82 TE72 Beams 3sge

[dominicaneddy]

Hello everyone, always been a lurker here and love the forum. Here is one of my builds at the moment.

1982 Toyota Corolla shell picked it up and taking it home



Altezza Blacktop BEAMS 3SGE swap with 6speed transmission installed.



Tubular cross member



Oil pan shaved and fly wheel dust cover fabbed



motor is in nice and straight






Tranny crossmember






Engine crossmember mounts






Waterneck fabbed foward



Celica supra lsd posi rear end getting ready to be swapped in



Manifold fabbed as well it clears everything






Adjustable lateral bar fabbed for the rear



Towed home from fab shop



She sits waiting for step 2

[dominicaneddy]

As always your feedback is much appreciated. Im still learning as I go and do not know much of these swaps so i learn from other's builds and of course searching online such as this great forum.


gas tank sump fabbed



doing the body work



my youngest helping me after it is his car so he needs to earn it and learn as well.(beware of Niko the killer wannabe pitbull aka the chihuahua



son choose the wheels so now he has to mount them to try on



at the body shop for paint



while waiting for paint we love to go fishing so during a a fishing trip with my father, my son decided to change the color after looking at my father's shirts lol originaly it was going to Toyota Venza brown but now we went with a hugger orange



Orange it is!









back at home hopefully The home depot, Fanta or Sunkist will hook a brother up with a sponsor lol






Assembly begins



getting the motor in



fuel lines ran and installed new brakes rotors on the celica supra rear rear end






new brake and clutch masters are in as well as motor is in, radiator, fuel pressure regulator, and HKS intake is in



redoing the plastics on the doors






Harness is in



W58 speedo gear to replace the electronic one on the tranny

[stahlz_ae86]

Good work, how long have you been doing this project for so far?

[AJPS]

looks pretty cold putting the motor in!

nice project mate

[Matt]

Very cool car and thanks for sharing the build.

[dominicaneddy]

thank you everyone

at the moment trying to get info on what size wheels can go with now that I have the celica-supra rear end.