 Christmans Will be Coming a Little Late This Year, Waiting to start my build |
 Dec 6, 2008 - 6:14 PM
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A few months back a purchused a 1994 gt that had been in a little fend bender. The kids parents were selling the car because clearly he wasn't ready to drive. I bought it for 800 trailered it home and began to inspect the damage. I got underneath the car and it was clean as can be, something very hard to find in NY. Besides the hood and bumper everything else looked pretty promising. The longer the car sat the more i began thinking about doing a swap, not just the motor though, the whole drivetrain. Doing some research and seeing it was dubbed as nearly impossible i thought why not. I got on the phone with Keith at RPMGarage in Japan and after shooting some number back and forth my dreams are coming true. He was able to hook me up with a WRC front clip, the rear diff, an extra 3sgte motor, recarro seats, and some other parts for an amazing price. The parts were just loaded onto a ship and i was told it's gonna be 4 weeks. I'm just super excited and can't wait to start this project. I'll try to keep stuff up to date and post pics when i can.
      
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Dec 6, 2008 - 8:07 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Apr 24, '08 From Orange County, CA Currently Offline Reputation: 33 (100%) |
wow Jim. haha like guy just thinking about that pm you sent me of all that stuff you bought. But thats perty interesting finally know what shipping a front end clip looks like. Anyways maybe any of you guys can help me. i was looking on rpm garage. And a mr2 rear end clip cost about half the amont that it costs to ship the celica front clip why is that??
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Enthusiast Joined Apr 23, '08 From boston MA Currently Offline Reputation: 5 (100%) |
QUOTE (BonzaiCelica @ Dec 6, 2008 - 9:07 PM)  wow Jim. haha like guy just thinking about that pm you sent me of all that stuff you bought. But thats perty interesting finally know what shipping a front end clip looks like. Anyways maybe any of you guys can help me. i was looking on rpm garage. And a mr2 rear end clip cost about half the amont that it costs to ship the celica front clip why is that?? You buy a celica from him you basically get a car I bought my clip from him and you get a car at your docks... I have the video of him cutting mine somewhere |
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jmeyer Christmans Will be Coming a Little Late This Year Dec 6, 2008 - 6:14 PM
presure2 congrats man, good luck on the conversion. Dec 6, 2008 - 6:23 PM supershannon77 awesome..Jim and I will have to take a drive and c... Dec 6, 2008 - 6:46 PM RickJamesBish You must be the luckiest guy alive...for a little ... Dec 6, 2008 - 7:34 PM pipes Awesome man... are you going to do rhd and use the... Dec 6, 2008 - 7:48 PM TheMadScientist That is AWESOME!!! you sir are one luc... Dec 6, 2008 - 8:15 PM njccmd2002 i like projects with pics, like the hoods serving ... Dec 6, 2008 - 9:57 PM mrgrape woot congrats man, what color are u gonna paint it... Dec 6, 2008 - 10:07 PM azian_advanced looks like the body parts arrived safely... unlike... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:28 AM CelicaST_CALI omfg...ANOTHER 3SGTE!!!ENOUGH..u peopl... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:43 AM trdproven so you got it...gl on the conversion - you might o... Dec 7, 2008 - 3:01 AM SoDo Nice clip. I think that was the clip on ebay that... Dec 7, 2008 - 5:32 AM 96bluevert Nice! GL with the project
Are u doing the RH... Dec 7, 2008 - 11:20 AM RickJamesBish ^ He got the RHD dash, so I would say so. Dec 7, 2008 - 11:23 AM jmeyer Thanks for the support guys. My plans were to do a... Dec 7, 2008 - 12:42 PM RickJamesBish If you're open to more work, go for something ... Dec 7, 2008 - 12:51 PM Culpable04 I'd say don't even try to go with Super st... Dec 7, 2008 - 12:53 PM mrgrape so to make it AWD, all u need to do is the rear di... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:06 PM
pipes QUOTE (mrgrape @ Dec 7, 2008 - 2:06 ... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:14 PM
mrgrape QUOTE (pipes @ Dec 7, 2008 - 6:14 PM... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:16 PM RickJamesBish QUOTE (mrgrape @ Dec 7, 2008 - 1:16 ... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:19 PM 96bluevert QUOTE (mrgrape @ Dec 7, 2008 - 10:16... Dec 8, 2008 - 1:21 PM 97celiman QUOTE (mrgrape @ Dec 7, 2008 - 1:06 ... Dec 10, 2008 - 12:14 AM Culpable04 QUOTE (mrgrape @ Dec 7, 2008 - 2:06 ... Dec 7, 2008 - 1:13 PM 1Bryce1 YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!!
im jealous Dec 10, 2008 - 6:53 AM creis Good luck with the project, and funny shipping of ... Jan 29, 2009 - 10:42 PM KAOS QUOTE (creis @ Jan 29, 2009 - 8:42 P... Jan 30, 2009 - 5:20 PM jmeyer Everything came in, I'll take pictures when it... Jan 31, 2009 - 4:56 PM njccmd2002 demand pics now Feb 1, 2009 - 12:06 PM kmad86 Is the conversion pretty common now-a-days? Back i... Feb 6, 2009 - 4:43 PM njccmd2002 so where is this at. Are you happy with keith. I... Jul 1, 2009 - 12:14 PM Culpable04 QUOTE (njccmd2002 @ Jul 1, 2009 - 12... Jul 1, 2009 - 1:25 PM |
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