ryanfels

If you find a way of picking it up, i have a crane you can borrow. Im just not planning on heading your way any time soon

Keen. Would require cheap mates rates prices of course.

They come equipped with easy slam. Must look into this prior to purchase.

Yes, buy it. Then we can have a man date road trip to pick it up!

Change of plans, im in

I got no monies brah otherwise i would

do these jokers take care of whole cars?

yup, they have done that a few times. BIG A'S Gloria got here via Ewan

Yup

mlracing = Alex

Just for future reference, i'm guessing you guys are happy to get items sent within Japan? 

 

eg, purchase something and get you to send it to someone in Japan.

I have done this with Ewan befor

Good to see a build thread for this.  Nice work on the conversion.

 

I think you've done 10x more in 6 months than I did in 5 years of owning (read: neglecting) it.

Yea but it wasnt your main project car. Oh FYI, the 20v dizzy dosnt fit in these either

Trust me, i know my Hoshinos

http://www.hachiroku.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13876

Are silver top and black top pistons different? I thought the extra compression in a black top was due to the design of the combustion chamber? You aint shit till you got 14:1 anyways.

 Yup, they are quite a bit different

With the TRD gasket, it bumps up my compression to ruffly the same as a factory silvertop so about 10.5:1. Going blacktop pistons with give me quite a bit more, about 11.5:1 if im right

How many kw's are you making on your butt dyno?

 

^I concur with the above, pretty hard to decide to pull the engine down if you are getting reliable motoring/time to start building another project lol

I have no idea, i just got a copy from another guy running exactly the same set up as me. It will be sweet as bro/need to tune it soon

Spotted this fucking tidy lx76 in east tamaki today. Was in a hurry so couldnt wait for the owner unfortunately. 

Chrome wheel trims for the win.

Where in East Tamaki was that?

my local westpac dosnt have parking right outside so im keen to find one that does

If i did flares, i think i would need to just up to 15"s which im not keen on.

more slam and lock then more track days gets my vote

This is pretty much the plan in a nutshell

Where did ya'll get them ram tubes?

Also, I very much like this. You and me, we could go places. Prolly to repco, to get more oil.

A company called Spun by Hutty did them. He does all the ones on trade me. It cost exactly the same

Lower it more and make revs EVERYWHERE.

 

These are the perfect combo of awesome and yuck, well done sir!

more low is pretty much top of the list. The front shocks have stuff all travel so i need to find a shorter shock and shorten the tube

So what does everyone think?

What should i do next. Im open to ideas

Before the new engine went in, i decided to make the RWD water lines as i refuse to pay 100s of $$$ for a kit out of Aussie.

About $50 later, i had this for the thermostat side

And once the engine was in, i sorted the other side

It was then just a matter of hooking up all the fuel and heater lines, and installing bits a pieces like my 1g starter and adapter. I also got hold of a Link G1 V5 for cheap so that made its way in (cheers Stephan). So easy to wire in!!

Now with the all important Slam done (well probably not quite finished yet as it needs more low), the next task was to replace the Smallport 4age that was using quite i bit more oil than your average 4age.

I still wanted to do a 20v conversion so i kept the Blacktop from project TE71 and decided to install in here but with a few extra goodies

Now when i was doing the normal seals and gaskets on the 20v, i noticed the block was from a Silvertop so off came the sump and it was confirmed that the rods with silvertop aswell. This is a good thing as they are quite a bit larger. My main problem was that i didnt know if the pistons had been swapped aswell. It was decided that i needed to whip the head off to see and yup, silvertop pistons, this is not ideal (perfect for turbo though). To bring the compression back up to 10.5:1, a TRD head gasket was installed

I then pieced the engine back togeather and let it sit for a bit while i saved some money for my trip to Japan.
 

While in Japan, i picked up this TODA flywheel which weighs 3.7kg. Perfect for a N/A build

Once i was back from Japan, it was all back on and the old engine was pulled out (cheers for the hand Chris)

So the annual Nats meet down in Palmy in the middle of April and i decided i couldnt turn up in a 4x4 Celica. Slam and wheels were next on the list

I kept the D2s from the TE71 project as both the cars had 51mm front struts and the rear struts bolt into these IRS cars and give them extra slam. Good old Toyota lego

The threaded tubes were cut from the AE86/TE71 struts and slid over the Celica struts. By pure luck, the D2 inserts happened to be the perfect length for the struts and just required a small spacer to pack them up

(excuse the shit photo, stupid old phone)

And the rears just required the springs to be removed and Sierra Wagon springs installed

I then borrowed my Kelvins 14x8.5 SSR Mk1s and 14x8 SSR Mk2s for the trip down. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

That TE71 i got from Mark/AE25 was going to cost far to much just turn into a drift hack so the project stalled and interest was lost

It was at the end of November last year that i got wind of a AA63 celica aka "stargazer" that Vivaspeed/Geoff in welly was keen to get rid off. I emailed him, info was exchanged and these were some of the photos he sent me

He wasnt in a huge rush to sell but the price was good so i started stripping and selling the TE71 of the bits i didnt need while he worked on getting a WOF for the car so i could drive it back to Auckland

So at the beginning of February i got a ride down to Wellington with Richy/Snoozin on the friday night and drove the Celica back on the saturday afternoon

Once i got the car back, i did a few things straight away that bugged me like having the incorrect corner lights, throttle cable being far to long and i put in the spare LSD diff that came with the pile of spare parts

Discussion - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39655-ryans-aa63-discussion/

Love it!

Love the height !

Love them Hoshinos!!

They are work equip 02s

You have to make brackets and add camber bolts, like in this link

http://www.celicasupra.com/forums/showthread.php?66549-Looking-for-MA61-Rear-Camber-Kit

I dont know of any kits for sale though