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]

The clear coat was a pain in the ass. Honestly it was the hardest part of the paint job. The enamel itself almost killed me even though I had a mask on. And I had 1 or 2 bugs that got in and died and stuck to it. I would have felt bad for killing those bugs but they LANDED ON MY CAR!!! How dare they die there! I also had a tiny tiny run towards the bottom of the car which I freaked out a little bit about. Ugh when clear coat runs, there's no turning back. And it was sooo sticky. I had newspaper and hoses stick to the bottom of my feet as I was trying to walk around the car. Oh and my jeans grazed a tiny corner of the rear bumper as I was applying the coat and it ripped off the lint and stuck to the car! I was so upset about that haha