'73 Celica --->89 supra

[Travis Rankin]

Thanks!

hopefully I can drive it before I retire

[Payton King]

TRDV,

I really like the Celica platform you chose. I am also glad to hear that you are going to really reinforce your structure. I figured you had the skills and expierence for such a large undertaking, it is just when I saw your base frame all I could think about was the episode of OverHaul'n where someone was building a full frame for Ian's 68 convertible and Chip Foose was jumping up and down on it and it was flexing. Needless to say they did not use it.

Keep us posted as I look forward to seeing this one on the road.

Payton

[Travis Rankin]

Thanks Payton

Travis

[markss28]

I have always loved old school JDM cars mainly because they look a lot like little Novas and they weigh like 50lbs. Any way keep up the project it will look cool.

Have you ever thought about putting in a v8 liek either a chevy or ford engine.
It would be a great torque monster.

[Travis Rankin]

I haven't gave it any thought for this one actually.

The motor I have is the Origin of the Toyota Twin Cam Family.

So its more of a nastalgia thing than anything.

The car isnt meant to be a race car just a cruiser that handles

I do however have another supra for parts so I may build another one with big power, probably a different body and who knows what else.

But I would actually like to build that one for someone else. Maybe just lay it out and sell it, or do a complete contract build

[markss28]

TRDV,

Are you thinking about turbos for this build?

Our shop is in the process of building a sr20 engine with a big greddy turbo. We plan on making some where between 370 and 400 at the wheel. I personaly like the old JDM bodies but it was a majority rule vote for the 89 240zx.

[Travis Rankin]

I don't think so, but once its all running, we'll see

[Travis Rankin]

Slowly showin some skin..

[Diognes56]

Cool project and nice work .

David

[Travis Rankin]

a little shavin her down...
showing sill in place..


tacked in gas filler hole


Shaved sill, and gas filler