Ryley's MA61s

[RyleyMA61]

Ok

Here's the first, it's eaten a lot of monies and 5 years thus far. Is my road and track fun car. Mostly road though.

It used to be red, and poo, with the 7M motor... It's come a long way. I blew it's 4th headgasket at Sandown in 2008, and then rebuilt the engine with forgies and so on.

Just put custom coilovers in and currently installing a Haltech. Hoping to crack 600Nm at the engine on 16psi.


Exterior:
Respray in 2pack black
Rust and dents removed
3.0 Turbo badge
New hatch decals (3.0i Toyota Celica Supra)
Tinted Windows

Interior:
Reinterior'ed everything Black
Momo Corse Steering wheel
Custom Celica Dragon Horn button
Speco Boost, Oil Pressure, Oil Temperature and voltmeter gauges

Engine:
7M-GTE I6 2990cc DOHC Turbo from ’89 MA70 Supra
Full 3” Exhaust and dump pipe
3” High-flow Catalytic converter
Arias Forged Pistons
ARP Head Studs
ARP Rods Bolts
8.4:1 Compression ratio
Fully balanced
Cometic Multilayer metal headgasket
600x300x76mm Intercooler, painted matte black
2.5” Aluminium Intercooler piping, tuned and flow tested
RC Engineering 550cc injectors
K&N Airfilter with Cold air induction, custom downpipe
CT26E Turbo off Turbo A Supra, rebuilt and high-flowed
Full flow oil cooler with thermostat and relocated Oil Filter

227rwkW and ~520Nm at engine

Approximate power after full rebuild and Haltech at 16psi - ???rwkW Damn thing eats tyres as is

Suspension:
KYB AGX adjustable shocks F & R
Custom 7kg/mm coilovers F
Custom AJPS 4.7kg/mm springs R
Polyurethane Bushes throughout
Whiteline Adjustable Front Swaybar
Whiteline Adjustable Rear Swaybar
Custom Rear Adjustable Camber Brackets
RA60 Celica Front strut tubes for 2° negative camber

Driveline:
7M-GTE 244mm flywheel with modified throwout yoke assembly to suit W58
Heavy-duty 240mm clutch
Reconditioned and Balanced Driveshaft
3.9:1 ratio Trutrac Torsen LSD

Brakes:
326mm Slotted Rotors
308mm Ventilated Rear Rotors
4 piston Sumitomo Alloy Front Callipers w/ Lucas Pads
2 piston Alloy Rear Callipers w/ Mystery Pads
Custom handbrake setup

Rolling Stock:
MS65 Crown Front hubs
MS123 Crown Rear hubs
17x7.5” BSA Mesh wheels, charcoal, +0 ET
Toyo Proxes T1-R 215/40/17 tyres front
Toyo Proxes T1-R 235/40/17 tyres rear

Electronics:
Apexi S-AFCII Airflow controller
Greddy Profec B Electronic Boost Controller (13psi)
Bosch Motorsport High Flow Fuel Pump
AU Falcon Thermatic Fans

Miscellaneous:
Custom Rubber lower splash tray and airbox
Aluminium Top radiator air diversion plate
Fully Engineered for modifications and road registered

I've got about 400 pics of the thing throughout various stages too.

When I first got it:



Latest Shot:



So it sits lower than in the following photos (ie no coilovers)









And here's my other one. Got it for $100. Going to be my track car and let the black car have a rest from it.

Currently has 2JZGE, 2.5" sidepipe (easy over 100dB though lol), stripped interior, 2x Sparcos, killswitches etc. MX73 cressida lip, some stickers, 15x8" V4 Simmons, and gets good fuel economy.

I just put the black car's old suspension in it for the time being for marginally better handling (Kings springs and tokico shocks- not in any photos)

Plans are coilovers, ITBs, computer, extractors, cams, 8500rpm, big brakes, truetrac.... race stickers ALA Group A style. Gets club rego too... All of this once I've finished the Supercharged AMG project though.









All together now:



















And a couple of videos:

[sun_moon]

fucking dope !

i got plenty of love for ma61s

[corknose]

very hot i love thse cars.

[Breaka]

Some serious love for these cars. Personally I'd style them a little different but oh my god they are nice.

[svenmate]

Sigh. I had a black ma61.
Great job mate! Looking sweet!

[joeschmo_57]

nice!

how did you score a ma61 for $100 in that condition?

joe

[RyleyMA61]

Thanks all!

Yeah I wanted the black car to look somewhat standard (with bigger wheels)... I have been tempted to give it some spastic offset 16"s and stretch the crap out of the tyres with uber camber and see what it looks like.

I'll get better pics of it with the new lowered suspension when I've got the haltech on there.

The white one was picked up from a dude while he was away- it wasn't going, his wife had enough, i rocked up, got it going, gave her monies and she said take it. I'm going to base it's styling on the old 1980s bathurst machines, as that style of racing is a lost art imho.

[*bj*]

Very, very nice.