Igpx12s' 1997 Celica Options

[igpx12]

After almost a year of being on this site, thought it was about time to start up a thread.


So here's my celicas story so far.

Purchased in October 2013 and stored to keep out of the elements.


After a winter and spring in storage finally started work on her in July with the original plan to do a thorough cleaning and engine swap to a Silvertop 4AGE out of an AE101 out of japan.

Stock 7A was pulled along with its tranny so engine bay could be cleaned and the interior was stripped to help with process of harness work.




Second part of the project was the 4AGE, so order it however found that I wouldn't be able to use it as NY is OBDII compliant with inspections and it would fail, so put to the side for a later swap into a 94 or 95.


When I bought her, the engine had a lot of exhaust noise so ordered in an OBX exhaust for a GT4, however had to have it reworked to go onto an ST chassis as you can see the bends are a lot different.



The main reason for exhaust noise was this


Then I started to piece her back together, first to go back in was the 7A


Then sprayed the carpet from factory beige to black and to help keep an eye on things, bought some X-Tune gauges, not the most accurate things ever but they do the job.



Also upgraded to a key light ring and Lexus ES300 door strikers, very simple installs



Then made up some bezel pods for the gauge cluster


That was it for the interior currently, next was the engine bay and remedying the exhaust issues. Bought an OBX header and front pipe and had it ceramic coated. Also to easily adapt for oil pressure and temp gauges, ordered in an Upgr8 Oil Sandwich plate.


Then made up an air intake for it, simple one bend pipe with a drilled hole for the MAF sensor.


More things to come for sure but for now this is as far as she has gotten for now. Plans are to get it out after winter when I take my DD off the road for good as its basically done for.

[LtSolid]

i have a 1.8 too. in red. liking the building so far. whats the purpose to the oil sandwich plate? Also was the obx header listed as the 1.8 corolla? i wanna do a 7age conversion to mine. keep us posted bro.

[igpx12]

i have a 1.8 too. in red. liking the building so far. whats the purpose to the oil sandwich plate? Also was the obx header listed as the 1.8 corolla? i wanna do a 7age conversion to mine. keep us posted bro.

The point of the oil sandwich plate is to place sensors for gauges, I have an oil temp and pressure gauge that are set up and run from there. The header is simply that corolla header, the OBX exhaust was mainly catbac but for an ST205 which sadly had to be hacked up and fabricated to work with the AT200s setup.

Nice!
Do you still have he 4AGE 20v motor? You could swap back and forth between heads. Which would be a good half days work if you get good at it. Here in Cali we have to get smog and inspection every other year, not sure how it is in NY.

Sadly I don't have it any longer, was thinking about getting a 94 or 95 celi and putting it in that at one point, but for now just seeing what mods I want to stick with then at a later point maybe do that. NY is now carb compliant so the most we have to do is use carb compliant converters and make sure to have an OBDII motor in an OBDII equipped vehicle.

That front brake conversion and engine bay in yellow looks damn good. Can't wait to do it myself.

Let me say that the brake upgrade is worth it, my stopping distance is better and the appearance is better looking with the 17s.