I take it that it's this one:
I take it that it's this one:
i would love to have that celica!!!!
I'm pretty sure that celica has a modern tacoma 4cyl swapped in. Knurled may know more. It's a neat car.
In reply to irish44j:
That would be it, its a father/son team. Good friends of mine. They picked up a used GP2 car from CO area. I remember seeing it on BAT.
A bit of fixing, a bit of improving, then BAM! a whole lot of broken, probably.
We went to adjust the loose wheel bearing last week, the day before the autocross, only to find it was a worn tie rod end instead. Skipped the autocross and ordered up some Turbo tie rods from Pelican. These are what came out. What were you thinking Dr. Porsche?
and the new stuff. An "upgrade" to what every other car manufacturer uses.
Pretty easy to swap in. The hardest part is getting the spring to seat over the bellows but we found rotating the bellows also rotated the unseated portion of the spring.
We also ordered these Rennline foot plates to finish off the interior.
We then sent the car off to the 944FEST to be used for rally demo runs while we visited Niagara Falls with the family. By all accounts it was a big hit. We picked up the car from the venue on Tuesday and took advantage by doing some practice runs for a couple of hours. Unfortunately during this session the gearbox started acting up such that now it won't go into first gear and fifth is a bit stiff to get into as is reverse. :(:(:( We have yet to get into it but suspect broken syncros but hoping for something in the linkage.
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Awesome Build Paul, a worthy replacement for the Legacy. Loving the Rothmans paint scheme. I see you are still embarrassing tarmac specials on the autocross courses. Seeing all the RallyX pics brings back fond memories...except for the bitter cold and the mud that never seems to go away...I took my fender off a year ago and I found 5 year old mud stuck in the crevices
In reply to davbro:
Thanks man. Yes, they can get a bit dirty.
You guys planning to go to Great Lakes Divisional Challenge? I want to see this thing in action, and it looks like we're bringing a few cars from DC to run MR 
Nope. It's broken. Lost first gear. We are going to put this one away for a while and get the Quattro running again.
teamilluminata wrote: Nope. It's broken. Lost first gear. We are going to put this one away for a while and get the Quattro running again.
bah, you don't need no first gear in rallycross 
I know but when the bits that broke on first start finding their way into second you add zeros to the price tag to fix it.
irish44j wrote:teamilluminata wrote: Nope. It's broken. Lost first gear. We are going to put this one away for a while and get the Quattro running again.
irish44j wrote: I take it that it's this one:
HOLY CRAP
I open this thread for an update and see the best Celica ever- is there more info on that thing somewhere?
No action on repairing the trans yet. Still working on the Quattro. However, we did move the car into our new showroom area, even though it's not really ready yet.
Where is the showroom, have you moved or taken over more units?
Adrian_Thompson wrote: Where is the showroom, have you moved or taken over more units?
More units. :)
The Porsche's new home is finished.
and a friend to keep it company
Took the engine and transmission out. Time to fix the transmission.
So, what do I do now?
Gearbox came apart quite nicely. No horror stories so far. Just a broken synchro ring and stripped dog teeth. The great news is the main bearing races are not loose in the diff housing and no gears look chewed up. I think we will be rebuilding this one :)
Not bad. Glad to see you guys are back at it.
irish44j wrote: Not bad. Glad to see you guys are back at it.
^^^ me too
Wish you had been at GLDivs last year though. I wanted to see your car run against mine to see how much faster you are, lol.
In reply to irish44j:
And I'm glad he didn't!
Now who is to blame for the failure you or scott?
Well, I was in the car when it went "bang", figuratively speaking but dozens of RallyCrosses and 100k of previous owners probably contributed some.
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