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]

Thank you very much for the enthusiastic welcomes,

As far as the exhaust, I'm not really sure what I'd do with it. I know my friend has a top o' the line magnaflow on his civic that comes with a resonator. Theoretically, the same system (or one similiar) with a different resonator could produce a different pitch/control the volume of the exhaust. If that's the case, then I'd just have to find the right resonator for my set up, and I'd be set.

However, in more practical terms, I'll probably get new headers and a hi-flow cat before any exhaust work. It'll let the engine breathe a ton better, but also keep it somewhat quiet. Naturally, I'll update you all with any progress I make.

R1's are sick, I almost bought an 00 R1 rather then my gsxr. You can't mess with a guy who can pull a 0-60 at 2.9 seconds... stock. Enjoy one hell of a machine, and seriously, thank the bike gods that you own an injected bike :-P.

My original post does sound like I'm going for what's popular. In retrospect, I should have worded it differently. What I really meant to ask is, what's the best bang for the buck, and what third party companies to steer clear from. As with just about anything, there are a ton of companies that will make add-on parts, but some are of higher quality then others. I just don't want to get shafted with something that looks good, but is a complete, utter pain.

As far as rims, I'll probably invest into either some 7th gen's or TC's. Just as you said, they are cheap to get, keep the same toyota styling, and are easy to come by.

-TC