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SOOOO, I just pulled the car into the shop for the first time in a while. I finally have a little time to begin work on it again. And the first thing we realized is that the body kit is about 3 inches too wide for the car.

Instead of cutting it down I think I will be doing a full custom wide body kit on it in fiberglass, I think it will look great with a little wider stance to it. Once I put my 17's on there with a 32mm spacer on each side it should look right.

Well I guess I'll be posting some more as more becomes available. Hopefully this beast will be back on the road within a couple of months. I wish I had more time to really get down to working on it, I really miss that little car!

I second General Altimax Arctic! I run them on all my winter vehicles, and so do all of my buddies.

For the record, this thread is not dead, it is simply delayed. Very, very delayed. Hopefully starting work again in the upcoming weeks, I would really like to see it back on the road early next year.

Yes actually. I have been very distracted with other paying projects lately and the Celica has been put on a back burner but I have been working here and there on it. Shooting to have it in primer by mid-july at this point. I will update when I have more exciting news lol. Alot of custom one of a kind stuff planned so stay tuned.

So latest news, the car will be headed over to my buddy's garage this Thursday, and we will be fitting the new body panels, fixing the rough spots, and doing a bit of custom fiberglass work. Taking a 2 day hiatus from this project, since i have been doing nothing but working on this and my friends '99 Cummins to get them both ready for the Performance and Style show down in Carlisle, PA.

So the car is mostly ready for primer, all panels are off the car. Just waiting for my buddy's garage to be free so we can fit all the new body panels, get some custom fiberglassing on it, and fix the rust. Then its over to my paint bay. Here are some updated pictures of the project:



Got my girlfriend to help me out!!




Removing Panels






Doors off




Apparently my friends are douches too lol


Still much, much more to come for this little baby. Stay Tuned

Well I fortunately do have a good amount of patience stored up lol. Just taking a break from sanding now. I'll post more progress pics tomorrow but so far so good. A lot of hidden garbage on this sucker. Just sanded off the freaking gallon of bondo holding the ghetto rigged rear body kit on lol.

The plan is to paint it blue a little later in the summer, for now the goal is to get the body work all done wish the new kit, fenders, and wing on in the next 9 days

Got some custom fiberglass work to do as well, as the rear quarters are more rotted than expected. I'm just going to cut it out, and when the side skirts go on I'm going to glass them on in the back and create a new body line up into the fender.

Should be interesting I'll make sure to keep all updated.

I'll be running the car down to Carlisle Performance and Style mothers day weekend in primer. So I've got to get her ready.

And thanks for the words of encouragement lol.

So now the real fun begins. Stripping this sucker down and starting the bodywork.

Started sanding and stripping the rear last night, here are some before pictures you can really see the scale of the project ahead of me.



Someone tried to break into the trunk with a prybar!






Goodbye old spoiler!!


Select Pictures of featheredging:

Where the prybar dents are:


Giant rust hole where Toyota badge used to be! (Will cut and replace)




My brother is an douche

Good progress so far, much, much more to come!

Yea there is a long list of things that I'd like to do. The hoses are coming off, but the radiator is a flight of fancy for later lol. Got alot to get done that needs doing before I can get to the optional stuff.

So just yesterday my cobbed up exhaust from the last owner fell to pieces. It broke in 3 parts. It was already leaking at the headers and I happened to have some headers laying around I had already ordered. I needed to fix it so i got to it.



In the car:


I don't have a cat, so i put some pipe where it used to be, ground off the flange where it used to attach to the resonator pipe, and clamped it up. I want to salvage the resonator and pipe. However I will not be running a fart can on the end. I found a pre-bent pipe from RockAuto that goes from the resonator pipe to a muffler. However, the flange is torn up, so I will be picking up a new flange and welding it to the resonator pipe to bolt up to the pipe from RockAuto. I am then going to throw a cheap muffler on for now, I already bought it, its a Thrush universal.

I figure pop a tip on it and bam, exhaust.

It already sounds sick, its just too loud, so I figure a cheap muffler will dampen the sound a bit but not change it too dramatically.

Updates coming soon...

Really? lol well all good cause it works either way.

Lol yea it was a real post. That was the panel I pulled out. Finishing up loose ends on my other vehicle then it'll be time to really get down to the good stuff on the celica.

Just got body panels in today. Front end, rear end, fenders, and a spoiler!

Well they do have it every year lol. So maybe next year for you. I have to rush to get my car ready as well lol.

Carlisle Performance and Style is May 11-12

http://carlisleevents.com/ce/events/performance-style/

I'd really just like to see some of my fellow Celica enthusiasts out for the show lol.

I know alot of people have been discussing a meet for the northeast US area. We are kind of few and far between around here. I will be down in Carlisle, PA this year with my Celica when it is finished. I propose that we should have a bigger 6th gen presence this year. Have a decent size crew coming down from CNY this year with me. Would love to see a few people from around head there I haven't seen many other 6th gen's in person. Would be awesome!

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it man.

Just another quick update. Got a few parts in have had a chance to take a couple pictures. This will give you all an idea of just how bad some of the parts on this car have become, and why it desperatly needs all this work.

My old drivers side control panel:


My new drivers side control panel: (Thanks to Fate in Jersey)


Waiting on parts to get here, but I have alot going on between my 2 cars and it shouldn't be too long before the real work begins on this old beast!

Recieved my items! Thank you for a good transaction, and the items are actually in better condition than expected. Thanks again bro.

I have officially ordered the parts for the body.

-C-5 Body Kit
-M1 Fenders
-Supra Lighted Spoiler

I have also ordered most of the misc stuff I have been missing. I am only missing the driver door weatherstrip, but I am considering just ordering a whole door if I can find one for a reasonable price shipped.

On a separate note, I have also acquired the trans for my other car, once that's in I can officially begin work on my Celica.

I'm looking for the driver door weatherstripping. I have been looking everywhere. I did find one on eBay but it sold before I had a chance to scoop it up. If anyone has one or can get one please let me know

Thanks

Thanks for the business. Look forward to getting the items.

Hey man, sent you a PM. Let me know =]

So the body kit parts should be getting ordered this week. Very excited to get the ball rolling on this project.

Just an update. I did put a bit of fluid in, and turns out that my eye must be alittle bit off. So brake light is off, was the fluid levels. Lol