My 1977 7M-GTE CELICA! Finished! Test drive vid on page 18!

[speedfreak426]

I drove the car last night, kind of just toss it together to take it for a quick ride.
No headlights, fenders, hood, bumpers.

Just ran on stock boost, and did a couple acceleration and vacuum pulls to break in the engine. then did a full throttle run or two. Oh man, it's fun, and scary.

the car is going to look like pewp this year, aka super sleeper

 

[supraguy@aol]

Awesome. Just wish you'd prepped the rest of the car for paint while it was apart.
PAINT IT!!!

 

[Mk3runner]

nice, just nice.

 

[AbsoluteSpeed]

Awesome. Just wish you'd prepped the rest of the car for paint while it was apart.
PAINT IT!!!

Agreed! It is going to look awesome when it is all painted.

and hold off on those WOT runs untill you have a few more miles on he car

 

[cherplex]

Beautiful work, subscribed......

 

[speedfreak426]

Had a lil setback...

after finishing breaking in the engine I tossed the boost controller on, my guess is that it stuck closed.... the turbo destroyed itself after spiking to near 20psi

Time for new turbo!

 

[87M-GTE]

Wow!!

Havn't seen this thread in a while..

Looks like your getting it all done right!
Congrats on blowing up your turbo:biglaugh:

Now go get a GT35R and go n make like 600 hp


Keep up the good work Chris!


-Sam

 

[speedfreak426]

got a 57 trim ct26 and its back on the road now. Pretty quick too

 

[Mk3runner]

Vids?

 

[speedfreak426]

I'll get some as soon as I find the memory card to my camera!!!

 

[Mk3runner]

Lol

 

[queenskid926]

how much does this beast weigh? ever weighed it at the track? It has to be hella light to post those times on a stock 7m

 

[sk6471]

That and the fact that it was a solid rear axle.

 

[Flateric]

My god that is such a nice car man! Seriously awsome. Geeze where the hell did you ever find such a mint condition car like that. Even without the 7m in it it's totally awsome, but with, it's beyond words.

Congrats man, I wish I could see that thing in person, WOW is all I can say.

 

[USPturbo89]

awsome work man!!!!! great f-ing job! that car is so baeutiful! and the craftmanship is awsome! lol seeing all what you have done makes me want to do mine asap! wonderful swap man.... :aigo:

 

[speedfreak426]

Thanks for all of the great comments guys!

Photos courtesy of "Max Headroom"
Thanks!

 

[honestabe]

Time to get a nice tank for what looks like coolant instead of the pop bottle. Looks nice otherwise.

 

[Mk3runner]

nothing like a bottle of DEW!

but the blue kind??

 

[speedfreak426]

It's all I had at the time

I do get a lot of compliments on the bottle, lol

 

[speedfreak426]

Hope to make it to the drag strip tomorrow! Hoping for around 120mph trap speeds