Tag: Carina GT-TR (Page 3 of 4)

Carina Sightings: GT-TR at Garage Goods

September 29, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I like to drool over some JDM Carinas from time to time, so when I got that urge I browse the available Carina A60s on Goo-Net. This week I found this excellent Carina GT-TR example for sale at Garage Goods:

Carina GT-TR at Garage Goods
I love that bosozoku like chin-spoiler: almost cutting up the road like a razorblade!

From the rear the car looks just as great and do notice all the available cars in the background:

Carina GT-TR at Garage Goods
Several Soarers, a Levin, a Trueno Black Limited, Skylines, Silvias, Glorias. Too many cool cars to count!

The interior of the TA63 has been modified with some gauges:

Carina GT-TR at Garage Goods
Personally I don’t like gauges and apart from the tach I think they are a bit out of place here…

Last but not least:

Carina GT-TR at Garage Goods
A set of deep dish SSR Mk IIs!

For a mere 650,000 yen (almost 8,000 US dollars) it can be yours.

Carina Sightings: Kyusha Kai Carina GT-TR

June 16, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I found this kyusha kai styled Carina GT-TR on a spring meeting of a few other Carinas on Carview. I think this is definitely the coolest Carina I saw so far:

Kyusha Kai Carina GT-TR TA63
Lowered, black fender extenders, gunmetal grey RS Watanabe rims, rollcage, bride seat, etc. etc…

Now that Carina alone would have been a great post by itself, but then I spotted this picture of a Carina A60 sticker:
I want this Carina sticker!
I want this Carina A60 sticker!
The coolest thing ever!! Now let’s see if I can lay my hands upon one! :)

Carina Sightings: what the 3T-GTE sounds like!

May 26, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

The sound of this 3T-GTE is one of the most amazing sounds I’ve heard so far!

If you wonder what the engine is: it is the Toyota 1.8 litre 3T engine with a Yamaha DOHC head slapped upon it. It was a quite normal practice for Toyota to do such a thing to beef up their normal engines. However if that wasn’t enough the Yamaha head featured dual spark and Toyota added a big Toyota CT-20 turbo charger on top of it. The 3T engine normally produced somewhere between the 70 and 105 hp (depending on the market and amount of carbs), but this turbo charged dual spark dual overhead cam beauty managed to squeeze out 160hp! Since Toyota kept the six cylinders to the Celica XX alone this 160hp engine was featured in the normal Celica and (lucky enough) its sister models Carina and Corona. Now if only I could lay my hands upon one! ;)

Carina sightings: Carina GT-TR JZA63 monster

February 3, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

My mouth started watering when I spotted this amazing JZA63 Carina GTTR buildup:

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The Carina was originally a TA63 GTTR model, so attaching the 2JZ engine to the W55 instead of the 3T was easy.

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The car is AE86 front struts converted to fit the 8 way adjustable AE92 HTS shocks and a R33 4 pot brake conversion has been done as well. Only a few bushings have been replaced by its polyurethane counterparts, but at the front it features 12k Swift springs and 8k TBS springs at the rear. So it should be stiff as a board.

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
All around the car is featuring Work Meisters in 17 inch diameter and 9J wide! To fit those rims the fenders had to be extended at the rear. 205/40 tires are lightly stretched over these Meisters.

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The interior of the Carina is stripped and replaced with a set of Recaro seats and a roll cage has been fitted.

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
Of course the engine has been modified as well: NA 2JZ was taken from a JZS140 Crown with TRD cams, ITBs, a custom built oilpan and a special purpose muffler. In other words: very powerful! The owner even switched the W55 to a W58 gearbox to handle all that power!

Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
In other words: this JZA63 Carina is a beast which I’d certainly would love to tame! ;)

Carina Sightings: Puppy saving Carina GT-TR TA63

December 9, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

Two years ago I posted the puppy saving Carina commercial and unfortunately it disappeared due to copyright violations… (why?!)
Lucky enough Youtube CM poster mycub posted it once again:

And once again Sonny Chiba saves the day!

Carina sightings: Carina GT-TR with twin cam turbo interior

November 26, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Yesterday I spotted this amazing all original Toyota Carina GT-TR sedan on Goo-net:

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
The only modifications done to this Carina was adding set of 14 inch Watanabe rims and repairing the front airdam!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
The car only traveled 82000 kilometers so far (that is 357 less than mine!) which is peanuts for a car like this!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
It still has the original Twin Cam Turbo interior (GT-TR only) and the interior still looks spotless! Also note that this is one of the few GT-TRs which has no rollcage installed!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Engine surely looks like it did 82K, but no more and no less. ;)
Also note that there are no camberplates or strutbars installed. Car certainly has not been used as a circuit or drift car!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
In other words: this is a very nice uncut gem! You possibly can’t find a GT-TR in a better state than this!

If you are willing to spend 580.000 yen ($6600) on this beauty with full history it is certainly worth every penny (uh, yen?)!
You can find the car here:
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63 on goo-net