What happens when you put a 1,000 horsepower twin-turbo Lexus V8 in a 1971 Toyota Celica, with GT-R all-wheel drive? You tear my brain in half. Also you top 190 mph in a 1,000-meter sprint.
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This is Jamie Heritage’s TA22 Celica. He initially built this car 10 years ago, eight of which he has said have been reliable. He started the build, with its twin-turbo 1UZ engine, as a rear-wheel drive runway racing machine.
But the lightweight Celica chassis couldn’t handle the power, so he cobbled together R34 GT-R gearsets and R33 GT-R diffs into a functioning GT-R AWD driveline. He also has a Holinger six-speed sequential transmission in there. I don’t know a lot about building fast cars, but I do know that one of those things will cost you something in the low five figures alone.
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He has run a cool 311 kp/h (193 mph) in the 1000 meter sprint. This whole video was shot at one such event, the Snowy Mountains 1000, about an hour and a half south from Canberra.
Jamie seems happy with his car, but is still gunning to go faster, hopefully breaking the 200mph figure at some point. Jamie is Australian. I hope that explains everything.
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