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Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Apr 25, 2013 - 9:41 AM

Hello friendly 6GC Community and other guest of this site!

Bit of background info =)

I've recently got my license (so im young) and as my first car I got a Celica SX

The car was bought new from the dealer and has been in our family for the whole time. At least I can say that I trust the previous owners of the car Thecar has been serviced regularly and has hit 330,000kms or so... (quite a few in my opinion). The car drives fine and has no problems what so ever. Only some faded paint and a few scratches and dents here and there. I have done (IMO) quite a bit of work on it. And i will post it all in this one go, and continue along.

My car when I first got it


So yeah it needs A LOT of work to it in my opinion...

Of course im not going for those radical and overdone bodykits, like your Vielside kits and all that jizz jazz. I reckon those look over the top and sorta make you say, "0.0 GAY."

So me being simple as possible decided to remove the rear spoiler and to me it just adds more aggression to the car.



Bit of DIY HOME work and the spoiler was off and the holes were bog filled. I didnt paint the car until about 3 months down the road.

After a few months of driving this fun car I made a decision to respray it.

Now i know I'm going to get hated on and everyone will say "What the hell did you do this for" and blah blah blah.

I resprayed it in the original colour. Greeny torquise. I like that colour. But i resprayed it outside... in the open.

Hate me all you want.

Yes it was a stupid mistake and i will never do it again. I did have a bit of dust and all in the clear coat. But its not perfect. But compared to the old faded paint i really happy. It cost me only $350!

During painting/Sunburnt/After Painting


So SHINY! 0.0

Sooo now im rolling around in my new HOME JOB painted celica..

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Don't you ever hop in your car and say. I need to do something. Lets spice it up. And then you go do it and everything goes soo well until a big little complication throws everything off?

LIKE THIS??!?!?!


Yes. I decided to change my steering wheel. I thought a steering comes off by removing the centre nut, and off you go. Well my car had for some reason a grub screw underneath the steering column holding it in. And being me, I grinded off the wheel and realised what a mess i have caused.

But all was good and a new steering wheel was put on.



I also followed the yellowness of the new wheel and painted my dash to follow...


Looks ok IMO?

I shall be rolling like this for a while!

Thanks for reading and I shall continue on updating!

Posted by: Box Apr 25, 2013 - 2:29 PM

I was with you up until yellow interior.

Posted by: cheela Apr 25, 2013 - 2:49 PM

give him a break. he's young.

but hey there, welcome. looks like you're off to a good start.
what else you got planned for it. The forum here is a great community and the perfect place to look and research what you want to do to your celica.

Posted by: Tigawoods Apr 25, 2013 - 2:59 PM

looks like you are off to a good start!
Great job with the hole patching

Posted by: TheCreatorOf Apr 25, 2013 - 11:42 PM

not a huge fan of yellow, but looks good, and the paint job on the tailgate looks awesome!, if I were you id get rid of the antenna at the same time.
I want to do a custom duckbill, delete the antenna, LED taillight and do a custom diffuser on the rear bumper as far as the rear of the car hopefully I inspired you and because of your cars color carbon fiber accents wouldn't look bad at all

Posted by: rentaspace Apr 26, 2013 - 1:50 AM

I like the Mightycarmods sticker

They live like 5mins from my house haha

The paint job looks really good! Who cars if it's not perfect... Nothing you ever do will be 100% perfect, and no matter how you try 'little' complications will stall you for hours haha

Good Job so far

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Apr 26, 2013 - 9:07 AM

HAHA! I was planning to paint the car black, so yellow would of stood out really nice... But then i realised how difficult it would to do a proper respray



Im planning to put on some splitters But im not sure what to go for.. I was thinking TRD style splitters?

Also going to have a duckbill and hopefully some MOAR POWA with a 3sgte conversion. The 1mz doesnt sound to bad either But i just love the sound of turbos..



THANKS!



YES! I really want to rid of the antenna! AHAH LOOKS like a RC toy car!



MCM! Im really jealous of you right now.. Im 500000000 km away on the other side of STRAYA



Some good news! Soooo since the car is going to be kept this colour, I went and changed my car a bit.. pics and all that maybe later on tomorrow

ITS BEEN GIVEN A MAKE OVER!

ALSO A SECRET SURPRISE!

THANKYOU FOR ALL YOU GUYS NEGATIVE/POSITIVE FEEDBCK!

6GC 4 EVA <3

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Apr 27, 2013 - 4:11 AM

Here's a little update on whats changed in and on my celica!

Bought a pod filter, with some piping and ran it to my fender, following the right up that urbandork did.

Thread here:
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=21648

SUCKING IN THE COOLEST AIR POSSIBLE!!
Where it sits now.


Close up.

Love the pod sound, especially in 3rd gear

In addition, i got brand new wheels!! A full set! and keeping it a legal 35% tint all round

Jks i picked up some hub caps from super cheap auto. Bargain for only 15 dollars for the set.

Also i found some black gutter paint and repainted the inside of my interior, whilst changing the steering wheel to a better and slimmer SAAS steering wheel.

LOOKS BETTER?!


BASSSS DROPPP WOBWOBWOBWOB!
2x12" Apline S Subs And a 850W Mono Block to Power it.


Installed Some ebay HID's with White LED Parkers to match.

And found this sort of Scratched cannon muffler on the side of the road.

It was left at the front of this guys house that had a WRX sitting at the front with what looks like a shiny new muffler.
Maybe it was off that?

Thats it for now.

Bought some 194 LED bulbs, and some Clear Sidemarkers with Matching Clear Indicators as well!

Hopefully to see them soon

Till then!

Posted by: cheela Apr 27, 2013 - 9:12 AM

haha. can't beat a free muffler.

Posted by: Box Apr 27, 2013 - 12:47 PM

Actually the coolest air would be directly outside of the car, but that's just tacky.

I think what happened is that muffler was held onto a Civic with zip-ties and they finally gave way.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN May 22, 2013 - 8:44 AM

Hey guys! Time for a little update :3



Mhmm dats right
New wheels :3 These are Oz Racing, wheels... Some model, but suit the car in my opinion well

Dimensions:
17x7 +40? And with 215/40/R17

And these came off a subaruuuuuuuu

Fit good! No rubbing and are look good in my opinion.

Maaaad JDM sticker bomb, +25kw


Another photo


In addition, new clear side blinkers. Also i got, a new exhaust just a muffler, but thinking of upgrading to a xforce cannon, cheap IMO.

Will upload photos some time later

Thanks for reading!

Posted by: JoshuaM Jul 11, 2013 - 8:20 AM

Just need some clear front indicators and some spacers for the rear wheels

Posted by: Syaoran Jul 12, 2013 - 2:43 AM

shoulda gone with 215/45/17, fits the car a little better IMO.

definitely needs at least 25mm spacers in the back. it's a $60 mod most everywhere

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 8, 2013 - 7:55 AM

Finally an update!

So after 7months of no updating, i actually have a proper update!

few months ago i got BC BR coilovers.


Really worth every dollar for the set and changes every single aspect of how you drive the car!!

MOAR PHOTOS!

Also got red lug nuts

phat.

after doing a bit of offroading

needsmorelow?

side view

About a month ago i decided my hids were too much attention to the police so i decided for a long term upgrade and bought pprojectors!
before

during

after


)

also another great upgrade!!

and ive started to add stickers all over my car


and the addiction has begun.

and one more weight ADDITION to the car...



sorry for crappy iphone pic but yeah.

got vacuum, voltage and tempurature gauges though it looks good ahahah
also installed SPREE LED KIT but dont have any photos part from the one above so yeah

WAITING ON:
DCW triple gauge holder
and some mega spacers for front and rear (looking to stay on stockies)

Until the next update! Thanks for reading

Posted by: JoshuaM Oct 8, 2013 - 8:02 AM

Wooooo.... A few good updates in there

BUT.... why keep the steelies.... why!

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 8, 2013 - 8:09 AM

i just dont like the feel of curb rash ahahha
and plus the rear camber is out by a bit so i dont want to wear out the other set

Posted by: JoshuaM Oct 8, 2013 - 8:15 AM

Yeah, that is a reason to stay 15".... but it doesn't need to be on steelies!

Whatthe's car on OEM 15's;

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 8, 2013 - 8:32 AM

his car is so clean! the steelies will hide the spacers as well when i get them IMO ;p

Posted by: cheela Oct 8, 2013 - 8:33 AM

^ wish my OEM rims were in that good of condition!

but nice updates! lots of things I need to do as well. hahahah

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 8, 2013 - 8:36 AM

They actually arent that good condition! just cleaning it lots and adding some tire shine that makes it look black


and it takes time to get things done! Cars is a costly hobby

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 24, 2013 - 8:57 AM

Hi guys!

Since the last update there have been a few minor things that have changed

Firstly i plastidipped my stockies with a red lip.
I dont have any photos during the painting, but will get them off my phone later
I think they look awesome IMO.

Heres some pics from my recent Car meet.





What do you think???

Besides that i have bought camber kits for the rears and spacers that are on the way

Still waiting for dcw triple gauge pod. But should be here soon

Thanks for reading!

Posted by: rentaspace Oct 24, 2013 - 7:10 PM

Looking good (y)

Just some suggestions:
JDM tails and clear third brake light coupled with SSIII body kit




Great to see some active Aussies on this site
A few come, post once and then leave

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 24, 2013 - 8:33 PM

Do they make a clear third brake light or we have to do some diy? I will see how the car looks once the car has the spacers then may decide on ss3 kit

Posted by: rentaspace Oct 24, 2013 - 9:16 PM

The Clear third brake is made by Wolfie on this forum
The seem expensive for what they are, BUT he does an AMAZING job and it is well worth the money. It looks just like it was made by Toyota with part numbers and everything.
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=71167
This mod, takes literally 30mins to finish.
All you do is take the boot/hatch trim off, undo the bolts holding the brake light assembly in. Remove the assembly, pry off the red lens and put on the Clear. then reassemble.
Once done, replace the Clear/Yellow bulb with a T10 Multi-RED LED and the difference is amazing.
Before:

After:

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Oct 25, 2013 - 11:57 AM

Thanks! Most probably try it today ahahaha!

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 2, 2013 - 1:33 PM

HEY GUYS PRETTY BIG UPDATE IMO!!
Recently received my spacers! Took only 4 days from USA, not bad

SPECS OF SPACERS:
Ichiba Hubcentric spacers
30mm on front
38mm on rear
54.1 hub centric ring
M12 x 1.5p


HUGE ahah

The excitement!!


Next to a wallet


During


After (the jack is let down)


Went for a test drive... ended up doing this


LOL
DIY Guard rolling!
After that the rears haven't rubbed since, even after taking corners ridiculously fast and yeah. Only problem is that the front wheels rub when going over a speed bump at a stupid speed. (eg. 40km/h)



Next addition...


i wonder what it is?!?!?!

TADA!


Installed


Thankyou to DCW for the awesome custom work! Fits perfect! And looks so much cleaner!




IF YOU WERE WONDERING HOW THE WHEELS SIT NOW!

about 3mm poke

Thanks again for reading!

Also please tell me what i should do to my car next?!

Posted by: richee3 Nov 2, 2013 - 3:22 PM

Holy huge spacers! Nice update.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 2, 2013 - 11:25 PM

Thanks!

Posted by: JoshuaM Nov 3, 2013 - 12:21 AM

Hey.... I spy a missing update!!! When did you get the new steering wheel? Looks awesome And I see you ditched the yellow interior too

You know what looks awesome with giant spacers..... Alloy wheels

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 3, 2013 - 12:52 AM

Ahahah! I got it about 2 months ago! Completely forgot to put it in yellow is an eyesore after a while. Especially with the hot aussie summer coming

As much as i want to, the spacers will stick out and im afraid cops will defect me if i had alloys...

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 7, 2013 - 8:17 AM

Not an update, but just took some photos whilst preparing my car for Northies JDM car meet.

Pictures>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Outside shot (accidently pressed shoot with timer... hence seeing abit of me)


Interior Shot!


60% Complete.


What i use.


Full Car shot. (insides ready... Waiting to wash tomorrow)


What actually changed in my car


Interior neons that turn on with courtesy door lights.


Thanks for reading!

Posted by: Smaay Nov 7, 2013 - 9:15 AM

get some Kouki Tails

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 7, 2013 - 9:16 AM

Wanting to Just saving up the money

Posted by: danmumo Nov 8, 2013 - 10:01 PM

Your interior looks amazing with those on dash gauges! I'm curious to know where and how much you paid for them.

Those spacers also look pretty bad ass

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 8, 2013 - 10:47 PM

Thanks danmumo! The gauges you have to get yourself, but doggy can help you out with the gauge pod holders.

Link to his thread: (pm him hell help)
www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=76091

(If you find romas email he'll be able to reply faster

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 18, 2013 - 8:12 AM

Bad news... Head gasket is gone.

Ideas on what to do?

I got a few
1. 3sgte swap
2. 1mz swap
3. Swap for same motor.
4. Another celica (transfer parts)
5. New car.


Pleas help!

Posted by: JoshuaM Nov 18, 2013 - 8:20 AM

I've been trying a few cars.... Don't do it, it's bad Celica always comes back out on top!

I'm with 1MZ/BEAMS/3S-GTE.... Whatever suits your driving style and future ambitions best.

Does WA have mod plate restrictions for P platers?

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 18, 2013 - 8:27 AM

I really want 3sgte swap. Just i wont be able to do it. Need a workshop to handle mad turbo swap. But the wait for it is mid feb next year until they start the car

Over here p platers are allowed anything ahaha! Just need to have modification permits and follow the modding laws.

Posted by: Box Nov 18, 2013 - 2:02 PM

What about just replacing the head gasket...? That's the most feasible option cost wise. Do it yourself and it won't cost over $100.

Posted by: bsamps4 Nov 19, 2013 - 3:58 PM

What he said. Only it's for sure more than 100 bucks once you add up the fluids, gasket set, timing belt, tensioner, etc...but still. Just fix it. It only takes a couple days (if you're doing it right ie... sending the head to a machine shop to get resurfaced).

Posted by: Box Nov 19, 2013 - 9:01 PM

Well, just checked and the entire head gasket set is under $60 shipped off Rock Auto. So, just doing that and including fluids it'll be under $100. Might as well do timing, it's only another $40 or so for the timing set. Still well under $200 to do everything yourself and having the head resurfaced.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 22, 2013 - 7:38 PM

Thanks for the replies guys! Im still unsure on what to do atm, but really would like to do a 3s swap been reading around the forums and have been tempted by other owners that have done the swap.


@bsamps, just a quick question does the stock 5s tranny bolt to a 3sgte? (Considering that you've done the swap)

I have searched around the forum for this and everyone says yes but some toyota nerd nearby where i live thinks not; so yeah.

Thanks

Posted by: Keiri Nov 22, 2013 - 9:23 PM

Yes, the S54 manual tranny that comes with the 5S will bolt-on with no problems AND should be fine with a 3SGTE as long as you aren't putting down crazy amounts of horsepower or torque.

Posted by: richee3 Nov 22, 2013 - 9:44 PM

Yes, it will fit. It's done on 9/10 swaps.

Posted by: danmumo Nov 22, 2013 - 10:53 PM

And would you also use the axles from the 5s or...?

Posted by: richee3 Nov 22, 2013 - 10:55 PM

Yes. Same transmission so it uses the same axles.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 23, 2013 - 12:14 AM

Thanks for info guys!

Looking for someone that can help me put the engine now and maybe have a 3s swapped celica soon!

Of course after reading few other peoples threads for more info and after sourcing a halfcut

Posted by: bsamps4 Nov 23, 2013 - 8:21 AM

You have to get a hybrid clutch setup. Needs to have 5sfe clutch spline with 3sgte pressure plate. Spec makes this clutch as well as other brands. I'm sure there are other guys on here that can chime in with the other clutch companies that make the hybrid kit. I'm just partial to Spec.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Nov 23, 2013 - 8:50 AM

Thanks for the info!

How much hp can the 5sfe box hold? Just wondering, not because im going to have a 600hp celica

Posted by: bsamps4 Nov 23, 2013 - 10:02 AM

300 at the wheels.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Mar 2, 2014 - 11:23 AM

UPDATEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Head gasket got fixed, re machined the head and all is running well now. Not much more to say besides some little updates i will post photos on later.


Oh i might be getting a GT4.

sorry for the long lost un updated info.

Posted by: DUHCHINKYAZN Apr 11, 2015 - 9:56 AM

Hey guys been a long time since last post... LOL !

Anyway down to business massive update!

My 6gc currently looking the biz still on stockies hahaha and HG all fixed lol (was fixed a very long time ago)

http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y355/r1037xboxcr7/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_916551612159.jpeg

and to add i also got a GT Four

http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y355/r1037xboxcr7/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140912_161814.jpg

Has Fmic, 3" exhaust, some ok looking wheels and some little goodies in the car. Am living the life...

BUTTTTTTTTT that was very short lived... While out cruising car started getting smokey... got home and checked it out... some internal damage has been done. And later taken to a shop found out cylinder 3 has taken some damage to the piston ring. Rebuild coming on!

SKIP SEVERAL MONTHS

Car is in shop
Parts a rolling through

Parts obtained-

BLOCK FULLY REMACHINED
HEAD FULLY MACHINED

CP PISTONS
SHWAJFAKSMCAK FORGED RODS shotpeened (sorry forgot the german brand)
COMETIC METAL HG
KING RACING Bearings
BC RACING 264 CAMS
TITANIUM VALVE SPRINGS/RETAINERS
HKS ADJ CAM GEARS
ARP HEADSTUDS
ARP MAIN STUDS

Part to be obtained-
GTX 3582R .82
Custom exhaust manifold
Tial 44m ext wastegate W/Screamer
Custom intake manifold with some port and polish hopefully

so far thats what i can remember atm sorry guys its very scrambled. Been busy with many things

Progress atm is engine is nearly finished building, engine bay all nicely cleaned down. deleted aircon/all pipes ripped out. Still thinking to block off the EGR but not main concern atm.

Also slowly figuring out my suspension setup but saving up for some BC's BR coils, had them on my 6gc and they still havent failed me so im heading that path probably.

Thanks for the read!