Correct those things have been closely regulated, but more to keep things even amongst the manufacturers, and limit one manufacture out spending another. The manual center diff and getting rid of the paddle shifter were decisions made to boost excitment into the series. But this is a side argument to your original of why the WRC cars have and continue to run steel doors/roof instead of composite since 1988.
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I rolled my fenders today, the paint cracked pretty good even with heating the paint up. That's 22 year old paint for ya. I ended up masking the car up and fogging in some color, wa-la good as new. I keep reminding myself that I'll be giving this thing an official paint job come spring time.
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Rear diff is NOT required. Final drive in the transmission has nothing to do with the rear diff ratio. The transfer case ratio and the rear diff ratio match on all Celica and Camry Alltracs (I had an ST205 rear diff and subframe with my auto Camry even)nw94rs":3mdrdyzs said:
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You should post the answer for the headlights here as well, for those that don't do the tumblr 
My buddy Jeff would be better suited to answer that question, he’s become quite the expert on fixing my celicas head lights. All the oem components are used. It requires cutting the bucket out of the headlight cover, then You’ll need to weld the light to the headlight frame. Then you have to secure the headlight cover & build a bezel to make it looked finished. Your best bet would be to buy a second set & get to cutting.
Haven't updated this thread in a while, been real busy with the holidays and the new year. I ended up finishing the bezels for the fixed headlights. I'm going to have my metal forming buddy build me some curved filets for the gaps and tig them together. Once that's finished I will either use this as a mold and make them out of carbon or just coat them in some wrinkle black.
We also started planning out the false floor for the driver and a foot rest for the passenger. There's a set of ridges in the chassis on the drivers side that catches your heel near the clutch, the raised floor will hopefully make driving the car easier. The passenger side looks narrow in the photos but its as wide as it can be once the cage goes in the car. I have to have a bar that runs parallel with the sill and I'm not a fan of doing things twice. We made the holes big so if something drops under the plates you can still fit your fingers down there.
We have our first canadian snow rally coming up in February. I still need to finish mounting my trans cooler, figure out how to get the steering wheel closer to me, mount my battery, flush my cooling system, align the suspension, figure out why my power steering isn't working, and double check everything. And if there's enough time build a sump guard/ skid plate. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks.
We also started planning out the false floor for the driver and a foot rest for the passenger. There's a set of ridges in the chassis on the drivers side that catches your heel near the clutch, the raised floor will hopefully make driving the car easier. The passenger side looks narrow in the photos but its as wide as it can be once the cage goes in the car. I have to have a bar that runs parallel with the sill and I'm not a fan of doing things twice. We made the holes big so if something drops under the plates you can still fit your fingers down there.
We have our first canadian snow rally coming up in February. I still need to finish mounting my trans cooler, figure out how to get the steering wheel closer to me, mount my battery, flush my cooling system, align the suspension, figure out why my power steering isn't working, and double check everything. And if there's enough time build a sump guard/ skid plate. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks.
UtahSleeper
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Love the work so far and love the headlight buckets. Curious how well she will hold up during the races.
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me262
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Always loved that plane. Never seen one in real. is it complete? Nice thing to restore
Never seen one in real. is it complete? Nice thing to restore chris-leics
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Autozone. They have timkin bearings so it will be a good quality bearing. Have them in stock in my little town so you should be ok.
It has been a crazy week but we finished the car the day of the TSD rally. We did four stages today and the car has done really well. I'll post some more photos next week.
I took a photo of the headlight apart so you guys could get a better understanding of what we did to fix mount the headlights.
I took a photo of the headlight apart so you guys could get a better understanding of what we did to fix mount the headlights.