BoostMe's 1975 Toyota Celica :D

[BoostMe]

Great to see people bringing these back to life and getting them in good condition! Like the looks of it, wheels are real neat!

The recovering of dash and speaker shelf is different, I like it. However the seats are completely wrong, you should find something more suitable.

Where did you buy all your suspension parts? Are they available for the RA23 also?

My celica:

The seats are modernized for comfort. They are just late model Celica seats. I've scouted some old school Recaros but they are hard to find. All o the suspension is Techno Toy Tuning. Every item they sell is on the car. It's fully converted to AE86.

As an update I started tearing down the car today. The motor will be completely out tomorrow. Starting mockup of the new engine. Here is a teaser of the AE86 rack on the SR.


And here are the new smiley bumpers I picked up

[StanceswithWolves]

Great to see people bringing these back to life and getting them in good condition! Like the looks of it, wheels are real neat!

The recovering of dash and speaker shelf is different, I like it. However the seats are completely wrong, you should find something more suitable.

Where did you buy all your suspension parts? Are they available for the RA23 also?

My celica:

Wow, nice work. I love these old Celica's. BTW, they look great with the mirrors on the fenders.

[ChristopherJason]

Found these two pics today showing the current state of the car before tear down this week.


Taken at Driftober Fest by Nick Quigley


Taken Yesterday at IA by Chad Lunn

Cant wait for more pictures of progress !

[ScottNicolas]

Great to see people bringing these back to life and getting them in good condition! Like the looks of it, wheels are real neat!

The recovering of dash and speaker shelf is different, I like it. However the seats are completely wrong, you should find something more suitable.

Where did you buy all your suspension parts? Are they available for the RA23 also?

My celica:

[BoostMe]

Found these two pics today showing the current state of the car before tear down this week.


Taken at Driftober Fest by Nick Quigley


Taken Yesterday at IA by Chad Lunn

[BoostMe]

Well great success today at IA. Good to meet some of the peeps on here!

Celica is done for the year.
Tear down begins tomorrow!

[relmonte]

Great build!

[RuhRohh]

absolutely love the old school JDM cars.
this, the S30 Z and the KGP GTR are on my must have list

[BoostMe]

Thanks peeps! I will have it at IA next weekend so be sure to say whats up!

[C-Hutch]

Car is dope. Saw it at Belk a couple months back.

[owwwch]

man, that thing is tight


just like those pants.. j/k

[Milten]

Hot!

[BoostMe]

Took the car to Carma Performance on Tuesday to double check that it was not possible to put in a 2JZ. It was verified that it will not work. After a few days of deliberation the set in stone answer is this....

The Celica is 100% now getting a S15 SR20DET. Will have a S14 5-Speed Transmission however. Its stronger than the 6-Speed and no pesky speed sensor issues.

Tear down of the celica will start the weekend after IA and will be completely done by March 2012. I will keep the build documented as much as possible.

[DannyE32]

sweet celica!

[NorCalFocus]

LMAO video was awesome.