The A6 Celica/Carina topic

[roman]

Havent done anything particularly noteworthy with my Carina over the last while... apart from drive it!

Have done almost 5,000kms since cert with minimal issues.

I've always been wondering how it would stack up weight wise though.

The benchmark I wanted to match or better for a lot of aspects was my previous car, an SW20 with beams motor. Which was 1030kg with about 1/3rd tank of gas. Put the carina on the weighbridge today, and it was 1040kg with 1/2 a tank.

Pretty happy with that considering I'd put in a heavier engine, gearbox, driveshaft, diff.

It's got MA61 seats at the moment which are quite heavy, and full glass... the glass in the rear hatch is quite heavy, it's why the weight of the coupe is actually heavier than the sedan when standard.

I might rig up one of my spare rear hatches with Lexan for trackday stuff, and without passenger seat it would be under a tonne fo' sho'

Until I hop in it, at least haha.

-The to-do list over the next while is:
-New tires, back to 205s instead of 195. maybe semis cant decide.
-Replaced the only-good-for-skids Cusco 2 way LSD with a Torsen and maybe 4.1 ratio instead of 4.3 (Sucks doing 3600rpm at 100kph...)
-Redo the exhaust, because it's pretty ****ty and sounds less than great.
-Possibly Version 3 megasquirt, and if so possibly back to ITBs or maybe setup a factory manifold with staged injection. The single throttle manifold has got juuuussst the right spot for a second set of injectors I reckon

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