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Looks really good! The GT-Four badge is a little cringe-worthy, but visually the car is great.

Took this shot yesterday, its bad quality phone photo, but it shows how it sits from the back.

i was hoping someone could help me out, I have two questions:
1) when I put my spacers on, I have noticed that the right side front wheel, sticks out further than the left side. The guy at the wheel shop who put them on reckons its just an issue of more camber on one side than the other. Has anyone had this before or know how to fix it?
2) i managed to stop the rear from rubbing by 'massaging' the fenders. But what do I do about the front. I suspect the screw thats holding the inner plastic on, is whats rubbing. But if I take that off, it will hang down, won't it? Whats the solution?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Well I took the car out the other day and the Auto Gearbox just kept slipping and wouldn't shift past first. So I thought it may be time for some kind of conversion. I priced up the following:
Auto Replacement $680 fitted
Manual Conversion $1,400 fitted
3SGTE Conversion $6,000 fitted.

Well in the end I decided to just replace the auto, for a few reasons. Cost, the headache of doing a conversion and the fact that it's a daily driver. Also, it helps that it's Auto cause my wife doesn't drive manual and sometimes we need to swap cars.

Anyway, it's being replaced in a few days.

The wheel sticking out is most likely camber, but could be other things like the fender being warped, or more serious the suspension being bent. Sorry to hear about the tranny going out! i would say start saving slowly so by the time something else major goes wrong you can just go all out and put in a 3sgte!!

Camber is my bet. Thats also what the guy at the shop suggested. Do you know how I get that fixed? And how much it costs.

You know what i'm sick of....inconsiderate mechanics.
After getting my car resprayed I went and got tints put on, the guy leaves a huge chip out of the paint on the edge near the drivers door.
Today I go to pick up my car after having the auto replaced, and I specifically told him to take care of my paint job when I dropped it off.
When I got it back, I found not one, but two beautiful chips out of my NEW paint. One on each guard, on the edge where the guard meets the bonnet, it's obvious he's hit it with some tool. So I call him and confront him about it and he just denies it, what can you do in that situation?

I'm just so sick of people not taking care of other peoples property.

$1400 is cheap for a conversion! I got quoted $700-800 in a few places for the box alone, not to mention the gear selector, shifter cables, clutch, fluid etc.

Yeah that sucks! partly the reason I never take my car to mechanics and have just learnt along the way, unfortunately you can't really do anything unless you have evidence, they can just keep denying it.

Car looks amazing btw!

This post has been edited by Euphoria: May 2, 2011 - 7:51 AM

You should take pictures or your car before you lent it to them. Then if something happens, sue them.
The place I stored my car at this winter shipped my rear bumper and they deny it. Though a friend of mine is a friend of the garage owner so I might be lucky.

This post has been edited by dudeofchaos: May 2, 2011 - 8:28 AM

Thanks man, you really have to shop around to get a good deal though. The first place I took it to quoted $1,100 just to replace the auto. But while I was shopping around, I found a nice bloke at the wreckers who had a manual car there. So I asked him about the conversion, so he said he'd give me everything I needed for the conversion for $500, bargain. But the deal breaker was that the clutch was 70% worn, so I needed to buy a new clutch as well. And then the labour was $700 to get it fitted.
Thats why I just stuck with the auto. But if i'm honest, I sort of wish I went manual, even with the extra cost. I would love my car so much more if it was manual.

Oh well, just have to wait for the engine to go and do a conversion I guess.

Oh well. It's time to move on.
I loved the Celica, but it was time for a change. I sold the Celica for $7,000 and have bought myself a 2001 Subaru Liberty B4. Thats the twin turbo version.

Another chapter begins.....

$7,000?! Wow! I'm glad I didn't pay that much for my car haha.

Yeah i'm really happy to have gotten that much for it. Especially considering I paid only $7,500 for the Liberty, with only 140,000 kms on it. And its in perfect condition too.

Did they know it wasn't a real GT4? Lmao.

To be honest I don't think they even know what a GT4 is.
This lady came along and said she sold her manual car because her son just got his Learners Permit and couldn't drive manual.
He was looking for a Celica and saw mine and liked it cause it looked cool. Thats all.
I think the mother liked the look of it too....lol

this is awesome, I wish I could get GT4 parts easily here.

I paid $14,000 for mine, completely stock, non-GT4.

That was about six years ago though!

shoot i only paid 1800us for my st205.

Lol, you took my "parts" car that i was gonna get....I paid 6k for mine...came with alot on it though...think the dealer ripped himself off, lol...

I traded in my 03 celica gt (japanese) for my 205