Hatchy gt-s progress thread, New/Custom lighting! Options

[hatchy_gt-s]

So I figured I would post up a progress thread of the work I have done/will be doing. But to start this thread off right I need to give some background to me and my celica.
So in August 2006 my parents bought me my 1999 toyota celica, I was 17 and in love with the car. In March 2007 I was clipped by another vehicle and tore off my whole front end (Sorry can no long find the photo ), fortunately I had it repaired for the price of $10,573(almost $2000 more then what was paid for), $8000 of it was covered by insurance and I was stuck with the rest. I didn't get her back until July 2007 due to hard to find part because the car was brought to the United States from Canada. All was great loved the car had a blast with it, best time of my life. So I went off to University of Northwestern Ohio for their Automotive High performance program in Lima, Ohio (Lost In The Middle of America )and my first day there my clutch went out . Now being out on my own for the first time and having to live with 5 other people who always drank... well lets just say I never had time to work on it. So after 3 semesters at 30,000 a pop I returned to Ft. Mitchell, KY(5min south of Cincinnati) to go to a community collage for Automotive Tech. in hopes to return to UNOH after obtaining my Associates in Auto. Tech. So life was grand until, some @$$ pulled my drain plug and drained all my oil and I had no clue until I was doing about 70 down the interstate and my car spun a bearing . When I got her home I started to rip her apart and rebuild her (once again no pictures). After rebuilding the celi. all was kosher until it started to tap... quite badly. Now here we are today fixing what can only be described as love/hate relationship. But enough BSing TIME FOR PICTURES!!!
Please enjoy!!!

These are a couple months after I bought the car.



My first mod. of corse MORE FOG LIGHTS!!!


A Not so good mod....

(FYI that intake was made from 2 intake hoses lol)

Then the interior
Painted trim/lights


First was rear speakers then seats

Seats


Then for the first engine rebuild/NEW manifold





Finished


Next on the list was suspension
Just out of box



Installed on front

All around


My first photo shot (over 300 pic.'s taken)










A couple things added under the hood/Updated fogs

ES300 Fogs


And now for the second engine rebuild and the whole point of this post!!!

Lets start off with a list of all ne gadgets I got.
Drilled and slotted rotors
Ross Pistons/rods
Full cat. back exhaust/down pipe
Ported head

Now for some pic.s

So the first thing I have been working on was Gasket matching my head and manifold (haven't done the manifolds yet). I used a dremel and corse sand heads to port the head.
Exhaust



Intake




Then I moved on to the calipers.
The bracket


Cleaned up

The calipers
the one on the left is in the process of sanding and the one on the right is strait off the car


and how they both are now



The exhaust I bought for the car (bought a tip that is identical to the stock 1)


I am cataloging everything so I will have more pic.s to post.

This post has been edited by hatchy_gt-s: Oct 24, 2010 - 8:45 PM

[GriffGirl]

It's cool to see how your taste has refined over the last 4 years as you've matured. I always remember seeing pictures of your car and it looking pretty good, I was very surprised to see those early pictures! But then again you were only 17; at your age, there's (should be at least!) a pretty big difference between 17 and 20/21. Hah... wait 'till you're my age!

Nice progress pix, keep 'em coming!

nice, i need to get some new drums for the back of mine, fronts just need to be cleaned

^^^ What you need is rear disk.

This is very true! I'll vouch for it!