96 Celica st Options

[sambo-12]

I've probably had my 96 Celica for almost two years, but haven't been able to work on it. This is my first time on a forum.


For the first 6 months i kept my car stock then this happened





hand to find a new axle, I liked my rims for the time being so I decided to buy another one (sears brand) because it broke in the accident and painted them black



and someone thought it would be funny to take my toyota emblem?



decided to get some HID's and a roof rack





Decided to instal my 12" subs


about 3 months ago i finally decided to put some money into my car and bought some new FRS rims



After that I went to get my fenders rolled


Took my car down to a shop to get my megan racing springs and stagg struts installed


Top pic is before and bottom is after, not much different, just 2"


I was loving how my car looked and drove, and have 35 percent tint and took off my spoiler





three days ago, with 170xxx miles my engine blew





yesterday I picked up an engine with only 5 miles on it, hopefully i have a chance to put it in this week



This post has been edited by sambo-12: Jul 7, 2013 - 10:33 AM

[sambo-12]

MEGANS! how does that series ride?

Compared to my old stagg struts and megan springs, It rides perfect!





I need some smaller wheels, any suggestions?

[samboo]

I love this pic of my car

bought new wheels, then realized i couldn't make it back down my driveway safely.. 15" was way to small




Low shot before i drove and was scraping all around northern virginia


This post has been edited by samboo: Oct 12, 2013 - 11:16 AM

[samboo]

Had some fun this weekend









Needed some help figuring out how to keep the fog lights in so i needed some help from my dad







The final product


This post has been edited by samboo: Nov 17, 2013 - 4:25 PM

[cheela]

sweet! now you just need a lip to cover up that bottom, NO REPAINT NEEDED! hahahh.

[samboo]

sweet! now you just need a lip to cover up that bottom, NO REPAINT NEEDED! hahahh.

hahaha i do want a lip, but i was planing on painting my whole car anyways so it's not a big deal.

[Nartanian]

Nice work man. Always wanted to do that front end when I had my Celica.

[samboo]

Nice work man. Always wanted to do that front end when I had my Celica.

It was a lot easier than i thought it would be!! mainly because i didn't put a crash bar on it haha

[samboo]

Need some help on picking out new wheels.... not sure which ones to go with.



17x7






Or 17x9

[Crazy0reo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

[samboo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

[Crazy0reo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

i see, looks clean, yeah i wanted to figure it out before i go throwing all this money into it. but yeah. how long did it take you to install? whole day i bet?_?

[samboo]

gt4 bumper went right on? did you cut the bar? and hood? just wondering because currently i have a 94 st and i want to do the gt4 exterior look. trying to read up ! let mee know!

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised

i see, looks clean, yeah i wanted to figure it out before i go throwing all this money into it. but yeah. how long did it take you to install? whole day i bet?_?

It would've been a few hours if I had the right tools, but it ended up taking roughly a day

[Smaay]

the car looks awesome!!! im going to give some constructive criticism, get rid of that tow hook out the back. Its only making you look like a ricer. Other than that i love how it looks lowered with the FRS rims.

[samboo]

the car looks awesome!!! im going to give some constructive criticism, get rid of that tow hook out the back. Its only making you look like a ricer. Other than that i love how it looks lowered with the FRS rims.

I actually just took it off today, kept hitting my leg on it haha, I got rid of the frs rims awhile ago, but regret it.
Thanks though!

[samboo]

Went to maryland to pick up some sideskirts from chris32880

On my way, I came upon this road, was way to fun!!




Before



After



Anyone have any ideas for a turbo on a 1.8L engine?

Engine only has around 3-6K miles.

This post has been edited by samboo: Dec 1, 2013 - 3:40 PM

[Box]

http://www.6gc.net/howto/turbocharge_your_7afe

[6G96GT]

Looks good, nice work. What does it mean when you say you rolled the fenders?

[samboo]

Looks good, nice work. What does it mean when you say you rolled the fenders?

If you feel the inner part of your fender, mainly the fronts, you'll notice there are like hinges.

Basically because my spacers made me hit my fenders 24/7 with the frs wheels. YouTube fender rolling or google it... I'm not the best at explaining haha

[samboo]

So I was reading about putting a turbo on my 7a, I feel that it would be to much of a hassle, any thoughts of a swap for the future? Since my engine has such low mileage i don't want to get rid of it yet. any suggestion in swaps into my st? It's embarrassing losing to my buddies civic when he has a full car and i have no one in mine.. but for now i guess i will have to suck up the lose... If anyone has some good ideas, please let me know, It might not be soon, but i want to do my research before i do it.

[kurt95gt]

Your basic options are
If you want to use your stock trans ).1 4agze. Good motor ,older only puts you just over a stock gt I think
If you swap to a s54/e153 trans ). 1 3sge beams. Good dd motor, preferred by many, non turbo, but no real mods out there to make more power over stock beams power.
).2 3rd gen 3sgte, big power motor , said to be good as a dd, tons of upgrade parts out there, stock turbo, no real downside out side of some extra mantanance due to turbo being needed.
).3 v6 swap (1mz). Easy to find, good dd (has been for me anyways while I was driving it everyday) good power for non turbo motor.
Takes well to intake an exhaust mods, porting heads, porting intake. Not many aftermarket parts available. But some stock parts can be used for extra power, downsides its not been done alot, not as plug an play as the others, depending on your luck you might be stuck with a check engine light due to trans codes.