benzos ST('s) work in progress!, From broke auto, to fixed manual. ALL HELP WELCOMED :D Options

[benzo]

Sup 6gc.net.. I've been on here for a long long time. Love this site, and love the wealth of information. At first it was overwhelming, as I knew nothing about cars. But after reading and reading and reading the information is finally stuck inside my head


So.. first off, I had a 96 Auto. 25th anniversary edition Number #257

I got hit, and the dude ran. Hella traffic so i couldn't get the plates, and got screwed by insurance, and got nothing .
Drove my sisters Chrysler (drove like a boat) for about a year while I saved up.

I finally found a black 95 5speed. Looked very very shinny (later found out it was a cheapo paint job, with wax >_< )
for $4,000. But so many thing were wrong with it so I talked the guy down to $3,300. At 16X,XXX miles I thought was a good deal
(still knowing NOTHING about celicas, or the difference between ST or GT)



I bought it and my friend / mechanic Marty drove it home for me, cause I barely could drive stick and I had to go to school.

Now that was back in January.


So this is my journal/work in progress with hella pictures / a personal time line so I can see how I have progressed.


Sadly can't find any pictures of her when she was up and running
so here she is, after sitting a good year +


Switching out every interior piece, seats, hatch hydraulic lifters, and tail lights.



Face lift bumper, and OEM sideskirts off to be painted. *INSTALL SHOULD BE SOON!**

Oh, i also had to pop off the toyota emblem from the silver car, and put it on my black on


Front head lights were cracked, and held on with bungie cords, so I swapped them in as well.



Sold the interior trunk pieces to Chaa (where is my positive rep for that???? hahaha)




As for the interior pieces, I would look at them side by side, and use the newest looking one.
gosh, its great having a parts car!!



Engine.. before I got my hands on it.


I grew up here... Wonder if those are gonna give me cancer.. Pretty sun set though.





These next 4 picutres are my lame attempt at changing the ugly green color for the Air Conditioning.. I was in a hurry, so used nail polish instead of Spray paint. BAD IDEA!! It looks cool during the day...



I dunno how I ended up with this amberish color, but I like it

In the end, I plan on doing LED's.. but am waiting on that.


Bought the color swatches for $3.01 They cost $0.01 with $3.00 shipping.. hahahaha!!

BEFORE

AFTER.. Except i'm not to fond of this color blue. Imma change it to a darker color one of these days..


This is her after the interior, head & tail light swap


Around this time is when I finally moved out on my own
Which was awesome EXCEPT these pine tees that sploouge pine dust allllll over my car:

Heres an up close shot of it




Finally nice and clean

daaaaamn.. look at that as$!




This post has been edited by benzo: Jan 20, 2010 - 8:32 PM

[Ruroniarc]

See those black thingys? When i turned the light upside down all the water came outta there.. Anyone know what those are?

Looks good! The black things are the vents to let water out of the headlamps. I think they're supposed to be one way, so water can get in but not out, but I could be wrong.

[benzo]

awesome! i love reading these kinds of post. looking good.

I loved reading them my self.. I hated when there was no pics, or they didnt work. & I only have you guys/gals on here to thank, so I had to repay the favor.

same here i got the same one as you do. now my engine light is on, the mid pipe hangs lower than the cross member and since my car is lowerd the flex pipe is all f@#$ed up. great buy though they sound nice with the right muffler and two magniflow high flow cats on it

Hahah me too. but we used fix a muffler thingy to hold it up. it still rattles against the cross member, but not nearly as bad as without it. I just bought magnaflow muffler and resonator. I didnt' get a high flow cat on it tho... its only an st. do you think I should??

wow you've come a long ways! nice work

ya and being that you are in California you might want to keep your old header. Im in the process of doing smog and renewal of my tags and I threw away my old header 2 years ago.

Yup yup.. I even kept my old stock air box as well. But i;m pretty sure i won't pass smog since the header is cracked.. i hope a shop could seal that up for me though.

See those black thingys? When i turned the light upside down all the water came outta there.. Anyone know what those are?

Looks good! The black things are the vents to let water out of the headlamps. I think they're supposed to be one way, so water can get in but not out, but I could be wrong.

Thats what i thought.. they were facing downwords tho, so the water must of been getting in through somewhere else as well..

but good thing i had an extra set