Project Rust Destroyer (56K W*A*R*N*I*N*G)

I'd be there tomorrow if you had of found this for me. Location: Mt.Elgin, Ontario

http://www.casc.on.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=12842

1988 Toyota Celica All-trac for sale. Head gasket failure, turbo no good, rest of car good. Fix up for driving or ice racing, strip for parts, or?

Make an insulting offer if interested. Either it goes to a good home or the boneyard.

Jon
Time Warp Racing
519-425-1215

BTW I allready have 3 extra hoods. Kind of hoping to get an eagle air brushed on one of them someday

 

Wow that would be so cool.

One question............ whats a vacation?

Sorry I am self employed and work 52 weeks a year. I don't get vacations, the only holiday I get is Christmas Day. When I do get down your way it will be on a tuesday as I am off work Monday morning at 6 am and don't work again until thursday. So I would probably leave monday evening and drive overnight.

I would like to make it down for one of the meets you have or to see the action at MIR but that depends on if it falls on a holiday in the middle of the week.

I also need to get a passport now....

 

I do commercial cleaning now. I have 2 McDonalds restaurants I clean once a week, a Broadways Bar & Grill I clean twice a week and 5 Dr Bernstein Health & Diet Clinics I clean once a week.

The paper on the wall says I'm a Programmer/Analyst and I did that from 1980 till 2001 working for Northern Telecom/ Bell Northern Research (now NorTel) and then DY-4 Systems which did all the electronic upgrades to the American M1A1 Abrams tank to bring it to an M1A2 Abrams, and finally I did a number of contracts for Y2K fixes at which point I discovered there were alot of benefits to working for myself....mainly my numerous car expenses.

Cleaning fits in nicely cause I can do it at night and have my days free as my mom is getting old and quite often needs to go to doctors appointments or other trips so I can help her out.

 

A few of the parts I have been collecting for my rebuild kind of layed out in the relative location they will eventually occupy.

- whiteline rear sway bar
- 2 remaned rear calipers
- 2 stainless steel rear brake lines
- passenger side rear hub & new bearing
- rear half shaft
- st185 lsd differential
- differential mount
- st185 drive shaft
- st205 shifter
- front half shaft
- 2 front hubs & new bearings
- 2 front shocts & strut mounts
- 2 stainless steel front brake lines
- whiteline front sway bar
- gutted cat
- stainless steel clutch line
- transmission cable bushings
- st185 trans oil cooler

Now all I need is that shiny aluminum radiator rick is working on.

 

Ha I doubt that, theres alot of nice work in some of the cars on this forum but thanks.

You and me both me especially since it should improve the handling of the car but I still need to find some springs and I don't really want to lower the car and Toyota would have to try and order them from Japan.

I would have done alot of the work last winter but re injured my back so I've only really been able to work on the car and everything else that didn't get done all winter for the past month.

So far I've concentrated on a couple areas Power Window & Power Lock Maintenance and then I was going to adjust my headlight covers cause their not flush with the hood and that just kills me so I popped the hood and saw that pesky radiator and radiators seem to be very dear to us 165 owners so as Rick89GTS had pointed out although yould hardly know it since it was painted black I do have a radiator with brass end tanks so I thought it would be a good idea to try and preserve it as I can allways get it recored.

A little more buffing and polishing and it should be going back in tomorrow. I have also ordered a 12" electric fan to go on the passenger side of the radiator to get more air into the engine bay. The fan will probably go in front of the rad and push air through it as I'm worried the fan will just melt if I put it behind the rad since the exhaust is so close.








Call me crazy but I think that if you show your car alot of love & care it will sense that and try to perform its best. So I was becoming very concerned about my rad so it finally took priority and hopefully tomorrow my Celica will be a happier car, and I like to keep my Celica happy.


One of these days.......

 

All ready to go back in. I put the fan on just for the picture.




Much easier to get in without the fan attached.

 

Ah great more brass to polish, I'll add it to my list.

Actually the first thing I would have polished would have been about 25 years ago and would have been a 750cc Norton motorcycle engine that I had in an old chopper.

 

Thanks guys

I figure it took about 15-20 hours and a pile of sandpaper.



In comparrison it took me 2 hours to get the front of the TMIC to this state. Perhaps another hour on it and it should be pretty shiny.