Celica

[celsteve]

Thought some of you may find this interesting, it's a test/review of the Gt back in 1994.

Incudes some info on it's rivals too back then.

It is about 5meg in size and a pdf file

HERE

[MIP]

Thats an interesting find , pretty acurate review, not wrong at all about the gear ratio's.

Finally, some performance figures for my car, you just need to find a similar artical for the 1.8 and the GT4 now!

[celsteve]

I'll start looking for that needle in the haystick now!

A 0-60 of 7.2 and maximum speed of 128.6mph,

I always thought it had a 0-60 of 7.9 as says in the gen 6 pinned topic on this site. And I thought the top end would be slightly higher??

Totally agree about the gearing

[MIP]

Its true, it'd be very hard to get that 0-60, would need a good dry road and decent tyres (with just the FWD), mine just wheel spins at any sign of high throttle in first with the current weather.

And without admiting to anything at all ever, that top speed does seem to be on the low side.

[Special Red]

It say's it has 8 Speakers????? Im sure mine has 4!!! Have they hid some tweeters in there aswell!!

[celsteve]

Mine has 4 too. I know that some have tweeters in the triangle bit by the wing mirrors but as for the other 2??

[Special Red]

Unless their hidden next to the main ones under the same cover. Can't see that as tweeters are normally placed higher up.

[adamgt]

I think 8 must be wrong, ive had 6 in both of my celicas.

Unless the guy in the review had a couple of subs in the boot :P

[celsteve]

:D :D

I found this especially interesting about the superstrut:

"In some other markets the celica comes with the option of Toyota’s patented ‘super strut’ front suspension, which has a double joint in the lower link and a camber-control arm, which gives the suspension a greater range of movements and more tightly limits the camber change of the wheels under cornering, theoretically giving better stability and steering response. This suspension also comes with a limited slip differential, a closer range gearbox, twin-pot brake callipers and the option of a more sensitive sensor on the anti-lock brake system".

So I presume my SS2 has these extra features aswell?! Well can anyone shed some light on what the

lsd and twin-pot actually mean please!!?

[Special Red]

:D :D

I found this especially interesting about the superstrut:

"In some other markets the celica comes with the option of Toyota’s patented ‘super strut’ front suspension, which has a double joint in the lower link and a camber-control arm, which gives the suspension a greater range of movements and more tightly limits the camber change of the wheels under cornering, theoretically giving better stability and steering response. This suspension also comes with a limited slip differential, a closer range gearbox, twin-pot brake callipers and the option of a more sensitive sensor on the anti-lock brake system".

So I presume my SS2 has these extra features aswell?! Well can anyone shed some light on what the

lsd and twin-pot actually mean please!!?

These are those expensive things that last 60k, that I asked about yesterday!!!!! LSD You lucky monkey! Seems like their being racist to us westerners!

Could'nt resist highlighting that bit

First the boring back story- Front or rear wheel drive, a car needs to transfer the turning of the engine into the turning of the wheels. When the wheels are moving in a straight line, they both rotate at the same rate of speed. But when you make a turn, the outside wheel has to turn faster than the inside wheel. If the wheels are not connected to each other, this differential in wheel rotation rate is no big deal. But the set of wheels that drive your car (front or rear) are connected together and need a device to allow one wheel to turn more that the other. This device is called a Differential. Most commonly, manufacturers send cars out into the world with cheap, easy to maintain Open Differentials. An open differential transmits power from the engine to the wheel that is has the least amount of resistance. Unfortunately, the wheel with the least amount of resistance is probably slipping and thus the power is not getting to the ground. To go fast, the engine's power has to get to the ground and so a Limited Slip Differential is used to put more power (but not all of it) to the wheel that is not slipping. This characteristic is also helpful for cars and trucks that will be operated in low traction conditions like ice, snow or frequent rain so this feature is sometimes included in vehicles that will see this kind of service.

[celsteve]

Nice edit SR Thought so, is this different from traction control?

Only way to really find out if the superstrut really does provide better stability etc is from someone who has driven a UK GT and a JDM superstrut ss2 , so come on then! Has anyone?