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CURRENT with painted wheels:


I figured I might as well start a progress thread since I have a lot of spare time at the moment. When I first bought the car it was just a form of temporary transportation until I could find something newer, until I found this site o_O. I stumbled across the car on autotrader.com and couldn't help but notice the perfect condition it was in. Perfect paint, pristine grey leather interior, and flawless under the hood. I was only tentative because of how little power it had, but it gets great gas mileage so that's a plus. I first fell in love with 6th gens playing gran turismo 1 back in the day, and always wanted to have a gt-four.

Here are a few photos since I bought her about a year ago:



New wheels:

In desperate need of spacers/better offset:

20mm spacers installed in the rear, along with clear sidemarkers and corners:

lowered on megan springs and KYB shocks w00t

Lacking front flushness, in need of spacers:

The other day installing new speakers:

New shift knob + 7th gen short shifter


Much more to come.

This post has been edited by flyinglizard: Apr 14, 2010 - 3:52 PM

nice clean style. what can we expect next?

on short shifter + trd knob, looks great.

Thanks guys.

Next on the list:
front 20mm spacers
jdm tails
wider and taller tires
projectors
4age swap
euro splitters

I plan to have all this done by the end of 2010

White celi's FTW

Very clean, feeling the rims.

It's looking reaaally good! May I ask what the offset was on your wheels before you added the spacers?

+45

Thanks! That gives me a good idea of which spacers I'll need to order. Oh what are the specs of your wheels? ie Size and width, along with your tire size .

Wheels are 17x7. Tires are 215/40/17, but I want to scrap them for 225/45/17 for a more aggressive look and better performance/better ride quality.

The current tires make the car look too wimpy and top heavy IMO.

This post has been edited by flyinglizard: Dec 15, 2009 - 2:42 AM

Hmm I have 225/40R17 on my car right now, but my rims are 17x7.5. They are a bit too wide for my suspension set up and high offset rims. I need spacers because my tires were hitting my coilovers. I had to raise my car up higher, and I'm not happy with how it looks at all.

Hm well I'm trying to go for this look with the tires:
http://www.6gc.net/photo/member/60/15

I think my car sits a lot higher than yours and plus I will have spacers front and rear making my offset +25. Hopefully I won't have any rubbing issues.

I just love the way they fill out the wheel wells on art and manny's cars. Makes the car look like a beast. Although they actually need it for traction while I'm just going for the looks

It does look really good. In the words of 808Celica, I think you should go Moar Lowerrrrrrr hahaha. Hmm.. do you think you'll have the front spacers by the Celica meet next month?

needs moar tom's lip

Yeah I agree it does need to be lower. And I most likely will have the spacers by then.

Lately I've also been wondering why the front of my car sits so high compared to the back o_O

The megan springs are supposed to lower it 1.6" front and 1.4" rear, but the front only appears to be about 0.8-1.0" lower. Any thoughts on why this is? Is it because the 7afe weighs less than the 5sfe, making the springs settle not as low? I know for a fact it weighs about 100-150 lbs less than the 5s.

This post has been edited by flyinglizard: Dec 15, 2009 - 3:43 AM

More mods and more pics please

I can't help noticing that 3SG_____ in your plate, Is it a sign? Or can't you do it in California?

Haha that's actually the original plate that came on the car in 1996. Just a coincidence. California has some pretty strict guidelines for swaps, but I'm still planning on doing a swap I'll find a way.

This post has been edited by flyinglizard: Dec 15, 2009 - 4:56 AM

Just for kicks:

New headlight bulbs:

WOw man, your car is like, amazingly clean. If you had JDM tails. Just perfect.