1stGenCelica.com

Hi everyone just joined and hope to be able to help and be helped by all you 1st gennerz out there. Work in GMH in adelaide australia ( you know , we make the G8 pontiac for you guy;s) I'm 44 years old and just bought myself a midlife crisis in the form of a RA23 that has a 18RGEU motor in it that I will be slowly restoring over the next few years as money permits. cheers all mach


the day she came into my life

fully rebuilt this myself every bearing /seals replaced, K&N filters ,Wiseco high comp piston, Dynojet stage 2 kit, frame wire wheeled and powder coated in clear and the bit I like the most my new hand built never working with fibreglass again custom ducktail

this is the crap pile corona with the spare 18rgeu motor with the efi still intact

welcome to 1stgen celica! you got a nice looking stock ra23 there, paint looks shiney still. how about interior shots?

YEP ITS AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS , HAS BEEN GARAged for 15 years up in the hills near adelaide. The vinyl is still soft and has new carpets and headlining , so just gotta get motor back on to efi from carbs and she's a goer

EFI is the best way to go. looking forward to see your project

Very nice!

Can you post more pictures of the car? Inside, engine, boot etc...

WOW that is a verry good find!
It looks like the car has had some paint work done at some stage, but is so original i think the 18RG should come out and a fresh 18RC be placed inside

will take some interiors to post up tomorrow , cheers boy's and thx for the warm welcome

put some new piccy's up of the interior and my bike SRX600 supersingle

Man... Your interior is superb.... Got any spare white interior parts?

nah , sorry mate what you see is all I got, going to work on the spare motor first , hten start stripping and getting celica ready for paint

What is up with the call sign machschnell? That is German for hurry up right?

BTW nice car needs paint and wheels and you will have a nice driver.

yup you got it machschnell mean hurry up in german, started using it when I joined a gaming clan 5 years ago and its just stuck with me(part german anyway and i'm always busy ) You could always hear it in the background effects in COD4

Back too the car , going to keep the 18rgeu coz its already low comp which I think will be easier to turbo down the track(that and I have 2 of them so spares for everything). Going to rebuild spare motor first while its out of car then insert into celica after painting her myself (fk 5 grand for a paint job) not sure wether I stay same color or change it as new color means more work.

If you stay with the same or verry close colour it means you only have to take the verry most outer parts off the car, leave the doors, boot, bonnet ect. prep it, soft mask the doorjams mask car, throw some highfill bord out and paint. Where as colour change means a full tare down, i wouldn't have done this looking back at it i would have stuck with the kermit green paintjob and been quite happy with my what could have been a weekend respray.
Nice work on the bike too, the cut n shut mufflers and the frame are a nice touch.