{"id":859,"date":"2019-01-02T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=859"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:36:28","slug":"celica-gt-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Celica GT-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided 2019 is going to be the year of getting cars back on the road.<\/p>\n<p>First a bit of history, after a period of not being used very much due to doing big miles, I put it back on the road in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Full service and fresh discs &amp; pads, it passed its MOT in June 2011. I was planning on going back to using the car for weekend runs and track days. As it was overdue a cam belt change, that needed done and that&#8217;s where the fun began.<\/p>\n<p>The previous garage who did a cam belt change had managed to over torque the bolts holding the tensioner in to the alloy head. With about 3 inches of clearance, there was no danger of being able to helicoil it in situ so the engine needed stripped and the head pulled.<\/p>\n<p>With lots on, it ended up taking roughly ten months to sort the tensioner issue, so I got a months use out of it at either end of its MOT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6391.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6392.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>Also managed to create some other problems;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s also something wrong with the oem boost gauge on the dash, it&#8217;s reading inverted, so cruising its reading positive boost and under load it&#8217;s reading vacuum or lower<\/li>\n<li>My mate&#8217;s M5 had the roof bricked and we fixed it in the workshop whilst my Celica was parked up. We didn&#8217;t dust sheet it when spraying though assuming it was far enough away. It wasn&#8217;t so it has a primer mist coat over most of the car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re in to mid 2012 and going back to racing removed all free time and free cash so it wound up parked in my flat&#8217;s underground car park for a few years. This turned out to be a remarkably dusty place to store it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6272.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6274.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6278.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6276.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6275.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>It then spent 2015 to early 2018 in a unit me and some mates shared. Still not getting used but at least it was in a place less dusty than the Sahara and not in the middle of a giant puddle.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the Beast from the East, seemed like a good idea to get it back on the road. For 2 days it royally took the Micky out of all the pseudo off-roaders and everything else in my estate having no problems dealing with the 15 inches of snow we had.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6412.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6415.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6409-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6509-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_6498.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>Sadly it then started to live up to being an ST205, lovingly known in GT-Four circles as faffs, because the owners are always having to faff with something. In this case, the rear diff is seeping. So it&#8217;s been parked up again since the start of March.<\/p>\n<p>Task list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sort the paintwork and remove growth from driveway life<\/li>\n<li>Refurb the diff<\/li>\n<li>Refresh whichever suspension arm is clonking up front (it had them done not that long ago so bit annoying that one)<\/li>\n<li>Fix the leaky O2 sensor<\/li>\n<li>Get a wideband up it&#8217;s hoop to confirm the ECU doesn&#8217;t take its boost reading from the same sensor as the dash<\/li>\n<li>Caliper overhaul and disc skim<\/li>\n<li>New radiator (current one is browning on the top tank)<\/li>\n<li>Refurb whining charge cooler pump<\/li>\n<li>Re-do the ghetto gauge wiring (yeah that was me)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided 2019 is going to be the year of getting cars back on the road. First a bit of history, after a period of not being used very much due to doing big miles, I put it back on the road in 2011. 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