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Good day ladies and gents Wondering if anyone can help. My Ra23 celica passed compliance, and now working on getting it to drive properly. currently setup with 40phh mikuni sidedrafts with 18r-geu engine converted from EFI. When the celica was fresh off the boat from Perth, it was running on 3 cylinders and had no spark on cy 1. with fouled plugs. as black as you can get them. I put in new ignition coil, leads, dizzy cap and rotor, spark plugs. had it running on all 4 cylinders to adjust timing. I adjusted the timing to slightly advanced as it wasn't running well in neutral. in retarded timing, the engine gagged like it was gonna stall... With abit of advance timing, it idled and rev'd fine but under load there were some bangs and pops especially uphills. Sparks started to foul up again.. only cy 3 plug was burning ok. Carbs have not been tuned yet which may be one reason why this girl ain;t running properly. If anyone who knows what they are doing with carbs and can lend me a hand, I am happy to pay in beer Any other advice on where I should look/check from here would be great. Thanks Min

Well finally decided to go oldschool after my mate having a couple of nice examples of 70's/80's cool Toyotas I decided to buy one of my own. I've always favoured Toyotas over any other make. My weapon of choice is a stock standard 1981 Celica XX/supra. Yep its a bit funny looking and isnt the prettiest car out there I must admit, but I've always been abit odd in my choice of vehicles. I have big plans (that arent necessarily gonna happen) but I'm keen to give it a shot. At the moment the Car has a M-EU engine which is a 2L straight 6, W50 manual gearbox and T series disk brake diff. I have a 1g-gte out of an 89 supra and a W55 gearbox (not w58, didnt see the point) which will hopefully make there way into the car. Other mods will be in the mix but I havent seen the car in the flesh just yet, Picking the beast up on the 17th of Feb. Pics of car - I also just won the auction for these wheels on trademe: 15x7 -2 offset Rather exciting stuff! Updates when I pick it up!

Discussion - //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/21200-yelo76-1974-ta22-celica/?p=543791 Hiya all, I was planning to wait until the panel work had been done, but here goes anyway. What I have started with, A TA22 Celica (Actual year is 1974), has been registered as a TA23 (Previous owner has swaped the chassis plates at some stage). I now have a solid plan for fixing this up involving deregistering it , changing the plates back (As he left the original one in the car) and registering from scratch. Here is the state of it when I got it, didn't look too bad..... (and as the Tui add goes... Yeah Right) Apparently all it needed was to have the wiring for the dash re done and it was good to go, the more I cleaned it up, the more rust I found. Anyway, I quickly realised that it was going to be a back to bare metal job and cut out the rust and rebuild it. Tried getting it quoted at a few places, most wouldn't even consider it due to the amount of work. One guy said, he would charge the earth, why not get a mig and have a crack at it myself. So that is where I am at. Some of the passenger sill and the progress on it. What got cut out of the sill The rebuilt item (Sills were folded up through a work contact for nothing, Pretty stocked about this) One side stripped and more patches done at the top of the pillars. Anyway this has taken a good 6 months to get to this state due to having a young family etc. (Only get a few hours a week on it and a limited budget thus far) Plans for her are: Finish removing rust Shave locks and side mirrors Do as much of the filling and prep work myself Paint (Undecided at this stage, considering 2 tone, silver bottom and yellow with touch of orange candy on the top) New chrome all around 17" wheels (Undecided yet) Engine: 2TGEU to be built (Will run with 2TC twin carbs to start with) Sc-12 supercharger (Setup like Tim Frost's one was) CRO2 cooling system (I don't like big intercoolers and want something different) Deloomed engine bay + Battery in boot Handling: Upgrade of front discs to something larger Change rears to discs Try and work out some way of getting an LSD into it. New bushes all around etc. Interior: Well the door cards I have a pretty rotten, the Dash is stuffed and there is no parcel tray, So I am considering fabricating fibreglass versions. (Going to have a crack at making a mould for the dash) Recover rear seats and some new seats up front New stereo in dash 6" speakers up front, 6X9's back parcel tray, 10" in custom enclosure in the boot (Using the right side well) I know it is a bit of a list, but I guess I am in no real hurry to get there, as Budget allows. The main goal is to get it back on the road. Hopefully before the end of the year

had this for a couple of years now, had the initial rush of enthusiasm and then money and motivation problems put it off for a bit (along with my lancer side project) so its been in storage for over a year. will be bringing it home when i get back from my next trip (julyish) and getting back into it now the lancer's gone. got big plans but don't want to church them up too much so i'll just put a few pics up of what i've done so far. how it was when i got it....................... and after external panel and paint, black engine bay, interior done in white hammerite, partial delooming of engine bay, etc. its been through a couple of engines already. i had a granada 3 litre v6 left over from my last celica (RA28 some bogan had turned into a mustang clone) that i had in there for a while, then switched to a sohc 2T then onwards to a 2TGEU i got cheap. decided its not worth putting something in i'll be pissed off with myself a year or two down the track so that's coming out and the 2 options seem to be 1UZ or 1JZ. as per it all depends on when the money comes along of course. i'm not that happy with this paint job either so will end up having it redone but its left the body in pretty good nick and little chance of rust in the meantime. anyway, more photo's since i know thats what i like. with the dirty V6 in the front and a pic of my old RA28 and don't worry, i'm going back to chrome bumpers. the two i got were a bit far gone but i've found a decent front one and keeping an eye out for a back one. cheers Matt