I got another celica!, I'm back Options

[6strngs]

Hi all, I'm not sure who is still here from when I had my other 6gc, but I just picked up another 95 yesterday, which makes this my 4th celica, and my 3rd white celica Here's a couple refresher pics of my old 6th gen, maybe someone will remember those better than my description of it:
First it was stock:

Then it got turbo'ed


Then the engine blew up

Then it got a used engine and a paint job, shortly before selling it


Now the new car:







It's got 175K miles on it, but only about 60K on the engine. I bought it from the second owner who has had it since 1999, making me the 3rd owner of this garage kept and well maintainted celica. I counted only one small ding in the whole car! My plans as of right now is just to make it even more aesthetically pleasing, it's going to be my daily driver so I don't think I'll do anything too crazy, but perhaps a beams swap down the road... So what do you guys think

[6strngs]

Ok I guess it's time for me to update this thread so first, I got some JDM recaro rear seats! Though I really wish I hadn't, I submitted an offer on an ebay ad and didn't actually expect to win haha. If anybody wants them I'm willing to sell them or trade for something else (projectors, coilovers, wheels?)



Now, I was originally planning to build this thing into a show car, because it's so clean that's really what it deserves, but after some though I think I'd much rather have something that I can beat on without too much worry and park in parking lots without crying over every door ding. The perfect car came up right as I decided this. CaliJeff who lives literally a few blocks away from me and who I've known since I had my first celica was parting out his car and was getting ready to give it to the junk yard, the car had low compression on 2 cylinders. I offered him $500 for the car which must have been more than the wrecking yard was giving because he accepted immediately

The car was minus an exhaust, the side skirts , an alternator bolt, and a shifter. I picked up a shifter from the junk yard for like $25, put it in in Jeff's driveway and then drove it home on 2 cylinders (also from my house to a storage unit and back while I saved up the money to fix it, only a toyota could run this good on 2 cylinders haha) A compression test showed 180-175-60-10. I then did a cylinder leak-down test and heard the air coming in through the intake on both cylinders, so I ordered up a freshly rebuilt cylinder head off ebay for $285. I also got a fel-pro gasket set from my work for dirt cheap because, well, I get 10% over cost

After tearing everything apart I quickly found the problem was not the intake valves like I had thought, it was this:



Hmm, something doesn't seem right there hahaha. More pics:






As you can see, I decided to just go ahead and throw the head on anyway since there was a 25% restocking fee if I sent it back So, after getting it back together it started up first try with no leaks or any issues at all. I must be getting good at this whole mechanic thing haha. So after driving it one time, I decided I definitely want to keep this celica! The suspension feels much tighter on it (might be due to new rear struts), it's got tinted windows already, and for some reason the engine feels WAY stronger. It easily has 5 hp on the white celica, it's very noticably faster for some reason. I think the pistons are 0.050 over which may have something to do with it. Also, the transmission is in much better shape. I pulled the exhaust off the white celica for the time being, got this thing smogged (passed with flying colors), registered, and insured. I've been driving it everyday for the past 2 weeks and have 550 miles on it so far, all seems to be good! Another celica saved from the junk yard! It's got 232k miles on it and I have every intention to take it past 300 I've slowly been pulling the mods off the white celica and putting them in this one, once I'm done and I get a new wheel bearing in the white celica it'll be put up for sale if anybody is looking for an exceptionally clean bodied celica! I'll have to get more pics later, I've been too lazy to wash either car so they're both filthy at the moment haha.

This post has been edited by 6strngs: Sep 20, 2013 - 9:23 AM