PegGTS' officially low and slow ST204, Now featuring low! Options

[PegGTS]

Just picked this baby up last week for 4000$ and can't wait to get started on it! It's a 1994 GT-S with just over 200000 kms on it, runs like new!

The day I bought her:




It's in pretty good shape other than a few minor rust spots that I'll be getting touched up as soon as all the snow melts, and a small dent in the hood. Also the front Toyota badge is broken, just ordered a new one from the dealer today.
Hard to see in this picture but it looks like somebody closed the hood and there was something under it and it made the dent and they tried to fix it


Some more pictures:






First "mod" haha, thought I would take off the badge while I wait for a new one but didn't notice there was 2 holes for it so I left it in (upside down )


Just put a new Alpine head unit in yesterday:


Have a 10" JL sub that I took out of my old car, will be building a box and wiring it in when I get a chance

Plans:

- TRD replica shifter knob (ORDERED)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/140920873419?item=...160&vxp=mtr

- Black shift boot with red stitching

- GT-Four riser blocks (ORDERED)

- SpreeLED full car kit (ORDERED)

- White or gold wheels, thinking Rota Boost Golds:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CxD1GXhcLmY/UGdA...600/boost_2.jpg

- Possibly JDM tails

- Short ram intake

- GT-Four front end conversion

- Mesh for the front grille

- Possibly fog lights

- Clear sidemarkers and turn signals

This post has been edited by PegGTS: Apr 3, 2015 - 3:49 PM

[malpaso]

Damn that rear license plate frame looks awesome. I'm glad giving you vote for Celica of the month

[PegGTS]

Damn that rear license plate frame looks awesome. I'm glad giving you vote for Celica of the month

A little late to reply haha but thanks!

It's been a while, so time for another update I guess

Where to start...well, I wanted to do something different with my interior for a while, started looking at hydro-dipping it, but I didn't want to try the DIY kit and screw it up, and the cost to get it professionally done is a little pricey so I decided to paint it in the mean-time. Nothing crazy like blue or red, I wanted to keep it subtle and still OEM-looking. So I got a SEM metallic grey spray bomb from work (technically for plastic bumpers but it's all the same stuff). I took apart my interior and replaced everything with the spare set I had (which is actually in better condition than my stock set so I decided to paint my stock set) and got to work. Sprayed everything with SEM plastic adhesion promoter, then gave it all a few good coats of the grey.



I gotta say, I'm really impressed with the SEM paint. It goes on very nice, even when I tried laying it on a little thicker I did not get any runs. And it's held up for a few months now with no signs of wear so far. I'm happy with the results, nice and subtle.





Next, I decided I wanted to do something a little different with my trunk as well. Not sure why, but I fell in love with the hardwood trunk look. So I went to the hardware store, bought some MDF and some hardwood, and got to work. Stripped the trunk and it was filthy underneath



After trying to clean it up a bit. Don't know where that black stuff on the right came from lol.



Glued the hardwood to the MDF, took the carpet out of the trunk, laid it down, traced it, then cut.





Next, I attached my 10" JL sub and Phoenix Gold amp.



Threw it in the trunk, installed my rear strut bar, and I was done! The markings were there because I was originally going to make a hatch to get to the spare tire, but I couldn't see an easy was of making it work, so I just left it. It isn't too hard to lift up in case I ever need my spare tire. I have not found the time to wire in the sub, so I'm not sure how it sounds just yet. I'll be having a wiring party in the spring so if it doesn't sound nice, I will build a box for it underneath.




Next, I had my fenders rolled because my tires were rubbing with my spacers. They still rub slightly, but not enough to worry about for now. When I do eventually lower the car, I may have to go with very slight negative camber in the rear, nothing crazy though. Just to avoid rubbing.



had some black plasti-dip laying around so I decided to try out the "angry eyes" look on my highs. Actually turned out pretty nice, although the dip peeled up a bit when I peeled the tape off, will have to redo them in the spring and not wait so long to peel the tape off.




Also got finished with all the rust fighting (for the most part, have a few smaller spots to do but the bigger areas are done). For the driver's side rocker panel, I had new metal welded in by a customer of mine, then painted and cleared it myself.



At the same time, while I was doing some painting on the back of the car, I peeled the tape off my bumper and this happened.



The paint should not have just peeled off that easily, so I took it back to the shop that had fixed the bumper in the spring, and they admitted it was their fault and they will be repainting it next week.




THEN, disaster struck. One day when I was leaving work, I went to put my car into gear, and it wouldn't go at all. Tried forcing it and it just grinded like crazy. So me and my coworker had to push my car into the work compound and I grabbed a work car. After getting it into the compound, I tried putting it into gear again and it finally went in but I decided I didn't want to take a chance and took a work car anyways.

I kept driving my car for a couple months with no issues. Fast forward to late September, on my way to work after getting gas I went to shift into second, and it wouldn't go at all. Put it in neutral and it wouldn't go into any gears, so I had to coast it onto a side street. Sat there for a few minutes trying to get it to go into gear, but nothing. Something was screwed. Luckily I was only a couple blocks from home so I left the car there, and walked home. My car sat there for a few days until we took my brother's truck and towed it back to our garage.



While it was in the garage, I decided I may as well take the valve cover off and paint it sprayed it with some VHT black wrinkle paint, although I think it was too cold so the paint did not wrinkle at all.




It sat in our garage, and I had my girlfriend's dad (who is a mechanic at Honda) have a look at it. He came to the conclusion that it had to be something with the clutch, great news...since we didn't have the time nor garage space to get that done, I drove it onto my street (started it in second gear and drove it) and it sat there for a couple weeks while we waited for a family friend to have time to replace the clutch.

Finally he had time to get it done, so I drove it down to his place in second gear the whole way, and he got to work on it. A few days, and $675 later, I had my car back and it was glorious. He showed me my old clutch, I had broken 2 of the springs.



Then the snow came and it was time to put the winter wheels on. It's crazy the difference in wheel gap between my summer and winter tires.




And that's basically it. This is mostly how she'll sit until spring.





Also, here's some random shots I took of my car over the summer / fall:






I wanted to get some fall shots of my car so I took it to a local park one day and messed around. Realized I forgot to put my front splitters on for it Also this was my first time editing with Lightroom and I love it!