So, after talkin it through with alot of my friends, parents, family, etc. I decided that Im gonna keep my celica. Im gonna still be taking it off the road for a few months. So i decided that while its off the road, and im working im gonna put some $ into the car to get it back up to par of where i want it. So i decided to do a list of things i need to get done with the car. My goal is to have it all done by august 1st. So...pretty much, i need to get all of this done in the next 5 months or so.

Tint windows, re-upholster/re-cover rear seats, fix seat back *amp pulled the backing of my rear seats off cuz of its weight*, move amp *obvious reasons*, get oem strut bar covers for rear, weld up e-brake bracket *part of it got ripped off and i gotta tig weld it back into place*, clean up/paint calipers, buy new/used rear controll arms, recondition controll arms, install control arms, get new window gaskets and install them, get new drivers side vent, re-paint interior plastics, get jdm tails, get jdm projectors, fix wobbel in shifter *gotta tighten down the bolts*, new sway bar end links for front, get new wheel bearings on all 4 corners, wrap up exhaust and intake piping in heat wrap, re-vamp intake, fix door rust and hatch rust, undercoat car, clean up rear strut bar, get new TRD plate frames, fix paint chips and blemishes, de-badge rear, new front strut bar *probably cusco*, install gauges, buy DCW single pod, paint and install 5th gen mirrors, get new sunroof, re-do headliner

So, the list starts tomorrow....first step stage 3 of my celica. wish me luck

This post has been edited by Valo666: Nov 3, 2007 - 9:21 PM

good luck and good choice

wow, that is quite the list...good luck and keep updates

cool man .. nice to know u wont b selling ur celi .. so I aint da only 1 to be going for all da mods here in TO .. lol

I wna get JDM rears 2 and lower her

I just got tint last week ... 5% rear and 35% driver n passenger windows .. (ontario law)

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screw the law, illegal tints ftw. i dont like mixing tints, ill take my chances getting pulled over.

glad your keeping it valo, mainly because i was tired of reading your threads talking about it but never doing it but hell if i were you, id get a skyline. long list of stuff you got there, hope you get it all done.

well most of my parts are back in toronto, but i did manage to collect some new parts/parts i needed to buy. I got pretty much every thing i needed except for my rear strut bar covers. I ordered em from Toyota, waited 2 days, went to pick em up and they said it would b on back order untill the 22nd or so. But i did manage to get some things i needed to buy.



Trisco Vacuum gauge..$20 brand new

extension peice for my t-fitting on my oil pressure sending unit, shrink wrap, connectors, 18GA wire in 25 foot spools ($1.50 each from princess auto)

New TRD plate frames


hehe..."The List" phase 4..ive re-written this thing 3 times already, but i keep adding things to the list i forget about. Its probably gonna be closer to two pages by the time im done. So, im heading back to Toronto tomorrow, and first thing im doing when i get home is going out to buy some paint and some other little bits and peices im gonna need. Ill keep you guys posted with the progress.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Mar 8, 2007 - 4:43 PM

so the weather here has been screwin around with me. When i left windsor on Friday, the weathernetwork said it was gonna be +6C on saturday, +8C on sunday and +13C Today. Sure enough, Saturday was more like +1C, yesterday was +3 and today is +6 and raining and best of all...im sick. Woke up this mornin all congested and stuffed up and achy. So, my progress on my car has been minimal. I really didnt get to do any thing thus far. I put the new plate frames on, but thats about it. BUT on saturday I went to this car show called Performance World. Lots of nice cars, and because it was put on by a custom car shop, there was TONS and TONS! of audio and performance stuff on sale for cheap. So i got me some new 6x9 and 6" Kenwood speakers for $70 for both pair. And unfortunatly, i gotta work the rest of the week, but i hope i got some free time after work durin the week or that this coming weekend is gonna b nice out. So ill keep you guys updated on the progress.

i would really REALLY stay away from using those cheap brass fittings to get oil to your sender.
they WILL fatiuge and crack over time.
get a steel fitting from tunertoys.com, or even better would be to locate it on the firewall or somthing and run a SS line to it.

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i actually got thouse fittings from a Hydrolics store. The guy said he has had thouse fittings with 1800PSI runnin through them constantly for 4 years and hasnt had a problem. Plus these are only gonna b temp untill i swap my 3S in next winter.

The problem is not the pressure they can hold. It's their strength against vibration and other stresses from the engine. That's alot to be hangin out their on brass. SS would hold up fine.

so im back in windsor and brought pretty much all of my stuff back, so new items to be installed...2 days untill the gauges get put in


plus i got new strut covers for the rear that go over the GT4 rear strut bar, new strut bearings for the front, gonna be ordering poly urethane bushing for the rear on friday, ordering my twosrus sway bar end links...now i just gotta wait for my tax $ to order the rest of the stuff i need to put in, aka wheel bearings, new controll arms, maybe CF hatch, and maybe JDM non-projector headlights with the parking signal.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Mar 19, 2007 - 3:06 PM

so i had some extra time in the shop tonight, so i started workin on my car a bit more. I got my OEM strut bar covers yesterday, and decided to install my guages today. I dont have them installed completely, but im gonna have the rest wired up by friday. Only thing that sucks is i have to get a new t-fitting for my oil pressure sending unit because the one i bought doesnt fit for some reason. any ways, enjoy..sorry for the crappy pics



Im gonna keep the bottom 2 guages sittin sideways a bit because i can see the full sweep, but im gonna turn the A/F guage to the top when i pull it apart in a few days to finish it up.

looks good except for the wires running thru the fender.
-Aaron-

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..so much for keeping your engine swap a secret..ya jus told us what engine your going to do

but the gauges look great btw..

do you drive with 1 hand on the wheel and yourself sideways? the guages seem offcentered and if you low ride maybe its easier to ride that way? im just joshing ya, gotta love new toys, btw i got the black slvr too!

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Meh its alright...i was thinkin of doing a 5sfte..but 2 much work..so im gonna just end up doing a 3rd gen 3s swap.

Also afro man, i did that wiring like 2 years ago when i first got the car, im plannin on runnin it thru the grommet under the fender.

But yea, the gauges are harder to read because my sparcos sit about 2 inches taller than OEM seats, so half the gauge face is being blocked. Im gonna turn the A/F guage to the side so its flat...but other than that im gonna keep the other ones to the side a bit.


back on topic..did some work today...replaced 1 of my cv boots, new strut bearings on both sides and checked my swaybar end links. My front links are sooooooooooooooooo freaking shot..lol. Im gonna b ordering a new set from twos are us. I also started to measure up the size of the sway bar mounts on the body for when i start upgrading. I was thinkin of goin with ST sway bars, but i think im just gonna get some of the twosrus end links and get some universal energy poly urethane greaseable mounts. Now next things i gotta do is get me some new rear controll arms, measure up the bushings, get energy suspension bushings, measure up some bushings for my strut rod *mines been squeaky for like 4 months*, gettin my hatch fixed, then i dunno what im gonna b doing from there. I guess it will all depend on how much i get from my tax $.

so heres todays update...over the last 48 hours ive spent $500+ on parts..lol. I bought 2 new wheel bearings ($290 for the pair), new battery ($97), new rotors and pads for the rear (another $110) and i ordered my TwosRus sway bar end links (another $165 USD). Pretty much every thing had to be ordered except the battery, so im gonna have a pretty full trunk as of tomorrow. But since i installed the strut bearing...HUDGE HUDGE HUDGE!!!!! difference in the way the car drives. my passanger side one was completely seized up..and i mean completely seized. So every bump i went over the spring couldnt compress the way it should b able 2, i would turn the wheel and the spring would spin. So driveability right now is soooo much better..now just to tackel the rear end suspension and then brakes next and the car should b almost up to where i want it....comfortable..lol. I also bought me some gold plated battery terminals, but i dont think im gonna use them just due to all of the connections i have running to my battery (subs, fogs, gauges, alarm). But yea, things are comin along well. Im headin back to Toronto on the weekend to slap my nice wheels back on, ill snap a few pics when i get em on.

recent update: Last friday i did my rear brakes, and wheel bearings. Took 3 hours cuz of the stupid wheel bearings. If you see my post about how to installl them, you'll see why. Any ways, so thouse got installed, car drives 1000 times better. So i drove home, get home go to put my good rims on, find my CV boot blew apart. So i tryed to fix it with some zipties...didnt work and ended up blowing my boot completely off. So that kinda sucked, but what sucked more was Nader and i went out to the local Toyota Nation meet, and some duche bag with a crappy paseo hit my door with his and left a nice scratch. But plus side to it, the guy gave me $100 in fresh $20s to fix it..lol. So any ways, havent done much to the car this week because i havent had any time..plus the weathers been weird..it was +20C yesterday and today its -3C and snowing. Yeaaa...gotta love canada. So tonight i spent a bit of time finsihin up the wiring on my gauges. Unfortunatly the t-fitting i made/got for my oil pressure sending unit doesnt work. So i have to wait on gettin a new one. So i installed the volt, and A/F and ran the wires for the Oil pressure but its not hooked up. I also got rid of alot of my old hackjobbed wiring from when i first got my car. So any ways, heres a pic and some videos of the gauges. Im thinkin my O2 might be messed up now because I was gettin a check engine light coming on yesterday and today when i get the gauge hooked up..it keeps bouncing for no reason. So im thinkin my 02 might be on its way out. Good thing i tapped into the main harness not the 02 wire. So any ways, enjoy. Next week, sway bar end links, polyurethane mount bushings, poly urethane strut rod bushings and new tattoo..lol




Just remembered too, i wrapped my short ram in DEI header wrap to keep the temp down *headers are stupid hot even wrapped*. Its nice cuz the engines got a bit more throttel response and it also brought the sound of the short ram down more, so now its mostly the exhaust you here. You'll hear how quiet the car is in the videos.

Bryan

EDIT: First video, the car was shut off for about 4 hours..so the O2 was really cold..hense the no reading.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Apr 4, 2007 - 9:45 PM

sweet....


This post has been edited by Valo666: Apr 9, 2007 - 2:09 PM

So i spent tonight puttin my TwosRus end links in and just fixin the car up a bit.
So heres a comparison of the rear links

I couldnt get the front links compairison because i hadda torche the endlinks off cuz they are soooo rotten.

Installed: Front


Installed: Rear


and i decided to paint my exhaust piping and muffler black just because it was sooo freaking dirty and was gettin a bit rusty looking and would pop out in compairison to the rest of my undersideof my car



So this weekend, im gonna be doing more work on the car *weather pending*, gonna fix all the paint scratches and de-badge the rear again, and maybe if i can paint the calipers and start working on cleanin up my engine bay and fix my interior.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Apr 11, 2007 - 10:04 PM

why did you replace your end links?

front ones have never been replaced, the rear ones i did about a year ago, but the lower joint on the drives side rear was completely shot..there was no resistance what so ever. Plus i was gonna go with some bigger swaybars, but this was cheaper and stiffened up the ride alot. Im still gonna be adding polyurethane body mount bushings soon.

so nothing majour to update on. Im just trying to get my parts all together b4 i start doing the bigger work. Last night i decided to fix the back of my seat and re-located my amp aswell as relocate my sub. My sub was sittin with the sub pointing up at the hatch cover for the longest time and it sounded good, but took up ALOT of my trunk space. So i decided to move it.
So its now sitting very snugly under my rear strut bar. I mounted the amp to the side of the box and made the wires a little more hidden/taped them up with electrical tape.



But within the next few weeks, alot of the majour parts are gonna be coming together...exterior work peices, interior, and some engine parts. So there probably wont be any updates/big progress reports done for the next 2 or 3 weeks. I got some mods that are coming up that only...2 people know about. So when you see the next post, there should b some good new items.

So i got some better pics of my newer mods/changes. Better pics of the new relocated sub and amp and strut bar covers

I decided to re-upholster my hatch tray again. Went to the local auto supply store and bought me some black vynal. I did it on the front steps of my townhouse on top of a little tabel with spray adhesive and a pair of safety siccors..lol Turned out decently.


Also after almost 2 years of procrastanating, i went and painted my calipers/fixed the paint on the front ones.




Pretty close colour match.

Also if you didnt read my other thread in the exteior styling section, i got a set of OEM EU splitters from Manphibian. They look pretty good.


Also, i managed to get somethin ive wanted for awhile. So im gonna b either mounting this on the back of my car *depending on what i do with my hatch*, or im gonna put it on my dash. Im thinking the dash more so though.


Also, i managed to score me a set of JDM tails for free today....kinda.

I have my old exhaust system from my 87 supra and my friend has an 89 Cressida who wants to put an exhaust system on, so i told him i had it. He told me he would buy it, so i told him if he could get me a set of JDM tails and like $50. So i should get my JDM tails in a few days time.

Thats all for now. Im slowly adding more things as time goes. I got about another $500 that im gonna b using for the celica and some new upgrades and mods. Some of which I have to figure out my choise for what im gonna do about the hatch. my hatch is rusted quite a bit, so i might b going to a FC hatch, so i might b going with somethin different/new that hasnt been made yet. Or i might b going with GT-4 blocks if i stay with my OEM hatch.

nice work man, your celi is really coming together... keep it up

so i got bored this morning waiting for my buddy to wake up, so i decided to find something to do on the car. I decided from insperation of vincent doggies post about the arm rest cover. Any ways, i broke out my headliner material i bought and decided to re-upholster it.

The pics make it look really bright, but it almost matches my sparcos perfectly. Not bad for my 3rd attempt doing upholstery *hatch cover twice*








whadda you think??

thats is really nice..totally feeling it...i have a feeling ur celi is gonna be kick ass when its all done

im still debating about my headliner. Im thinking of doing it either red or black, but im not 100% sure yet. What do you guys think?? I wont be doing it untill July probably because i gotta save up to buy a new sunroof

I love these kind of threads, always makes me want to go start a new project. Car is looking good and I'll have to keep checking back often to see all the progress.

I would say do black for the headliner, you may not always have red seats and a black headliner just looks awesome