New Addition to Our Family, Painted page 7!!! Options

[hurley97]

So me and Dustin (Batman722) decided to postpone the wedding another year and buy another 6th gen project instead...
That and the 99 Solara I've been using as a winter car is going to my sister in a few weeks so we needed to have one available to each of us as a 'winter beater'.
We have my green 97 ST turbo, Dustin's blue 95 GT ST205 swapped, his silver 95 ST

And let me introduce the new addition to our Celica family,
1994 Celica GT, 5spd, black interior, sunroof, Florida car without New England rust.
Very bad rod knock and a very bad radiator meant we had to have it towed home where it stayed until it was again towed to Manny, Jenn and Randi's garage.





We decided to swap in a Redtop 3S-GE Beams
We cleaned it up, timing belt, waterpump, tensioner, prepped to go in











^inside the intake manifold, taken through the throttle body







And as of tonight, it is in the car and running,











And Manny fabricated the whole exhaust, from the b-pipe all the way back. I do not have good pics of it, someone else will have to insert them.
We should be able to take some better pics tomorrow in the daylight. So far, very fun

This post has been edited by hurley97: Jul 1, 2010 - 4:49 PM

[Batman722]

and more pics

Day 1
starting out in the garage





pull the beat down 5s and put it where it belongs



remove ABS, install non abs lines/master





paint engine bay black



better pic



day 2
get the beams in the bay


I spy a tan line

lightweight FW then OEM Beams disk, st185 pp, and s54 tob and a wicked cool SS braided clutch line





day 3

button things up and have Manny make an incredible exhaust.











and the exhaust - just unbelievable - I'm speechless every time I look at it.



end of day 3, drive home

once we cranked it over a few times to get some fuel in it, it started just fine. It idles a bit high right now (about 1100) so me and Stef will diagnose it tomorrow.

and driving impressions...it's quick and pulls great all the way to redline

more pics tomorrow in the daylight.

This post has been edited by Batman722: Oct 12, 2009 - 12:34 AM