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96DXCivic
96DXCivic Dork
5/19/10 2:15 p.m.

Can someone fill my in on the Group B Toyota Celicas? How different were they from the regular Celica of the time period?

grimmelshanks
grimmelshanks Reader
5/19/10 2:28 p.m.

they had a 150 shot of awesome

Nashco
Nashco SuperDork
5/19/10 2:38 p.m.

http://www.groupbrally.com/toyota.shtml

EvanB
EvanB GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/19/10 2:38 p.m.

How about a group b rx7?

pinchvalve
pinchvalve GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/19/10 2:40 p.m.

It looked like this:

It was driven like this:

It was based on this:

sachilles
sachilles HalfDork
5/19/10 2:40 p.m.

lots of good stuff here. don't click the link unless you want to eat up some time.

EvanB
EvanB GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/19/10 2:41 p.m.

This is awesome

96DXCivic
96DXCivic Dork
5/19/10 2:46 p.m.

In reply to EvanB:

That was the planned MR2 based replacement.

ReverendDexter
ReverendDexter Dork
5/19/10 3:02 p.m.

The Whistling Pig? I love those cars.

Used a 4T-GTE, which was a turbo 2.0 or 2.2L DOHC that made something like 450hp in low-boost trim and over 600 in high boost. It's my understanding that to this day, it's still the fastest RWD rally car ever made, if not the fastest 2WD.

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
5/19/10 3:04 p.m.
pinchvalve wrote: It looked like this:

Thanks for the new wallpaper!

96DXCivic
96DXCivic Dork
5/19/10 3:05 p.m.

I would love to do a replica but the grill and bumpers are completely different and they look like a pain to make.

Lugnut
Lugnut HalfDork
5/19/10 4:03 p.m.

Once again proving that box flares do make everything awesomer.

cxhb
cxhb Reader
5/19/10 4:07 p.m.

The only things you need to know about Group B

cxhb
cxhb Reader
5/19/10 4:09 p.m.

Love that 5 zylinder turbo sound

And if i remember correctly, wasnt the LDI Twincharged?

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/19/10 4:19 p.m.

The Delta S4 was twincharged - that's it in the picture I believe. The Integrale was turbocharged only.

81gtv6
81gtv6 GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
5/19/10 4:22 p.m.

Don49
Don49 New Reader
5/19/10 4:36 p.m.

I have bodywork molds for the early MR2 that will make it look like a group B car.

racerdave600
racerdave600 Reader
5/19/10 4:57 p.m.

In person the RS200 is awesome, about the size of the 1st gen MR2, but lower! Don't know the specs on the Celica, but if it was a group B car, it's nothing like a stock example. Think of them as the F1 equivalent of a rally car. So fast they were banned.

Jay
Jay Dork
5/19/10 5:02 p.m.
Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/19/10 5:46 p.m.

There's a good Celica Group B restoration at www.MAT.fi. They also have a few Lancia restos and the Cosworth-powered Model A with the misfire switch. Do not venture over there unless you have much free time.

Kia_racer
Kia_racer HalfDork
5/19/10 7:24 p.m.
Keith wrote: The Delta S4 was twincharged - that's it in the picture I believe. The Integrale was turbocharged only.

Which Lancia was the turbo and S/C one. R&T did a write up on it in the 80's I think.

Kia_racer
Kia_racer HalfDork
5/19/10 7:28 p.m.

Did my own research. Lancia Delta S4 was T/C and S/C 550 hp. It only ran for the last two years of Group B.

Tyler H
Tyler H GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/19/10 8:54 p.m.

They look even better in person!

Great collection in Vegas circa '06.

RedS13Coupe
RedS13Coupe Reader
5/19/10 10:02 p.m.
Tyler H wrote:

oh hell yes. The 037 is awesome. Someday I would love to have one of the street cars. As much as I like the race car, I think the production version almost looks better.

Supercoupe
Supercoupe Reader
5/19/10 10:15 p.m.

was that at the Imperial Palace?

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