86 GT-S Turbo HalfTrac Project *Update*

Hey guys. So I found a hell of a deal on this 86 GT-S. The previous owner is a Toyota Master Tech. He got it from an old lady who was the original owner who had stopped driving it at 70,000 because there was a ping in the engine.

Th engine he swapped to is a JDM 2nd gen 3S-GTE, but its not JUST any 3sgte, its the WRC edition engine. Stock HP at 240. 224 to the wheels at 9lbs of boost. No boost controller, blow-off valve or turbo timer. I figure the cost of the engine plus what it would cost to install it would be somewhere around $5000. I paid $3000 for the car, so I think I got a good deal.

Plans in the next month:

Euro side lights from my other Celica
Paint job to Nautical Blue Metallic
Transfer stereo from my other car
fix muffler noise. (add resonator)

Further on:

Boost controller
Intake
Tires

Here are a few pictures of the "new" Celica. Just put the rims on and they really make the car at this point...



The car also has a custom molded 4th gen hood with WRC scoop. I just need some of that chicken fence wire type stuff to put on it...

 

Yeah it has the Water to air IC. He said they were better and that the Air to Air ICs do about as much cooling as blowing on it with a straw. He put the 1st gen IC on there. Is there any truth to that?

And bare with me here Rick...but what is a CS vent?

Also I haven't actually seen the car in person yet guys so you are seeing as much as I have. My friend picked it up and AZ for me. I'm going home on Monday so I will see and drive it then.

On the drive back from AZ my friend beat a ROUSH Mustang as well as a modified Eclipse on the freeway.

 

That IC is worth like a grand or something by itself so he wanted to keep that one.

ok I'm the dumb ass here. :roll: lol but whats an AFM again? (air flow monitor?) and how can you tell its not a WRC engine just by looking at it?

Heres a link to the guys photobucket with a bunch of pics of the engine. I will take more of whats currently in there when I get back to TN.

ST165-2765 if you look at some of those you will see the IC that you have pictured in your post which he replaced with the 1st gen 3sgte WTA IC.

http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff23 ... S/?start=0

 

Got the exhaust fixed today. Added a resonator as the car is quite loud because of the straight back 3" piping. Great performance, but too loud. Got the muffler pulled back about 3.5 inches because it was sticking out too far. (You can see that in the pictures). Fixed rattling against the under body because of poor installation. Also there was a hole in some piping for the IC thus all water leaking out, which got fixed as well. Will post more pics soon!

 

The hood vent was just done with bondo so its not looking very good right now, cracks around the edges and stuff. I'll take a few close up for you guys. The same guy who is going to also knows fiberglassing so he is going to redo the hood scoop as well as switch out my windshield.

Also swapped the euro front sidelights from my other GT-S. Looks goooood!

(I will probably take some pics when I get the car back today if its still light, if not then tomorrow after work.)

 

Here are a few pics of the hood vent. Looks awesome except for the color and a few bad cracks in the bondo. Not well done as you can see. :evil: I am going to get it fiberglassed in. You can also see the newly installed euro front side lights.

Going to add a few more tomorrow after I get off work or the exhaust re-piping and the IC leak fix.

(Side note: These pictures were taken with my Samsung Flipshot cell phone with a 3 MP camera! Pretty good for a cell phone eh?)

 

Thanks. They aren't hooked up though, will be eventually. There are other more important things I need to do first. One being installing windshield washers in that hood after I get it fiberglassed and paint the car. 8)

Oh also beat a Dodge Hemi last night... :twisted:

P.S. anyone wanna make me a new sig?