{"id":85774,"date":"2022-05-05T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=85774"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:29:57","slug":"mikko-kataja-racing-his-10000-rpm-4a-ge-powered-toyota-starlet-at-schottenring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=85774","title":{"rendered":"Mikko Kataja Racing his 10,000+ rpm 4A-GE Powered Toyota Starlet at Schottenring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=85782\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85782\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"85782\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=85782\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?fit=1207%2C712&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1207,712\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VHTRacing Engineering Toyota Starlet with a 4A-GE Inline-Four 30\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;VHTRacing Engineering Toyota Starlet with a 4A-GE Inline-Four&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?fit=1200%2C708&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?resize=600%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"VHTRacing Engineering Toyota Starlet with a 4A-GE Inline-Four\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-85782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?resize=600%2C354&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?resize=1200%2C708&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?resize=768%2C453&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?w=1207&amp;ssl=1 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Mikko Kataja from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vhtracing\/\">VHT Racing<\/a> put his Toyota Starlet race car <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=84274\">on the dyno<\/a> to prepare for upcoming races. The naturally aspirated 4A-GE inline-four made 255 horsepower at 10,309 rpm on Aral Ultimate 102 octane fuel. The motor is paired with a Sadev six-speed sequential gearbox, carbon fiber driveshaft, and AE86 Corolla GT rear end with Cusco LSD. Watch Mikko compete at the KW Berg-Cup Schottenring in Schotten, Germany. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VP5E_4gOCMg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video below is from inside the Starlet on training run #4. This was Mikko&#8217;s fastest at 1:24.583. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Nec7cuy1CM0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsV8-oWt0aN4YtTirHDzNLA\">VHTRacing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpAte7U99M38c33O9Q8BrVA\">Rallyeszene<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Mikko Kataja from VHT Racing put his Toyota Starlet race car on the dyno to prepare for upcoming races. The naturally aspirated 4A-GE inline-four made 255 horsepower at 10,309 rpm on Aral Ultimate 102 octane fuel. The motor is paired with a Sadev six-speed sequential gearbox, carbon fiber driveshaft, and AE86 Corolla&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=85774\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mikko Kataja Racing his 10,000+ rpm 4A-GE Powered Toyota Starlet at Schottenring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starlet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/VHTRacing-Engineering-Toyota-Starlet-with-a-4A-GE-Inline-Four-30.jpg?fit=1207%2C712&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19541,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19541","url_meta":{"origin":85774,"position":0},"title":"Rally Starlet with a 4A-GE Inline-Four Races Mount Washington","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Mikko Kataja took his special Toyota Starlet to Mount Washington and took home 10th overall. 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