My Ta22 Celica 'resto'

[Rowdy]

Hey guys,

so i bought a TA22 celica, a 1974model, on a whim last week, because ive always thought they look damn tough, and always thought they'd go pretty well with a newer motor in them.

i just looked them up on ebay to see what theyre going for, and there was one with a heap of spare parts, half an hours drive away, with a reasonable body that had little rust for a thousand bucks. bam, bought.

got it home on friday night at like 10pm

and took these pics today

i think its allright anyway. a little rust here and there, looks reasonable.

so i'll endeavour to put up pics along the way, im going to try and fix 'er up a bit with the view of driving it daily. plan so far (very early and vague plan) fix up the body, get the 1.6 and auto tranny in it running well enough for a roadworthy, then get it registered and swap in a modern turbo motor and manual transmission. i have a spare rb20 in the shed, so thats an option, but a four cylinder would be a thousand times easier to mount.

do you guys have any suggestions? i dont want big horsepower, anything from the last 20 years in stock trim is more than enough for this mini beast, as it only weighs 800kg's. something cheap as well.

and where do you find parts for older cars? ive been keeping a keen eye on ebay, but is there a better place to look?

cheers guys, Rowdy.

[rgr34]

nice ride love the old toyotas.... carby/turbo the stock donk keep it oldschool!.... or go a 4agze or ca18det 0r sr20det....

[trackracer88]

Loving the old school ride, Ta22s are great little cars. If you want to go modern, it seems a lot of people are going the SR20 route. I don't know much about it, but I'd say for it to be as common as it is, there would be a reason.

[StealthX]

4AGZE, then turbo it, GT2860RS, make about 250-300whp.

end of story.

fvcking awesome cars...

[02stagea]

SR20det is your best bet. Even in N/A form it would go well. Pic below for reference.

[R32 Zilla]

2JZ

[Munkyb0y]

love it!

some inspiration!

[NA_Goodness]

BAHAHA!! I'm gonna guess the engine in that thing sits fairly forward... The wheel fitment is mint, though!

Fantastic car, dude. A mate of mine has one, I love it! I've always wanted a TA28 myself. The 1979 Fastback model.

[Doobs]

love it!

some inspiration!

Saw that in the carpark at superlap.

[marky]

13B FTW. A mate of mine has and on going project/bottomless pit

http://www.4sfed.com.au/

[XRATED]

I love that shape celica...

I used to have an '83 celica hach back, with a dealership fitted tubo kit... so awsomely old skool kool!!! it was laggy as hell, but once the old T3 came on to boost, it was like weeeeee!!!! and hang on!

Draw through carbie, 2lt OHC and a nasty T3...

It was my first car AND it got me addicted to boost.

GL

J.

[Rowdy]

SR20det is your best bet. Even in N/A form it would go well. Pic below for reference.

actualy i have been following this up, it seems people are almost giving n/a sr20's away! pretty much decided its going to be an sr20, unless i wake up and someone has deposited a ca18 in the car over night

2JZ

hah ha if i cant be bothered making the altime mighty rb20 fit im not going to try a 2jz mothership motor... to expensive anyway

love it!

some inspiration!

omg, i am losing my shit over this car! mine wont be anywhere near as awesome, i fear...

13B FTW. A mate of mine has and on going project/bottomless pit

http://www.4sfed.com.au/

yeah his site looks pretty cool, car is a beauty, but i pretty much hate rotaries. strange people, rotary drivers.

[Rowdy]

im afraid ive been a little bit premature sticking this thread up... since i bought it, ive done nothing with it! apart from troll silvia forums waiting for the right motor... its sitting in the back yard waiting for me to finish bogging up the dings i put in my rodeo last month... that should be done by the end of the week anyway, so it will be in the shed and getting rubbed back ready for a new coat soon (Y)

the glass might have to come out for new seals, as water has been getting in the car from somewhere, so im doubly keen to get it in the shed. i should probably do it to learn for myself anyway. ive done door glass before, which was simple enough, but havent done windscreens etc.

[cribba31]

i love my celicas, i used to have one with a 3tgte engine, went really well. there getting a little old now. best to stick with a ca18 or 4ag or similair

[Wagonz]

nice, I'm thinking one of these may be a good project in the future.

For toyota stuff try toymods

[Rowdy]

thanks for the reply's gents

bought myself a few spray guns today, a 1.4 and a 1.7, will probably see if i can pick up a 2.0 nozzle for the spray putty, and im going to modify my compressor a lil to get a bit of extra capacity minibeast is in the shed! and ready for rubbing back

heres how much of a n00b i am with this car, i had no idea the rear quarter windows wind down, and ive owned it for over a month! to be fair, i dont sit in the back a friend comes over and just started winding them up and down, and i was like, you have got to be kidding me, that is awesome.

so many awesome features in such a small car.

[Rowdy]

ok so ive finaly got a bit stuck in to it.

ripped the front guards and bonnet off and got the horid air conditioning out. flippin things huge!

this called for a refreshment, or two, from bundaberg.

so then i got to the interior, which pretty much just needs new carpet and a bit of a retrim. so i kicked the dog out

and got stuck in. out came the dash skin, nice and gently. anyone who is interested in purchasing this a1 condition dash skin let me know.

also came with a most excelent aftermarket tape deck. it must be too far ahead of its time, because my cd's wont even fit in there. if anyone actualy has the hi tech recorded media that this device plays, let me know and you can have it. it is in a comparable condition to the dash skin. if you would like both the dash skin and hi tech media playing device, i will do you a good deal on postage.

also in the dash i found this little gem. it is obviously a hi quality front centre dash speaker unit, which has been given a hard time by the previous owner playing ministry or bass hunters through the hi tech tape deck. it is rated to a hectic 4w of power output. i am surprised the windscreen has not been blown out.

got bored, so i put socks on the dog

so i had to give everything a good cleanout, and while doing so i found a few items from the previous owner. watch as i use my skills as a detective to deduce some of the happenings in the previous life of this fine motorvehicle.

i found in the car:

1 white tail spider(was living in the hi tech audio reproduction device)

1 redback spider (was too big for the tape player, so instead lived wherever it wanted)

1 dollar and 37 cents. the latest coin i found was dated 2007, so i know the car was driving around less than three years ago!

exactly 2 large hair pins and one small hair pin, plus one blue shiny hair tie. this leads me to believe that at some point in my cars life, a real live human female was inside of it. this is further reinforced by the crappy vanity mirror glued to one of the sun visors.

the person who owned the car enjoyed refuelling at mobil service stations, as indicated by the two receipts i found decaying in the footwell. the station was in rowville. possibly this is where my car lived for a period of its life.

while refuelling, the owner(barry, for arguments sake) bought a tasty selection of snacks, including but not limited to: a freddo frog, a berry bar treat, a boiled sweet, a snickers bar, and many many others. the wrappers where thoughtfully disposed of onto the floor of the vehicle, and the change from petrol/sweets was kindly deposited in a trust fund (under the carpet) for me to access at a later date(yesterday)

barry then decided to take a drive down to his local myer shopping centre, where he parked (at 10.39) and paid a whopping 17 dollars to leave, a mear 3 hours and 20 minutes later. he deposited the parking reciept onto the floor, and promptly forgot about it.

not quite shopped out yet, bazza decided carribean gardens market was for him, and was so excited he bought three tickets, so that he could come back again later. barry must have wanted some pirated dvd's, because thats all carribean gardens is good for. transformers and i am legend where popular pirated titles at the time. contented with his purchases, barry dropped his tickets onto the floor for safe keeping, but lost them amongst the sweets wrappers.

barry must have been feeling queesy from all the sweets earlier, so he purchased a kiwi fruit, and neglecting to eat the sticker, instead placed it inside the steering column cover.

and thats about all i can glean from the patchy evidence covering the floor pan like a sticky, crinkly, moist and messy carpet.

oh. and there was also a bottle of sunscreen in the boot. and im trying to get my friend tim to eat the snickers, it was still in its packet. i could possibly tempt him with the small change provided to through the trust fund, but that would be wasteful and barry would not like to see me piss my savings up against the wall.

so the seats need a bit of a retrim... *cough* but seat covers will probably do for now

and for the moment i am reevaluating why i am building this car... to be economical and get me around! that means no sr20 for the moment, i want to spend time working on my skyline, not a yota. especially since i just got this cant wait to get this bad boy fitted up, when im done i'll send the ol girl(32gtst) off for a tune. finally. it deserves one.

thats it for now! i'll have to order the new carpet, and buy a cd player and a few subs/amps then we'll be in business. i need a radiator and a front bumper too... all in good time

and holy shit, do those chrome fender mirrors look good; case in point:

and heres some celica porn to leave you with:

[Rowdy]

she's aliiivveeee!!!

after a carby clean out, a new set of plugs, leads, dizzy cap, rotor, points, condensor, coil, ballast resistor and some new juice, she fired up and ran smooth as a medium grit sandpaper, probably about p400 i'd say.

didnt cost more than about, hmm, 120 buckeroonies either, thanks to a well placed mate (he had to be good for something).

i didnt dare run it for longer than 10 seconds, without the radiator and all, so now that has moved higer up on the agenda, and im getting stuck into the rubing back process as well. i'll go and buy a fricken sander tommorow, might make the process a bit easier.

on a side note im picking up a 32gtr seat tommorow ...not for the celica

stay tuned for more hardcore celica action...

[SABBAi]

Keep going G-man. It'll be all sorts of half arsed awesome once it's kinda done ;-)

[Gtir-keiron]

1JZ conversion is pretty easy to do,Even with stock turbo the old ta22 hooks along and makes alot of modified turbo cars look extreamly slow due to power to wieght ratio

Most even go auto