starting work on the new baby *updated sept 17*, TRD Spoiler ON...FINALY!! Options

[Valo666]

isn't she cute?..lol

After going to the DWG meet, my gf (sarah) wanted a 6th gen sooo bad. She has an 83 3rd gen right now, but she wants to upgrade to somethin a bit newer, safer and better looking. So right after we got back DWG she tried to figure out how she could afford one, and luckly enough, her grandmother gave her a $4500 loan. So after checkin in the states, on autotrader, craigslist, kijiji *canadian craigslist essentialy*, checkin with some of my friends who can get pretty much any sort of car, and ironicly found one on autotrader.ca. Went up, took a look, test drive, and nogociated the price. The guy originaly wanted $3900 as is, i managed to talk him down to $3850 with tax, as is. So shes headin up there tomorrow to pick it up. Any ways, details on it.

Its a 1994 Toyota Celica GT-S, 2.2L, 5spd, silver, black and dark blueish interior. The car has 215xxxKM on it, runs smoother than my car..lol. The interior is mint except for the usual slight rip on the siders side bolster support, and there is a small rip in the vynal on the dash pad. Theres no rust what so ever *that i could find*, no bondo, the paint is kinda mucked up a bit, there are a few good sized scratches but nothing that a good buff wouldnt clear up. The front end was tapped slightly and the fender got re-straited, but no accidents what so ever on it. But yea, shes gonna pick it up tomorrow, tow it to her house *no front brakes*, then im gonna go home on the weekend and work on it while shes in New York for a wedding. So by the time she gets home, im gonna have the paint fixed up a bit, repaint the dashboard plastics *old owner hacked job painted them gray*, put her new shift knob on, shift boot, front brakes, front sway bar end links, install the cd player from her car into it, install my old bass tube subwoofer and just do some quick work on it, clean up engine bay, readjust the fender and just give the car a good once over to make sure its gonna b good. Then on Tuesday when she gets back from NYC, shes gonna go get it e-tested and safetied. She will probably be making an account on here sometime soon.

As for plans for it, we are probably gonna be buyin a 404 kit for it b4 the winter, lowering it, set of 17" replica Buddy Club P1 racing rims, paint it BMW navy blue and then just keep it relatively stock performance wise. Im gonna build her a short ram intake with some of my old parts sittin in my garage, gonna get her a magnaflow muffler and do a half back exhaust.

Its gonna b fun having another celica to work with now and its gonna b run building it the way she wants to.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Sep 17, 2007 - 10:30 PM

[Valo666]

more work done...sarah started her new job..well..new location, same job today, so i had the day 2 my self to just do what i wanted to do...so whats there to do on a saturday afternoon with some friends??...work on the car...again....nothing majour today, we spent a bit of time working on sarahs car and a bit of time working on my buddies intrepid thats been sittin for a month and a half while he was away in Lebanon.

My freaking messy shop..i just had every thing every where cuz i had so much on the go..


Any ways, todays updates are:
Painted small sections of the car to cover up dents and scratches...i did a light sand with some 800 gritt then just masked and sprayed..im gonna wet sand tomorrow to blend the colours a bit better.




Then i also tryed to work on the hood..when we got it, it was a little fadded, but nothing too bad...but after i tryed to use some of that nufinish crap on it..it made it sooooo much worse...so i decided to wet sand it to bring some of the luster back in...didnt work..just like the roof...so i painted it too..but i dont have any pic of the finished product yet...so heres a teaser..


also i did some engine bay dressing up...aswell as a well needed oil change


i got bored too and decided to make some of the inteiror look a bit better too...sarah wants to keep a full black interior, so she wants to do a black headliner sometime..but untill then, shes just gonna have to deal with the gray one and the map light and mirror painted black...


ill take some more pics tomorrow after i do some more work....what im gonna be doing...i dont really know..probably brake job and re-finishing her other 2 rims.