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Well I'm not in MN lately. I'm stationed in CA. But yeah I would have loved to go Baltic Blue but when I saw the Dark Blue Pearl man I liked it. I did the paint myself. It's not perfect but it's a work in progress! I'll be in MN sometime in June. Let me know when there are meets and I'd love to make it to a few before I deploy!

Pretty late update here. Around November I finally got around to some much needed exhaust work. Both cats were plugged and the car ran like poop because of that so being that the car is now registered in MN and isnt't required to SMOG, I gutted both cats and replaced the blown out flexpipe which restored some power as well as made it sound pretty good! Then shortly after I removed those hideous side skirts that were on and replaced the rims with 7GC 16s.

Then begun the repainting. I originally started with black and was slowly applying more and more coats to the car before work got in the way and I started spending weeks and months away from the car. The California sun was taking its toll on the unfinished paint and it started looking like butt. Becuase of that I sanded it down and started over. This time instead of black I figured I'd go with Dark Blue Pearl since I couldn't easily get my hands on Baltic Blue Metallic(I'm impatient and didn't want to deal with ordering online lol). The pictures I'm posting now are of the car as it sits, also unfinished as I leave tomorrow for an at sea exercise with my unit for 2 weeks. Once I get back there will be a few more coats of the paint itself and clear coats as well. I'm not expecting a professional look out of it by any means and I know that it still won't look perfect but it's a learning experience for me and I think it will look a lot better than how it looked when I first got the car.

Some other little things I have done is replaced the racing steering wheel with a 7GC steering wheel. Haven't got around to hooking up the horn yet and still need to get a clockspring but damn does it feel a lot better than the racing wheel did! I also replaced the crappy old Kenwood deck with a newer Dual deck. It's cheap and ****ty but hey it's got bluetooth and does the job!
I replaced the hatch back in January as well. The old one as some might see in the old pictures, was rather beat up and had some bad paint. Saw a black 94 GT sitting in the local yard (RIP) and pulled the clean hatch off of it for mine. Booty looks a lot better with it!

With as much work as I have put in the car, my end goal is to make sure it is fully functioning and has ZERO problems with drivability and looks somewhat decent come June. I deploy in July and will be driving my hooptie all the way to MN from Cali in June where it's getting passed on to my little brother for him to learn how to drive stick as well as work on his own vehicles and whatever else his young heart desires. He absolutely loves the car and I have a feeling he will do great things when I pass it on to him. Now this doesn't mean I'm out. No sir no. When I'm done with my deployment I will either have a ST205 imported or simply find another 204 and do fun things to it!

End of my rambling. Here is car:







The nicer looking days of black

If risers are still available what would shipping be like to 92055? Thanks!

Yeah she's prety rough around the edges but I hope to have it restored to looking as good as it did new. Right now making sure she can get me from point a to b before the real fun begins but she is in good hands now and I will see to it that she gets the love she needs! And I will check that out thanks for sharing the link! Install pretty easy? I have the trunk button on the fob so all I have to do is set up the connection?

Aha here we go. Thank you!

So silly me while cleaning some crap out of the throttle body and putting everything back together I forgot to clamp the air filter box and turns out it runs a lot better getting being its getting more air which leads me to think the air filter would be bad but it's new.. Should I just get a CAI?
As for the pictures it keeps saying "dynamic pages in the [IMG] tags are not allowed"

Hahaha if that were the case I might have avoided it! I did give it new plugs and wires a few days ago and working on a few other pieces as well. Had a recent oil change but coolant is looking a little bit dirty so a flush will be coming up soon. Also just noticed my EFI Relay is messed up so that's wonderful. Have to keep a little piece of paper towel pushing on the contact to keep it going until I pick up a new one. It idles nicely but it revs slowly. Driving up a hill is pretty terrible. My foot can be hitting the floor and it just wont do it. I am gonna be checking out the fuel filter today as well as some vacuum lines since i discovered one wasn't connected last night. Anything else you recommend I should look at that may be affecting it's performance? It's been a while since I've worked on any vehicle so I'm taking baby steps. As for uploading pictures, I have Flickr but can't figure out how to get the right link to upload the pictures on here.

Hey guys! After a long while of not having a 6gc, I finally found one! It's quite the interesting car. It's a 1994 GT liftback 5 speed. Power everything and an aftermarket alarm with fob. Seats are in almost new condition, interior is in great sape, a few tiny discrepencies in the dash but nothing bad. Advan 17" rims, lowering springs, some weird muffler on it, Kouki tails and SSIII grill on the facelift bumper, not sure what the skirts are and kinda have mixed feelings on them. Would much rather have OEM skirts but we'll see how the ones that are on look after a paint job. Anyways here's some history.. A few owners ago she was getting some good treatment. Aftermarket goodies, JDM goodies, the works. Then she started getting neglected. Sitting outside in the hot SoCal sun, probably being beat on, and even a little crash in the front.. They threw on a new bumper, hood, and fenders and continued to drive it until they got bored of it which is where cha boi comes in. After some talk with the owner I checked it out and noted some things.. Body isn't too bad but clearly needs a paint job. Engine runs great. Idles nice, starts fine. But the drive is different. It's got a new clutch in it but accelerates really slowly. I know the 5S isn't all that quick but this is not how I remember it being. Something is robbing my power and I'm not quite sure what it is. Anyways it rides pretty smooth. Suspension is pretty good, brakes were new, sounds like a bearing might be on its way out(shocker), and have a clunk every now and then but I'll fix it in time. The trunk cables were pretty messed up so they had a wire hanging out of the back to get into the trunk. Also have a few exhaust leaks.. One from around the manifold and another from I think the flex pipe but not exactly sure.. I planned on getting exhaust work done anyways. The engine is not original. Engine in the car now has only 127k but I can't say the same for the transmission. I have a little grocery list of problems to take care of but it serves great as a daily right now! Might be here a lot for some help as it's been a while since I've worked on one of these so if I say something dumb or don't seem to know what I'm talking about then I apologize!

Stand by for images as I figure out what source to use.. just look at the profile for pictures for now!

Well it's been a good few years so I figured i'd update this real quick. Sold this car in late 15 and was keeping up on a few other cars I had until I enlisted in the Marine Corps and went to boot camp last summer. While I'm still in SoCal awaiting orders to my next duty station I'm trying to get my hands on another 6gc! Only thing holding me from moving on a few I have my eyes on is I don't know if I'll be stuck in Cali or if I get moved to the east coast or to Okinawa or wherever. But regardless I'm getting another Celica and I can't wait to drive one again! I'm being a little picky on my search though. 5 speed for sure, GT liftback, black or white. I'll settle for a different color but has to follow everything else!

So lately my 5S has been steadily leaking oil. I've located the majority of the leak coming from the lower corner of the timing case where there is a seal hanging there. The other bit I believe is coming from the oil pan. So i'm gonna start with replacing the t-belt and water pump and cam and crank seals. But I have never done a t-belt replacement before so I need some help. Is there a how-to post for this somewhere? Or can anyone give me some helpful advice and what tools to use and parts to replace while doing this and what all needs to be removed?? Thanks!

So today i replaced a distributor o-ring but while I had the distributor out and in my hand oil started dripping out from within it so I took it apart to see that oil made its way inside. Distributor works great but I'm sick of having 4 oil leaks so I'm trying to get rid of them. Any way I cleaned it out and put it all together and back in the car but still leaks oil. I cannot afford a new distributor so any help is greatly appreciated!

I love the looks of it and the rareness (in my area) and the reactions I get while driving through town.

I hate the lack of aftermarket support, the parts are either expensive or hard to find, mines a rust bucket

WOOOOOOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! LET'S ALL GET DRUNK!! DRINKS ON THE BIRTHDAY BOY!!!!

Anyways Technically yesterday I finally finished replacing a rear strut in the Grand Prix! All it needs now is for me to bleed out the brakes, get a tire, and replace the valve cover gaskets as well as little misc. problems. Which leads me to this question... What all would I have to remove to get to the rear valve cover? It's a 1st gen 3.1 MPFI. Another thing I did was I pulled off the distributor on the celica to change the O-ring in hopes hat it was the reason the oil was leaking from it but when i pulled the distributor out and held it in my hand, oil started rapidly dripping from it. With it concerning me, I took it all apart to see oil had been getting inside the distributor. Not sure if the o-ring inside is bad too or what but the distributor itself works great. I just don't know if it's time for a new one. I would hope not because I am completely broke.

I'm in the same boat here. MN winters are brutal to our vehicles.. Sad to say I won't be keeping my celi due to the rust that has inhabited it. Holes in both rear wheel wells and qp's. I wish I could save it. But I'd keep my eyes open for local ones that need work if they are rust free or manageable. There's always a gem that pops up every now and then!

Seals for sure. One thing my previous owner didn't do when installing the new engine in my Celica was he obviously did nothing to it prior to dropping it in. Now I have many oil leaks at every bad place to have one apart from the valve cover gasket.

Well today I did some work to the grand prix. I have all of the parts it needs and have been doing work to it every chance I get. Today was replace a tie rod end and the heater hose. I also tried to get the rear strut off but the bolts didn't budge no matter how many wrenches and breaker bars I went through. Along with soaking it with penetrating spray multiple times. Going at it again tomorrow and hopefully I can get it off. So close to having this thing done!!!!

I know as soon as I take the engine out of my celi the build begins! Hoping to autocross it in the next year or 2.

Agree also! But maybe 5sgte?!

Any tuesday or sunday works for me so far but even then it's a long drive for me and i won't even be bringing my celi.... My grand prix is okay to sit among the dragons?

Come on guys!! We all have rally cars! I say if it has 4 wheels, starts, shifts and stops then do it!!! If anything like this was going on in MN i'd do it right away even with the celi in the shape it's in now!

Getting this b*tch on the road this weekend to start its new job as a daily while the celi gets parked for some extensive surgery. After $400 in parts It's finally ready.

Instead of making it a track car you could (not saying you should because it's illegal) VIN swap an st204 VIN onto the 205. Nobody would know or be able to tell unless you told everyone about it.

I'll never sell or trade my celi. In all honesty the only way i'll ever get rid of it is when/if I total it. That is unless someone offered me an amount I could not refuse. Then I would just buy a celi in way better shape or just ship a gt4 over here!

Hey you wouldn't remember anything about the dual muffler setup at all do you? I'm kind of open to trying something like it and want to know what mufflers were used for it if you remember or know.

Finally setting up the body work! Getting the rust cut out and patched as well as a paint job as soon as my beater is road worthy!! Also looking at trying to get some 7th gen rims soon! and then the surgery begins. I'm really leaning towards 5SGTE!