Nihil's '97 ST slowly getting somewhere Options

[Nihil]

Hi,
this is my Toyota Celica ST, year 1997 (first i believed it's a 1998, but later realized it's a 1997...), with an 1.8 l 7A-FE engine. I bought it about 2 months ago (Edit: summer of 2012). It's current "mileage" is reading 177.000 km (approx. 110.000 miles). Entire car is completely stock, no mods were made by previous owners (supposed to be more than four owners).
Perhaps I'd rather own a GT with a 3S-GE engine, but I needed a car and no GTs were available at the time. And since I am on a student budget, ST might be more suitable for me.

Plans for the future (which I change every time I open my topic ):

Interior - very well preserved for it's age and all the owners:
- LED conversion
- Refurbishing/repainting most of the interior (plastic dash parts, plastic door panel parts, arm rest, headliner and carpet)
- Steering wheel replacement (7gen)
- Leather seats
- Shift knob, hand brake handle, pedals and such petty nonsense
- Leather shift and handbrake boots

Electronics are basic - AC, central door lock, cheap Kenwood stereo with stock speakers. So the plan is:
- Car alarm with remote lock - not keen on this alarm, I'll probably try and make my own
- Good sound system (currently got Pioneer head unit with stock speakers)
- LCD touchscreen with CarPC

As for the exterior, the car has no spoiler and no extra bodyparts. Also, very poor paint - cracked, bumped, scratched, peeled...
- bodywork repair and complete repaint (I love the idea of pearl white, perhaps dark grey might be nice too)
- either a GT4 spoiler with risers, or a DCW duckbill
- some nice wheels

Performance and handling:
- CAI
- better exhaust
- coilovers

This is all for now, here are some pics

EDIT: moved the pictures into the second post, so you don't have to scroll all the time.

This post has been edited by Nihil: Apr 8, 2014 - 11:22 AM

[Nihil]

Here's what I've been doing lately:





I stripped the paint clean these wheels, it turned out they were badly corroded, so I brushed/sanded them and cleaned it off and later painted the wheels (2K filler, primer, 2K dark grey paint, fluorescent green splatters and clear-coat). I had a lot of work with these wheels, first I thought "2-3 weeks of work and the wheels are done", well... 4 months and more than 100€ later, here they are, completely restored

At first I planed on using them, but I got some cheap 17" wheels later and my winter wheels are 16" with new tires, I have no use for these 15" wheels, so I'm going to sell them.

The pictures don't do them justice though, the fluorescent green is very reflective, so here is a night shot with flash:


Next project:
fixing the poorly painted interior, coming soon

This post has been edited by Nihil: Aug 9, 2013 - 7:37 AM