Warracer's mild street project.

warracer

New member
:) Alright, I finally gathered enough parts to call this a ''project''...
First of Im Charles,20, from Montreal, Canada. Im currently in my second out of 8 years of mechanical/robotic automate engineering program in college/university. I curently work as a junior hydraulic engineer in a local hydraulic parts machine shop. Before the GT-Four I owned a U12 Bluebird sss, but it was beaten up by rust and destroyed bushings so I sold it... I thought alot about what my next car would be, and I just always wanted a ST185 , from video game and classic rally on the tv... So I bought one. The car is a 1991 Toyota Celica Gt-Four A, it's my daily and only car. Jdm model fully loaded aside from the sunroof (which is good in my case because I wouldn't clear the roof otherwise). Its been a year now and I just spent some little to no time upgrading it. And with the budget I had I didn't wanted to go all out then find out im broke after the project, so I went the craigslist/kijiji way haha

Some picture of the car:

After his first ride:
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First winter :
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And presently :
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So here's the thing I did so far to the car (I won't count maintenance parts, too much to put in :lol: )

- C-One coilovers
- complete 3'' turbo back exhaust
- HDI electronic boost controller
- FCD
- Running 14psi on the stock 132K miles CT26 :|

So as you can see I mostly spent my time maintaining the car, reason is I want a good platform to start with.

So to start with I decided to go with a complete head refresh, stem ,spring, retainer.

-Cometic metal head gasket

So here's the parts that will be going on the car:

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-Big front mount Intercooler by Yonaka:
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-Refurbished an tig welded throttle body

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-Steel, tubular manifold (notice the flange)

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-IHI VF23 turbo from a 22b STI .

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-And somewhere in there I have a spare fuel rail with 550cc injectors.

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That covers pretty much the engine :)

Now handling wise;

Like I said I already have the coilovers covered :)

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-Xiimotorsport Read diff kit

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-Complete rear bushing kit (except the 4 spherical ones)

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-Complete rear OEM bolt and nuts

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So that will be pretty much it for this summer this is going to be a pretty weird setup but it will definitely be different :)
 

polm

New member
Hey can't wait to see the build! You'll want a fuel pump also to run that setup, walbro 255 is cheap and there's a drop in kit for the st185. Good luck! :)
 

warracer

New member
Alright, update!

Head is almost out,
Turbo is out,
Exhaust is out,
Subframe is out

Here's some pic of the process :)











Now the fun part, the subframe assembly, suprisingly, everything went alright, nothing was seized up to a point where we needed to get the torch, so here's the pictures:










And the car waiting for tomorow:



Only big problem we had was the rear right knuckle who snapped, the bushing was still in but it could have been extremely unsafe... Luckily the car held up fine :)

Thats it for now!
 

quieter

Member
c tu moi ou ta achete ton char dun gars qui sappelle belanger? pas pire les fogs jaune, jpensais acheter des h3 2500k
 

belanger33

New member
quieter":3kr2xfcq said:
c tu moi ou ta achete ton char dun gars qui sappelle belanger? pas pire les fogs jaune, jpensais acheter des h3 2500k
Nope! Le mien c'est un RC et je l'ai toujours!
 

warracer

New member
Thanks!


Alright more pics for today, head is finally out and we continued with the bushing work :)




Then I removed the surrounding parts



And the rear bushings again



Thats it for now, more to come tomorow! :)
 

warracer

New member
Yeah so I got a little lazy on the picture, I was in a rush so no time !

Head is now fresh and nice, all cleaned up and back on the block :)



Poor picture quality, I think there was some finger prints on the lens of my phone... :x

Anyway, rear subframe assembly is almost done everything went well:



And the celica on high heels waiting for his subframe and electronic/vacuum :)
 

warracer

New member
So more progress today, again me and my bad luck, the intake camshaft cracked in half, no idea why it just cracked, anyway luckily I had a good friend with a spare so the head is now complete, timing belt is almost done and the fitment looks pretty good to me :)

 

warracer

New member
working on these is no easy task though, if I had the chance to go back 1 week, I would had planned more time and dropped the engine, with everything in it can be a headache but everything can be done with enough sweat and blood :p

Thanks for the kind comments! :notworthy:
 

warracer

New member
Alright, what a week! Since I only had 1 week of vacation, everything needed to be done, so it wasn't easy but determination did the trick!

Anyway, the car is back up on the road! :D Everything is nice and smooth, no CEL, but I am hitting the limit of the stock injectors, so Im my foot will be light for a few weeks :lol:

Here's a quick video after the first time we started it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53Vw_lSbC8
 

warracer

New member
Finally, car is running super smooth, AFR looks good @ 10psi on stock 440cc's 14.7 when cruising, 10.5-11ish on full boost a tad lean but could be worst . Idle is super stable @850 rpm

I had to re-solder my O2 sensor which had a bad connetion and I had to fix a leaky vacuum line on the fuel rail...

I am super happy with the current result, now I am attacking the software of the car :wink:

Still some little polishing needed :lol:


 

warracer

New member
Well, yes the vf28 is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too powerful for the stock fuel system, afr is way too lean, something around 12.5 @ 15psi I literally did a 4 wheel drive burnout on a 4500rpm launch...

so I swapped it out with a TD04 from a WRX (03)... (I kept the VF28 for when ill upgrade the fuel system and go standalone, money is pretty short right now... )

The TD spools incredibly fast and the torque is just :twisted: top end power is better aswell, overall I am very satisfied with this setup :)
 
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