ENTER: The Silver Dragon, 56K WARNING updated 8/19/12 (BIG update) Options

[Zake]

As some of you my know, I have been wanting a 5-speed for a long time.. since I got rid of my old 5-speed Mustang GT and got an automatic Celica GT. Well, yesterday I went to Iowa and picked up a 1994 Celica GT 5-speed. One that you may recognize as navseal345's Celica. (he was awesome and met me half way so I didn't have to go all the way to Nebraska.) ANYWAY, here is the beginning of this build, and the end of the old build. farewell Blue Celica, you were good to me and we had some good times.


when I first got the car:
Already had MEGAN coilovers, and a flowmaster muffler






After all day today of swapping my stuff from the Blue Celica to the Silver one.
swapped out the wheels for my plasti-dipped stock GT wheels

JDM-Tails

3-post steering wheel & Celica floor mats (not really seen in the pic)

Sony explode head unit and black shift knob

stock cargo bay cover

10 inch Kicker CVR subs and GT-4 rear strut brace

gotta have the fire extinguisher

had to swap over my sun visors.. just because

swapped over the INJEN intake and reran the sub power wire.


here's some more random pics of the car i took. (the fun will really start when my blue Celica is sold )






This post has been edited by Zake: Aug 19, 2012 - 12:01 AM

[Zake]

I was going to wait till the midwest meet to reveal what I have been working on. but I'm not the type that's able to keep so much awesomeness contained for that long.

Thanks to Kaos, I now have a short throw shifter I then bought a sparco shift knob. (I LOVE THIS SHIFT KNOB) I then hacked off about another 1.5-2 inches off the top of the shifter and put the knob on. NOW it's awesome

I'll take some more pics when my new shift boot comes in.


I bought my GT-4 bumper back from Daniel and Brigette.

Then I got a SS-III spoiler off ebay

Then I got a bright red hood off of ebay, it wasnt in bad shape!



BUT after driving a few days with a bright red hood, having everyone and there mother staring at me when I drove by, I decided to paint it today. It took 8.5 hours, 80% of that was sanding, filling, and sanding.

this is when i started to sand to fill in some dings

the little vent/scoop things were set aside for later

started filling

fully sanded

3 coats of primer later and.. I couldn't resist spraying that on the plastic

sanded the primer down to get it ready for the paint

me and the first coat of paint

4 coats later

not bad for getting my "how to" info from youtube

as she sits drying for the rest of the weekend. and no, the hood isn't closed all the way, as I cannot touch the hood to press it down



next weekend after letting the hood dry all week, I'm going to sand it and polish it. the color of the hood will also be the color of the car eventually. I figure I'll do the car bit by bit. (one weekend will be front bumper, next will be fenders, then doors, then rear bumper and spoiler, then hatch, then the rest) If I had a sprayer, and a good area to work on it, I'd do the whole thing all at once, but seeing as I'm using a rattle can with limited time since my final semester will be starting in a week.. (not looking forward to going back..) ANYHOO.. more fun stuff should be coming in the next couple of weeks (shipped and on the way. but sometimes takes forever)