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I've always wanted to make a progression thread, just can never find the time to, and the more i modify my Celica, the more I wish I had one. So I decided before it gets too late or I lose all my pictures, I will post one now, right before I swap my motor. A little background info, my name is Matt, I'm 21 and my 1995 Celica GT was my first car. I've always been into cars and modified cars so as soon as I got it, there were lots of things I had planned for it. However, still being a kid had no money to fund any big projects, until I got a job...Here are some pictures of my cars evolution to the point where its as now. Enjoy I will try and keep this as updated as I can from now on.

Here's where I started...

Just a stock black celi...


Wanted to do things, but had no money, so I painted my stock GT wheels red.


First performance mod was a v2 TRD Quick Shift Kit, was VERY happy with it, bought some GT4 spoiler blocks, while in the paint process, tried spoilerless, not my thing.


Painted my blocks myself, put em on.


If you ever are wondering USDM tail light or JDM taillight? JDM ALL THE WAY!



My winter set of wheels are those stock GT ones.
Basically, I fell in love with OEM JDM from there on, and the real transformation started. I fell in love with GT4's, learned A LOT about them, and ended up purchasing a project car (ST-165) so funds halted on the 6gc





Winter time came and my birthday is 4 days after xmas so I got a decent chunk of cash and help getting this.


As you can see, it needed A LOT of work, but I was 100% committed to doing all the work on it myself and getting it on my car. Bought so many parts for it, got really used to seeing this.


While the work was getting done on the 4 front end, got some new wheels.



HID's too.


Front end on! And some OEM '98 skirts!



Spacers!


Like I mentioned earlier, my car is waiting on the arrival of a 3rd gen 3S-GTE motor set from _Jim_. I am extremely excited to start the swap. These are not mounted yet, but here will be what my gauge setup will look like. I also purchased an Apexi AFC NEO to be put where the cigarette lighter currently is.


Thanks for looking.

This post has been edited by mak5603: Jul 12, 2012 - 1:59 PM

SUCCESS!!!

Those factory wheels are suspiciously more flush than any factory Celica wheel should be... I don't check this thread often, but do you have spacers?

he has H&R spacers. 20 or 25mm i believe

25mm all four corners and loving every second of it

I like. I always keep looking for a set of aftermarket wheels I like, and I never find anything. I'll probably be on the factory 5 spokes forever, so I'll have to invest in some of those.

what was the specs on your konigs?

17x7

offset?

40mm

my wheels are 17x7 with 42mm offset..i should probably get 25mm front and rear like you haha

you didnt have to roll ur fenders right?

This post has been edited by sunwukongg: Feb 5, 2011 - 12:31 PM

Front fenders are factory rolled. Yeah, you will have to roll rears, there is some rubbing although it may be different with your coil overs because of the stiffness? I don't know, you will more than likely still need to roll the rears, but its totally worth it. Your stance would look SICK! I wish I had coils...

Got this from Craig (Urbandork) :



ST205 gauge cluster with MPH

A couple rare shots...yes of course the dirtiness is for the rally theme.




Other wheels back on!

Nice cluster!!

if you get hung up on the cluster let me know, i swapped in one last fall and still have my notes on all of it. Especially where the how to differed from the actual wires (atleast with my cluster from Japan)

Thanks! Now I know who to come to if I get stuck. Fortunately for me, I bought Urabandork's cluster that he was running on his Celi so there shouldn't be any problems putting it in mine.

The one thing that is better than everything else on my car combined gets here tomorow! I'm SO excited

I like the stock rims more... Is that a st165 or 162?

165