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TA2274
4th April 2010, 01:08 PM
Howdy all

My name is Alex

I'm 28, and from Western Sydney, NSW

Decided to join this site, as I now own a Toyota again, and well, it's mostly AE86... :)

Story is that I have a couple of friends at some stage, we've all owned some old school Toyotas. About four or five years ago, one of my friends purchased her TA22 Celica after falling in love with my other mate's TA22. Difference was, that hers was a little rough around the edges, but still worthy of some loving. So over all these years, this car has had rust cut out of it, and plated up, resprayed, interior restored, and a whole swag of modifications done to it. When she started restoring it, I noticed the amount of time, money and coin that was invested into it, and I uttered the words "if you ever wanting to sell this thing, call me!" She said "NEVER!!"

Fast forward to Christmas 2008. We were having dinner together, and she mentioned If I remembered that time I offered to buy her car...... Well. It was an offer too good to resist.

There isn't much left to do on her. I plan on upping the compression on her to get some more killerwasps from the motor (with some lumpy cams), gilmer drive?, little bits of trimming in the interior, tidying up the exterior, and a new set of wheels.

So far, the mods off the top of my head are as follows:

4AGE Bigport with Headwork, adjustable cam wheels
7 rib block
Scorcher Custom Dizzy
Twin Dell'Orto Carburettors
T50 JDM Sprinter 5 Speed Gearbox
Custom Tailshaft
JDM AE86 diff (no discs however :( ) with TRD 2way Sprinter Limited Slip Differential
New Mini British Racing Green Metallic
Noltec Catalogue thrown at it including adjustable strut tops, strut brace and swaybars front and now rear
17" Wheels (soon to be changed)
NOS Badges (not complete however)
NOS Bumpers
NOS Rubbers
RA28 Self Retracting Seatbelts
And a shedload more...

So here she is lads. Some pics I've managed to collate so far of the build. I'll add more pics as I find them or take them.

Alex

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41153.jpg
Pretty much how it started out. Some whitewalls, and a bit of a tidy up.

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41154.jpg
Some paint, and a better powerhouse than the 2T

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41155.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41156.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41157.jpg

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/5/3/1/41158.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8141/ta2274003smallgy0.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4463/ta2274004smallte6.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7179/ta2274005smallmx7.jpg

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1546/ta2274006smallem5.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8758/ta2274007smallga7.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4112/ta2274008smallca5.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3039/ta2274010smallvf0.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2374/ta2274011smallsf3.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3663/ta2274012smallcn8.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3526/ta2274014smallab3.jpg

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9154/ta2274017smallsm5.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs490.ash1/26796_394935256640_618406640_4228161_7728365_n.jpg
New Radiator Installed, with new outlets for neater radiator hoses

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs490.ash1/26796_394935321640_618406640_4228164_3783668_n.jpg

Hope to come out on a cruise soon.

Cheers

Alex

R&D Mechanical
4th April 2010, 01:15 PM
Looks good get some new wheels

wntdae86
4th April 2010, 01:15 PM
nice ........ 4age looks clean ......rims look ok

TA2274
4th April 2010, 01:50 PM
Plan is to get rid of the wheels, and go to a watanabe style or a SSR mesh type, in a 14" or 15"

shift_rook
4th April 2010, 01:56 PM
sounds perfect

ke_70
4th April 2010, 03:53 PM
cool as! looks like a 50y.o owns it lol

skizzamods
4th April 2010, 04:16 PM
cool car, nice and clean. plans for wheels sound good.

Mr Awsome
5th April 2010, 01:21 AM
i love these and RA28's

blake.
5th April 2010, 09:28 PM
and I uttered the words "if you ever wanting to sell this thing, PM me!"