twisted 1uz

[Ta63GTT]

i know this is not a celica supra, but it is very very close , it is a ta63 carina 4 door. this model came out with a 3tgte w55 and a f series lsd. I have had this dream of building a v8 carina for years, and i started saving and buying little bits here and there for a few years until . . . the beginning of the this year. now i have finally started my conversion .

i have been coming here for information and for inspiration as allot of you guys have done such good jobs and allot of the ideas will work on my car too seeing as it has the same floor. i will be doing the rear coil over suspension at a later date , thank you all for you debating as its helped me make up my mind on that one : )

I am all the way over in new Zealand , we drive on the other side of the road here so some shit will look funny to you guys .( booster is on the right etc hahaha)

any way check it out , this is my build up to last week







Have got my mounts tacked in place
I am using 8mm plate and will be hitting them with the welder once i test fit the motor, want to make sure its sitting in the right place before i demo it with the welder and make it imposable to get off .

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so the best part about my work is that we have a little sand blaster : )

so did this today, looking good, hopefully they will do the trick , they cleaned up like new , am assembling the brakes and front shocks etc. all the kind of stuff i can take to work and do in down time.

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only a few days for the paint to dry now hahahhaha

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Cross member finished and light paint to stop rust until i can get it coated
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And brakes almost done just looking into coil overs before i paint the shock tubes to finish of the front suspension/struts. Just a bit of a before and after pic to show how awesome the sand blaster is for cleaning up brakes. Oh and for all the Toyota people out there i found out today that the front wheel bearing are the same as trojan trailer bearing . so they are dirt cheap the seals cost more than the bearing.

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So needed a bench and heaps of stuff for building stuff. I.e. bench grinder cut off saw, vice, drill press, sheet metal folder
Long story short have made a sheet metal folder, and sold and bought allot of stuff to pay for the list of things i needed.


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These are the coil overs so far . Hope to be making some nrca's soon to help out the lower arm once installed. Pictures speak for themselves i think
Paint them next and fit the new brakes. Then install.

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will finish the fit up and put up pictures also .

i hate waiting for paint to dry. . . so i put the brakes togeather.
hope to put the lot togeather tomorow . feels like its taken for ever to get to this stage

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so been awhile , some maggot of a person stole my phone and then my awesome Toyota corolla daily driver wagon got hit so have had allot of my time wasted making police reports and fighting with insurance over the phone etc. so haven’t been able to do a update cause i didn’t have my phone to take the pictures with , finally got a new phone so can do a bit of a update

anyway. . . borrowed a good mates wheels to check what kind of dish i can look into getting , and also so i could set up the adjustable’s to see how low they go .

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9 on the back lots of room for more offset these are 15

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8 and a half on the front , 15 offset too




i also got some camber plates but they aren’t going to work with how i have set up the top hats , will look into that a bit later . and the nrca's are being made tomorrow so should have a trial one to fit for the weekend .

so i needed to start welding up something cause i was getting restless and needed to play with some molten steel . . . this took me all of a hour.



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will start or the rest of the rust later on in the week

so been ages since i made an up date, had a bit of time off work with a injury so couldn’t work on the car for a week which sucks cause when your home and there is heaps to do but you cant do it it drives you nuts.

had to get my shocks shortened a little to help keep the springs captive and get the ride height correct, this means i had to take out the 20mm spacer and re cut the tubes . didn’t take long to rework the tubes . and it was worth doing it , very happy with the outcome .

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this is set at 70mm chassis to the ground , will go another 30mm lower (aprox haven’t wound it down as i need to roll the guards ) . max height measures out to be 120mm chassis to ground, haven’t wound it up max yet so this is just a rough measurement .
so when i get my wheels they should lift it up a bit so should all work out sweet.

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also started some of the rust repairs
this is what i cut out of the front pillar only needs a little patch it had only just broken through the top layer which is good because it means that the sill isn’t fu*#ed also the water channels and the lower section of the quarter panels are all sweeeeeeet. The boot has the most of the rust, around the tail lights and boot latch, bugger all in the windscreen which is good, this must have been looked after very well : )


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rust repair


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there isn’t much more rust to do , bit unsure about what to do on the front wind screen as its full of pitting but not sure if bad enough to warrant cutting out and patching / or if it’s a job for rust kill and some magical sealant type repair.

fuel line next issuse to sort out, then on to wiring .

haven’t got much done lately, pulled the car apart even more removed whole driveline and started to do piping . as below

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ended up damaging the hard-line later on and had to remove it, no way was i going to go through that crap bending it all up again . so went out and got braded hose . Was a total bastard. Anyway . . .



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Am going to fit the new pump in old cradle , tank is very well baffled from factory. Should work out nice and simple setup

['85 supra]

EXCELLENT! Subscribed. Need more before pics

[1982 Dragon]

Nice build. Digging those vintage decals on the doors =)

[liaison]

It may not be a Celica-Supra but I'll still look at it, looks like an awesome build! After a recent trip to the drag strip I'm a huge fan of packing big motors in small cars. Good luck with it!

[akeem_da_dream]

nice keep up the good work!

[Ta63GTT]

hey guys, yeah i got this video me and the boys made on the first weekend of working on the car, hit it hard got it striped , engine box dash and all wiring whole front end striped in 2 days , made with a camera set to take pictures every 30 seconds decided to do the whole build like this but turned out very hard to edit and even harder to make work as would have needed about 5 cameras to make it all worth the effort so after making this video i scraped the idea and just started taking pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1YC2UQa8Dg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Rolled in as a normal car that was on the road and was very drivable.

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[Mk2 gold]

You deserve a nice car with all that tlc put into it....

Mk2 gold denmark

[Supra_devil]

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am i the only one that noticed whats sitting on the engine there?

very nice work on the panels, gonna be a nice looking car when you're done :)

[CelicaDrifts]

i see a supercharger too!!!
nice project. gonna be a fun ride when completed.

[84CELIST]

Is that the clutch kit from eBay? with the housing and all... how you like it? does it feel ok.

[Ta63GTT]

Is that the clutch kit from eBay? with the housing and all... how you like it? does it feel ok.

hey , na it’s from a nz company called nite parts, the only thing to mention is that you need to get hex head bolts cause you cant fit a spanner around the bolts even the 14mm bolts as they are so close the bell .and the clutch kit is an exedy kit , i think its this one
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/toyota/clutches/auction-480209710.htm

i haven’t driven on it yet, and i can’t comment on the feel yet as i am yet to make up clutch line, that is one of the next things to do once i have finished doing the fuel system . . . have to do it all in a specific order so i can make shields later, and before i build the exhaust so i know what clearances i will have . Bit of a fun game pulling the motor in and out, taking time to try and measure it all is a bit of an art to say the least . Then when you pull it all out there is nothing to gauge your measurements from. So far I have just been concentrating on one thing at a time, trial and error with fitting then move onto the next thing. Its probably not the fastest or easiest but it means I can slowly put it together bit by bit and know that nothing is going to overlap or be a fuckup later on.

i just went out today and got fittings and hose and fuel filter . So bank is dry for a few more weeks, next item to buy is the fuel pump and looking into a ez2wire 22 wiring kit, haven’t made up my mind on that just yet because there is so many different ones to choose from and so many different brands at different prices himmmmm

[Ta63GTT]

Is that the clutch kit from eBay? with the housing and all... how you like it? does it feel ok.

hey , na it’s from a nz company called nite parts, the only thing to mention is that you need to get hex head bolts cause you cant fit a spanner around the bolts even the 14mm bolts as they are so close the bell .and the clutch kit is an exedy kit , i think its this one
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/toyota/clutches/auction-480209710.htm

i haven’t driven on it yet, and i can’t comment on the feel yet as i am yet to make up clutch line, that is one of the next things to do once i have finished doing the fuel system . . . have to do it all in a specific order so i can make shields later, and before i build the exhaust so i know what clearances i will have . Bit of a fun game pulling the motor in and out, taking time to try and measure it all is a bit of an art to say the least . Then when you pull it all out there is nothing to gauge your measurements from. So far I have just been concentrating on one thing at a time, trial and error with fitting then move onto the next thing. Its probably not the fastest or easiest but it means I can slowly put it together bit by bit and know that nothing is going to overlap or be a fuckup later on.

i just went out today and got fittings and hose and fuel filter . So bank is dry for a few more weeks, next item to buy is the fuel pump and looking into a ez2wire 22 wiring kit, haven’t made up my mind on that just yet because there is so many different ones to choose from and so many different brands at different prices himmmmm

[Muchbzy]

Very very nice build! All I can say is wow, keep up the good work and the updates!

[Ta63GTT]

so the hard line got damaged so out it went, and then these al arrived, this will sort out the engine to the tank, still need a bunch more for inside the tank

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Fuel pump situation, not finished as i am waiting for the cradle to come back. It’s getting coated so it won’t rust in the tank. Electro plating is cool shit .

Also had to get some custom Teflon washers made to insulate and seal my power supply to the pump, will post up pictures later when I get it back and finish assembling it .

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all of this is so i can fit larger fittings and power supply to the pump that is almost twice the size of the factory pump . More pictures to come : )


and finaly finished my NRCA's here they are

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next moved onto rear suspension, couldn’t work out a easy way to make it adjustable so bought some random coilovers . They are so so close, but at the same time so so far away,
i am currently cutting out the shock mounts and will be welding in some pipe, capping it and making top hats for the shocks. then support and bridge each tower with box section to stop any possible flex in the body.


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bit more body work too . love this welder it makes life so easy.

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so been very busy, found that the suspension i bought is not going to work, it all ended up wrong so sold it on.
also changed jobs and that in its self has had a huge impact on how much work i have been doing in the garage.

but any way here is some pictures of shit .

heater set up so far, corona tap. modified to use my heater cable .

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started wiring engine and stuff, with the aim of getting it running this year if i can, so far this is going to be just a full dry fit out

ignitor block
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and starting to finish the fuel pump

these are the Teflon washers i had made to allow a seal and a bolt to power and earth the pump

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[Ta63GTT]

been ages since i did a update, not a lot done recently. hate wiring shit , it sucks !

so had some r and d going on. Couldn’t keep ignitors in the engine bay , also couldn’t keep ecu on drivers side as my fuse box is much more suited to that side.

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last few months have been a lot of back in forth , lots of thinking and lots of compromise. i am trying to keep the cars as functional as possible i would like to be able to drive it every day if i choose ,so things like heater, fan and radio are important to me .
i modified the ac condenser box to hold the ecu and relays ,and still keep it functional for the blower motor .

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i also got this from trademe and got some j cars pliers to make the correct crimp, all i can say is that these are amazing, professional quality job, nice and easy to do a good job with out stupid bullet connectors and having to label every wire if you ever need to remove or work on the car.

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I am planning on building my own exhaust; everything is a first for me, very steep learning curve. Any way i bought a new tig welder, so that meant i had to modify my welding trolley!! Love building shit like this, no measuring or anything just raw engineering. Came out quite well. I quite Like the version 2.0 .

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so since that went so well I decided to make a radio stand so I could get the radio of the floor and to a better height
it is so much better at ear height . should have done this little job ages ago .
Turns out its way over kill , I can do pull ups of it . and i am 90 kgs ha ha h a.

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so turns out that the special super charger adapter i bought already fitted to the charger was installed backwards !!!!! *(^&^&%&^%&$^$%#$#% !!!!! . . . had to cut the bugger of .
very carefully with a 1mm cutting disk on the grinder, i am rather impressed with myself hardly touched the charger its self , this was a intense cut as you can image

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this has turned into a drama as its a interference fit , so the new hub that me and a good friend are building has to be exactly right 0.01 to small and it will slip.
version 1.0 went well but unfortunately upon instillation i snapped the press tool, so now we have to manufacture and new threaded instillation tool and remover the broken bit from the end of the charger. but on the plus side the pulley looks great .

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modifyed sway bar mounts to fit a ae86 sway bar , its the same thickness as my origonal sway bar but it clears the sump YAY!!


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and that is about it till i wouk out pipe thickness and start making exhaust .