70 replies to this topic

[Raizer]

Love this shape Celica, nice conversion too, hate how those big ugly wheels are going to kill the sweet proportions though!

[Insani-T]

Shh your mouth, I reckon if your car looks like the drawing in the end you will fully be the man.

Not all cunts need to go down the tiny wheels road, glad someone is being different.

[dspec_tt131]

throw some deeez on it

[Brock-Lee]

Fucken jeesus. Looks like there is alot of time and $$ going into this. Good to see shit getting done properly, and agree with Rhys, if it looks anythig like that drawing it is certainly gonna be a car to admire. Keep that shit up

[Josh]

Awesome to see something different being done. Love the wheels all tucked up under guards. if it ends up like the picture, again, you will be the man

[mikuni]

Picture looks crazy, like one of those dubcity hotwheels cars you can get. Should be something pretty awesome when its complete, engine looks at home in there.

From the picture the only thing I would say is please retain the front bumper. Looks lost without it.

[Mr.Mk1]

please retain the front bumper. Looks lost without it.

Quoted for truth. Epic project man, more pictures please!

[Steelies]

cool, first thing that popped into my head was that LeBrese falcon coupe

[Zeb]

This gets a big FUCK YES from me, will be pretty unique when completed.

Cooler than a Mustang for sure

[BIG A]

From the picture the only thing I would say is please retain the front bumper. Looks lost without it.

Yes the front bumper will remain as I have changed the front end design slightly as I saw the burkes metal mustang and really liked the way that they had done their front end and bonnet scoop so I will possibly take a few ideas off that one.

Thanks for the comments and if you are wondering I took the original idea from Eleanor (the new gone in 60 seconds) and applied it to the RA25 as I couldnt afford a muzzy.

The whole car is being built to show standards as I want to do something that is totally different to what is on the car scene at the moment.

I had a good practice with my first car which was a 1974 mitsi gto that i put a 18rgeu engine in with full metal flare kit, chrome mags and minight blue paint with a big hot pink splash grahics on the side.

[lowrota]

This gets a big FUCK YES from me, will be pretty unique when completed.

Cooler than a Mustang for sure

Anything is cooler than a mustang. More common than a holden lol. Anyway this car is looking badass! Keep up the great work.

[thegreatestben]

Hey mate, been following this on toyspeed.
Was extremely glad to see this being followed through like you had planned from the beginning.

Great stuff!

[leigh]

That is a severly cool Celica! It really does look like a JADA model car!

[BIG A]

cool, first thing that popped into my head was that LeBrese falcon coupe

Yes that is a pretty cool car and I did take some ideas from it and

That is a severly cool Celica! It really does look like a JADA model car!

Also got some ideas from the old models and that is why I made one up first to get dimensions etc.

[Zeb]

led taillight stuff here... http://www.ziptied.c...p?topic=14205.0

was following a mustang coupe other day with led tails, sequential indicators etc. was aight

[CUL8R]

Thats intense man!, I like it,
Plans on mods to the motor? Manual or auto?

Reckon a set of short velocity stacks (inlet trumpets) would be sweet

[BIG A]

Sorry I thought I had mentioned that I was going supercharger for the motor, I am going with the Eaton M112 rather than the M90 which is most of the conversions go for. Also I have a W58 5 speed Supra gearbox attached with a cast bellhousing from A1turbos so it is a straight bolt up rather than having to use an adaptor.

[UTERUS]

Imo, the massive tucked wheels look yuck.

I would say it will look nicer with smaller wheels that are more negative offset that sit flush with the guards, which will then make the small guard flares purposfull instead of flaring over nothing.



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[mikuni]

Sorry I thought I had mentioned that I was going supercharger for the motor, I am going with the Eaton M112 rather than the M90 which is most of the conversions go for. Also I have a W58 5 speed Supra gearbox attached with a cast bellhousing from A1turbos so it is a straight bolt up rather than having to use an adaptor.

What kind of punishment will the box have to put up with? Will it be more road car/show or are you planning on using it on the track etc, because I'm not sure how long even a W58 would last behind the torque of the engine you are building. Just an idea, I could be wrong but it would be good to build it once and build it right.

[lowlancer]

You'd be best to get an idea of what's legal in terms of lumens/watts for your tail-lights before caning your wallet anymore on LEDs. I'd think you'd need to look at how the outer lens will dim them and how many you'd need.

Won't be hard, get bright 10mm items, run in series to minimise on amount of resistors (may not need any as most LEDs work on 2-4V) or parallel if they do actually drag too much V and then calulate resistor/s based on that.

Tricky part is getting the brightness required, in the right colour, and mounting them so they don't look like a bodge job