6G Celicas Forums

Well, as it's now 2015 over this side of the Atlantic I would like to wish all my 6gc friends a great new year and a fantastic 2015.

Hello Nial, and Happy New Year!

I am with that last fellow, waiting 'on pins and needles' for your next installment. I don't, however know how to find your facebook page. Can you reveal your fb name, or provide some other way that I can access your page, or send you a friend request? Also might like to chat with you a bit about my getting up to speed on things like welding and spray painting that are fundamental to 'following in your footsteps'.

You have my respect and best regards for the new year,

Langing (Bill)

Also, Nial, you mentioned maintaining build threads on other forums. Would you care to name them? Especially if you have more documentation on the build you are documenting on this website?

Thanks,

Langing

I decided to keep up two website updates, here and celica-club.co.uk. Although most stuff goes on my facebook page.

Thanks, now how do I get to your fb page?

Langing

Bill.......Oops, yes missing a fundamental bit of info there EH! My personal facebook page is
https://www.facebook.com/JWPepper1
Although I now have a specific build page https://www.facebook.com/groups/EONRacing/



But as 6gc is one of my favourite forums, and possibly the first forum I joined in celica ownership I will dutifully maintain the thread on here......just not much happening at the moment.

This post has been edited by Nial: Feb 15, 2015 - 8:48 AM

Right, things are getting underway again.

Firstly I have started a new Facebook page just for the project if any of you are interested feel free to join, although I will continue to post on this thread.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EONRacing/

I changed my name on Facebook to JW Pepper if that confuses people . (It's the Louisiana sheriff from the James Bond movies if you didn't know )

As it's still cold I am trying to find things to do. In my wisdom I decided to tackle the rocker cover and rebuild it. It was dirty , messy and painted with crap paint that didn't cope with the heat of the engine very well.

I tackled it with some chemical warfare which removed 99.9% of the paint, a bit of wire brushing should see off the rest quite nicely



I have ordered some aeroquip hose adaptors etc, a one way valve and some aluminium weld on adaptors.



The thermostat housing will be receiving some attention too......some alloy welding to do here too with the addition of an aeroqip adaptor

Not very exciting, but its all I got at the moment......enthusiasm is returning

This post has been edited by Nial: Feb 8, 2015 - 12:19 PM

glad to see this thread will not be abandoned

standing by for updates!

This post has been edited by enderswift: Feb 8, 2015 - 5:25 PM

I second that emotion!

So I managed to arrange a trip to the aluminium welders today, I took the rocker cover and thermostat housing to get done.

sorry for the crappy pictures, its dark, better pictures to come

The thermostat housing with the AN fitting welded onto it.



this is to allow for fitting a return pipe from a header tank as I will be fitting a sealed system to the faff.

and with an AN fitting attached



Similar storey for the rocker cover, AN fittings welded on for pipework to a breather system of some kind....yet to be designed.



an with the AN fittings in place



This post has been edited by Nial: Feb 20, 2015 - 1:41 PM

I have been preparing some more for starting work again, built myself a new heavy duty work bench, tidied the garage ready for spraying, done some throwing out to make space. Just need to wait for things to warm up. Getting a bit bored waiting for things to happen so I have decided to buy myself a GT to play with, see how fast I can make it without adding a turbo and give me something to tinker with when not working on the faff. It might amount to nothing more than a commuter car but we will see. Found a couple of GTs worth looking at, neither perfect so might keep on looking. One project is never enough:)

It looks like I will be joining the ranks of the GT owners soon, I am going to view a Celica GT at the weekend so fingers crossed it's what I am looking for.....then to begin with some minor modifications

prepare to be thoroughly disappointed by a GT

Will see, I am not expecting it to be anywhere near as quick as the faff, but it has to be more inspiring than the Honda Civic that currently gets me to work each day.

I used to have a 1.6litre Corolla that was one of the most fun cars to drive, embarrassingly under powered but after playing with the suspension it could out handle most things on the road, it was great fun. I am hoping to do something similar to the GT. At the very least i can use it for measurements and some clue as to re wiring the interior.

This post has been edited by Nial: Mar 6, 2015 - 4:56 AM

Why so? I used to own a GT (ST202) and it was great. Yeah its not as powerful as a GT four but for what it was it was brilliantly balanced and punchy.
Certainly better then the gen 7 IMO.

Going to view a nice original (more or less) one tomorrow so fingers crossed.

I knew it... You are not crazy. You are 6gc hard core enthusiast.

Back to the project now the weather has warmed up'

the second coat of primer.







hopefully the first layer of colour tomorrow

Looking very nice, Nial. Glad to see you are back in business.

Wooo half-cage!