Now that's a frame off restoration!
 

I've heard of a frame off restoration but this is just crazy. Rawr should like this one. Yeah it's alot of pics but it's well worth it from what it starts out from.
http://www.mat.fi/project1984toyotacelicaturbo.htm

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damn, that's also the ugliest model celica ever :P

nice work none the less

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Looks are only skin deep.

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:o Wow that is some hardcore restoration work.Those guys do some of the nicest work ive seen.

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omg, is that the real audi quattro group b rally car i see in the background?? (pic 274)

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It's safe to say it probably is. I mean Celica is a group b so I'd kinda assume it's also the same. I mean look at the rest of the cars in that garage. Minus the bandit's car. lol.

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is that an ssauto manifold?

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Good lord that's a ---- ton of work :o

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I doubt cause they just like restored everything and everything on that car was pretty old. Well before SSauto came to. They just refinished it as it's the same manifold as before. Did you see how thick that flange is on that thing? Looks like atleast an inch thick.

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rad, its even more rad that its the st, lol. thats the monte carlo of celicas 8)

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:o I'd be interested to know the back story to the car, obviously its been rotting for ever but someone had $$ to have it restored.

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Yup it just shows that ramhorn manifolds are nothing new. These 80's rally cars are what started the whole ricer body kit ----. Kids wanted their gti's to look like a rally car.

The thing is beautiful. I really wish they had pics of that lancia delta that you can see the headlights of in the last pic.

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Christ. They even used stainless lines for the vaccum line of the turbo compressor housing

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just looks like it lol, especially after it was all cleaned up and shiny

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goddamn....

Don't really care for the body style, but it's badass . Too much damn work.

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HAHA I thought the same thing. After all that work they still got an ssac mani.

That restoration is ------' tits tho. That car was in really bad condition to start.

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I'll bet that cost a fortune to have done.

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I wonder what the purpose of all that was? There are much better cars to start with, so that rally car must have meant something to someone.

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If you go to there main web page, theres a project gallery featuring other cars including several lancia deltas.

Its funny to see cars around 2 decades old using the same techniques/parts that the gods of HT have bestowed upon us ::) They must have traveled back in time to build these.

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I'd drive it haha. ;D

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that ------- motor is an 8 valve, twin plug setup. mutherfucker has enough plug wires for a v8. 3t-gte is old, but pretty cool. It used to be a popular IMSA motor.

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I'd take that Celica in a heartbeat over that Lancia. That Delta is ugly as ----.

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that was definatly a piece of ---- when they started but they brought it back to life... to bad it will probably never see an event

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Son you have lost your mind. Go into their projects and checkout the pics of the motor going back together.
Super turbo charged my man. The way they did the plumbing is awesome.

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it crashed and rotted for a good reason. Leave it be.