Car is finished and on the road again !

Put the hood back on on saturday and did the first test drive followed by a bigger one on sunday with the target Nürburgring. Didn´t drove on the track as I want to test out the car a bit more befor as there was minor changes done.

But even now I can say the project was a sucess and I did the right choice of parts and mods.

-The used power steering and chargecooler pumps work decent
-The cooling system is more bored than stressed
-The non organic clutch is halfway usable on public roads
-The ST205 gearbox with it´s differing ratios works as I hoped
-The minimal mid range jerking is gone due to the new ignition parts
-The custom builded turbo works as good as the stock one in lower RPM range and bring much more output above 5000 RPM. I even interupted the high speed test I´ve done on my way home as I was a bit scared of the car. Speedo needle had far passed the final mark at 260 km/h and the car was still pulling strong without a drop in boost.

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Well Done! Sounds like it all mostly went to plan. The Exedy Hyper Single six puck cerametallic clutch sounds like it is a bit difficult to drive on the road?

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Don
GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

Not so bad as I was feared of. Needed pedal force is equal to stock. In fact a bit more precision is needed in footwork at starting from still standing and car jerks a bit at below 10 km/h ,but it's much less digital in use as usually descripted.

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Visited a dyno day in Luxembourg with my Allradschlurre on saturday and had a run on the dyno too. Went out fine with agood result. Made 310 HP and 400 Nm on the flywheel at 1.09 Bar boost using only 98 Oktan fuel. Normaly I run 102 Oktan fuel, but I didn't get it in Luxembourg.

Also made a video of the dyno run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpY1LNLRLwk

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Hi,

thats a great result, is that the max. boost you run the turbo?

greetz

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KEEP COOL UNDER PRESSURE

street legal?.....perhaps in tschibuti

No, that was the peak that was reached on the dyno. My car don't raise the boost like at streetuse while it's on the dyno. At road drive the boost raise to 1.15 bar and get limited there due to the stock pistons.

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Three german owners of white Celica Carlos Sainz Edition had a minimeet last weekend. We also invited a semi professional photographer we know from the german Toyota-Forum as we wanted to do a fotoshooting.

Here one of the first pictures from that day showing No 1946 (mine, original Toyota Super White 040, now Porsche Firnweiß) , No 2959 ( Wolfgang´s, original Toyota Super White 040 ) and No 2050 ( Marco´s, original Black 205, now Toyota Super White 040 ) :

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Looking forward to seeing more pictures.

Stephen

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1993 Carlos Sainz 2939, Forged, Apexi RX6B turbo with external wastegate. MOTEC M4, AFPR and 800cc injects. 3" exhaust, +1mm valves.ST205 cams. Rays 8.5" x 17". 205 rear subframe. Bilstein coilovers. 205 brakes.TRD diff

Great photo. Both of my 205's are in Toyota Super White 040 now

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Don
GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

We took the hole day for the shooting, using multiple spots. There will come much more and much more impressive photos, but they aren´t finished yet. Need some magic of the photographer.

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1990 White UK Celica ST185 - Project DTM
1997 Cream BMW R1200C (as seen in James Bond "Tomorrow Never Dies")
2005 Jaguar X-type 3.0 Sovereign AWD Automatic
Blood Bikes - https://www.freewheelers.org.uk/

Cool!

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René - Carlos Sainz 2433•5000
Turbocelica.nl | ST185 CS restoration and full rebuild

If it ain't broken.. it soon will be

Great pic - look forward to seeing the others.

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GT4DC Events Co-ordinator
1996 ST205 UK

Received the next set of pitures out of that shooting:













Will getting even more and hopefully the full res versions in the next days.

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Wow absolutely amazing car