sebsta Posted April 18, 2013 Report Posted April 18, 2013 (edited) gday all my name is sebastian iam 16 years old and have been playing around with toyotas for around 2 years first we started off with a 1980 ra40 that we got to autocross events and very soon our collection grew to about 6 celicas :) so any way i wanted to do rallying so started building myself a car ... it started of like this got it for $200 from ballarat , it is a factory auto :( but not to worry as i have enough bits to make it Manuel i am planning on painting like the 1979 ra40 TTE 'african safari' celica i quickly started stripping it to much suprise there was little rust , i got most of the interior stripped then soon stopped work on it as we brought the ra23 to rally for this year so my car was put on hold as i was working on the ra23 getting it ready to race... . Edited April 18, 2013 by sebsta Quote
sebsta Posted April 18, 2013 Author Report Posted April 18, 2013 the car when i brought it to my house... got the motor and gearbox out ... and started removing the sound deadner pulled the wiring loom out and dash also removed the doors and tailgate... sending it off to my uncles to gt seam welded :) Quote
Skellington Posted April 18, 2013 Report Posted April 18, 2013 Cool project. I guess these RA40s can look good. Quote
sebsta Posted April 18, 2013 Author Report Posted April 18, 2013 thanks mate , the ra40s do look good when they have work done on them :) especially the track ra40s ;) Quote
snot35 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 I like the idea of the TTE '40. No doubt you've seen the Neal Bates one around. That thing is awesome! Quote
airocobra Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 Just the best way for a RA40 to look !! Rumour has it more of these being built , after his Otargo rally win there will be a few people out there with the $$$$ that want one . Quote
sebsta Posted April 19, 2013 Author Report Posted April 19, 2013 I like the idea of the TTE '40. No doubt you've seen the Neal Bates one around. That thing is awesome! yeah ive seen the bates car , its running a 3sge :) it sounds awesome as :) Just the best way for a RA40 to look !! Rumour has it more of these being built , after his Otargo rally win there will be a few people out there with the $$$$ that want one . yeah they look sweet done up in rally spec :) , yeah i saw a while back that they might build a few more , wouldn't be cheap..... the drive line would cost more than to build a club rally car Quote
snot35 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 I don't suppose anyone knows how they did the ignition in this thing? Given it's on Webers. I remember trying to look at a magazine article about it and it almost looks like they have a cable driven remote mounted dizzy? Quote
sebsta Posted April 19, 2013 Author Report Posted April 19, 2013 i believe they use a computer to run a coil pack on each cylinder and just use a crank sensor to tell it when to fire , it is simple to do and not to expensive ,but they may have done it another way... Quote
coln72 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 thanks mate , the ra40s do look good when they have work done on them :) especially the track ra40s ;) Is it bad I remember this car (or the original one if this is a replica) racing back in the day.... Quote
coln72 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 A couple of other Celica touring cars Quote
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