No offense to Woody, but I miss Al. He is so good at what he does, hope you never really "Quits" making videos. Sharing his knowledge?? Man he is such a great source of information, skill and knowledge you just don't see anymore. Miss you Al!!!
Very much this. Even if it's only occasionally, I hope we get continue getting these educational videos every now and then! That's not to say Woody couldn't teach us, but we're used to Al being the lore master :P
Agreed. Woody is epic but Al was the ‘it’ factor; quiet charisma, desert dry humour, supremely knowledgeable, effortless communicator and just an epic bloke
Welcome back Al! Sometimes you need a break from the influencer grind so take them whenever you want for however long, we'll be here mate. You and Woody are good eggs and we appreciate both your voices so tag team or tandem we'll enjoy it!
An O'l Skool Ex Wrecker guy guy here too, And yes mixing and matching car bits was well practiced back in the day .. Had an RA23 Twin Cam with side draught Solexes as a yard " Drive Car " for a while .... Well done on keeping the memories and the Beastie Alive ..... 👍👍
Al with the shortest retirement in Automotive RU-vid history, haha. Good to see you again! The 3S family of motors in general are pretty under rated these days with all the 1 and 2j Swaps but they're seriously cool engines. Be sweet to see this thing with a snail in the future. Cheers.
Ahhhh Al! Its great to see and hear you again, we've missed you loads, but it's good to know you've been tinkering and building cool stuff. Like running into a long lost friend, getting to listen to you again. 🙌 Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. ❤
Awesome build. I have a 1979 Toyota Corolla that I have plans for popping in either this engine or a 3S-GTE, haven't completely decided yet. If I go with the Beams I will definitely turbo charge it. Also thanks for sharing about the issues with the stock ECU, good to know upfront. The rally cars ran the 503E version of this engine family, but good luck finding one of those. They made upwards of 800hp or 597kw. 😍
Awesome car, I'm a big Celica fanboy with a few GT-Fours in the shed. One of these, either with a BEAMS or 4AGE is very high on my list of cars to build in the next 5 years.
This exact car with this exact swap is on my top 10 list of cars I want to build before I die. My mom owned a 1977 GT-LB when I was very young. One day. So happy to see Al back. Would love to shake your hand one day, sir.
Thanks Al, great to see you again! Love this car, reminds me of when i was younger riding around in these cars back in the day, Awesome to see they are still keeping them alive.
good to see Al is still at it, good to see a diiferent build being a "budget" build and an older celica bodyshape. back in the day when i worked for importers the old 18RG twin cam was the budget performance for these models.
Perfect timing since I got my 1975 TA22 back on the road 2 days ago 🍻 running the old school 2T-G twin cam and glorious twin side draft no power noises 🤣👌🍻
Havent watched Mighty Car Mods in a long while. Took me three minutes in to realize that was Al. 😂 One of my favorite cars paired with one of my favorite engines, what a cool yet practical combo. 🤌 Getting ready to start a 3SGE swap into my RAV4 awd. Got a JDM import for stupid cheap! What a treat to see a master like Al break down such an awesome build. You can tell he low key really likes the BEAMS series. The Aussies always have the coolest import builds. 🙏👌
My mate had a TA22 celica back in the 90's early 2000's and it was so much fun to drive. You'd ring the piss outta the little 1600 and it'd love it! The gearbox was so notchy and awesome too.
Nice looking body. I have a '76 in storage, started restoring it for rust repairs, then had to park it due to landlord selling property, etc. 2lt Twin Cam import motor which only 200 came to AUS from Japan, a very good Yamaha head, the dual throat twin Solex carbs worked perfectly in 10 years I drove the car. I had 17 people wanting to buy the car in the years I owned it. Note: I recommend putting a water seal strip at the bottom of the side windows, as water gets through the factory brush set-up and sits in the bottom of the doors and frame, which is the main reason many of them went rusty. The gearbox never seemed to wear, same with the engine cam chain excellent. The rear diff needs shims put in to get rid of play, and the clutch bearing went after sitting undriven for a few years sitting outside, when I revved it to 8k+ to clean the exhaust pipe, lol. Lowered custom springs, cruised beautifully at 170km/h, (see you, factory wrx). Overall, good enjoyable classic car. [Admin of: Classic and Used car Supporters Group on FB]
Love the mix of al and wood! But must say I love me some wood ha-ha keen to support you woodrigues. Keep on it mate big ups to you man very hard going out and getting it done.
This is so nostalgic for me. I could have sworn I have the same photo album as I had a very similar yellow RA23 Celica in the early 90's to drive to uni, only to save up to buy an import TA63 Celica with the turbo 3TGTE engine.
MAF sensor...it helps to have some straight before it so there is laminar flow. Had similar issues with a 1nz trying to get it sorted. Sometimes a screen before the sensor helps
That used to be a cstom in the UK, you could say the rover was our chev v8 , it was a buick 218 cu in (BLMC) purchased the rights. The over V8 was tuned our to 4.8 litres by the car co (TVR), for their rare as rocking horse shirt TVR 450 SEAC (Special Equipment Aramid Composite)with the most outrageous spoiler on a convertible!!!! Saw one for real, and the sound as bitchin' , piss yellow louder than Thor launching a bottom burp. It was being tested by Land Rover engineering for developing the 3.9 ltre into the 4.5 ltre engine.
Leigh and is dad have great taste, not enough people making content on these builds (excluding my glacial progress). Dave Pratte from Speed Academy would love this one too.
Worked a Toyota back in the early 70s so this brings back lots of fond memories. Pity the old Rover got so tired, thats also a great engine with plenty of potential. (here in Europe)
