96 Celica st Options

[sambo-12]

I've probably had my 96 Celica for almost two years, but haven't been able to work on it. This is my first time on a forum.


For the first 6 months i kept my car stock then this happened





hand to find a new axle, I liked my rims for the time being so I decided to buy another one (sears brand) because it broke in the accident and painted them black



and someone thought it would be funny to take my toyota emblem?



decided to get some HID's and a roof rack





Decided to instal my 12" subs


about 3 months ago i finally decided to put some money into my car and bought some new FRS rims



After that I went to get my fenders rolled


Took my car down to a shop to get my megan racing springs and stagg struts installed


Top pic is before and bottom is after, not much different, just 2"


I was loving how my car looked and drove, and have 35 percent tint and took off my spoiler





three days ago, with 170xxx miles my engine blew





yesterday I picked up an engine with only 5 miles on it, hopefully i have a chance to put it in this week



This post has been edited by sambo-12: Jul 7, 2013 - 10:33 AM

[sambo-12]

I just realized my pics dont show... how do i fix that?

[jesse09]

I just realized my pics dont show... how do i fix that?

Welcome! Create a photobucket account, upload ur pics and then copy and past the IMG link on each photo. That's how I post mine anyway. There is also a topic somewhere in the stickies that shows you how.

[fatherof4]

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=47845

Click and learn Grasshopper.

This post has been edited by fatherof4: Jul 5, 2013 - 10:57 PM

[sambo-12]

Car is at the shop today and hopefully will be done tomorrow

[njccmd2002]

how do you like the FRS rims?

[sambo-12]

how do you like the FRS rims?

Compared to my old rims they are amazing

[sambo-12]

The other day we had a storm here in va, and this morning I realized I left my passanger side window open...

[sambo-12]

The other day we had a storm here in va, and this morning I realized I left my passanger side window open...

I decided to take my back seats and my passanger seats to let them dry and clean them








If any one has any good ideas on how to clean my seats that would be great, I dont really pay attention to my seats, but now since i took them out i realized how dirty my back seats are and was wondering if anyone has any tricks to cleaning them or anything.

[Box]

Steam cleaner!

[sambo-12]

finally received my tail lights and installed them right away.



My girlfriend loves helping with my car so I let her join me






I love how it looks now



Anyone have any suggestions on coilovers?

[celica74]

megan coilovers. great ride. you will need to get camber bolts for the rear.

[celica74]

Also if your interested in supercharging your 7a im selling a full kit.

Link to the build thread of this kit: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...30&hl=7afze
Link to my build thread using this kit: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...arger&st=20

Message me if your interested

[sambo-12]

I bought some leather seats from a junk yard for $30, only had the back seats though, still looking for front seats



looking to get a gt4 front bumper in the near future with some side skirts.

[sambo-12]

Plans for this weekend:

1) Install all new engine mounts
2) Install my Megan EZ Street Coilovers
3) Swap out my steering wheel with a 7th gen

[sambo-12]

Just got my coilovers

[Tigawoods]

nice n clean!

[celica74]

MEGANS! how does that series ride?

[sambo-12]

MEGANS! how does that series ride?

I was supposed to do them over the weekend but I had a family issue, so Friday I will be installing everything and I'll let you know

[sambo-12]

felt like taking some pictures of my car before i took it to the shop to install the coilovers

[sambo-12]

MEGANS! how does that series ride?

Compared to my old stagg struts and megan springs, It rides perfect!





I need some smaller wheels, any suggestions?

[samboo]

I love this pic of my car

bought new wheels, then realized i couldn't make it back down my driveway safely.. 15" was way to small




Low shot before i drove and was scraping all around northern virginia


This post has been edited by samboo: Oct 12, 2013 - 11:16 AM

[samboo]

Had some fun this weekend









Needed some help figuring out how to keep the fog lights in so i needed some help from my dad







The final product


This post has been edited by samboo: Nov 17, 2013 - 4:25 PM

[cheela]

sweet! now you just need a lip to cover up that bottom, NO REPAINT NEEDED! hahahh.

[samboo]

sweet! now you just need a lip to cover up that bottom, NO REPAINT NEEDED! hahahh.

hahaha i do want a lip, but i was planing on painting my whole car anyways so it's not a big deal.

[Nartanian]

Nice work man. Always wanted to do that front end when I had my Celica.

[samboo]

Nice work man. Always wanted to do that front end when I had my Celica.

It was a lot easier than i thought it would be!! mainly because i didn't put a crash bar on it haha

[samboo]

Need some help on picking out new wheels.... not sure which ones to go with.



17x7






Or 17x9

[Crazy0reo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

[samboo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

[Crazy0reo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

i see, looks clean, yeah i wanted to figure it out before i go throwing all this money into it. but yeah. how long did it take you to install? whole day i bet?_?

[samboo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

i see, looks clean, yeah i wanted to figure it out before i go throwing all this money into it. but yeah. how long did it take you to install? whole day i bet?_?

It would've been a few hours if I had the right tools, but it ended up taking roughly a day

[Smaay]

the car looks awesome!!! im going to give some constructive criticism, get rid of that tow hook out the back. Its only making you look like a ricer. Other than that i love how it looks lowered with the FRS rims.

[samboo]

the car looks awesome!!! im going to give some constructive criticism, get rid of that tow hook out the back. Its only making you look like a ricer. Other than that i love how it looks lowered with the FRS rims.

I actually just took it off today, kept hitting my leg on it haha, I got rid of the frs rims awhile ago, but regret it.
Thanks though!

[samboo]

Went to maryland to pick up some sideskirts from chris32880

On my way, I came upon this road, was way to fun!!




Before



After



Anyone have any ideas for a turbo on a 1.8L engine?

Engine only has around 3-6K miles.

This post has been edited by samboo: Dec 1, 2013 - 3:40 PM

[Box]

http://www.6gc.net/howto/turbocharge_your_7afe

[6G96GT]

Looks good, nice work. What does it mean when you say you rolled the fenders?

[samboo]

Looks good, nice work. What does it mean when you say you rolled the fenders?

If you feel the inner part of your fender, mainly the fronts, you'll notice there are like hinges.

Basically because my spacers made me hit my fenders 24/7 with the frs wheels. YouTube fender rolling or google it... I'm not the best at explaining haha

[samboo]

So I was reading about putting a turbo on my 7a, I feel that it would be to much of a hassle, any thoughts of a swap for the future? Since my engine has such low mileage i don't want to get rid of it yet. any suggestion in swaps into my st? It's embarrassing losing to my buddies civic when he has a full car and i have no one in mine.. but for now i guess i will have to suck up the lose... If anyone has some good ideas, please let me know, It might not be soon, but i want to do my research before i do it.

[kurt95gt]

Your basic options are
If you want to use your stock trans ).1 4agze. Good motor ,older only puts you just over a stock gt I think
If you swap to a s54/e153 trans ). 1 3sge beams. Good dd motor, preferred by many, non turbo, but no real mods out there to make more power over stock beams power.
).2 3rd gen 3sgte, big power motor , said to be good as a dd, tons of upgrade parts out there, stock turbo, no real downside out side of some extra mantanance due to turbo being needed.
).3 v6 swap (1mz). Easy to find, good dd (has been for me anyways while I was driving it everyday) good power for non turbo motor.
Takes well to intake an exhaust mods, porting heads, porting intake. Not many aftermarket parts available. But some stock parts can be used for extra power, downsides its not been done alot, not as plug an play as the others, depending on your luck you might be stuck with a check engine light due to trans codes.

[njccmd2002]

or a 2grfe and open a whole can of worms.

best thing to do now, is read, learn all your options. Hate for you to throw away a perfect engine, if its low miles. Because you wont sell it good. So you have some time. Who cares what your buddys car does. If all you want is to beat him, no engine swap is good for you. You need a car swap. Because you will always be power hungry, there is always another car that will be faster. than yours and that is a fact.

if you want to have some fun without a lot of hassle, a beams is good, but thats it, no more, no more modding and the power stops there.

1mz is another option to get a lot of power for less than a beams, requires more legwork.

the 2grfe, lol, never been done... wanna pioneer it?

[samboo]

Nice little random update.

Plastidipped my new Wheels (XXR 531)



This post has been edited by samboo: Jan 15, 2014 - 4:32 PM

[samboo]

random update, noticed i haven't been on in a while, maxed out my coilovers, think i might go to airbags in the near future










ALSO was able to find my last leather seat

[cheela]

awesome!! I can't wait to drop mine like that too.
Just got my set of megan EZs, now just need to find time to install them.

love the wheels by the way.

[njccmd2002]

thats is LOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW

[samboo]

had my car in a paint shop for 3 weeks and it came out looking amazing!!!





but unfortunetally when i changed my wheels 4/5 of my studs broke off and can't figure out how to change them, any chance there is a sticky on it?






but i did get my bushings today



This post has been edited by samboo: Jun 2, 2014 - 11:27 AM

[purplegt4]

Nice color!

Sucks about the bolts.

[njccmd2002]

Take out the rotor and gently hammer them out. Then the new ones are put in from behind. Any you tube video can show you how, as its pretty universal

Lol, those bushings, are somewhat easy to install.

[Fate]

cars come a long way, looks great!

[playr158]

I like the color choice!

Youtube for the lugbolt swap its pretty easy....just remember 90FT/lb of TQ is all you need when you tighten them

and the bushings are pretty easy to do as well....I suggest ordering new crushtubes from toyota as well for when you replace the control arm bushings...they're pretty cheap.
If you need help with any of it PM me. We don't live too far away from each other I imagine

[Box]

had my car in a paint shop for 3 weeks and it came out looking amazing!!!

So my instinct was right, the Celica does look great in purple. Thanks, now I want to find a black one so I can paint it midnight purple pearl.

[samboo]

[HaysoosKreesto]

I'm in love with that purple/rims/gt4 hood + grill combo

[samboo]

I'm in love with that purple/rims/gt4 hood + grill combo

Thank you! but unfortunately my car got keyed this weekend..

[rakashinni]

What's a parametrs of this rims? inch? wide? et?

[samboo]

What's a parametrs of this rims? inch? wide? et?

XXR 531's which were 17x8 ET+25

[purplegt4]

I'm in love with that purple/rims/gt4 hood + grill combo

Thank you! but unfortunately my car got keyed this weekend..

WTF

How bad is it?

Where did that happen?

You have any suspects?

[Tigawoods]

this is a police sketch of the suspect



This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Nov 12, 2014 - 8:29 AM

[samboo]

I'm in love with that purple/rims/gt4 hood + grill combo

Thank you! but unfortunately my car got keyed this weekend..

WTF

How bad is it?

Where did that happen?

You have any suspects?

It's a decent scratch all along the passenger side door. I believe it was my ex, thats the only person I can think of...

[samboo]

This is how she sits now and ready to sell











You can kinda see the paint chip here on the bumper, but will be fixed for free, just dont have time to take it to the shop


This post has been edited by samboo: Dec 6, 2014 - 11:24 AM

[Bourne6Gen]

car looks amazing, good job man but why you selling it?

[samboo]

car looks amazing, good job man but why you selling it?

I've had fun with it and everything but I just don't have the time anymore, I work full time and go to school dull time, so I don't have any extra time

[JoshuaM]

**** man, this thread went downhill fast. Was looking great before!

[samboo]

**** man, this thread went downhill fast. Was looking great before!

yeah, but unfortunately life hit me and don't have the time or the funds