6G Celicas Forums

Good to see she is well cared for.
--mick

Fort Worth

Just thought I would peek in and see if you had done anything with the Celica... How is it? Hope you are still satisfied.
--mick
DFW TX

Would u consider a Texas Car?... I have a 94 GT that is about to go up for sale. I neglected the brakes over the past couple years so I am going to replace rotors and pads. Brembos should be in this week. Car is super clean for its age. It was backed into a few years ago when I was at my family's house. The "incident" broke both lights on the drivers side. Replaced all the lights with JDM highs and lows. Lows are the projector beams and have a true HID conversion. Also as a result of that issue, I had all the minor door dings fixed and the entire car painted (white pearl). A couple years back, I hit a piece of metal in the road that knocked a hole in the exhaust. I had an entire Cat back 2.5 inch exhaust with a quality 22" Magnaflow Resinator and Straight through Magniflow Muffler installed. The car has a nice low tone... not fart can in any way. New Tires on 16" wheels replaced about 3000 miles ago... records of regular Sythetic oil changes (5000 miles), tires and a new battery in 02, 05 and 09... other light stuff are available. Other than the Front lights and exhaust, the car is otherwise bone stock. No intakes, body kits or anything. Car has 186k on it and has always been adult owned. My wife purchased the car in 96 and we have had it since. Also it has always been a Texas car... No salt... heck... barely any water here most of the year. Other than the brakes and that is in the works the car needs nothing. I was thinking $3500 with bottom being 3k. Why am I selling? This car has been mine since 2002... of course all the new cars have gone to my wife and I got the older stuff... but I just purchased a ultra sweet bright red BMW 850i (V12) with 55000 miles on it. With that in the garage, I know I will never go back to the Celica with 8 less cylinders, and I don't want it to be neglected. Bye bye 30MPG Celica... Hello 12-15 MPG Bimmer. I don't drive much... work out of the house most days so gas is not really an issue. Let me know if you have any interest. The car hasn't been advertised anywhere yet and I just got the Bimmer licensed today and I want to detail the Celica and do the brakes before letting it go. Let me know if you or anyone else has an interest.

Cheers,
--mick
Fort Worth, TX

I am having the exact same issue. I do not wan to change to some CAI, for fears that when I do decide to sell, someone (like Me) will assume that the car has been beat. The car is plenty quick with the stock intake and I wish to keep. Does anyone know what this plastic box that hangs off the underside off the stock intake tube is for? Also, does anyone have a stock intake tube that is in good order the might be willing to part with? I had also considered using some other type of tubing to replace (stainless steel, aluminium or PVC)... comments or suggestions are appreciated.

--mick
Ft Worth, TX
94 GT

That is what I thought too, but the HID bulb has special wiring and plugs that connect to the HVstarter. It does not have the required spade connector insalled on the base of the H1 that would make this possible.

I understand what both are stating. THe problem that I am experiencing is not electircal. THe problem is that the H1 Xenon is just the bulb on th H1 frams, however, it does not have the ability to fit a connector from the Haogen as shown below. There is no obvious way to secure it. Below is a pic of the entire haolgen assembly. The Xenon bulb has everything up to the silver base, but none of the black plastic that is used to secure the bulb or seal the light ...

I purchased a H1 xenon conversion kit back in January from a group buy. I FINANLLY got around to starting the conversion this evening, only to find the light bulbs are not "plug and play" The JDM projector H1 bulbs came with a large black housing that the H1 plugs into, and allows the clamp on the projector to hold the buld tightly in place. The H1 HID I received have no such housing to hold the bulb in place. I attempted to clamp the bulb down with he progectors pring clip, but It can not put enough force on the bulb to keep it tight. I am sure I can't be the first one to run into this situation. I was considering drilling out the eboxy filled black plasic H1 (halogen) housing that came with the JDMs and attempt to remove all the metal contacts, and some how make it work with the new Xenon bulb, but I though I would check here first.

Advice, sujjestions or experience appreciated.
--mick
BTW... just got my car back from the shop... fixed the dreaded oil pump and crank seal gasket problems and got a custom 2.25 exhaust installed from the Cat back to include new flex, a 22" Magnaflow Resonator and a Magnaflow street series muffler... was quite inpressed with the low note and it's lack of "Rice"... and no more messy oil drip to boot!! Took advise from the board on that one too... Thx

I am interested in the GB.... any others??

I am still interested, I need to know if these will work with the JDMs I just installed on my Celica. I am not sure what bulb size these are, but attached is a pic of what the JDM lows look/measure. Please comment.Anyone who has JDM with the HID conversion, please comment as well. I think I am most interested in the 6000 temp.

name: Mickey Stateler
bulb type:??? (help)
color temp: 6000
Paypal id: mickst8ler
mick@st8ler.net

Thanks,
--mick

First post!!
I'm interested... Will these work with the JDMs on my 94 GT?

He picked up the bill for repairing the damage... not for painting the entire car for what was, in actuallity, only a fender dent with a paint scrape.

My reason for considering the new lights (beams) is that I find the old ones so low on light output the are nearly dangerous. If you have these already, is the a difference in the light output?

Hi,
I am new here... found the site after doing a google for Toyota Headlights. My Fiance owns a 94 Celica GT. Since I have know here... about 4 years... this car has had a yearly trip to the body shop. Of those 4 times, none of them have been her fault. Last Summer while visiting my parents, the girl next door backed into the front left hand side... damage wasn't to bad.... about $800 as I recall. I took it to a friend' body shop who repaired the damage, filled in the couple of door dings and covered the previos "7 different colors" of white with a new pearl paint job... all for about $1500. Not a bad deal since the neighborhood girls dad picked up half the bill. Now the Celica looked new again... until yesterday when our neighbor was backing out of their driveway in their oversized SUV and crunch! Same spot as last year only much worse. 5000lb SUV vs. Celica... not good. Anyway I just got a quote from a body shop that I have worked with before. They are expensive but do excellent work... They wanf $1996 to fix... includes replacing, front bumper cover, both left headlights, left fender, matching and blending the pearl. The damaging party wanted to pay cash, but I am affraid that once they get the quote they will want to turn it in to their insurance, which, in turn may decide to total the car because of it's perceived value... I am guessing. What will probably happen is that I will take the car back to my friend who repaired and painted it last year and have everything fixed for cheaper... of course passing the savings to my neighbors. What I am looking for here are possible recomendations that I should consider replacing the OEM parts with (i.e. projector beam headlights). Any thoughts?
--mick
Fort Worth, TX