Panda "Snow White" ST205, At last I got it ! Options

[Panda]

Yep, at last, after having sold my 1.8 ST, I bought my beloved Celica ST205 this saturday in Italy.
Ok, let's go for the photos first









This beauty was first registred in november 94 and has 103.000 km. Full stock, and really good shape (only one fender would need some repainting since I am a maniac).



















Engine bay is clean :




Mine was the first I ever drove, and waow my god
It accelerates like hell, I am already in love !

When driving back from Italy to France, my mean fuel consumption was around 10.5 liters per 100 km, so quite few, I was surprised. I always heard this car was a pain with fuel consumption, but my old underpowered AE86 was almost as thirsty !

I was a bit disappointent when I tried an ST185 and a Carlos Sainz in the past, and I must admit the ST205 is really on another level. I tried a top speed run on sunday on a French highway, I reached 260 km/h and the car would still tell me "come on, push it"

For now, first I will make a large check up, change the oils, spark plugs, filters... And later will come a standard BPU, with intake/exhaust/boost raise, some bronze wheels...

Thanks for reading

[Panda]

Thank Al.

Sorry but what do you mean by "lag it while it is off" ?

[BigAl_UK]

Thank Al.

Sorry but what do you mean by "lag it while it is off" ?

OK, If you are removing the charge cooler to flush it through as I recommended then get hold of some heat resistant wrap (lagging) and wrap the charge cooler in it. This prevents the hear from the engine heating up the cooler but the heat that the cooler is removing can still escape as it gets pumped out with the coolant.

Hope that makes sense.

Al