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Member name: PrimeLuxeZ
Market: USDM
Year: 1995
Model: ST
Frame & Type(optional): AT200
Engine: factory 7A-FE
transmission: Not sure

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Hello everyone, my name is Marcos im 21 and I live in Dallas, Texas.
Like I posted in the other thread I have a Blue 1995 Toyota celica st coupe. with roughly 245,xxx miles on the odo.
Originally from Illinois I think and I think I'm the second owner too. Came with every service record since 1995. Has been well taken care of.
But with the high miles comes more maintenance. Only thing I've done is oil change basically a week after I bought it. Because the
I haven't done much to the car so far. But pictures are more fun then words.

Here it the car with a cold air intake my first upgrade basically. Notice the paint fading on the hood roof and trunk. I plan on painting it all a matte or flat black, so itll be a black and blue scheme and so the car wont look so old. Im hoping it will look nice.









The second thing I did to it was paint the black steelies, since it only had three hubcaps when I first got it, and I hate hubcaps with a passion so those came right off as I got home that day. First I was maybe thinking on painting them red since I have red pinstriping on the car and I found a can of paint that had a red hue to it.
And it was dark so I was like that will work so I lifted the car cleaned the wheels with some degreaser and a scrubbing pad and gave it a go.

Both wheels cleaned




And the car lifted up.



So what I did basically was take all the air out of the tire and I had some index cards laying around so I placed them between the tire and the rim to protect the tire from overspray, fairly easy for anyone who wants a different color on their wheels and doesnt want to waste money on unmounting the tires to paint them a different color.



Heres the paint that I thought was red. (My paint specially made for graffiti artist)


So I did a coat of it and it came out a dark pink color, so I was like whoa thats bad and wouldnt look right on the celica.


So I had a can of fresh white paint for backup just in case I didnt like the other.
Its a nice white and fast drying


So I have it about a couple of coats of that white on the two wheels that I had cleaned and it came out okay, I ended getting overspray because I did a bad job on the covering of the tire.



You can see the overspray here, it bothers me that you can see it but ohwell and I was too lazy to cover it with black so I just left it alone, I was just anxious to see how the looked on the celi, and I really liked it with the blue color.








What yall think?
So I only had enough to do two wheels that day so I was rolling around town with two white and two black steelies lol, tacky but no biggie.

So later that week I had some more time on my hands and said well Ill knock out the front wheels too.

So I lifted the front and got to cleaning them, I also inspected an oil leak I have, I cant seem to find the source but Im leaning towards the front main seal.


So I leaned from last time and prepped the wheels better this time, and removed all the air I could to easily fit the index cards better to prevent overspray and this is what I got.



I put them long ways at first then the second row I just filled in the spaces, for anyone else who wants to try this.

Close up


So I only had enough for one more wheel, so I only have one black steelie and three white, lol and I have no money right now to but more fresh paint, since I dont want to buy a diff. white and it be off.


But if you're on my left side you'll see them like this. And I also rotated my tires since they where wearing more on the front then the rear.

I have other Ideas for it, I have some fog lights of a Lexus es300 they are yellow projectors, and I have a wink mirror form my del sol I just need some time to install it.

This post has been edited by PrimeLuxeZ: Feb 24, 2016 - 6:43 PM

Posts in this topic
- PrimeLuxeZ   1995 Toyota Celica ST coupe Engine noises 2/24/16   May 30, 2014 - 11:36 AM
- - njccmd2002   Looks good. You can scrub tire to remove overspra...   May 30, 2014 - 1:01 PM
- - cheela   that actually looks suprisingly good for a car fro...   May 30, 2014 - 2:14 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   So sadly yesterday my celi stopped on me on the fr...   Aug 17, 2014 - 5:10 PM
- - Smaay   installing a 5S-FE is not a simple bolt in. you al...   Aug 17, 2014 - 11:50 PM
- - cheela   go 4age!   Aug 18, 2014 - 8:45 AM
|- - Smaay   QUOTE (cheela @ Aug 18, 2014 - 6:45 ...   Aug 18, 2014 - 10:13 AM
- - ricochet1490   with 235k miles I'd hardly say it's your f...   Aug 18, 2014 - 7:58 PM
|- - PrimeLuxeZ   QUOTE (ricochet1490 @ Aug 18, 2014 - 8...   Oct 17, 2014 - 6:03 PM
|- - mgnt232   QUOTE (PrimeLuxeZ @ Oct 17, 2014 - 7...   Oct 17, 2014 - 9:48 PM
|- - PrimeLuxeZ   I would keep researching on the v-6 swap if that...   Oct 17, 2014 - 10:25 PM
- - Johnnyny   QUOTE (Smaay @ Aug 18, 2014 - 11:13 ...   Oct 17, 2014 - 7:32 PM
|- - HaysoosKreesto   QUOTE (Johnnyny @ Oct 17, 2014 - 7:3...   Oct 18, 2014 - 10:52 AM
|- - PrimeLuxeZ   QUOTE (HaysoosKreesto @ Oct 18, 2014 - 1...   Oct 19, 2014 - 1:56 PM
- - Rusty   Thought about a 7A-GTE/GE or a 9A-GE?   Oct 17, 2014 - 9:52 PM
- - Box   I'd either do the V6 swap or just stay with th...   Oct 18, 2014 - 12:10 AM
|- - PrimeLuxeZ   QUOTE (Box @ Oct 18, 2014 - 1:10 AM)...   Oct 18, 2014 - 8:36 AM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   Let me revive this thread. Jan. 14, 2015 Okay s...   Jan 14, 2015 - 11:48 PM
- - Smaay   good luck, I have 2 good 7A-FE heads here if you n...   Jan 15, 2015 - 8:53 AM
- - cheela   man. that sucks. but hey, 3rd time's the charm...   Jan 15, 2015 - 9:33 AM
- - Box   Sucks that you're having to go through so much...   Jan 15, 2015 - 2:31 PM
|- - PrimeLuxeZ   QUOTE (Smaay @ Jan 15, 2015 - 8:53 A...   Jan 16, 2015 - 1:09 AM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   1/17/15 Very good news, and I mean very good. S...   Jan 18, 2015 - 4:04 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   1\24\15 So I uploaded the videos of the...   Jan 24, 2015 - 12:48 PM
- - jordisonjr   Fram   Jan 26, 2015 - 10:04 AM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   02/03/15 So on the first of this month I moved ou...   Feb 3, 2015 - 10:08 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   2/5/15 So I got the car Insured, on the 4th. Got ...   Feb 6, 2015 - 12:09 AM
- - Batman722   bad thermostat.   Feb 6, 2015 - 7:59 AM
- - Smaay   yep, thermostat is stuck open.   Feb 6, 2015 - 10:49 AM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   2/8/15 Okay so I will be buying the thermostat m...   Feb 8, 2015 - 6:28 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   4/20/2015 So much has happened, and I will do my...   Apr 20, 2015 - 10:15 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   .   Jul 26, 2015 - 10:39 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   7/27/15 So since the last update I received the ...   Jul 27, 2015 - 1:54 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   2/20/16 So the car has been on the back burner fo...   Feb 20, 2016 - 5:40 PM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   3/24/16 So I see noone really cares on helping me...   Mar 24, 2016 - 9:11 AM
- - njccmd2002   No one contributes here because they are too busy ...   Mar 26, 2016 - 11:23 AM


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