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I've been lagging on one of these, but I finally have the time to start one up. My mods will come slowly but surely due to minimum wage But I'll keep truckin'!

I was actually trying and trying so hard to buy a 240, I love the things, but every single one I'd find was either too expensive because they were all SR20'd and S15'd out, or too beat down and crappy. But then one day I came across this Celica because the poster had put '240sx' as a tag. I had honestly never even considered a Celica for a second, when I thought Celica, I thought 7gc, and I never liked those. But once I saw this Celica, I fell in love. And thanks to Spider77, I found this site and it's helped me since day 1. Now that I've got a progress thread, I'll start updating it often. Thanks for looking!

The first day I got her. I actually bought her from a member, vi-tuyen.


Then the very first mod when I started working... early June. Injen SRI w/ Fujita filter. Bought from trdproven.

Out


In


Then I picked up an OEM strut bar from a local part out in late June


Three days after the strut bar, I got into a fender bender with an 18 wheeler. I swiped his tire. Luckily, I was fine, and no damage to the truck, and little damage to my car.

Damage assessment: Cracked bumper, totaled RH fender, smashed sidemarker, bent strut, bent wheel.

Literally 20 minutes before the wreck

sexy angle

Then when I got home afterwards

Side


Front (see the obvious neg camber? lolol)


This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Apr 10, 2016 - 2:01 AM

Sweet!!! That will be a weekend project for sure. Thanks man.

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: May 16, 2017 - 4:59 PM

No problem, also contrary to what some would have you believe you only have to cover the center of the panels with the dampener. The best analogy I can think of is it's like dampening a drum. We went around with a plastic handled screwdriver and tapped around to find the resonant hot spots to put down the dampener.

There's a person on the Buy/Sell wanting to buy a pair of apparently OEM sheet metal covers specifically for that hole. I want to find them and coat them in rubber for sound deadening purposes. Having trouble finding a part number, though...

Got these puppies installed over the weekend in addition to a very much needed wash/wax. Very happy with the look.

lookin' good!

Indeed, shiny.

you are parked WAY too close to that curb

lol i just commented something similar on your thread.

x2

yeah....i saw it you forum troll

This is something I've perfected over several years, since I live primarily around street parking and want to minimize sideswipe chances. I never rub tires or scrape wheels *sunglasses face*
Tires were about an inch or so out from the curb in that picture.

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Jun 7, 2017 - 10:48 AM

I thought it was the maximum closeness one would want to achieve.