Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior My GT Turbo pics

Well here is a teaser pics of turbo pics:

URL is:
turbo pics [imagestation.com]

Exterior teaser pics:

URL is:
Exterior [imagestation.com]

oh man thats a sweet celica!

thank you, will be showing my car at Neisei Showoff. Hope I can win something there

I love your car, keep up the good work

where can i get my hands on a roof spoiler? and whats the average price to tint out the windows??

Roofspoiler is from Carcept, but I believe Beto/thelostrican may have some copies of this roof spoiler, he is in the Store link uptop.
Tinting varies from county to county, you are in NJ so not sure about your pricing. If you are in So Cal I would offer you a complete tint job on your Celica for $125 (you can not find professionally done tinting with metallized film includes lifetime warranty at that price)

Very nice car, I was wondering where you had the turbo installed.

Creative Audio and Performance... but I would recommand you have it installed where you buy the turbo from or where ever they recommand to go to. It cost me $850 to get my turbo installed ($750 for install on turbo and $100 for replacing bolts on the turbo when the torque from turbo ripped the bolt head off)

Hey Mike,

Nice car man. I was wondering wat kind of turbo is that and if it fit ok?

-MIKE

VROOOOOOM PSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

It is Garratt T25 turbo, it is small and it will top off around 7000rpm but thats about the redline for GT anyways so its cool. One good thing about this turbo is you feel it kick in at low rpm thats why this is a good turbo for GT.

top end of 7000 rpm? so it wouldn't really work well with the GTS

bunch of ?'s.
How much was your total install?
How much is one off?
Can or will you give a parts list?
Are you intercooled & how much boost are you running?
What mods have you done to the engine, tranny, etc?

No with GTS you would want to go with Garratt T28 or T3 maybe T3/T4 hubrid. These turbo will keep boosting well over 8500rpm. The bad part about these turbos is they do not start to boost until 3000+RPM so start boosting slower but it keeps boosting.

So far I spent over $6000 for turbo and istall.
Garratt T25 turbo, Apex Front mounted Intercooler, HKS BOV, Apex S-AFC, Blitz 520cc Injectors, custom turbo manifold, custom pipping, custom down pipe, custom straight pipe, custom exhaust, braided oil line, Autometer Exhaust Gas Temperature sensor and gauge, Autometer Oil pressure gauge, Blitz SBC i-D boost controller and I am sure more stuff I can not remember. I am still waiting to save up for Return fuel line, bigger fuel pump, fuel regulator, and some ignition timing device or PowerFC so that I can boost well over 10psi.
Right now I am boosting stock wastgate setting of 5psi.
Engine I do not have to do anything to it, a shop already tested the GT to run 18psi so I know nothing needed to reinforce the engine. As for the rest I got Cusco under arm bar, Tanabe rear under arm bar, 3 point rear strut bar, Hotchikis camber plate with strut bar, Hotchikis camber links, Hotchikis springs, JDM TRD Anti-Sway bars, ACT clutch, Kaaz Clutch type LSD.

Hey man, you've got an awesome setup there. Mad props to you. Keep it up!!!!! Oh and no pressure or anything because it sounds like you've been and will be busy, but some quarter mile times would be great.

Well I just got my car Dynoed it is 211.6HP SAE to the wheel which means 240+HP to the crank (what factory uses to estimate car HP on brochure), also have 185.7 lbs of torque. So after I get my fuel system in I will be boosting higher.
All this time I thought my psi is set at 5psi turns out I am boosting around 7.1psi.

BTW the guy at the shop who did dyno said my number is as good as his modded CRX. He also said with these numbers from dyno he believes that my car will run 13 seconds if I put on slicks. The guy really knows what he is doing because he goes on track all the time, so I believe him when he said with good enough driver this is a 13 second car

[ 09-30-2002, 11:41 AM: Message edited by: Mike Lu ]

hey mike im a good driver

But you ain't getting my 13sec car