long time lurker, 1995 Celica ST liftback |
long time lurker, 1995 Celica ST liftback |
Feb 16, 2017 - 3:51 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Nov 25, '16 Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Hello everyone,
This thread is to document work I do to my celica. It is my second celica, my first was a 1995 GT but somebody rear ended it while it was parked in front of my house. Some pics of my old one on the right I had that celica from late 2009 or early 2010 and I junked it in january of 2016. On new years eve I was driving my 2016 WRX and left the celica parked in the street. I got a call from my brother around 3 or 4 am that somebody hit my car. the cops showed up, took his info, and gave it to my brother. I showed up the next day to find this The impact pushed the car one house over. It received front end damage as well, it had hit another car parked in in front of the next house. The kid who hit it was 18 and uninsured driving his moms 98 4runner. I have uninsured motorist coverage so after 3 or 4 weeks I got a check from my insurance for $2,800. They offered $3,000 and they keep the car, or $2,800 and I keep it. So I kept it and started looking for a replacement. I found another 1995, same color as mine, but it was an ST with the 1.8 7AFE, not the 2.2 5SFE that my GT had. My GT had 230,000 miles on it and this one only had 71,000 miles. It also had decent paint whereas my GT had **** paint that I never got around to getting repainted. Oh and the GT's AC didnt work, and this one worked perfectly. The car was listed for $3,500, I offered $3,000 over the phone, and talked him down another $200 in person so I got the car for $2,800. Exactly what my insurance had given me. heres a pic from the drive home and the rest of the car I pulled all of the useful things from the GT that I could think of, including my front seats, speakers, stereo, wheels/rims, interior trim pieces, etc... The new ST had an ugly tan interior and the front seats were dirty and kinda gross so I put my GT's front seats in. My GT had a black interior. After pulling stuff out I junked it for $150. So far I have tinted the windows, installed a keyless entry system, a trunk popper, bluetooth stereo, speakers, and seat warmers. The ST has manual locks and windows. The windows I can deal with, but manual locks were really annoying so I purchased a kit with door lock actuators and installed them. I pulled out the entire interior to run wiring for the trunk popper, seat warmers, actuators, and the keyless entry box. While I had everything out I laid down the poor mans dynamat, peel n seal A friend of mine had recently redone the carpet in his house and had leftover carpet padding he gave me for free. I laid it over my floor over the peel n seal. Then I got a black carpet from the junk yard, washed very well with a pressure washer and installed it. On all of my interior panels I glued quilting foam to the inside of the panels. The interior is nice and quiet now and I have 0 rattles. I still get road noise but overall its a good improvement. I have also upgraded most of my lights to LED one last pic of the car One of my current projects is the rims. I got a second set of factory alloy wheels I'm restoring. I want one set in bright rally white and another in silver. Once I finish the first set I'll swap them and restore the other set. This post has been edited by ds8: May 11, 2017 - 4:27 PM |
May 11, 2017 - 4:14 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Nov 25, '16 Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
A month ago I ordered some LED bulbs for my high beams to see if I like them. Turns out that I do, they are great. I'll probably get some for my low beams if I can keep them aimed properly. They are crazy bright.
I made this gif to show the difference between my low beams and high beams Anyway, while I was installing the LED bulbs, I noticed my alternator belt was frayed and cracked. It looked like the original belt as it still said Toyota on it and the car only has 77k miles on it. So I decided if I'm gonna change my alternator belt, I might as well do the other drive belts. Then if I'm gonna do the drive belts, might as well do the timing belt since I got 77k miles on it and don't know the history of the car. While I'm there I might as well do the water pump and new oil seals on the crankshaft and camshaft. The list went on and on. ~$500, 3 trips to Toyota, 1 rock auto order later, I had a bunch of parts and seals and gaskets and stuff sitting in the trunk waiting for the weekend. I replaced a bunch of stuff and while I had the valve cover off, I painted it wrinkle red. Here it is installed. I painted the heat shield as well. Now I just need to clean the rest of my engine bay, it's pretty filthy. |
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