Alaskan Celica Project, My 1994 Celica GT, The story of fixing and enhancing a bad swap Options

[antoine64]

In 2008 I bought a 1994 Celica GT for $300. it was in my neighbor's yard, covered with dust and mold. He said the transmission was dead because it had been stolen. Turns out only the clutch was bad.


I fixed it up and drove it having a reliable and fun car




November 4th 2014: a pizza delivery guy rear-ended me destroying my car.




I bought a replacement Celica off Craigslist sight unseen because it had a rebuilt 3SGTE TURBO.

I had it driven up to Bellingham, WA, inspected my the Toyota Dealer then put on the Alaska Ferry.


When it showed up I inspected it mostly in the dark because it was December and I don't have a garage. What I found was very depressing.

Problems:

-badly mounted oversized intercooler
-no rebar or foam under the damaged front bumper
-plastic milky headlight enclosures with hid bulbs but badly put together with black adhesive
-glued on rear spoiler
-strange chicken wire mesh things under the car
-no muffler
-strange bundles of wire under the dash
-cut wiring harness for the stereo
-cut custom headlight wires
-no fender well plastic
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First I tore a few parts off it to sell and to put on my other Celica.

I needed the bumper and fender for my new one so....

Here's the before picture. New Celica is on the right with an oversized intercooler (for sale $20) and a thousand little problems.



This post has been edited by antoine64: May 20, 2015 - 4:58 PM

[antoine64]

My new Celica is also a 1994 blue GT but one of the previous owners put in a 3SGTE. The engine is good as far as I can tell but the rest of the customizing was a bunch of crap. I'm pulling parts off this car and doing a bunch of fixing to get the new one drivable. It's mostly there. I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I want all the wiring just so and everything to work and not leak.