Alaska Celica ST revival, Stuck on what I should do to bring my 6th gen back from the dead Options

[Livewire]

So not sure what happened to my first post, but it lacked pictures anyways...

How’s it going, new here, and I inherited a 96 Celica ST hatch from my parents. Basically there was a pop as my dad was driving it up a nearby hill, and it started spewing white smoke out the tail pipe. It then sat in their yard for what I can recall is about 13 years. That’s 13 years of Alaskan winters without moving. Needless to say this car is pretty rough. But, my parents were pretty easy to convince to get rid of the car for the low low cost of a tow dolly ��. Back in October I did a compression test and if I remember right there was two cylinders with 0 compression... now I’m considering doing a full rebuild or a swap, don’t know if I’m super keen on keeping the 7A when there’s so much more fun to be had with this car but stuck on if I should swap it, and if I do what I should swap with, or just rebuild and call it a day. I’m a delivery driver so gas mileage is somewhat of a concern here . What do you guys think? Mind the mess but whatever I decide to do I’m happy to have a new car to join a forum that’s not for another ford








This post has been edited by Livewire: Jul 16, 2020 - 12:20 AM

[Livewire]

Intake disassembled today, really dirty and looked wet despite the engine only being run for a little bit. Going to give it a good clean before it gets put back on



Intake ports are actually really clean despite the state of the intake, exhaust ports in cylinder 1&2 slick with oil, 3&4 are still pretty dirty, going to clean the entire head while I’m waiting for the rebuild kit to get here as well as do some port matching and polishing on the upper intake and exhaust manifold. Both have some imperfections that I’d like to smooth out.


Timing belt seems to be in amazing condition and will be going in the gates box as a spare JIC I need it down the road.