New in town..., Slowest build thread EVaR! Options

[Saavedro88]

Greetings all. My name is Pierce Ford, I live in Richmond VA, and I look like this:



Great. Now that we have that over with...

Last Wednesday, this little gem was traded into my dealership for a new Elantra:



I jumped on it with a diseased quickness, and had the keys for it before the poor girl had even signed the title, Lol. Bottom line, this car is FANTASTIC. I love everything about it, except that the PO was a smoker...






I've been driving it ~140 miles a day since then, and it hasn't given me a bit of trouble. It leaks oil rather quickly, I top it up every other day, both front axle boots are broken, and it's due for a timing belt, but all in all, its an AMAZING car, and I'm pretty sure it's getting better fuel mileage than my Civic right now... It's also the only car I've ever had that has A/C, which is a MAJOR plus. It has 174,xxx miles on it, but feels like it'll run forever... I picked it up for 800$ out the door.

No real plans right now, I still am not quite sure what I'm going to do with it, as it was a bit of an unexpected blessing. I've been trying to build up this other Civic I have for daily driving duties, but that may be out the window now... Who knows. It definitely needs a paint job, I'm gonna do a dark matte green and maybe two tone it with everything above the window-line being matte black. I've been toying with the idea of slamming the piss out of it, making it all "Hellaflush" or whatever, as I've never seen one of these cars like that before, with some super stanced gold wheels. Wheels is definitely a priority, I HATE how sunk the stock wheels are, especially in the back. And seriously, WTH is up with this 5x100 BS?? I have a TON of 5x114.3 wheels, but I've never even HEARD of 5x100 wheels... Does anyone know if you can swap over SW20 hubs? Like, use their back ones for our front ones, etc?

So anyways, I can promise you this, this build will crawl along at an amazingly slow rate, trust me. But I would certainly appreciate any help and information you wonderful people can give me along the way, I know I'm looking forward to it!

[SwissFerdi]

Welcome. Silver Celi, so already good to go in my book.

Good luck.

[Saavedro88]

Silver Celi, so already good to go in my book.

That'd be "Shelly, the silver Celi." Made that up myself, lol. Thanks! Although it's hardly silver anymore...

[cheela]

looking good. for $800. that's quite a deal. look around on the forums for ideas and help.

[playr158]

Welcome yet another VA 6gc owner.
good luck with it, they are fun cars.


However, I currently hold the title of slowest build evar....running at 5.5 years!

[richee3]

Nice pickup! These cars are easy to work with. Not always the cheapest to work with, but easy enough.

[RabidTRD]

The leaks are probably in the front end. When you change the timing belt, make sure you replace everything in there. Cam seal, Crank seal, oil pump seal (and pump if you choose... might as well), water pump and seal, and get a timing component kit. You won't regret doing all of that and I can bet you that it'll slow that leak. Next, valve cover gasket. After that, inspect the oil pan... if it's leaking, drop it, clean it and black RTV the hell out of it and put it back up. I currently leak no oil and I did everything I just stated. I started off with the same loss of oil you're describing.

Have fun with her! They're probably the best handling car I've ever driven. Stiffen the chassis with the ST205 rear bar, over engine bar in the front (in addition to the strutbars that go to the firewall) and she'll stick like glue. When I drive my friends around, they can't believe the grip this thing has on the road.

Drop her! I'd say get some hubcentric spacers that convert to the bolt offset you're looking for and slam her. They look great lowered.

[block]

nice intro keep us updated on the updates!

[Batman722]

nice pick up

[Saavedro88]

Thanks for the welcome's everybody!

RabidTRD, thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was so much under the timing cover. This will be my first FWD Toyota I've ever dealt with, I've had two 3rd gen Supra's (and worked on like 12 others), and I'm working on a 69 Corolla Sprinter in my spare time.

As far as handling, I don't think it'll handle any better than my FC RX-7. But I was pleasantly surprised with how well it does handle, that's a nice change in a Daily Driver.

This post has been edited by Saavedro88: Aug 18, 2011 - 12:38 PM

[cheela]

pics of the 69 sprinter!

[Saavedro88]

Lolz, it's still in Project mode.







And when I first found it:



Towing it home:

[Lone_Wolf]

Nice pick up those silver celi looks sooo nice just think in a couple of months or years lol it could look like this.

[cheela]

man! and I thought my RA24 was gonna be hard to work with. good luck with that as well as the celi.

[BonzaiCelica]

Welcome yet another VA 6gc owner.
good luck with it, they are fun cars.


However, I currently hold the title of slowest build evar....running at 5.5 years!

ya hurry up. we wont to see your finished product!!

[jmeyer]

Welcome yet another VA 6gc owner.
good luck with it, they are fun cars.


However, I currently hold the title of slowest build evar....running at 5.5 years!

He's got you beat, 8 years.
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=75515

The rolla needs a 4age. Blacktop with velocity stacks and she'll be so sexy. Leave the body the way it is, thats a sick rat rod look.

This post has been edited by jmeyer: Aug 22, 2011 - 10:29 AM

[RabidTRD]

Now that's farm fresh! You've even got the proper old car air conditioning in the floor! Woot! Haha. I can't wait to see that sprinter take shape. I love the old Corolla's.

Speaking of which, I found a 1985 AE86 on Cars.com! It has 143k miles and is from MS. NO rust. Clean as hell. I want it so bad. It even has the GT-S Twin Cam vinal on the side! *Drool* Dream car #2.

In my life time, I want to own the following:
1985 Celica Supra
1974 Celica
1985 - 86 AE86 Trueno or Levin
1980 Corolla SR5
1992 MR2 Turbo

I will own half that list at least. :X

[Saavedro88]

In my life time, I want to own the following:
1985 Celica Supra

I had an 83. That car was KICK. ASS.

[NYp8tBaller07]

Thanks for the welcome's everybody!

RabidTRD, thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was so much under the timing cover. This will be my first FWD Toyota I've ever dealt with, I've had two 3rd gen Supra's (and worked on like 12 others), and I'm working on a 69 Corolla Sprinter in my spare time.

As far as handling, I don't think it'll handle any better than my FC RX-7. But I was pleasantly surprised with how well it does handle, that's a nice change in a Daily Driver.

Pic of the RX =D; nice pick up BTW and that sucks how the PO was a smoker =X

[Saavedro88]

It's always a pleasure to whore out my heart-throb.

This is Jessica. She's a 1990 RX-7 GTU, and she's come a LOOOONnnnggg way.








I also race her as much as possible. Usually just Autocrosses, but I'm doing an HPDE in November.

This post has been edited by Saavedro88: Aug 24, 2011 - 9:54 PM