I got another celica!, I'm back Options

[6strngs]

Hi all, I'm not sure who is still here from when I had my other 6gc, but I just picked up another 95 yesterday, which makes this my 4th celica, and my 3rd white celica Here's a couple refresher pics of my old 6th gen, maybe someone will remember those better than my description of it:
First it was stock:

Then it got turbo'ed


Then the engine blew up

Then it got a used engine and a paint job, shortly before selling it


Now the new car:







It's got 175K miles on it, but only about 60K on the engine. I bought it from the second owner who has had it since 1999, making me the 3rd owner of this garage kept and well maintainted celica. I counted only one small ding in the whole car! My plans as of right now is just to make it even more aesthetically pleasing, it's going to be my daily driver so I don't think I'll do anything too crazy, but perhaps a beams swap down the road... So what do you guys think

[6strngs]

Well, I got the injen intake installed this week on the celica. And today I did the spark plugs, PCV valve, distributor rotor, and fuel filter. Still have to change the oil and tranny fluid and get a distributor cap to finish the tune-up, just didn't feel like crawling under it today.



And a couple of the promised pics of sexy miata parts:

First is a power steering oil cooler, I've been overheating the fluid at the drift events and it's been boiling out of the resevoir... Pretty common on miatas that drift or autocross. I think I still boiled it even with the cooler though...


Next is the steering knuckles that I had sent out to be modified. The mod includes redrilling the tie rod mounting hole closer to the kuckle so that you can increase the amount of steering angle you can get, and then they are re-inforced with extra welds. I also had them powdercoated red as you can see





Also put on stainless braided brake lines. I ordered custom ones for the front because you need longer ones with these modified knuckles. Also I put on a stainless braided clutch line and a new clutch slave cylinder, forgot to take a pic though.


Some from the event:




And a professional photographer took this one of me at the event


And then this happened on my LAST run of the night. It looks worse than it is, the only real damage is to the finish panel. There are some scuffs on the spoiler, rear bumper, trunk lid, and taillights, but I was able to buff a majority of them out. So, this pretty much sealed the deal and made up my mind, the miata is no longer going to be built with daily drivability in mind, it's becoming a full fledged race car now



And the not-so-exciting video of the crash. After I hit I was so worried about how damaged my car was that I didn't even attempt to drift the second corner and just drove away with my tail between my legs Unfortunately none of my good runs were caught with my camera or I'd show you one of those too.


This post has been edited by 6strngs: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:37 PM