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Thought about a progress thread for a while, but i should have started when i first got it, but i'll try my best to show most stuff anyway.

October 10, 2009. My 19th birthday. I woke up real bright and early, birthday morning, to drive 2 hours to sydney to look at a celica.
Horrible condition, and i was dissapointed. Young P platers car which wasnt looked after at all. they knew i was coming early that morning, car was filthy, tail light broke, sh*t everywhere in the car, you could tell its been mistreated.

The trek home was quite a sad one, i thought hey, a car for my birthday would have been sweet (even though i was paying haha).
Once home, stopped by another for sale which was advirtised on ebay, and picked her up.

Talked them down near $4000 off the price, so was a fair deal.

Heres the first pics i took.








200k km's on the clock, but previously owned by only 2 older lady drivers, so i'd say its never hit 100,

The first mod i chose to do was to remove those horrid hubcaps, and get wheels and 15% Tint.
17" CSA race rims, 205/45r/17 Tyres.



At the same time i painted my calipers red.


Around the same time as my wheels, i installed my sound system. I don't have a pic on here atm, but can get some if requested.

Pioneer 3100 Headunit, 2x 6.5" Kicker Splits, 350w 2ch Kicker amp, 800w Slimline Kicker 12" Sub. The stupid spare wheel required me to either get a slimline, or make a new floor or remove the tyre, so i went the slimline, its decent enough for my liking atm.


The next 'Mod' to my memory would be the Crystal clear side indicators, with silver bulbs.


Followed by wolfies clear front indicators, and a cheap Mesh grill.


Than through months of searching, looking for good deals, i found a set of JDM Tails.


Removed the inner orange lens.



A few months of saving, and contemplation of which suspension line i should go down, i finally chose a set of BC BR Racing Coilovers. 30 way adjustable damping, camber adjustable top mounts.



It sat like this for a while, untill my slow ebay addiction kicked in, and i picked up a universal rubber lip.



It didnt serve much purpose, nor did i try and cut it properly. It was a unique look, so i thought what the hell. When i took it off, there were scrape marks UNDERNEATH the lip, which was strange. Silly low cars.

Than next, came one of the best additions.... the 6GC Sticker! Lovin it.



Next came Projectors. Spent the day learning how to remove the front bumper for the first time, and wiring them up


Whilst installing the projectors i picked up a SAAS pod filter and aluminium pipe. Pics upon request, bit of a qhetto setup though, haha.

This is how she sat for a few months.

I finnally got sick of the sucked in look in the wheels, and decided on some Spacers
JJR 20mm in the fronts, and 25mm in the back

Before


After



To make the spacers fit, i had to grind off say, 2mm off the studs, which i thought was an acceptable amount. First time with an angle grinder though..was an experience haha.
I DO scrape a little when taking corners too fast, or have a car full. The rears are only JUST touching, so i shall get them rolled soon.


For quite a while, i had liked the look of the euro splitters. One day i found a decent conditioned set, and got them shipped right away.
A week of them being in my possession, painted and installed.


A week later, my OEM sides arrived, also quickly followed by paint and installation

And this is pretty much where it is currently at.

I have a set of rear SS-III splitters to be painted in the next weeks and installed, but apart from that, i'm fair content.
Continuously looking out for a few goodies that i may purchase, JDM sills, rear oem seat covers, new wheels
But appart from that, im happy atm, and will now start looking into Headers/Exhaust/Performance mods.

Heres a couple more pics for the lols.





Hard to tell, but i added little key hole plugs




P.s. As you can see my camera quality/skills have also progressed Will post some interior shots another day.

Cheers

This post has been edited by Timmyface: Dec 22, 2015 - 5:16 AM

Well the small meet is once a month, next is 29/06/13

Basically we chill in the Maccas car park and occasionally go to Sydney Olympic Park for photos and crap, if you were to be coming down at some point I could see who else would be interested in going off to Olympic Park or some other photo location after the actual meet

But yeah, the big drive only happens once a year, so for this year it was last weekend

This post has been edited by rentaspace: Jun 11, 2013 - 6:47 AM

ahk sweet, once I get all my **** sorted (tyres atm) ill be sure to let you know of any plans!

No worries (y)

Pretty much done:

Needs 6GC decal

There's a tiny faint one. But I'm not sure on finding a vinyl cut 1cm long sticker haha.
Still looking pretty sweet atm

I'd love to get into the RC car scene, but it's just so expensive and I have no cash ;( haha

I'll just fly my RC heli over the car

You need moar rear camber! Tuck dem wheels boi! No mexi flush in the RC scene either! lol

If the wheels came in a different offset it would have been good. Camber wear on rc tyres is pretty quick. Haha.

Another note, turns out half of my inner sidewall on my front left tyre has a buldge half way round.
New tyres soon I guess

Wait, bulges aren't a good thing?

I'm absolutely jealous! Defenetely need an RC car... Now I can search Ebay all night long to find one!

My new phone wallpaper.

Otherwise no updates. New types and alignment. Less scrubbing now!
And turned out my CV boot repair was a whole new drive shaft needed. $$$

This post has been edited by Timmyface: Jun 23, 2013 - 10:11 PM

Loving the lil celica
BTW depending on what tires your running on the Rc you won't wear out the tires all that fast
My PVC pipe wheels lasted almost 2 years

Sweet wallpaper. Also BMTH ftw!

Love BMTH

So...progression has offiially come to an end.

Please don't hate haha.

Moar pics of this WRX. Hatch or sedan?

I will when I have a bit of time. Haha. I'll find a few more I uploaded.
And sedan, sort of thinking ahead now.

All I have atm!

6gc or not I hope you stick a round
Better see a build thread on this bad boy in the offtopicss too lol