1995 Toyota Celica ST coupe Engine noises 2/24/16, Video on machine gun noise. Link to video (PLEASE WATCH) Options

[PrimeLuxeZ]

Member name: PrimeLuxeZ
Market: USDM
Year: 1995
Model: ST
Frame & Type(optional): AT200
Engine: factory 7A-FE
transmission: Not sure

Significant other mods:
CAI


Hello everyone, my name is Marcos im 21 and I live in Dallas, Texas.
Like I posted in the other thread I have a Blue 1995 Toyota celica st coupe. with roughly 245,xxx miles on the odo.
Originally from Illinois I think and I think I'm the second owner too. Came with every service record since 1995. Has been well taken care of.
But with the high miles comes more maintenance. Only thing I've done is oil change basically a week after I bought it. Because the
I haven't done much to the car so far. But pictures are more fun then words.

Here it the car with a cold air intake my first upgrade basically. Notice the paint fading on the hood roof and trunk. I plan on painting it all a matte or flat black, so itll be a black and blue scheme and so the car wont look so old. Im hoping it will look nice.









The second thing I did to it was paint the black steelies, since it only had three hubcaps when I first got it, and I hate hubcaps with a passion so those came right off as I got home that day. First I was maybe thinking on painting them red since I have red pinstriping on the car and I found a can of paint that had a red hue to it.
And it was dark so I was like that will work so I lifted the car cleaned the wheels with some degreaser and a scrubbing pad and gave it a go.

Both wheels cleaned




And the car lifted up.



So what I did basically was take all the air out of the tire and I had some index cards laying around so I placed them between the tire and the rim to protect the tire from overspray, fairly easy for anyone who wants a different color on their wheels and doesnt want to waste money on unmounting the tires to paint them a different color.



Heres the paint that I thought was red. (My paint specially made for graffiti artist)


So I did a coat of it and it came out a dark pink color, so I was like whoa thats bad and wouldnt look right on the celica.


So I had a can of fresh white paint for backup just in case I didnt like the other.
Its a nice white and fast drying


So I have it about a couple of coats of that white on the two wheels that I had cleaned and it came out okay, I ended getting overspray because I did a bad job on the covering of the tire.



You can see the overspray here, it bothers me that you can see it but ohwell and I was too lazy to cover it with black so I just left it alone, I was just anxious to see how the looked on the celi, and I really liked it with the blue color.








What yall think?
So I only had enough to do two wheels that day so I was rolling around town with two white and two black steelies lol, tacky but no biggie.

So later that week I had some more time on my hands and said well Ill knock out the front wheels too.

So I lifted the front and got to cleaning them, I also inspected an oil leak I have, I cant seem to find the source but Im leaning towards the front main seal.


So I leaned from last time and prepped the wheels better this time, and removed all the air I could to easily fit the index cards better to prevent overspray and this is what I got.



I put them long ways at first then the second row I just filled in the spaces, for anyone else who wants to try this.

Close up


So I only had enough for one more wheel, so I only have one black steelie and three white, lol and I have no money right now to but more fresh paint, since I dont want to buy a diff. white and it be off.


But if you're on my left side you'll see them like this. And I also rotated my tires since they where wearing more on the front then the rear.

I have other Ideas for it, I have some fog lights of a Lexus es300 they are yellow projectors, and I have a wink mirror form my del sol I just need some time to install it.

This post has been edited by PrimeLuxeZ: Feb 24, 2016 - 6:43 PM

[PrimeLuxeZ]

4/20/2015

So much has happened, and I will do my best to piece it all together since the last update. With alot of photos of course.

2/6/15
Downtown Dallas in the back, with the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge aswell.
Random Shot.

2/10/15
Then the better set of spark plug wires. Compared to the old ones, number one cylinder wire was swollen from the engine oil spilling onto it.
Old

Newer

I also received my black TRD emblem from ebay. Which is awesome and will probably be put to the left of the license plate in the rear.

So since I had bought the muffler, I went to a muffler shop to get a quote and the guy was trying to charge me 70 dollars to install. Wasn't gonna happen, I may just weld it up my self, I recently acquired a 90 amp wire feed welder from harbor freight. Should be enough to get the job done.

2/11/14
This was an irritating day for me, I remember it so well.
So as I started the day, with the task in mind of, changing out my CV axles, I had no idea what was in store for me.

Up she went.

Trans gear oil being drained.
I reused it since it was all new when I just had installed the engine, not too long ago.

I do remember loosening everything was fairly easy, since it had mostly been all disassembled not too long ago either.

The seal had started to leak from the last removal and installation. Slow dripping.

Ripped boots, with an even worse axle.

So what ended up happening, RockAuto sent me the wrong axles, after all my hard work disassembling it and trying to fight the axles to go in.
They weren't going in, with closer inspection, they had sent me an axle for the 5sfe engine according to the box, and the splines where bigger then the original one on the Celica. And the other for the 7afe engine, buy that didn't fit either.


All on the bottom of the passenger side. Caked up oil from the leaky front seal from the previous engine.

Oh and I figured why my Celica was getting louder.

2/18/15
Bought a three dollar lens from the thrift store, its a macro lens, but takes awesome photos.

95 Celi, with recently acquired 91 Celi

2/24/15
Then this came in the mail. In white.

2/25/15
Then I got another flat. Same side from the last.

3/22/15
So about a month went by until I finally installed me Failsafe thremostat.
Engine bay pic, White valve cover with a bit of winkle paint on bottom. With the Full intake painted Wrinkle, black.

Removal of Distributor, I had removed it because the seal was bad and hardened already. The only auto part store that had it was NAPA and that was at the end of the day, and it was way cheaper then what Auto zone and Oriellys was selling it for.

Will be needing a new cap soon.

And then I found this.
Like really. You can see where someone broke the tabs on the sides, and use the top part for some restriction.

4/20/15
Nothing has happened since then, but I just ordered a new set of Axles from ebay and I hope they are correct, never had issues with ebay.
Will be replacing both wheel bearings and seals as well, friends hooking it up, he has a 6gc as well with bearing that have warranty.
Do a little switcharoo, and I will be having everything I need hopefully by Wednesday.
I also will be buying three used/new tires. The two front ones are really bald, from so much vibration and movement caused by the bad bearings.
So that's everything up to date with my Celica.

PrimeLuxe