TA22 and 1GGTE

[Grega]

Morning,

Has anyone done one of these conversions before thats on here?

I know of 2 TA22's that have done this, MORBST being one, the other was on autospeed - both a very very long time ago.

Just after some thoughts/comments around doing this and potential gotcha's on the way. I know the balancer has to be turned down to start with...

[Grega]

anyone? at all :)

["Z" UTE]

Grega, a mate of mine started this conversior 4 years ago. Still not completed. Two options, notch out the front tie bar under the radiator by 125mm, or move your firewall back by the same amount. The car WILL be front heavy.

cheers Chuck.

[Grega]

yeah i've heard of folks having to make these sort of mods. things i don't want to do (ideally)

thanks chuck

["Z" UTE]

Grega, the best advice I can give you, is use a small lightweight engine like a 4A-GE.
If you want grunt turbo the little sucker. A TA22 with a 160+kW 4A-GE turbo engine will be way better than a 1G-GTE nose heavy TA22.

I have previously fitted a 1G-GTE to an RA28, and a 1JZ-GTE into an RA23, both were a squeeze, but do able. But these engines are way too heavy for the short nose TA22, and that will be the biggest hassle weight over the nose.

MORBST Celica was only ever intended for straight line drags.

The money you save on not rebuilding your firewall, will go a fair way to building a tuff as 4A-GE.

Cheers Chuck

[Classique71]

heh - irobnically greg took one out :) ( 4age this is )

Agreed on this one - for all ive seen - those are the only 2 ive seen kicking about too with 1g's in them - Morebst went thru quite a few i believe too before it was setup right

4agte for the win fella

Small grunty , and youve done it before

[Grega]

stu. thanks for reminding me of that :)

jeez and would you believe i had a 100kw rebuilder that my mrs and co decided needed to go to the tip along with a heap of other stuff. fargin ell.

been thinking about this overnight and yeah - back to 4AGE for me. running EFI not LPG though.

anyone wanna buy a 1GGTE with full loom and ECU? :)

thanks all for your input.

[Classique71]

its better suited mate - so your choosing the right thing

BTW when are we ever going to meet up ????

[Grega]

yes.

and yes about friggin time we did aye slacker :)
when u up this way as i hardly ever get down your way, or, if you're passing thru gimme a hoy, k?

[Classique71]

Ill be in rockbank (sp?) on friday at hirogens - Group A celica meet on that weekend ( sat ) at doncaster

[Grega]

rockbank is close by actually - doncaster is the other side of the world
could do friday if you want? i'll PM u

[Classique71]

nods - to PM!