but were thinking that maybe Toyota S engine would be easier to work with. Price is not an issue on the motor, but we would like to do the work ourselves, as a project. Also any thoughts on using the SR20DET AWD from a Pulsar Gti-R, or a 6-cylinder SB25DET?

Thanks for any input or ideas on the matter.
Nath.  

A turbocharged 4agze like is in my corolla GTS would make an awesome powerplant for your early corolla.  We're making around 220 hp on the stock NA ECU.  With good fuel management I feel 275 would be easy to make.  The motors are fairly cheap, easy to get parts for, modern reliability, and install into an early corolla would be fairly simple.  Almost a bolt in affair.  Do some research, www.club4ag.com has alot of info regarding these swaps.  Don't just jump on the "SR" bandwagon.  They break and parts are not easy to get or cheap.  Are you building a street car, drag car, or track car.  If you building a street/fun car you dont want more than 250-275 HP for your chassis.  Any thing more will just be lost to tire smoke.