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I would buy. It's just money.

 

Haha I researched anything I could find on it and of course came up with nothing

 

I go by 'its just money, I'll make more.'

 

Sadly it was probably scraped. We do that with test mules. Dont want liability.

 

Pretty much.

It's a shame vehicles like that don't go into a museum.

 

Or with a full waiver and a whole harmless, to relinquish liability. Would be better that way, IMO.

 

Got you outta the other thread....

 

I'm omnipresent.

 

this... do you have any idea how much money toyota could have made selling off the 15 or so 222D Group S cars?

 

And the history would live.

 

thats the biggest part. the last i heard, theres three left in existence. one white AWD model, and one black 2wd model, in Toyota's Private collection, and one more Black 2wd model in private hands, but the guy that owns it cant even run it, as the tune is all wrong, and the turbo on his is a custom, one off prototype model, that he only has one semi-serviceable spare left for. the biggest issue he has is tune/ecu is back from the days where they flashed an actual chip and placed it into the ecu, so theres no way to decrypt and understand the code thats on it to fix it. id really love to see them come out and run at goodwin, IIRC the private owner ran it there one time, and never again because of all the problems with it. it truly is an unfinished protoype.

 

Haltech. Nuff said.

If he really wanted to get it running. Understanding that the car had to cost a small fortune, I'd imagine the owner would want the prestigiousness of a Motec though. It wouldn't be hard to get it running, but it would also mean altering its originality. Which might be considered sacrilegious to some.

Not me though. Harness, injectors, Haltech Elite 2500, done.

 

Screw whoever made it and what it was! Make it fast!


LS swap it even to really rustle some jimmies

 

600 hp.....doesn't need no stinking swap. C'mon man!

And I love me some RS200.

During the search, recommended searches was a 222D for sale. Hmmm

 

yeah. i wouldn't feel bad at all about having a new ECU put in, but IIRC the turbo is made from some special alloy that nobody makes anymore, and it would cost a lot of R&D dollors to make a replacement. thats probably the real sticking point.

its a 600BHP 4 cylinder in a car that weighs 1650 wet. i doubt you can get an LS to get a better power/wieght ratio and not mess up the balance of the car.

 

TBH i had no idea what car y'all were talking about until i googled it. Looks really cool and a swap in the back end of that thing would be a nightmare anyway.

 

there is a guy in belgium that is making replica fiberglass bodies for the 222D, the full kit is around 6 grand, and it involves doing what toyota did, stripping the car to the bare monocoque and then attaching the panels. ive thought about one day, building a proper replica with modern components.

 

Hey if I can find a group a r32 or a z tune for sale you couldnt fucking stop me from spending ungodly amounts of money...

 

yeah, the whole thing is basically a tube frame/roll cage with an engine and suspension bolted to it, and the bodywork draped over top to hide the bits underneath. im pretty confident the thing would have blown a lot of the other Groub B or S cars out of the water, as it made about the same power as they did, while weighing less than half as much.

 

i missed buying a mint 86' AW11 a few months ago, i would have spent the rest of my life improving and building on it