94 celica st manual "restoration" Options

[fhalperformance]

Right after I picked up a 93 alltrac rolling chassis I finally located a 94 celica after 5 months of looking. The price was right and its a pre-OBD2 that was pretty clean minus the bodywork. Only bad part was a lien from a bank that was no longer in existence but that ended up being not that big a deal with a lein release arriving in the mail a week and a half later. Already manual and is a blast to drive more so then my camry. I was planning on parking it for the summer given my new alltrac project and finishing up the rest of the work on my circuit race mr2. Needless to say thats not the plan anymore. It is the project that needs the least amount of work (or so I thought) figured I could finish this one along side the mr2 before starting the trac.

[fhalperformance]

Here's some update pictures for the car. I got the rims professionally refinished and the tires mounted. Im waiting for the paint to harden up before I balance and install them on the car. I wish I had taken some pictures of them test fitted on the car they look great/almost flush. I still havent figured out the offset of the rims which I probably should do.. I also got some new spline drive lug nuts for the rims as well to replace the rusty oem ones currently on the car.

I got the gt rear crossmember & spindles apart from the rear arms so I can start getting them ready for the disc brake conversion. Turns out the former owner completely removed the ebrake hardware underneath the rotor hat so Ill probably need some more work to get them ready to go. Ill need new backing plates, bushings, new rear arms (already have the new bolts & nuts for putting it back together), and time to refinish the new cross member as it has alot less rust then the one currently on the car.

Also got a new paint idea for the car which I have included a picture of below. (newer style) British Racing Green. My widebody will be blue and I havent found more then one blue color that I liked. Best to keep with the program so far and have all my cars be different colors. White (mr2), Red (93 trac), Black (91 trac), Blue (widebody), and then the 94 celica with the green paint.







This post has been edited by fhalperformance: Nov 15, 2013 - 9:03 PM