TRDTurko Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I know some of you are curious about what I have been working on so if any one want to check out the progress on my 88 Celica Alltrac, you can do so here http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=48784&p=457005#p457005. I will post some summary pics on here later. I will be running the car in Street Prepared with street tires, and hopefully a few time attacks at Gimli. current mods:full poly suspension bushingsKYB adjustable strut insertslowering springscustom turbo setup (gotta go for DSP)3" exhaust (no point having this with a stock turbo, plus I hate the fart canon muffler) planned mods:17x9 +15 Wheels255 RivalsCoil over conversionracing seats + harnessrear strut barrear lsd93 RC edition turbo and intercooler setupstiffer engine mounts2.5" exhaustbaffled oil panoil coolertrans cooler I am currently working on fixing this nastyness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Cool project. My First car was a 1986 Nissan 200sx. It had similar rust issues replaced rockers, rear rear wheel arches/bottom of quarter panels, new fenders, bottom of the doors etc. My dad and I repaired and repainted it to show room condition with a couple of extra touches. I kind of wish I still had it would like to see how it would do for auto cross. Your project looks like it is making good progress. Keep sending updates! If you want to prevent possible body warpage from the heat of welding you can also look into gluing on the metal panels. The 70 Malibu that my dad Restored had the rear quarter panels glued on. I forget what the product was called but the strength of the bond is supposed to be as good as a weld! If you are interested I can ask him what he used. What are you thinking of for color when you are done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 I actually will be using some glue instead of fully welding the outer skins. For this season the car is just going to be primer black but I want to get it painted a nice metalic blue next winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRS Joe Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Chrysler started gluing panels when they started the 300. It's the way I intend on going for part of my build as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I actually will be using some glue instead of fully welding the outer skins. For this season the car is just going to be primer black but I want to get it painted a nice metalic blue next winter.The blue should look real sharp on the car, but the primer black will look real mean and intimidating with the right wheels and stance! are you going to run some wide body flares? I am a big fan of old school Japanese cars with them. I am reminded of the old Datsun 240Z cars http://www.classicdatsun.com/new/432flares-blue1.jpg that had them and the guys who put them on the old AE86's http://www.cby.jp/hachiroku/img/p011-3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 Yeah, actually was thinking of using some modified AE86 flares. It depends on how much the wheels stick out. I won't really know until I mount them and set the camber. I might be able to get away with just rolling the fenders with all the camber I plan to run but I think I might need to add flares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I am excited to see how this turns out! should be real cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRS Joe Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 A simpler option is cutting the inner wheel well and rolling it. Then weld a patch to bridge the gap in the well. Looks clean. Looks kinda like a e30 m3. This is the best solution I could come up with. Lots of guys do it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97luder Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Hey MRS Joe [CORRECTION - TRDTURKO] , I used to have a 1988 Celica GTS a while back. Bought a 97 Prelude (which I still have) and now I own a 91 MR2 Turbo which is my summer daily driver. I still have my Kaminari front bumper from my Celica if you are interested. I thought I would offer as it looks like you're doing some body work anyway. It's painted black and needs some minor fiberglass work but I'd let it go really cheap if you wanted to swing by to pick it up. PS - let me know if you have any questions about the 3SGTE motor. I've opened up a few 3S motors (MR2 Turbo's, 1991 Altrac's) and built two 5S-GTE's for myself so I know a little about them. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRS Joe Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Trd turko is the guy who's thread this is and the owner of the all trac. I'm only a contributor of ideas. Ask him about the bumper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97luder Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Trd turko is the guy who's thread this is and the owner of the all trac.I'm only a contributor of ideas.Ask him about the bumper. Oops! My bad. sorry about that. I'll edit my post. Thanks for clarifying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Hey MRS Joe [CORRECTION - TRDTURKO] , I used to have a 1988 Celica GTS a while back. Bought a 97 Prelude (which I still have) and now I own a 91 MR2 Turbo which is my summer daily driver. I still have my Kaminari front bumper from my Celica if you are interested. I thought I would offer as it looks like you're doing some body work anyway. It's painted black and needs some minor fiberglass work but I'd let it go really cheap if you wanted to swing by to pick it up. PS - let me know if you have any questions about the 3SGTE motor. I've opened up a few 3S motors (MR2 Turbo's, 1991 Altrac's) and built two 5S-GTE's for myself so I know a little about them. Cheers! Thanks for the invite! I can't believe you have one of those! My first car was a 88 GTS lol. Amazingly it looks like you can still buy those kits from Kaminari. I was going to just build my own front bumper from fiberglass (I am a rework tech at Boeing and am opening my own custom shop soon), but I think I will take the kaminari off you hands since its kind of what I want to do with mine. I will definitely be picking your brain about the engine since I plan on building 5sgte's for both of my Alltracs. Were you in the fall drive? I remember seeing a MR2 there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Progress! http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=48784&p=457224#p457224 for more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97luder Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Hey MRS Joe [CORRECTION - TRDTURKO] , I used to have a 1988 Celica GTS a while back. Bought a 97 Prelude (which I still have) and now I own a 91 MR2 Turbo which is my summer daily driver. I still have my Kaminari front bumper from my Celica if you are interested. I thought I would offer as it looks like you're doing some body work anyway. It's painted black and needs some minor fiberglass work but I'd let it go really cheap if you wanted to swing by to pick it up. PS - let me know if you have any questions about the 3SGTE motor. I've opened up a few 3S motors (MR2 Turbo's, 1991 Altrac's) and built two 5S-GTE's for myself so I know a little about them. Cheers! Thanks for the invite! I can't believe you have one of those! My first car was a 88 GTS lol. Amazingly it looks like you can still buy those kits from Kaminari. I was going to just build my own front bumper from fiberglass (I am a rework tech at Boeing and am opening my own custom shop soon), but I think I will take the kaminari off you hands since its kind of what I want to do with mine. I will definitely be picking your brain about the engine since I plan on building 5sgte's for both of my Alltracs. Were you in the fall drive? I remember seeing a MR2 there. $40 bucks and she's all yours. I can email you a picture of the current condition of the bumper if you provide your email address. I wasn't at the fall drive but I was at gimli a few times drag racing. I hope to participate in a few autoX events this year as well as do a few hot laps at the gimli track. Aside from that, It's the yellow MR2 with the Motion sticker in the back. Let me know when you want to pick up the bumper and we can arrange a time. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 27, 2014 Author Share Posted April 27, 2014 passenger side welded up. just gotta seal it, bondo it and prime it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 how the car sits as of today... One more round of bondo and it should be good to go on to phase two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Nice work and good progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRS Joe Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Those 1/4s don't look flared..... Good progress this far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 No not flared just yet. Gonna get a safety done first, then I will flare them once I have the new wheels so I know how wide I have to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Looking forward to seeing this thing come together. What are you going to end up with for power and weight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 I am guessing power will be around 250hp with 200 lbs torque. Weight won't be down much from stock since you can't remove interior in SP, plus I am adding a little bit back with oil coolers and larger intercooler ect. so around 3000 lbs. I am starting with a fairly stock engine setup and focusing on suspension for now. Once it is handling like I want then I might add more power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 body work is finished! for now anyway lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Nice is it going to be racing this weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 no unfortunately it still has a leaking brake line so I have zero brakes. That is the next thing on the list. The engine has to come out to do that since the lines go right up behind it on the fire wall and there is NO room to get in there. Wont be done for the 17/18 weekend either so I will be in other cars for those days. Working on the car this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Operation Helmet room is done. Made brackets to relocate the sliders between the raised mounting points on the floor and lower the seat 1.25". Should help with banging my head on the sunroof support while autoxing. Also started on my coilover conversion, pics of that to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 Updates: Ground control coil overs with adjustable top plates and new bigger front brakes are installed. engine has been out and rusted fuel and brake lines replaced with new hard lines as well as a stainless clutch line installed. all the unused fittings in the middle were for the abs which has been removed since it was an option on these cars and I wasn't bending 6 new lines to keep it. had to go with a aftermarket proportioning valve for the rear brakes since factory ones are hard to find and stupid expensive. engine is now back in with a custom intake, intercooler from a 94 GT4, manual boost controller, oil catch can, aluminum gated oil pan to prevent oil starvation (must have for hard turns on these engines), lots of added heat shields to keep under hood temps down, and a custom 2.5" exhaust with a 3" down pipe. she's not pretty but she'll do for now lol started it up on thursday after a grueling day of installing the exhaust.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRSQmstyXs then I went home to sleep only to have mother nature wake me up with a water fall coming from our bedroom window (basement). So instead of putting fenders on an adjusting the suspension to go racing on sunday, I was ripping up soaking wet carpet and preparing half my suite for new laminate flooring. Damn renos are killing this project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white_cross Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Nice work on the Celica! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 thanks! funny thing is I have more views on here than I do on Alltrac.net where everyone is nuts for these cars. I guess this is more of an oddity here, plus so few people actually have build threads of their race cars on these forums for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRDTurko Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 break issues urrrggh! At this point the car should be drivable but of course my new braking system has issues. Almost everything on the car is new except for the booster and the rear calipers which I took off my other car that was sitting for years but were not causing issues when the car was parked. I found 3 more leaks and fixed those and the brakes seemed to bleed fine with all the air finally seeming to be out of the system and no more leaks that I can see but the pedal is still spongy and you only get pressure if you pump but then it goes away again right away. the seal between the master cylinder and the booster was still leaking so I put more gasket maker on that and it seems to be sealed. I can't hear the tell tale hiss anymore after the engine is shut off anyway. While I was waiting for that to dry I set the ride height so that there is about an inch gap above the tires and set the toe using the string method. So the only thing I can think to try now is different rear calipers and see if those are causing the problem unless there is a leak I have not found yet. Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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