Let's see your cars this year!

[bobbyex]

Yeah i just figured I'd start a picture thread so we can show what we've been doing with our Celicas this year. So if you've been working on it, doing body work, boosting, or just wanna show it off, let's see those pics!

Here's my story:

I got my Celica two years ago. I bought it for 200 bucks, and it was in decent shape and had a blown motor. It sat around my yard for a while cause I was still in school and had no time or money for fixing it. Now I've graduated, and my car has transformed in a good way. I've swapped out the blown 3sge for a mint 3sfe(previous owner took amazing care of it, it burns absolutely NO oil and leaks NOWHERE) I then got a couple guys I know to remove all the rust from it and repaint it. They replaced floor panels, fenders, rear quarters, and rocker panels. I had them paint it a copper orange, almost like 350Z Copper. In the near future I will be picking up a set of wheels for it, coilovers, and the biggest project: Boosting. I will hopefully be installing a stock 14b turbo out of a DSM and I will likely build my own turbo kit, finding my own charge pipes, bov, injectors, intercooler, manifold, etc. When it's all said and done I'm shooting to run about 8 psi, no more than that. I'm wanting to give the car a decent power increase, but I'm not trying to run 11 seconds in the 1/4 or anything. This is just my daily driver car.

Unfortunately, I had no time to get a safety on the car during the winter months, so the car had to sit in a snowbank for a little while cause I had no other place to store it. Oh well. These pics are on the day I pulled her out to go get ready for spring/summer. The car is now safetied and I am currently driving it everyday. I waited a LONG time.







This is the blown 3sge. I'll maybe get it rebuilt and sell it.



This is the new 3sfe. Nice and clean.



Oh yeah my baby started up on the first turn of the key after sitting for two months. No big deal



Let's see the cars guys!

[Phantom1982]

OK, here it is: my 1982 RA60


Found it on a car sales website...it was nearly 300km away, but looked so damn good in the pics and description (though I know enough not to be fooled by that alone...), and seeing as how we were heading down that way to the capital to look through the huge number of second hand car lots, we thought we'd have a look.
When we saw it in the metal, and saw how amazingly good it was, I just stuck my hand in my pocket and gave the guy the asked for $5000 without even haggling.
It was a one owner, had a complete log book history with Toyota services done every 10,000km, and had only 90,000km on the clock. It is literally like a brand new car inside and out. It has original factory Toyota air con which works perfectly as well. The alloy wheels are some of the best I'd ever seen, with none of the usual corrosion or scuffing on wheels this age. All I have done to it is fit an MP3 CD player, but have a few ideas for the sweet running but dismal 21R-C motor...it stirs along OK with the five speed and feels nicely balanced, but really needs another 20 or 30 horsepower as a minimum starting point...

Other than that, I love it.

There'll be nothing too radical, the car is just in too good a condition to fool around with too much...just sensible mods, it is going to be doing a lot of highway miles after all, and overtaking power is a bit of a plus...especially in areas where the road trains consist of a big Mack or something with three cattle trailers behind it and be more than fifty meters long...

I am thinking maybe (when I have time in between my studies to drive coal trains for my new job) that I'd start by allowing a great deal of the anti-pollution piping to "fall off" (and in 25 years of driving and working on cars, I have never, and I mean never, seen that much anti-pollution piping on one motor in my life!), and a set of extractors and free flowing exhaust, maybe a replacement Weber carb and sports air cleaner...that should let it breath a little easier and let a few more ponies loose....

[Blane]

My Super car, 255,000 miles on her and still running.
I replaced the engine and clutch at 240,000 miles.
I took this picture last night while I had her inside at work. I'm kinda sick and don't wanna get into a cold car after work. That is my bike on the rack on the back of the car.

[Supersprynt]

20mm wheel spacers will be going on when it warms up.

[JimiRain]

This is my 71' ST. This year i took it from what was thought to be its final resting place and started to restore it. I removed the wrecked 18R-C and transmission, Tore out moldy interior and cleaned out everything. When I have some more time I'm installing the 22R i bought. When i get some more money I'm replacing the front fenders and all the glass. After that I'm sand blasting it and painting it the original blue it was. When I get more money after that I'm replacing the brakes and brake cables, possibly the clutch and then the seats.

[bobbyex]

very nice guys! so far we've had all different gens here. keep em comin!

[Phantom1982]

Supersprynt, I vote that photo of your car with the ferris wheel in the background as one of the best photos I've seen of a car...looks awesome!
Was it set up on purpose or was it one of those "Hmm, I'll take that photo now and see how it turns out", type things that end up being fantastic?

[upstatekevo]

I bought a 94 ST last month, has 211K miles on it. I'm trying to find out is I can swap a 4AGZE supercharged engine/trans in without major headaches. Feedback ? also, I can't figure out how to drop pics in here.....

[Supersprynt]

Originally Posted by Phantom1982

Supersprynt, I vote that photo of your car with the ferris wheel in the background as one of the best photos I've seen of a car...looks awesome!
Was it set up on purpose or was it one of those "Hmm, I'll take that photo now and see how it turns out", type things that end up being fantastic?

Thanks a lot. I put the car there purposely because of the Ferris wheel & carnival in general, I knew the wheel would look neat with the slow shutter speed.