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Hey all -

Here are some photos of my 4 (jeebuss) celicas with some commentary

Cheers -

Mike


Photos

Okay there are 4 Celica's in those photos

Tan Celica - 1995 ST purchased in the spring of 2000. By November of 2001 it had one of the "first" 3SGTE transplants in the USA. From www.usedengines.com. My friends and I spent that entire summer working on that car nightly, making **** up as we went trying to get everything to work. The car was FAST - the torque steer would rip the wheel out of your hands... August of that next year, the car burnt to the ground on the drive home from work one day. Repeated attempts to revive a stalled car along with some kind of spark ignited the fuel vapored filled engine pay and the car was up in flames in minutes, the firewall did a good job but the nice lady at AAA didn't get past the 3rd question in the survey to declare the car a total loss.

Black Celica (Cut in Two) - 1994 ST205 from Japan, Purchased from Jarco inc in Georgia. I had GRAND plans my friends. I stored the two halves at a local performance shop, who incidentally got divorced and skipped town to avoid child support - at this point I had the front end home to disassemble. However, since this guy skipped town, the landlord threw out the rear half of my ST205.... along with all of the AWD parts south of the seats.... you cannot make this **** up.

Red Celica - 1994 ST purchased... Oct 2002 - real bad shape, but I used a lot of the parts from the TAN car to get it running until I could rebuild the 3rd Gen 3SGTE motor and re acquire the parts to put the new motor in my car...

The 3rd Gen 3SGTE motor has been balanced, blue printed, painted, lightened flywheel, heat dispersal coating on the piston tops, moly coating on the skirts, and oil shedding coating on the rods. 3 angle valve job along with a port and polish..

Black Celica (in one piece) 1999 GT - GLORIOUS CAR... I gave my focus away as trade in... I got Zero dollars back after the dealership paid off the balance owed. It didn't matter, I am in a proper car again!! Already fixed some gear... added the newer tail lights... will be doing the short throw shifter this week... and working on parting out the red car for spare change.