Category: carina sightings (Page 25 of 37)

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 Only a few bushings have been replaced by its polyurethane counterparts, but at the front it features 12k Swift springs and 8k TBS springs at the rear.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: Carina AA63 versus Evo II

January 27, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I did post some videos of kinloud before, but I just stumbled upon a video of his Carina in 2006:

It looks like the same AA63 he is currently driving but this one has got a 3SGE under its bonnet. As expected you can see his Carina can’t keep up with the Evo when accelerating but it surely doesn’t loose sight of the Evo. Also later on you can see the Carina stay behind on the straight parts of the track. However in cornering it is clear that the Carina has the better setup and I must say his own driving skills don’t lack much either! :)

Carina sightings: Carina AA63 versus Trueno AE86

January 13, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now this is nice for a change: a Toyota Carina AA63 and a Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 drifting on a touge near Sagamiko in 1997! You can see the Carina after 1:56:

The AE86 driver clearly has a lot of skill: he drifts those corners exactly as Keiichi Tsuchya would have done in his AE86 back in 1997! He also drifts as skillful both uphill and downhill and both during day and night!

The Carina driver is not that skilled: he spins out 3 out of 4 times. On the other hand you can see him having engine trouble at the end of the video. According to ae86lan the Carina had a stock exhaust with a rust hole in it, so that is the source of that nice sound. :D

Carina sightings: diffin Carina GT-R AA63

January 6, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Those British and Irish laddies never get enough of diffin those JDM cars:

The Carina is still on its original springs and that shows at the front when doing donuts. Also notice how nice a Carina looks on those Hayashi Streets!

The comment by the video poster is fat gut, slow car. Maybe true compared to diffin an AE86 but I’d still rather have the ‘rina. ;)

Carina sightings: Black Carina AA63 on Nikko Circuit

December 30, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

Found this nice Carina AA63 GT-R dirft video on Youtube today:

Since the video was taken from the roof of a car and the camera was a cheap Chinese knock off you may want to turn down the volume: it is nothing more than wind noise!

As you can see the Carina looks a bit like a drift missile: beaten up on all sides and literally covered in stickers and patches. It still does its job as it should: going sideways on Nikko Circuit!

Some of you may already have noticed: this is indeed the black Carina GT-R Mike Garrett covered on Speedhunters over one year ago!

Carina sightings: Carina SG Coupe AA60 with digi dash!

December 23, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

I found this great looking Carina SG Coupe AA60 on Cardomain:

Carina SG Coupe AA60
According to its owner the car was produced in 1988 and imported to Malaysia in 1991. Being produced in 1988 means it has been catted with a sedan VIN since the coupe was discontinued in june 1985 or it was imported and put on papers with a different build date… Either way it is still looking great for its age! ;)

Carina SG Coupe AA60
What I really love are those deep rims! They make the car look a lot more aggresive!

Carina SG Coupe AA60
I didn’t know the AA60 came with a digidash as well, but apparently it could have been ordered as an option. It must be original since its redline is set at 6000rpm.

Also a very nice feature according to the owner: when the car reach 105+km/h, the dash board will ring the warning “ding dong” continues until u slow down… -_-. Definitely want one now! :D

Carina SG Coupe AA60
And what is under its bonnet nowadays? Its 1.5 liter 3A-U has been swapped for a 4AGE in june 2009! :)

Can’t wait for more updates on this car!