History of my TA22

I bought my TA22 many years ago in what would have been before 2000. I cannot remember exactly.

I bought it from a dude in Richmond - he was downgrading to a Lancer at the time. A very nice fellow he was as honest as they come - and for a grand total of 700 bucks later it came home. Actually if I recall I believe aforementioned fellow drove it to Werribee for me and delivered it. A fine fellow indeed.

Of course it had no RWC.

So that had to be rectified. 1 light globe later, it had an RWC.

So it got registered, and, has been ever since. I almost missed rego in 2009 - but a friendly reminder from our friends at Vicroads took care of that

The 2T never inspired me, so, it had to come out and be replaced with a 4AGE

A friend had one he had rebuilt which wasn't being used. So I bought it. Me being me wanting to be different, decided - lets put it on LPG.

Remote oil filter, standard 86kw headers, dizzy converted for the 4AGE to run the oil coil setup. It didn't overly go that well but it really needed a proper tune did the LPG.

I made my own headers not long after to make sure they flowed properly.

Came up looking kinda nice.

After I got fedup with this, I got a gen3 1GGTE which I was going to shoehorn in there, but, due to the length of the 1G masses of cutting was required - the harmonic balancer literally sat on the beam that runs under the radiator. I canned that idea

I then got myself a 1UZ but living in Victoria engineers and V8s and Celicas don't mix

I then put a Holden V6 in it but couldn't come to do it ; aside from the left most rear plug fouling on the steering box, it just didn't work out.

........and then I got this 4AGE for next to nothing which was OK, and, a RWD inlet manifold and recoed bigport head and, as of 18/09/2009 - it ran for the first time :)