New Celica Owner Options

[Seven1Six]

Not exactly new, I've had it since the summer, but I'm just recently getting into it.
I got a white 1994 Celica ST hatchback.

Here's what's in my mind.

I recently slid into a pole in the snow here, I detached the passenger fender from the front bumper and messed up the fender, so I need to get a new one of those.
I need to get a new passenger tail light (broken when I got it, still lights and works, but there's a crack in it that I had to cover with the light tape).
There is a soccer ball sized dent that is rusted in the back driver panel, a crease/dent in the driver door, and rust along the side and bottom of the door on the driver side (all from when I bought it, but it ran fine and was cheap so I was fine with it)

It's got an automatic tranny, and is, as stated before the ST. It has 137k miles on it now.
This is farrrrrr to slow for my liking.

What I want to do is put in an engine from a GT, preferably a manual transmission, but I don't really have the time or money to worry about that so realistically the auto will do, so long as it's a larger engine.
Like I said I'm new to this so stay with me here, what type of engine am I looking into for this, and what would the cost be for it? My dad has a few mechanic friends so I'm sure they'll teach me along the way and help me put in it and all.
Once I do that I plan on fixing all the body work needed, and painting it, most likely black.

So I'll keep this updated as I go. I need all the help I can get, I'm 17 and my old work place closed down so I'm working on a new job, no one around is hiring though so I'm on a very very short line of cash for this, so any donations are GREATLY appreciated haha.

Thanks for taking your time everyone.

-Josh

[Seven1Six]

Alright, thanks for the link
I'm looking into people parting out cars trying to get the gas cap door, fender, and tail light.
Once I get these and in the spring I'm gonna get the body work done, the 2 dents pulled, and the car painted.
I'm going to go with a solid color, any suggestions, around here I've seen a black, red, and teal, then my white one. I don't really like the white though.
Any ideas on a color? I'll go from there. I do like the black, but I'm thinking a more obnoxious color would work better haha

Edit: Wow that link gave me A LOT of info, sorry I didn't do a search for it, I was just excited to get this up and get some input.
...so it is possible to put the 3S-GTE into my ST, but probably more of a pain in the ass and a lot more money, so realistically 4A-GZE is probably a better bet...

This post has been edited by Seven1Six: Feb 1, 2009 - 10:57 AM