Well.. I have Good News & Bad News // 2UZ V8 Celica 

Everyone commenting on her not using an engine stand, please watch the video again and pay attention, Sarah’s not stupid 🤬

My 68-year old back is now experiencing “sympathetic” back pain from watching you and Angel in bent over, prone positions straining with that engine! 😱 Lots of extreme physical labor went into this one… I really don’t know how you keep doing this and deliver these gems precisely every 72-hours. Thanks as always, Sarah. 👍👍👍

It would be super cool to see TRD throw some parts in your direction.

First you honored your Gran and rebuilt (to perfection) her truck that you learned to drive on. Now you are honoring your dad by rebuilding the heart of his truck and giving it new life. Awesome sauce.

Will be cool to see you flex and restore this. Sentimental or not, I think the majority of us would have chocked this one up as a loss.

Love your sense of humor Sarah!

Coming from Canada and having dealt with rusty junk for most of my life I’d have been more surprised if that engine wasn’t seized. Time to dump some diesel fuel and marvel mystery oil in the cylinders and let it soak. Also you’ve never really lived if you haven’t had to beat the pistons out of a block with a 2x4 lol.

Shoutout to Toyota for making a damn near bulletproof engine!!

I’m up here in Northern Canada and you ma’am are an absolute gem. I drive big rig all week and get home and fire up the RU-vid to get caught up on your content. Never give up, never change. Stay Mint 👌🏾

Ok a couple of (respectful) comments I hope you take to heart. On the studs that were broken. Maybe try some localized heat on those studs before even trying to loosen them up. Maybe get a small oxyacetylene torch ( and always make sure that there is no residual gasoline when using an open flame.)There is an old adage, heat, beat, repeat that, somewhat crude, will work in most cases. You're going to have to eventually remove the broken pieces and that part is going to be a pain in the ass. Also if you don't already have access to a bead blast cabinet, seriously consider getting one. I promise you will love it once you get it. I mean even harbor freight has them pretty cheap.

I love your sense of humor Sarah. Also, can't wait to see the final result.

It makes my day when I have a Sarah-n-Tuned video on the top of my RU-vid page first thing in the morning.

cant wait to see this beast put together I love celica's

1:35 The way the floor looks in any north-east mechanic's shop. The day they find a suitable replacement for salt on the roads cannot come soon enough!

It is mind-blowing how many parts a modern engine has. And all this needs to be put together, it is amazing they can sell this for a price that people can buy.

Angel was aptly named for doing the organizing! wow!

Rubber Popsicles is now forever engraved in the deepest recesses of my mind thanks :)

Cool beans, Sarah! I was thinking, maybe you could rebuild the engine without the VVT, bore it to get the pitting out of the cylinder walls, a new intake manifold with central, 4 bbl Holly injection. Thanks Sarah, and you Angel Food Cake!

turned 50 this year, and by Far its the worst year of my life. Watching you work is so super satisfying and distracting. Thank you

Based on your comments lately, i think you need to go on a date. Great video's though!

Thanks!

how fitting that the background to your dad's engine is your grandmas truck awesome connections

SARAH!!!!!

Three cheers for fish cake,I mean fruit cake. Sorry Angel food cake.😂 Love your work Sarah 😎🍺👍🇦🇺

This is like Automotive Archaeology, with ratchets, hammers, and power tools! Thanks for sharing Sarah of the Interwebz. :D

Sara knows her audience all too well.

You’re a machine woman! What do you eat? When do you sleep?That motor looks like something you’ll find and restore from the scrap lying around in the “Mad Max’wastelands .

@5:15 - My Toyota 2F drank water thru the air cleaner. Rust on a set of copper plugs - cleaned up and still in use. Nothing will stop that engine if it gets clean oil, valve stem seals, and decent spark and air-fuel from a new carb.

That 2UZ is the ideal candidate for some use of oxy acetylene torch work to allow you to release those stubborn hardwares

It will be cool to hear what that JDM V8 sounds like with a real exhaust on it!

You should invest in a decent Inductive bolt heater. You can get a decent system for 300 to 400 bucks, and they usually come with a few extra heating elements in case you wear one out. They can heat a fastener up glowing red in about 15 seconds, and you don't have to bother with having heavy oxy-acetylene tanks or the explosion hazards.

You gotta get a blue wrench! An oxyacetylene torch, it will save a LOT of broken bolts and studs. Do it! It is painful to see all those studs breaking, get the torch! Also, if a nut or bolt will move a little, try reversing direction, more Krioll, then rock the nut.... see what I did there? Rock the nut?

Here's a tip; when you're working on a motor hanging on an engine hoist, lower it onto axle stands. (or at least 1 near the flywheel end [depending on where the thang's C of G is. Its a bit less 'danglyswingy' then.

Talk about bringing an engine back from the dead!

“Some of you may not understand what I am going to do”. Me: She is going to clean it! She is going to clean it! Narrator: She in fact was going to clean it.

Over and over again I find myself watching your channel. From the new vehicle reviews to the fun things with family history it is the best. Much love from ATX!

Wow that's a crusty old boat anchor. Can't wait to see it when you've fixed it all up.

I am excited to see the Celica disassembly. I'll have to look for that video. Also I liked watching all the rust come off the 2UZ. I thought it was funny how it would drop in clumps on the ground.

Probably will need to bore the block and install oversize pistons, depending on what's available for that engine.

Don't know how you do it, but this series was surprisingly captivating. And it's just the beginning of a long story...

Another thing to consider with rusty fasteners is a magnetic induction heater. The principle is the same as applying a torch by using heat to help dislodge stubborn nuts and bolts.

Am surprised at how much I enjoy this.

You called it. It’s salvageable, but just.. 👍🏻 Thankfully Food Cake was able to organize the parts. 👏🏻 Looking forward to the review. 👍🏻😎

To help prevent breaking studs, once you loosen a nut, tighten it back down and repeat for all other studs until they're all broken free, then remove them all. The manifolds warp like a paint flake peeling up as you relieve the hold down stress from the bolts so tightening down the bolts you just broke free will keep the manifold from adding extra stress on the next bolt.

You gotta praise Toyota for that rust bucket to still release the amount of bolts it did. However they did it. Just plain quality right there

Sequoia came with 4.30 axle ratio, that 4.7 has no problem moving all of that weight. JE will make custom pistons to your specs or their recommendations, your choice.

When I was a troubled youte, I worked in a salvage yard for a summer. Doing engine autopsies never got old. Only the engines at that time were mostly pushrod engines. Much simpler. I am most eager to follow your progress on this project. That V8 should make it a tire shredding monster!!

I lived most of my life north of the salt zone and I'm still shocked at the amount of rust and corrosion on the outside of that engine. It's like the motor was used in some sort of testing facility for anti-corrosion coatings.

Absolutely can’t wait to see how this Celica muscle car is going to turn out. So pumped! :-)

Sara and Angel love the progress. Damm it wish I could meet someone like you ❤

I will enjoy this project Sarah .

I love watching you work Gurl it's relaxing

Gonna be so cool 👍 Looking forward to watching this build and seeing the end result.

Next week, Sarah shows us how to sand cast an engine block and cast a brand new one from melting down used aluminum cans.

Sarah, get yourself a heavy steel bench that's thirty inches off the floor to set things like that engine on to work on them. Working on the floor all bent over, and working on engines swinging all over is going to hurt your back permanently. A person thinks they can get away with that when they are in their twenties, but it's damage to your back that builds up, which you can't recover from.

I love all the comments about the engine stand it tells the people that didn't watch the video all the way through LOL

BTW first step overbore (usually +0.2 mm) will take care of the corosion in the bores. Or any overbore aftermarket kit.

Celica with a V-8!!! Yea baby!!! I had both 83 GT and 85 GTS Celica.

Thank you Sarah!

Awesome references, as usual. You are hilariously creative with the words you use. Thanks for the awesome content!

Heat is your friend in the shop!

I love your videos! Keep them coming!

You have tons of talent is patience at the same time!!!!!!!!!! commited!! amazing

I'm convinced there are no limits to your capability. AMAZING!

Very nice job Sarah

Love your comical words of choice 🤣 so fun to watch. Looking super.

I've never seen anything like this. Thx!

As always the innuendos are on point 🤟🏻🇮🇪

Sarah, thank you for going to 4K video uploads!

Thanks Sarah.

Just amazing, no more words needed 🔥👍

Sarah, love your sense of humor. yeaah

That's awesome to watch. I have a couple 2UZ's and love them.

Progress has been made!

I wondered about the engine stand the last video. I wrote it off to "Oh well, that's Sarah!" 😆 Thanks, Angel!

Your face when the pulley came off was rather beautiful. Like Christmas morning and your first train set.

nice to see a uz getting some love makes want to tackle my 1uz timing belt lol maybe next year lol

Your skills are impressive.👍

Oh, ...Sarah! Again! Thank's Angel!😁👍🏻

Those Anchorman lines are my favorite!

Growing up in Idaho I have heard of rusty cars but I had no idea how bad it really can be. We have noth8ing like this in my part of the country.

It'll be great to see the car review of the Celica before you start on it. Those are cool cars, and yours is pretty fab (soon to be fabber)!

Thank you for the Anchorman reference 😅

Yay! I'm glad you think it can be rebuilt. I was hoping it wasn't going to be too bad once you were able to see inside.

informative and funny! What more could you ask for!! 🤔😊👍

I can’t believe you are salvaging that engine! 🤯

I can't wait to see how this gargantuan overhead cam V8 is going to fit inside of a sub-micro sized compact car.

I was thinking the same thing about the final countdown funny how two minds work a like

Sarah: at 13:08 "...but I don't think it really needs to be sleeved." Later, a call from the machine shop: Shop: "Hi Sarah. We're gonna put a few sleeves in this thing. Is that OK?"

Another fun video, thanks!

Amazing that you have achieved what many experienced mechanics would have given up on. I admire your ambition and tenacity. I've worked on many a rust bucket. Now I'm enjoying, watching someone else suffer. Love your work Sarah.

Awesome video

Gonna enjoy this new series 👍however there’s still a car we haven’t seen in awhile, rhymes which Audi 😅

Wow! I love your shop. You are very courageous to tear that engine apart so aggressively. I would have been scared to death with all the bolts that sheared off! Carry On!

Sarah, I love this project build. Yes for sure do a car review, so we can see the before and after. This is going to be fun to watch!

Angel Food Cake... Hire this one Miss Sarah. Keeper here..........

SARA, YOU ARE JUST TO MUCH FUN , ANYTIME YOU HAVE A CORROSION PAPER WEIGHT ITS BEST TO SOAK IT OVERNIGHT ( BOLTS & NUTS ) IN LIQUID WRENCH OR BLASTER PENETRATING OIL , THIS WILL MINIMIZE BOLTS , NUTS , STUDS FROM SNAPPING OFF !!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ON ALL YOUR PROJECTS !!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!

Tiny v8 and perfect for the Celica. It is going to be an amazing car when completed. Excellent project vivion.

You could try putting evapo-rust in the rusty cylinders wait a couple hours or more and wack some pistons with a 2x4 to shock it loose.

At the beginning with all the rust on the floor. That could be a 1 hour clean-up episode, right there. ( Sarah style )