Help choosing what to do with my '94 Options

[razor7]

Hey guys,
I recently bought a '94 celica GT. I found it at a local Toyota dealership with under 100k miles on it. I actually even talked them down to low blue book as well! The car is completely cherry, not a scratch or ding on it. It was owned and operated by a lady in her mid 40's as a weekend car and probably was never taken over 3500 rpms. From what I can tell, this thing is as close to finding one brand new (at least in my area) as you can get.

So I got my beloved celica home, and ended up finding this site. One of the reasons why I love the older 94-99 celica's is for their styling. A mixture of an integra and a supra, which are both cars that I like the looks of. After searching through these forums however, I learned about the GT-4s, where my cupholders are (yeah, couldn't find them) along with many other interesting topics.

However that leads me to my actual question. Since all of you not only have owned or do own a 6th gen celica, what tasteful mods do you recommend? I LOVE the stylings of the GT-4, but I find it useless to put a bunch of exterior mods on a car that is only pushing out ~130hp, and in all honesty, when I want to break 160mph I just jump on my '97 suzuki gsxr 750. In any event, it's still much quicker then my last car - a '91 4runner 4x4

So let me know what you guys think. I found the GT-4 hood on ebay, along with the spoiler risers and some other misc. stuff. I do understand that trying to find a decent shape and decent price body kit for this thing will be a headache, but that's where I'm hoping some of the senior members here can step in. Like I said, I'm looking to do tasteful mods, and if anyone has something lying around I might be interested in taking it off of your hands.

As you can see, Betsy is in magnificent shape. I love her to death. I lucked out even more since this one has EVERYTHING you could have asked for; the ABS package, Leather seats, etc.

Thanks for the help,
-TC

This post has been edited by razor7: Jul 28, 2008 - 3:04 AM

[goferris]

if you want an ssIII replica (which i am currently building myself ) first you'll need is a facelift bumper, oem skirts, ssiii front and rear splitters (or if you are lucky like me you might come across a tom's option magic lip), and shaved riser blocks. parts can be kinda hard to come by this car though so you really have to scour and check the buy sell forum regularly. if you don't like the aftermarket rims out there you should consider getting some tc rims or 7th gen gts rims (my preference of the 2; although they are smaller i love the 5 spoke look) plus they will be cheaper than aftermarket rims if you look around enough.

interior mods- a sound system was a must for me. mine is almost done but eventually i will improve and get better subs as well as new door skins so i can add 2 more speakers while keeping the stock look.

personally i love the subtle mods the best. nothing too extreme but still makes it look really nice. if the only thing you did was lower it and get new rims and tint, your car would look better than most other tuners.
then again i do have a very biased opinion

welcome to the boards. the car looks cherry!

This post has been edited by goferris: Jul 26, 2008 - 1:24 PM

[njccmd2002]

don forget you can swap Mr2 front seats, get the Matrix M theory rims, triple spoke leather steering wheel and TRD front bumper like i did (braggin)


ebay sometimes is your best bet, altough you can search jarco and jhotimports for goodies.


be creative and subtle, dont be extreme, or it may not look good. go ferris is right.