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post Jul 21, 2012 - 7:30 AM
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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 biggrin.gif):

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


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post Apr 8, 2014 - 11:56 AM
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What tires are those (yellow/orange lines)?

nvm , I figured it out.



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- Nihil   Nihil's '97 ST slowly getting somewhere   Jul 21, 2012 - 7:30 AM
- - rave2n   Nice base to start off of. Eager to see the result...   Jul 21, 2012 - 8:24 AM
- - Nihil   EDIT: moved pictures from the first post. ...   Jul 21, 2012 - 10:48 AM
- - SwissFerdi   +1 for a silver Celica. Welcome to the site, and b...   Jul 21, 2012 - 3:27 PM
- - wazzuu   7gen steering wheel is a pure win in a 6gc... look...   Jul 25, 2012 - 9:19 AM
- - Nihil   Ok, today was a nice day to do some paintwork on t...   Jul 27, 2012 - 12:43 PM
- - Box   Welcome to the site! What's wrong with th...   Jul 27, 2012 - 1:06 PM
- - Nihil   Nothing is actually wrong with the door vinyl, I j...   Jul 27, 2012 - 4:25 PM
- - Box   Really the only option for the door panel to make ...   Jul 27, 2012 - 4:37 PM
- - kurt95gt   Vencent doggy makes door cards that are cut to the...   Jul 27, 2012 - 4:57 PM
|- - SwissFerdi   QUOTE (kurt95gt @ Jul 27, 2012 - 5:5...   Jul 27, 2012 - 10:56 PM
- - Smaay   nice job man! the door panels look awesome...   Jul 27, 2012 - 5:13 PM
- - ricochet1490   You are LUCKY to have door cards in that good of s...   Jul 27, 2012 - 11:32 PM
- - Box   Yeah, my door panels are pretty much trashed. I i...   Jul 28, 2012 - 12:32 AM
- - Nihil   Ok, since you all say my door panels are in great ...   Jul 28, 2012 - 2:46 AM
- - Box   Meguiar's Motor Cycle Leather Conditioner is e...   Jul 28, 2012 - 11:20 AM
- - Nihil   Ok, yesterday I got a 7 gen airbag, so today I rep...   Aug 3, 2012 - 1:12 PM
- - Box   Looks awesome!   Aug 3, 2012 - 1:48 PM
- - Nihil   So today, as promised, I painted the lower plastic...   Aug 4, 2012 - 11:56 AM
- - Nihil   So today I had a day off and I decided to sew a sh...   Aug 15, 2012 - 9:30 AM
- - Nihil   Yesterday I polished exhaust manifold cover plate ...   Aug 31, 2012 - 4:46 AM
- - Edser   That shift gaiter looks awesome! Very professi...   Aug 31, 2012 - 10:45 AM
- - delusionz   manifold heat shield - paint it with high temp exh...   Sep 2, 2012 - 5:03 PM
|- - Nihil   QUOTE (delusionz @ Sep 2, 2012 - 6:0...   Sep 3, 2012 - 3:11 AM
|- - SwissFerdi   QUOTE (Nihil @ Sep 3, 2012 - 4:11 AM...   Sep 3, 2012 - 9:52 AM
- - delusionz   its worth a shot   Sep 3, 2012 - 6:19 AM
- - Box   Yup it's steel. Mine had rust on it.   Sep 3, 2012 - 3:55 PM
- - Nihil   Ok, today I replaced the hood latch that was prett...   Sep 17, 2012 - 10:54 AM
- - Nihil   My cousin helped me with main service: timing belt...   Sep 30, 2012 - 5:27 AM
- - richee3   I've had three sets of Kumhos and I will gladl...   Sep 30, 2012 - 9:14 AM
- - Nihil   Wow, good to know, no kumho for me then... How abo...   Sep 30, 2012 - 11:13 AM
- - Tigawoods   ive been a dunlop/bridgestone/yokohama person Han...   Sep 30, 2012 - 1:03 PM
- - Box   Bridgestone I can vouch for, along with Michelin. ...   Sep 30, 2012 - 1:34 PM
- - Nihil   yeah, but Bridgestone, Michelin and Dunlop are up ...   Sep 30, 2012 - 2:16 PM
- - Box   Hankook, Falken, and Toyo I've heard good thin...   Sep 30, 2012 - 2:27 PM
- - richee3   I've always liked my Falken Ziex's. I get ...   Sep 30, 2012 - 6:55 PM
- - Nihil   Ok, latest update, but a month late since I'm ...   Dec 23, 2012 - 9:16 AM
- - Nihil   After a long winter we finally got some sun so I c...   Apr 14, 2013 - 12:28 PM
- - snagmor   Late to this thread but you have done some really ...   Apr 18, 2013 - 10:26 AM
- - Nihil   I've done a poor job with the interior paintin...   Apr 18, 2013 - 4:47 PM
- - The_enD   New to the forum and slowly reading(read steal ide...   Apr 18, 2013 - 11:38 PM
- - Nihil   Funny thing happened the other day... I own this c...   May 9, 2013 - 3:32 PM
- - CrossCudi   your creativity and knowledge keeps making this ce...   Jul 2, 2013 - 6:08 PM
- - Nihil   Here's what I've been doing lately: I...   Aug 9, 2013 - 5:25 AM
- - Box   It reminds me of an unpleasantly tasting jawbreake...   Aug 9, 2013 - 2:54 PM
- - Nihil   Okay, as promised, here is repainted interior: A ...   Sep 7, 2013 - 12:06 PM
- - Nihil   Experimented with the rising sun graphics on my in...   Sep 10, 2013 - 10:36 AM
- - kurt95gt   Love those speaker covers!   Sep 10, 2013 - 8:06 PM
- - Nihil   New update on the interior: I refurbished the hea...   Oct 27, 2013 - 5:51 AM
- - Nial   Loving the interior, fantastic work, got my mind w...   Oct 27, 2013 - 6:40 AM
- - BonzaiCelica   great stuff except that one cover around the left ...   Oct 27, 2013 - 7:59 PM
- - Nihil   Not sure which cover you mean I had an idea to p...   Oct 28, 2013 - 4:16 AM
- - Nihil   I repainted my summer wheels in some black-green c...   Apr 8, 2014 - 11:29 AM
- - The_enD   What tires are those (yellow/orange lines)? nvm ,...   Apr 8, 2014 - 11:56 AM
- - Nihil   Did something different instead of shifter boot an...   May 26, 2014 - 2:25 AM
- - The_enD   Nice work, you should use some sandpaper on the ro...   May 26, 2014 - 2:59 AM
- - Nihil   Yes, I intend to sand/polish it, but did not have ...   May 26, 2014 - 10:27 AM
- - PrimeLuxeZ   I love everything you have done to the car, and I ...   May 26, 2014 - 9:31 PM


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