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]

well..the ride home was fun today. Sarah and i headed back to toronto today, about a 3.5-4hr drive. About an hour and a half in, we heard this big CLUNK! sound. Sarah was driving at the time and we didnt know where it came from. So we pulled over on the side of the highway, i took a look around..every thing looked fine. So we kept driving, about 40 min later, we stopped for some gas. We started to drive on these side roads because of a de-tour to get back on the highway. As we were driving, we started hearing this terrible clunking sound again. I thought i may have blown one of the swaybar end links i replaced the night b4..So we kept driving and just b4 we got onto the highway again, we pulled over, checked every thing out..every thing looked ok. End links were perfect. So we just kept going thinking it may be the shock or the spring not sitting right. After 2 hours of driving to get back to toronto, the clunking starts again. I was driving and started to notice some irregularitys in the brake pressure. So we finaly got to her house, then left and came to mine all the while this clunking was still happening. When we got here, i started to bounce the car to see if i could hear where it was coming from...so i got sarah to bounce the car instead. Even b4 the first bounce, i found the problem. Her drivers side caliper was pretty much falling off. And by pretty much, i mean like 3/4 of it. So the clunking sound was the caliper hittin the wheel as it moved. I havent taken the wheel off yet to see if its the bolts or what, but its moving pretty freely. Im gonna double check it tomorrow and see what the problem is. Hopefully i can get all the parts rush ordered in for saturday otherwise we r screwed cuz her car is our only ride back to windsor on sunday....this car really likes to piss me off..lol