Whats your purpose to build your celica? Options

[bccentaur3]

I've been pondering on the fact that all my friends are building their celicas, but for what?

I have a buddy with a 3rd gen swap with a turbo upgrade, but for what? He doesn't plan on building a drag monster, is it for his own enjoyment? Or is there a purpose to build it? Show car maybe?

Another buddy is building his 5s and also upgrading his current turbo set-up, but for what? He never pushes his car.

My purpose is to make on bad azz rally-x car. I could give a rats ass on the rock chips and the strain I would be putting on the car, its for my enjoyment.

Whats your purpose?

[terbear4god4life]

to enjoy what im going to be driving alot...

[CelicaST_CALI]

to be able to pull up to the light,look at the honda to ur left,the scooby to ur right,and know u can torch both of them if needed..(but of course u dont because u respect the rules of the road)

my reason is to say "yea that is my car.."

and to enjoy driving...

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Nov 16, 2008 - 7:57 PM

[_Jim_]

enjoyment/hobby

[njccmd2002]

make heads turn and people ask questions.

[hurley97]

to have fun driving to work, and to be proud to say "that's my car" when someone asks me if its my boyfriend's car

[MaskedMan]

Well, we all have our own reasons inside for building our Celicas. For me, it's a learning experience. It's a lifestyle, even if you don't race, enter shows or competitions. It's a way to express yourself and interact with people who share the same passion as you. I build my car for myself, not just to be better than anybody else. When I drive my car, I feel what it's missing and I try to improve what I believe that the car is lacking. In the end, I will have a car made just for me.

[TRD_Ian]

im building mine for a few reasons...its a life style..i cant leave stuff alone...i want to turn heads with it and make ppl realize its not a lil girly car..id like to be able to take it to the track and have some fun and really just enjoy it......i plan to achieve this by boosting my 5s....changing up the exterior to my liking and just a generaly clean car...

[Jaws4God]

i'll give ya 3 guesses.

[CelicaST_CALI]

i think jesus told him to...

[parriehunter]

To look like and handle good, but just as a daily driver really.

[dgbldr]

to be able to pull up to the light,look at the honda to ur left,the scooby to ur right,and know u can torch both of them if needed..

Oh man, I hate to see you pull up next to a Viper on the left and a Hemi Cuda on the right...or ANY bike...

[Cutrara]

A few reasons everyone else has said and more...

Enjoyment of working on my car, to enjoy driving and look good doing it, to give the interior the look/feel of a newer, expensive sport luxury car, to have a nice-sounding, balenced, powerful sound system... basically to "enhance my daily driver"

When my car is no longer my daily driver (I don't plan on selling anytime soon) my goals will change... 3S-GTE swap...

My car is my hobby and what else would I do in my free time without it?

[CelicaST_CALI]

to be able to pull up to the light,look at the honda to ur left,the scooby to ur right,and know u can torch both of them if needed..

Oh man, I hate to see you pull up next to a Viper on the left and a Hemi Cuda on the right...or ANY bike...

quiet your mouth...haha

but i believe an awd 3sgte would put them in their place

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Nov 16, 2008 - 9:57 PM

[bccentaur3]

Its nice see all the reason why you build your celica. This keeps my rallyx dreams alive.

[Tigawoods]

it gives me something to do, i enjoy working on her

and for Auto-X

[808celica]

:cry:

[bccentaur3]

why cry? You're building another Celica. Yes its not a 6th gen, but something to show them old school muscle cars.

[Akirad1]

if i was to do it for the sound of the turbo, give me goosebumps when i hear it lol

[whatthe]

Turning heads while driving, knowing that you have a good ride, and get compliments from friends and randoms at caar parks. And the fun driving around in it. And something to be proud of (unique and different)

[SeverX13]

Cars are my passion. Im building my celica for a number of reasons. For enjoyment for one thing. i jsut love working on it and customizing it makeing a 1994 celica, BRENTS 1994 celica. For that fact that i just love doing it. Celicas are looked down on in the car world. because they are slow. but building it to be a monster and shwoing everyone what the celica has, drives me to do it. Turning heads. a sense of accomplishment to make a stock 135hp celica to a 400+ hp monster. that is something to be proud of. gaining the respect of the other harcore enthusiest's who have already accomplished there goal. a way to relax. Walking back to ur celica from a store, seeing it parked and being able to say...damn, thats my car. a way to get away from everything. Working on the celica in ur garage u can just get away. Or driving it when its done. during the day looking at the faces follow your car as u drive by. haveing people point it out to their buddy to check out your ride. and then at night. its your getaway on those empty latenight roads. its just you and your creation, no one else.you can leave just leave reality and get away. It defines you.



yea. thats my purpose

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Nov 16, 2008 - 10:42 PM

[playr158]

race car....and to see how many stupid things i can do to one car....

[easternpiro1]

the chicks dig it... the chicks really dig it....

[bccentaur3]

I think the chicks dig the driver not the car.

[CelicaST_CALI]

in my case its both

[Lil-Joe101]

I would one day like to get featured in either Import Tuner Mag or Super Street. Just finally get notice and be proud of myself for ounce.

[whatthe]

I would one day like to get featured in either Import Tuner Mag or Super Street. Just finally get notice and be proud of myself for ounce.

haha same !, but to just get featured in something lol

[presure2]

it all started years ago, when i first saw "perfect blue"
THAT was the car i wanted.
once the look was there, i just wanted the car to be "fun to drive"

mission accomplished.

[GriffGirl]

Well, we all have our own reasons inside for building our Celicas. For me, it's a learning experience. It's a lifestyle, even if you don't race, enter shows or competitions. It's a way to express yourself and interact with people who share the same passion as you. I build my car for myself, not just to be better than anybody else. When I drive my car, I feel what it's missing and I try to improve what I believe that the car is lacking. In the end, I will have a car made just for me.

I couldn't have said it better myself! That's exactly why for me too. That, and because I think it's just the coolest thing that there are SO many variations on the same basic concept - to get from point A to point B. To be able to modify one interpretation of that concept to individualize it and make it your own is totally rewarding. I do graphic design all day. Modding/working on/improving my car is my creative outlet.

[GriffGirl]

I would one day like to get featured in either Import Tuner Mag or Super Street. Just finally get notice and be proud of myself for ounce.

The fact that you're in Okinawa serving our country is plenty reason to be proud

[Fastbird]

Because anything stock sucks. Modding is fun.

And because I can.

[Daftboy]

it all started years ago, when i first saw "perfect blue"
THAT was the car i wanted.


never seen it...what is it?

[RUNNIN-LOW]

well will if your talking about me man..the reason i did all that to my car is .

<-------------no reason man..u do it for the joy of just doing it man & for the love of the car its different. why did you build yours? cuz u have a dream of a bad A$$$$ rally machine man. but yeah there is no reason and there could be hundreds of reasons. i like when all of us 6gens get together i pop my hood and u pop yours and we talk $hit to each other... ...
ooh yeah you want a mr2 why??? i can give u many reason why you would rather want to keep yours....
ok say we are driving together and we see a mr2 all decked out we say wow!!!!look at that mr2 thats nice..then we see a swap gt-4 celica all white with rally mud flaps and stuff like that...we both will say DAMN!!!!THATS FREAKEN TIGHT!!!! and maybe even bust a u-turn follow it.. im just sayin not everyday you see a full gt-4 driving around. ooh and yeah that white gt-4 i was talkin about its yours man...get it YOURS!!!!!WILL'S WHITE GT-4

This post has been edited by RUNNIN-LOW: Nov 17, 2008 - 2:14 PM

[Culpable04]

it all started years ago, when i first saw "perfect blue"
THAT was the car i wanted.


never seen it...what is it?

this will give you an idea Click me




as for my reason, I guess I always wanted to built a nice gas powered RC car when I was a kid, but I could only offord 3rd hand stuff so I couldn't build something as nice as I wanted, so 'm doing it now, just without the RC lol

[Akimbo]

fix the POS again, get the exterior nice and clean...then sell the junk for an s2000

[RickJamesBish]

Sadly, I don't have any plans for this Celica...but like I've said before, I would love to get a JDM GT-4 and making it "mine." The idea of a light and agile AWD with a 300/350 hp turbo would be nasty. Focus on handling and looks, then try to up the speed a bit...but it won't need much.

[bccentaur3]

Well all this modding makes me feel like the car life is like lifting. You do soo much then you hit a brick wall. In this case the brick wall for me is the awd conversion. Will I ever get to it? I highly doubt.

[tiny]

Well I kinda brought my GT4 by accident, was suppose to be getting a 4 door auto - aristo or chaser... but somehow i ended up with a GT4.
The main reason is simply having the power on tap, having something less common and its quite a good looking car but lets face it - its not that practical - but its a nice feeling seeing a pissed off look of the commodore driver you just smoked...

[Batman722]

I needed to get to work faster.
It was either wake up earlier or make the car faster.

[bccentaur3]

hahaha, good one.

[jimmykay]

until recently I havent really wanted to do much to my car.

But then I got introduced to Auto-X this past summer, and wow.

Now I've got the bug to see what I can do to make her that much quicker.

[rj8807]

to build a purpose built track and autox car. i've autox for about 3 years in my mr2 turbo, and now that its finally clean and resprayed (was beat up the past 4 years) i dont want to race it anymore. plus ever since i swapped the turbo motor, i've been running SM2, aka against modified z06 vettes in my region. all pros. boo.

so i bought my 95 ST for $800. theft recovery. stripping the interior, putting in a cage, kirkey race seat (hopefully), shocks, and good tires on 15" wheels. the class i would run would be E prepared, and it's pretty much other cars with the same mods. im excited. not to mention, i love the way the celica feels.

this will also do good at PAX or HPDEs (High Performance Driving Events) at local tracks. reliable and cheap. perfect

This post has been edited by rj8807: Nov 18, 2008 - 8:31 PM