Ruckusas's Progression Thread, 1996 Curren ST206 Options

[ruckusas]

Hey everyone,

I've been lurking around here for a month or two so I felt it was time to contribute at least something. Here is my Curren I bought 3-4 months ago (I know its not a Celica as such, but hopefully in the future it'll be awfully close to one!)



I purchased it for a bargain price given that the gearbox was thrashed. After replacing it, It was running fairly sweet! At the moment it's running a 2L 3S-FE engine with some non-standard extractors coming off it. It sits on 17" TSW rims (Apex I think?) although I am unsure if it's been lowered or not (the previous owner was selling on behalf, so some details are sketchy)

I haven't done anything major to it yet (besides replacing the gearbox). I've just done simple things like putting in my Sony headunit, given it a good clean, painted one patch that was just primer, etc. A previous owner was in an accident in it, so my immediate plans are to replace the passenger door, left front guard, left headlight, and find a new bumper if I can or get a panelbeater to perform a miracle on the one I have. In the long term I plan to put a bodykit on it, either despoiler it or put a bigger wing on it and depending how long I have the car for, look into putting a BEAMS or 3sgte in it if they'll work. Seeing as I'll be a student next year, work on this car may be awfully slow. Or I may even upgrade to a later Celica/GT4

Feel free to add comments/ideas/suggestions for mods etc. I'll do my best to keep this updated!

[ruckusas]

keep the curren front end!

but you'd have to cut out your radiator core support (the metal bar your hood latch is bolted to) and weld in one from a GT4
you'd have to replace the fenders, hood, headlights, bumper, bumper crash bar, latch, ect.

its more work than a normal celica.

Ahhh. I thought there would be more to it than the crash bar thing the conversion article describes! Does the radiator core support HAVE to be a gt4 one? Celica parts are pretty easy to find here, not so much ST205 specific parts. It does seem like alot of work, but ill see if I can have a look under the hood of my Gf's brother's GT4 and compare it to my front, see what similarites there are etc.

Curren front. Gt-4 hood. TRD spoiler. Anybody else loving this idea?

I have actually thought about the GT4/Curren hood or even the bottom part of the GT4 bumper attached to the curren one, although there is the risk of it looking like arse or try hard. I do love the TRD spoiler, though I love the height and shape of this spoiler



It's a shame though because the guy that's selling the kit doesn't make this spoiler The front part looks nice. The back part however... looks a bit odd.