6th Gen Celica Rally Car AWD Build, Rebuilding after the roll..... Options

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[czwalga]

Jacked the car up and took the wheels off for the first time in almost 3 months to see the destruction.

Opps.... Ran a stage like this.... then toed it out at service and finished the day like this. Car gets a little loose in the steering when you can grab control arm and rotate it in circles.






Quarter inch aluminum.... bends like rubber!

[ricochet1490]

damage.... nice. I'm not sure I've ever seen a control arm look like that and still function at a certain level.
How did that happen? Any ideas?

[WannabeGT4]

Why have I not been following this thread?

[czwalga]

damage.... nice. I'm not sure I've ever seen a control arm look like that and still function at a certain level.
How did that happen? Any ideas?

A tree base... 15 mile stage, was doing good aside from the engine cutting out. Cross through the flying finish and stopped concentrating, went wide into a right turn and clipped a tree.

[ricochet1490]

Dang man, that blows. You changing power plants or fixing the 3sge?

[czwalga]

Dang man, that blows. You changing power plants or fixing the 3sge?

Hoping to fix the 3sge. I have a spare sitting in my garage, but i'm hoping not to change it out.

[6strngs]

This thread is great! I just wish the pics were still there on the first couple pages... If I ever get tired of my drift car or I ever have enough space/money to have 2 race cars I will be building a rally celica! There's a $500 95 celica on craigslist right now too that'd be perfect since it runs it just has a beat up body. Nowhere to put it though

[czwalga]

Thanks.



FYI i fixed my engine problem finally! Once I got an aftermarket regulator and fuel pressure gauge on the car it was obvious. On acceleration the fuel pressure would drop into the teens.


Unscrewed the prepump fuel filter and of course, there's a small piece of fuel cell foam, and dirt clogging it. I didn't think it would be fuel even though it felt like it because it wasnt constant. The longer I let the car sit the better it would run for a while. The longer it would sit the foam would expand and release.... Once the car was running for a while, the foam and dirt would compact again over time and obviously prevent fuel flow.

So stupid, but its fixed. Leave for www.stpr.org next wednesday.

[richee3]

Nice! Good thing it was something so easy and nothing catastrophic wrong with the engine or computer.

[playr158]

What are you using for swaybars?

[czwalga]

GT4 rear, nothing in the front; for gravel. Snow, i run neither.


I'll have some pics and vids soon from STPR. Good rally, 2nd in class, but two of the fast guys didn't finish. On stage was great, tons of issues and last minute work getting ready though.

[czwalga]

So... STPR story. Day before I leave found both from wheel bearings were bad. Change them.

Thursday after recce we run the practice stage. Wheel bearings making aweful noise, brand new ones. Fortunately I got bearings and there's a subaru shop open pretty much all night the weekend of the rally. Get them pressed in and find out the knuckles and hubs are pretty much ruined. Bearing just almost falls into the hub.

Was going to run it, but found a junkyard with hubs about an hour away. Go get them come back put them on and make it to parc expose with 6 minutes to spare. Stages start, battery light comes on, stage 1; dead alternator. Run on battery power and the car shuts off as I cross the finish off SS3. Get flat towed back to service. 15 minutes late, 2:30 in penalties.


First day is only 5 stages, with the last two being super specials, only like .5 mile each in a stadium environment. Run the 1st one, and debeed a tire... was running 25psi hot, tires were cold probably sitting at 22 and i should have been at 28. Lose another 1:30 on SS5 cause of it.





Obviously I didnt bring my spare alternator, so I went and searched boxes at the autoparts store. Got something I thought I could make work. Didn't get to start working on the car till 10pm. 2am, finished rigging up alternator brackets with what I had. (Guys I was staying with were up till 430 getting their car ready cause they rolled)






Saturday morning, i took the skidplate off and tried to fix the broken exhaust. (Broke on ss3, right after the header) Anyways, we made it to check in at with less than a minute to spare. Ran pretty well all day, minus the fact that my dad was screaming cause i couldnt hear cause the exhaust was so loud. Missed a lot of notes so I had to take it slower in some turns.

Got 4th in class first regional would have been 3rd without the time penalties, then 2nd in the 2nd regional. Two of the top guys went out. There were 3 guys in my class at the rally I cant keep pace with if they dont break.


Here's a few vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3AFfFgPoXM&t=6m50s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJrYH5puy7E&t=2m44s

[czwalga]

3sge is dead in the low rpms, it has like negative torque with awd under 4k rpms.

[ricochet1490]

Steve, in that first video I could hear the engine WAY before you came around the corner. I knew that was the Celica by the noise, and in comparison to a lot of cars, you were on it a GOOD part of the way. Nice driving.

[czwalga]

Steve, in that first video I could hear the engine WAY before you came around the corner. I knew that was the Celica by the noise, and in comparison to a lot of cars, you were on it a GOOD part of the way. Nice driving.

Thanks haha, that's what happends when you basically are running an open header.... its loud.


Yeah, just have no torque coming out of those low speed turns. Dont' have enough power to keep the wheels lose and in the upper rpms.

[storm26]

Steve, in that first video I could hear the engine WAY before you came around the corner. I knew that was the Celica by the noise, and in comparison to a lot of cars, you were on it a GOOD part of the way. Nice driving.

Thanks haha, that's what happends when you basically are running an open header.... its loud.


Yeah, just have no torque coming out of those low speed turns. Dont' have enough power to keep the wheels lose and in the upper rpms.

There must be some cams to reduce the lack of torque right? Or some quick mods to do that, because you drove great into that sharp corner, but then as you said, car needed some time to get into revs and its full power. Not putting it down, this is by far greatest thread on here, but it's too obvious

[ricochet1490]

Could bolt a beams in there, Get more umph, or just sack up and go with the gte and be done with it....

[czwalga]

Beams still has no torque down low. Don't really want a turbo engine yet we'll see what happens.

[WannabeGT4]

Beams still has no torque down low. Don't really want a turbo engine yet we'll see what happens.

Stroker?