Thanks 🤪 glad it is entertaining someone, just want the celica finished now so i can drive it.

Well, the engine still isnt in, for some unknown reason the engine block didnt have some required bolt holes, so the builder is coming to tap and drill the holes for me once all this covid19 mess is over.

The lancia is coming along nicely and i am currently designing and building the front suspension. Rear spaceframe is all welded in and front spaceframe is partially built waiting for me to attach it to the front.

Nial that sucks, I guess it's just the waiting game now. How long do you think you have to wait until the builder is comfortable with coming over to tap+drill the holes?

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Not sure, our current lockdown rules forbid visiting people inside their houses, at a guess i would say a couple of months.

damn they that strict over there. what a load of bs

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Push it out into the driveway!

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I cant, project #2 is in the way ☹️

any updates. im losing my mind n its only been 4 years since my tear down...

No, it still has no engine. The 5sgte is sat behind it in the garage but lockdown has put a temporary end to me finishing it. We are in the middle of our second lockdown which wont end until december. I also need to get project number 2 into a position where i can push it out of the way, the lazer cut parts i have designed should be with me soon so not far off it being mobile enough for me to get the Celica finished.

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Amazing!! just spent the last half hour skipping through your thread!! I'm speechless, a COMPLETE rebuild with enhancements! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Can't wait until COVID restrictions ease with the vaccine deployment... Unfortunately my sister and brother in law who live in Dorset, are in quarantine, as they have contracted COVID, they are front line workers, and they are having a hard time getting over it...

Anyways, I can't wait to see it on the road, and if the Celica is anything to judge your work by, I'm sure that Lancia will also be a work of art!! It appears rust is a big problem there, I live in BC, Canada and rust isnt really that big an issue. In Eastern Canada and the US mid-west rust is a massive problem. I visited my brother in Toronto in 2017, and observed few vehicles more than 12years old. Our 6th gens are definitely becoming rare... Its great there are guys like yourself preserving these great cars.

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Thanks 👍 COVID restrictions have been removed here now so I guess life will now more or less return to normal, until the next variant panics people. I have really neglected this car since I got the Lancia, I should have waited until the Celica was finished. A mistake I will not make again….until next time 😂 aiming to get the car on the road by the end of the year funds willing as I need the expensive bits now, turbo and ECU. Fingers crossed I manage to achieve my goal and be enjoying driving it. Sorry to keep everyone waiting…..almost done.

Nice! What are you planning to use to control the engine?

I've been following this thread for a whole and am glad to see you're not giving up on 6GC and still come here to post updates.

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Not sure yet, I have been drooling over a Syvecs ECU but in all likelyhood I will go for a Link ECU (Whatever the best one is for my needs when the time comes)

I never gave up on 6gc, pretty much the only forum I have stuck with, it was photobucket that ruined it for everyone, i just took time to find a replacement. Not sure if imgur is the best option but time will tell.

I see photobucket has restored links to pictures.....temporarily anyway.

Still no engine though.



This post has been edited by Nial: May 17, 2018 - 3:56 PM

Awww, no gogo and whoosh sounds...

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I can sit in the drivers seat and make ”brum brum” noises.

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This post has been edited by Nial: Nov 19, 2020 - 3:10 PM

Photos?

Also,

Shun the non believer!

Well that didn’t last long, let’s just say.....the Ford wasn’t.....as advertised and rust had already taken most of it. So what did I buy instead.....a Lancia, yep, from one rust bucket to another, but at least this one has made it onto my driveway, in the US its called the Lancia Scorpion, the rest of the world knows it as a Lancia Montecarlo, its a 2 seat sports car that was used as a base for the group B rally car, Lancia 037, so that’s what I am building, it also happens to be my dream car.

On the Celica front, the engine has arrived, I have most of the parts to enable me to put it into the car, just a few jobs to do, attach the gearbox, the. Its the long hard slog of saving up for things like turbos etc which is going to be difficult with the Lancia eating up a lot of my spare cash.

Just read through this whole thread. I'm so short on words right now on how you do literally everything yourself! And how I depth you've gone with it too! Makes me think, when I've got my own place, hopefully with a garage, I'm going to want to take everything apart and send all the nuts and bolts off to be plated as they're about the only thing left on mine that need doing (oh, and rear crash bar).
Your getup and go to learn as you go is astounding to be fair. You give everything a go. Even made your own chassis rotisserie! And now you're bead rolling making your own floor pans!

I'm sorry about the bad news near the end, but I'm so glad you've pulled through it and got your zest for this back (as well as the lancia, I'll be following that progress on Facebook eagerly!) Am keenly following and do really hope you finish this through to the end.
So much respect to you.

How did it go with the resin casting? I noticed you didn't actually mention much about any progression with it. It's something I managed to do with mine and am looking to perfect to get them out to other people (actual clear transparent lens with no light diffusing pattern bumps on the inside of it). A vacuum chamber is a necessity with ckearcasting resin (just a heads up after my many lessons learned!) as well as the type of silicone curing affects it too (just learning that one) as condensation curing can cause fogging which for my first near bubble free lens, had a touch of light fogging. Haven't mastered the use of the other type of silicone yet though, I need bigger pots to mix it in and degass because it keeps overflowing into my vac chamber

Thanks 🤪 glad it is entertaining someone, just want the celica finished now so i can drive it.

Well, the engine still isnt in, for some unknown reason the engine block didnt have some required bolt holes, so the builder is coming to tap and drill the holes for me once all this covid19 mess is over.

The lancia is coming along nicely and i am currently designing and building the front suspension. Rear spaceframe is all welded in and front spaceframe is partially built waiting for me to attach it to the front.

Nial that sucks, I guess it's just the waiting game now. How long do you think you have to wait until the builder is comfortable with coming over to tap+drill the holes?

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Not sure, our current lockdown rules forbid visiting people inside their houses, at a guess i would say a couple of months.

damn they that strict over there. what a load of bs

>
Push it out into the driveway!

>
I cant, project #2 is in the way ☹️

any updates. im losing my mind n its only been 4 years since my tear down...

No, it still has no engine. The 5sgte is sat behind it in the garage but lockdown has put a temporary end to me finishing it. We are in the middle of our second lockdown which wont end until december. I also need to get project number 2 into a position where i can push it out of the way, the lazer cut parts i have designed should be with me soon so not far off it being mobile enough for me to get the Celica finished.

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Amazing!! just spent the last half hour skipping through your thread!! I'm speechless, a COMPLETE rebuild with enhancements! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Can't wait until COVID restrictions ease with the vaccine deployment... Unfortunately my sister and brother in law who live in Dorset, are in quarantine, as they have contracted COVID, they are front line workers, and they are having a hard time getting over it...

Anyways, I can't wait to see it on the road, and if the Celica is anything to judge your work by, I'm sure that Lancia will also be a work of art!! It appears rust is a big problem there, I live in BC, Canada and rust isnt really that big an issue. In Eastern Canada and the US mid-west rust is a massive problem. I visited my brother in Toronto in 2017, and observed few vehicles more than 12years old. Our 6th gens are definitely becoming rare... Its great there are guys like yourself preserving these great cars.

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Thanks 👍 COVID restrictions have been removed here now so I guess life will now more or less return to normal, until the next variant panics people. I have really neglected this car since I got the Lancia, I should have waited until the Celica was finished. A mistake I will not make again….until next time 😂 aiming to get the car on the road by the end of the year funds willing as I need the expensive bits now, turbo and ECU. Fingers crossed I manage to achieve my goal and be enjoying driving it. Sorry to keep everyone waiting…..almost done.