What are some thing I can do to keep my interest in my Celica? Options

[SwissFerdi]

Strap a couple of jet engines or a flux capacitor on it and call it a day.


If you do install the flux capacitor, the rocket engines or a 3sgte are a necessity to reach 92 mph. The 7a and 5s are too weak to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts

Wish the officer had known this when I was ticketed at 97.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 17, 2013 - 6:06 PM

[stephen_lee]

i second the v8 part....

i sold the celica and got an LS400...

oh and the cop just watch my fly by at 155+
of course it was on a closed course and he was watching out of curiosity

[kurt95gt]

Strap a couple of jet engines or a flux capacitor on it and call it a day.


If you do install the flux capacitor, the rocket engines or a 3sgte are a necessity to reach 92 mph. The 7a and 5s are too weak to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts

It's 88 mph, GAH.

Still, you'd have to be going downhill in a hurricane to do that in a 6gc

Maybe in your 6gc
My 5a has no trouble hitting 100mph

[FrankB2]

I test drove a 2005 Chrysler Crossfire this afternon. Cured me of not appreciating mt '97 Celica vert......QUICKLY! The Celica runs circles around that car in terms of handling and comfort.

[mkernz22]

Well I'm getting bored of my car. I want to to be faster, and just more fun and rewarding to drive. I want to know if there's anything I can do to improve it to keep my interest in the car.

Having a standard would definitely keep you more interested in the Celica.
Buying an automatic was your first mistake

I swapped mine from auto to manual and now I never get bored of her.
No matter how slow and under powered she might be, no matter how many problems might occur from her age, and no matter how bored of her I might get when I'm not driving her, as soon as I sit in that seat, start her up, and drive away, I always seem to fall back in love.
Even if she is slow, she handles so nicely on curvy back roads.

[soulshadow]

Get a Honda.

**** Honda who is this guy .

The guy who has a Honda but still drives a Toyota Camry LOL

[black13]

I lost interest in mine once too. My solution: I drove something else for a while. Trust me, you'll REALLY want your aging, slow, oversteering, but cherished Celica back. As strange as it sounds, the 6th gen Celica just has a certain "feel" that other cars just can't match. Of course, boosting and swapping are great options to give the car the power you want. However, both cost a lot of money and if we all had that much money, odds are we wouldn't be tinkering around with Celicas. My advice: Freshen the car up. New struts, ball joints, tie rod ends, polyurethane bushings, sway bar end links, take the seats out and steam clean everything, etc. You get the idea. It'll still cost a good bit of money, but it can be done one day at a time. Even if your car still feels good, there's room for improvement by replacing aging parts. Plus it's a great feeling to replace parts yourself then take the car for a drive and be able to feel the results. It's also cheaper than car payments. When you are finished fixing everything up and you still aren't interested in the car, all of the new parts are an excellent selling point.

lol so true. But it has to be a ****ty car usually.

I drove a Saturn for a month while I was working on my celi and boy that first drive after it was done was just priceless. Although driving anything after a Saturn is an improvement.

[Box]

Meh, I rather have a car with superior power over handling. In a perfect world you get both, but that costs a decent amount of money. Unless you live on a majestic mountainside, car with good handling doesn't really get much use. All the roads where I live you can take at above speed in a truck of all things. So, yeah... Give me power.

[FrankB2]

I live in Bucks County, PA. We have lots of twisting roads along hillsides (too small to be mountains), and that Chrysler Crossfire I drove yesterday revealed itself as a highway car almost immediately. I knew it was made in Germany, and its steering reminded me of the first Mercedes sedan I drove back in the late 70's: DULL, DULL, DULL. We even had the top down, and it was still dull. It had power once you punched it, but I need steering to go with those fries. I got back in my Celica, and was instantly at home.

I like the idea of gently fine tuning and fixing up a Celica. Mine was bought very clean, but I've added a HU with DVD and satellite radio. I wax it often (spray on stuff and sometimes liquid), and the black interior keeps my vacuum busy. I'd like to add some larger wheels, but wonder if that will effect the car's handling on twisty roads...

5 minutes from our house, and miles and miles of the same!



This post has been edited by FrankB2: Jan 18, 2013 - 9:43 AM

[njccmd2002]

Its normal to loose interest. See here is the situation. When i bought my car and I logged here, everyone was doing something, and sparked my interest. but now only a few and between are swapping, and stuff. Life is full of challenges. I had to buy a 1st gen, and that and ps3 has diminished my time to my vert. So i lost interest. I set it under some covers and is still there. Every now and then i work on it. and its fun.. The good thing is i have a daily driver to use in the mean time.

I have tought of selling, but i put too much sweat in it, sometimes i want to do another swap, but i have no time. So its on stand by.... I have decided to finish the 1st gen this year, then work on the 6th gen...

[Wolfsting]

Buy an MR2 Turbo
Although my celica aint slow, jdm ftw

[6strngs]

I lost interest in my celica once, so I sold it and I've had several cars since then, but yet, here I am with a 6th gen celica again... They really do just have a certain feel to them that most other cars don't. Honestly, if you don't have the know-how or resources for a swap or turbo though, it won't be fast, but most other "tuner/import" cars out there require a similar amount of money/know-how to be fast too so do your research before you buy anything else if you decide to sell the celica. For example, I had an alltrac, put a few bolt ons to it, and it was faster than a 6gc, but I wanted it faster and the thing holding me back was the turbo, well the cheapest turbo kit for the power I wanted was like $2k so I didn't do it. Same story for my WRX... Same story for my celica GTS... Same story for my miata, except, I actually will eventually turbo that, lol. So, my advice is look on some forums of some other cars you've been looking at and see how hard it is to tune them before you buy one.

I live in Bucks County, PA.

Small world, most of my family lives in Bedminster and my parents grew up there.

[PaukST]

I lost interest in mine once too. My solution: I drove something else for a while. Trust me, you'll REALLY want your aging, slow, oversteering, but cherished Celica back. As strange as it sounds, the 6th gen Celica just has a certain "feel" that other cars just can't match. Of course, boosting and swapping are great options to give the car the power you want. However, both cost a lot of money and if we all had that much money, odds are we wouldn't be tinkering around with Celicas. My advice: Freshen the car up. New struts, ball joints, tie rod ends, polyurethane bushings, sway bar end links, take the seats out and steam clean everything, etc. You get the idea. It'll still cost a good bit of money, but it can be done one day at a time. Even if your car still feels good, there's room for improvement by replacing aging parts. Plus it's a great feeling to replace parts yourself then take the car for a drive and be able to feel the results. It's also cheaper than car payments. When you are finished fixing everything up and you still aren't interested in the car, all of the new parts are an excellent selling point.

lol so true. But it has to be a ****ty car usually.

I drove a Saturn for a month while I was working on my celi and boy that first drive after it was done was just priceless. Although driving anything after a Saturn is an improvement.

Haha! QFT about the Saturn, I just picked up a 5speed Saturn SL1 to drive while fixing my Celica. Haven't started fixing the Celica yet, so sometimes I still drive it. It's like lightning comparitively.

[Neon90424]

crash derby car

[PizzaGuy01]

...Unless you live on a majestic mountainside, car with good handling doesn't really get much use...

Or unless your a driver for pizza hut covering the whole downtown of San Antonio!.. if I were to ask James Bond which non-$100k car he would use, I KNOW he would pick a Celica

[SwissFerdi]

Car with good handling doesn't really get much use.

Disagreed, good handling to me speaks of a proper car, and that always has use. 95% of my driving is 45~ MPH city streets, and I utilize me handling daily, just depends on which corners can be taken swiftly. That's the best part of the 7A. it can be flogged while remaining at legal speeds.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jan 20, 2013 - 11:59 PM

[doctavic]

Car with good handling doesn't really get much use.

Disagreed, good handling to me speaks of a proper car, and that always has use. 95% of my driving is 45~ MPH city streets, and I utilize me handling daily, just depends on which corners can be taken swiftly. That's the best part of the 7A. it can be flogged while remaining at legal speeds.

I agree completely with Ferdi

[tto010]

They're not that bad. I've gotten mine up to somewhere above 80 when I shouldn't have.

ive had mine 7a @ 160km/h (100 Mph)

[Box]

Car with good handling doesn't really get much use.

Disagreed, good handling to me speaks of a proper car, and that always has use. 95% of my driving is 45~ MPH city streets, and I utilize me handling daily, just depends on which corners can be taken swiftly. That's the best part of the 7A. it can be flogged while remaining at legal speeds.

Read in full context. 95% of my driving is at 55 mph on straight pieces of highway. So handling capabilities is irrelevant.

[SwissFerdi]

Fair enough, but my statement stands.