Whatthe's Celica Progress Thread, A bucket full of rice right next door to a paddy field. Be warned. Options

[whatthe]

Well here it is, i bought the 1998 2.2L Celica sx-r (i think its GT) probably 3 months ago with 58,000km and the 3rd owner. It was a stock mofo car, my first car and i intend to keep her for life with many presents to spoil her.

Background
Was looking for my first car back in 08, was never sure what to buy. Wanted a NA white supra, god they were beasty looking things. But was always told left, right and centre they were too expensive to maintain and for petrol too. Looked into ftos (baby supra) but too many tiptronics not enough manuals around. That and my dad was like "GET A TOYOTA".

Out of the blue, saw a bargain of a white 98 celica with very low ks. Went out to wollongong that night with my parents with a large sum of cash to look at this celica. Who knew on the spot i would buy it that night and drive it back in the heavy rain. It was a hit or miss, he was leaving back overseas in 2 days and if he didnt sell it it would go to the dealers. Was in head over heels even tho i didnt really like the look or shape of this generation celica. This is my first car, and i plan to keep it for a life.

This post has been edited by whatthe: Sep 28, 2010 - 1:27 AM

[delusionz]

The door sills are a very nice touch.. I got them on the gt4 but not the ss-iii, I wonder if all jdm gt4s got them since ss-iii didnt even get it until 1998.

That cold air intake is pretty nice, but you may want to reconsider the routing as it's awfully close to the exhaust headers.

You can pipe it through the factory cold air tunnel but it requires some haxxing...,

Pop off the passenger side wheel arch cover, unbolt and rip out the intake resonator box,

Unbolt the fuse box on the passenger side to get to the factory cold air intake pipe, pull that out...

That will give you two possible holes to shove your aluminum intake pipe through, you'll have to hammer the holes out to enlarge them enough to get a 3"+ diameter. Use 45deg & 90deg silicone couplings if you don't want to scratch your fancy pipe there.

The part I'm stumped on though is how the hell do people relocate that fuse box, some setups have it moved to make a straight path for a pipe to go through, but there is no plug you can disconnect that i can see to make an extension patch loom.