Tag: Carina coupe (Page 5 of 9)

Carina Sightings: Finnish Carina Coupe AA60

September 8, 2010 / banpei / 12 Comments

Most of the time I when I try finding other Carinas I spend a lot of time on Google Images. This week it proved once again to not be a very good too in finding Carinas: the Finnish site Minunauto (Finnish Cardomain/Minkara) is badly indexed by Google and once I did a search on the site it proved that Finland must be next to Japan the country with the most active Carina drivers/owners! I found at least 25 new Carinas!!

This one was one of the most striking Carinas: a DX coupe AA60, powered by a 4AFE!

Finnish Toyota Carina DX AA60 (4AFE)
Most people would go for the 4AGE road, but somehow the owner of this Carina didn’t do so, Perhaps it is because the early generation of the 4AFE is carbureted and easier to swap…

In contrary of the kouki JDM GT models this car features the wheels from a limited edition 280ZX during wintertime. They may look the same in the basic design, but they are different. Also note that in the picture above the rims are a bit more exotic than these. ;)

Finnish Toyota Carina DX AA60 (4AFE)
Nevertheless they look really nice in combination with the bodykit! I really wonder what kit that actually is from…

Finnish Toyota Carina DX AA60 (4AFE)
OMP steering wheel and custom tach make the interior look like a serious racing machine…

And here is the 4AFE:

Finnish Toyota Carina DX AA60 (4AFE)
Note that the distributor has been relocated (transverse 4A engines have them located at the back) and the exhaust manifold is a custom job.

And last but not least:

Finnish Toyota Carina DX AA60 (4AFE)
This is how good a EUDM Coupe can look! ^_^

Carina Sightings: Yokosuka’s deep blue Carina AA63 (part 2)

August 4, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I spotted this great looking picture on PhilsCarBlog and recognized the car as Yokosuka’s deep blue AA63 I posted before:
Yokosuka's Carina AA63
Yokosuka’s Carina AA63
So I decided to have another look at his blog and found that he made quite a few updates in the past 10 months!

First of all he shot this beautiful sakura picture:

Yokosukas Carina AA63 under Cherry Blossom (sakura)

And what about getting a trim?

Yokosukas Carina AA63 haircut
Well, he got the haircut, not the Carina. ;)

Or help your fellow Carina owner with an oil change:

Carina AA63 sedan and coupe
The coupe is owned by a friend of him and they regularly do maintenance together on the Carinas!

Carina Sightings: Carina bi-turbo diesel drifting (part two)

July 21, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

A few weeks ago Turbiini78 sent me a video of him drifting at the Botniaring on the 12th of june.

Even though the Carina now is running on 225/50 R17 it still likes to throw up big clouds and happily goes sideways! :)

Carina Sightings: Bosozoku Style Carina coupe

June 30, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

I already posted this Carina on Bosozokustyle.com last monday, but I really have to share it here! The Carina is a bit hard to detect under all that extra bodywork, but if you look close enough you will surely recognize it as a Carina coupe! To be more exact: it is the white car @0:10, 0:15, 0:24, 3:06, 3:12, so more than enough opportunities to see it! ;)

Initially I thought there was a Toyota Celica A60 underneath all those spoilers and wings. With the front and rear section gone it was a bit hard to see: the mid section of the A60 is shared between the Ceclia and Carina coupe and they are almost identical to eachother. The headlights kind of revealed it to me: the parkinglights in the middle were gone. Then I looked at the doorhandles, sure enough they are older type sticking out of the bodywork and not sunken into the door. And last I saw the vertical stripes on the B pilar which was only on the Carina and not on the Celica.

I have been searching several sites for more videos/pictures of this car, but so far none of my searches have proved to be fruitful. When I do find more on this car I’ll certainly post more about it! :)

Carina Sightings: Carina bi-turbo diesel drifting

May 5, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I posted some videos of this Finnish Carina before and his car is getting more and more interesting! A few days ago he posted a new in-car video of a drift session on the Botniaring:

Even though the sound of his Carina does not match our expectations (no high revving 4A-GE, but a bi-turbo 2L-T) he surely can throw the car sideways as it should with all that (slow) torque!

Apparently I was truely wrong about his project two years ago when he posted up the first videos on StreetFire…

Carina sightings: drifting Carina TA60 bi-turbo!

May 3, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I did know about the existence of turbo-ed 2T and 3T engines, but bi-turbo?

If you look well enough you can see a big intercooler behind the cutted front air dam. Also where the grille used to be an oil cooler has been placed. It is unknown which engine has been used for the swap, but it is surely a bi-turbo diesel engine. (probably a 2L-T hilux diesel engine)

The original car appears to be a TA60 Carina coupe and its 31 years old Finish owner takes really good care of it:

Yep, that’s how easy it is to get a Carina sideways when you have loooooads of torque! I wonder how long it will take before D1GP will be flooded with diesel engines. :D :D

This is the most recent video of the car:

I wonder if there will be more updates soon! :)