What I've been doing...

[celica fanatic]

Hehe, yeah. Dipped back into old Celicas lately, lol. Bought this one about 2 weeks ago for $400.00. Bought it not running. W50, 20R. Fuel pump was wrong, and I couldn't find the right one to put on it, so I converted it to a electric pump pushing 6psi.




After a simple rim swap and pressure washing



Started to swap my mkII seats into it, and the seat started to move then I turned the wrench. I thought "Wtf?" Yup.



So, I stripped the interior out, and the sound deadening out (Picture after doing so)

Here is what I found.






Today I fabricated patch panels. I have them tacked with weldable primer on them right now, Gonna bead around them all tomorrow. To fix the seat, I cut the brace out of my mkII parts car, bolted the seat in and the bracket to the seat, and welded the brace in.




More later

[Mortabis]

Awesome work, how did you learn to weld? I have been interested in learning about bodywork, welds and complete fabrication of panels for older celicas and supras
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[celica fanatic]

Awesome work, how did you learn to weld? I have been interested in learning about bodywork, welds and complete fabrication of panels for older celicas and supras
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I took welding 8 times in high school, lol. We had 2 semesters a year, and I took it both semesters for 4 years. It wasn't hard for me to learn, it's second nature now.

[racefanfoster]

Good deal man. Here come the MKll seats! You put more work in it than most folks would. Another saved.

[AJ]

Nice save!!! Great job!!

[mr1000000111]

I took welding 8 times in high school, lol.

Lol I'm doing this with machining. I've taken 3 out of the 5 avalaible classes. Lol CNC is next.
Nice Celica as well!

[celica fanatic]

Thanks guys! I finally got started on reinstalling the interior. Gonna reinstall what I have, but most like the rear seat side panels, etc I will have to source. Rear seat frames were literally rusted in half, so they're no good now. The material was ruined on them anyway. I also got the time to build a test pipe to put in place of the rusted out cat converter. Did it since we don't have emissions here anyway. It runs a fair bit better now too. Gonna weld a used dual tip muffler I have onto it too. The mkII seat here was just used to test fit, and so I can move it until I find a nicer set.

[Alien3]

Yeah boy . Get it,,,!!

[BillyM]

Lookin' good!

How's it run now that it's getting fuel?

--billyM

[terolla]

small world this is, saw this on cl and was thinking about picking it up, glad it went to a good home. if you ever decide to sell her, give me a heads up.