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

[razor7]

Unfortunately, the plate has to stay for now, I'm still waiting on my actual plates to be sent in (along with my reg) and in my area cops have been cracking down on anyone who removes their front plate and giving them hefty fines.

Yup. I'm agreeing with many of you as to where I want to take her. First will be the sound system, then tinting, then I'm thinking about a borla cat back exhaust (full system with probably greddy headers), etc. It's just going to take some time.

The pictures are uploaded in their raw image size, however very very lightly cleaned up by myself. I hate people that post tiny pictures, and since this thread will resize pictures, why not post large ones? Besides, they work well for your desktop :-P

The celica was obviously traded in. It actually sat on the lot for close to 4 months before I even got it. The minute I sat down and started signing paper work it came back from a test drive where the guy wanted to buy it too. Since I had already signed, it was legally mine :-D

Thanks for all of the suggestions, especially for the rims. If I can find 16" 5 spoke silver (not chrome) and lower it 1.5-2 inches, I think I'll be set.

I have actually been looking into projectors, the only thing that's keeping me away from them are they have oodles of plastic. I have friends with projectors that are consistently washing and waxing them to keep from oxidization on the lens cover. That's one of the reasons why I love the stock headlights, you can't go wrong with a glass lens cover.

Just to clear things up, I like the way the GT-4 looks (mostly the hood and the riser blocks under the rear spoiler) as to the actual engine/awd I'm not going to bother trying to import them. I might end up with just a GT-4 hood and the riser blocks on an almost stock body. It's all just a matter of what I can find and for what price. I can't just be throwing away $1000 for a hood ya know.

All of the pictures were taken using a Canon 40d with a night lens on it. All were taken at a local park that we ended up being kicked out of about 3 shots after the final one I have on here. From there I just edited the pictures to bring out a warmer temperature, along with changing the sharpness, highlights, etc.

-TC

[manphibian]

The pictures are uploaded in their raw image size, however very very lightly cleaned up by myself. I hate people that post tiny pictures, and since this thread will resize pictures, why not post large ones? Besides, they work well for your desktop :-P

Not as annoying as having to sit and wait for your gargantuan pictures to load up. So, smaller next time thanks

I have actually been looking into projectors, the only thing that's keeping me away from them are they have oodles of plastic. I have friends with projectors that are consistently washing and waxing them to keep from oxidization on the lens cover. That's one of the reasons why I love the stock headlights, you can't go wrong with a glass lens cover.

Projectors have Glass lenses, problem solved

[razor7]

The pictures are uploaded in their raw image size, however very very lightly cleaned up by myself. I hate people that post tiny pictures, and since this thread will resize pictures, why not post large ones? Besides, they work well for your desktop :-P

Not as annoying as having to sit and wait for your gargantuan pictures to load up. So, smaller next time thanks

I have actually been looking into projectors, the only thing that's keeping me away from them are they have oodles of plastic. I have friends with projectors that are consistently washing and waxing them to keep from oxidization on the lens cover. That's one of the reasons why I love the stock headlights, you can't go wrong with a glass lens cover.

Projectors have Glass lenses, problem solved

There.

Link me to glass projectors. I haven't found any.

-TC

This post has been edited by razor7: Jul 28, 2008 - 3:07 AM