Chino's Swap/Progression Thread, My journey Options

[Chinosan89]

Hey all its been awhile since I posted anything about my car. To start from the beginning as a recap. I bought a 94 GT and decided I was going to do a motor swap. After a couple months I sourced out a clip in Canada and had it shipped to me. Spent a little extra time pulling the motor and making sure everything was clean and perfect before I threw it on to the GT. Spent a couple months on the GT (prepping it for the swap) and all of a sudden I get into a collision. Luckily the motor had not been swapped yet, but the GT was totaled. The sad part was, was that I bought it with the ST205 hood and bumper on it, so there goes about $1000 bucks ish in JDM parts. So later I bought a Celica that already had an ST215 motor in it. Car was a rocket, it was awesome and felt so nice. However I still had the ST205 motor sitting in my garage and I wasn't satisfied with that. So after 8 months of owning the ST215, I sold it to a close friend who gave me what I paid for the car plus his Celica ST (AT200) as a donor car. And that my friends is where the story starts. Sorry for the long and boring intro.

First GT

Wrecked GT


This post has been edited by Chinosan89: Mar 29, 2014 - 12:36 PM

[Chinosan89]

Next I started working on the body. Had a few minor dents in it but nothing too crazy. I've always wanted a white celica so I did just that. Sanded the car down to primer and bondo'd all the visible dents. Oh and BTW installed some JDM fenders which came with the clip might I add

















Next I started with the door trimming, trunk trimming, and engine bay trimming. You guys are probably wondering why I didn't swap first and then paint. I didn't want the clean motor to get paint in it, Plus I can always take off hood bumper and fenders.