96stgreendemon-Great find on a sweet Celica!! It's looking good!!

So something awesome happened today, i spent a week in alabama and left my car home, when i get home i find this, hood and spoiler painted, new spark plugs, new valve cover gasket and a toyota window decal

great progression!!!

love the gts rims!!!!

haha wish I had parents that did stuff like that.

That's awesome! Haha.

That is if not one of the best things parents could do. Man your smile on your face must of been oceans wide.

Merry christmas, thats great.

Lucky you.

It's looking good.

thats very cool of your parents.

Great update and fantastic Christmas present!

Hope to see more from you.

Hey Kyle! Wow talk about a Merry Christmas, huh!? The car looks MUCH better....though I guess I need to make you a new signature now though, right? haha

Don't worry, I'm used to it. Not that many people notice, but I've gone through 6 variations for mine alone haha.


But yea, your car seriously looks like a little green demon now. It's freakin gorgeous. One concern though.. PLEASE find another car to drive while your paint cures. Salt from the snow storms outside will severely damage it!

This post has been edited by CastrolCelica: Jan 4, 2010 - 10:04 AM

ha ha i dont have another car to drive, maybe i can get my girlfriend to cart my assa round, how long will it take it to cure?

yeah my parents are freaking amazing, i was coming home with my girlfriend from a trip to alabama for 2 weeks, i get home and open the garage door to go upstairs and i see this, i almost pissed myself i was so suprised, my parents and my grandparents were hiding down there waiting for me to get there and video taped the whole thing, im pretty sure i was jumping up and down and screaming like a teenagge girl, but hey its freaking awesome, the few thinks that were flaws with my car are finally gone now, and she is show quality, i love it, and am afraid to drive her lol

Haha, that's so nice . I'm glad you had a great Christmas.

Regarding your paint, can you find out if they did a single stage enamel or a base/clear? That's important to know. The base/clear cures MUCH faster, but if they did what I did, and just did a really nice durable single stage enamel, than you're looking at 3 weeks minimum for cure time.. and that's in warm weather. Cold weather will make it go slower.

I chose single stage because white Celicas were done with that originally, so I wanted to keep it all the same. Your green color, like the red, is a base/clear. But it doesn't mean that's what they used to paint your hood and spoiler.

Either way salt and water for that matter are horrible for a curing paint job. It will not only discolor your paint (because it soaks into the curing paint) but it might actually chip off as well since the paint is weak. Curing paint is like a sponge. While 3 weeks is the magical mark for single stage enamel, 2 weeks is safe in non-road salt water. The best thing you can do is garage it, especially in weather such as this. I'd beg your gf to "cart your ass around" haha if I were you.

Anywho, it looks great and enjoy it.

This post has been edited by CastrolCelica: Jan 4, 2010 - 10:41 AM

Does your rear badge say "STX" ?

ha ha yes, yes, took it off a 5th gen coupe at the junk yard

so the past few weeks i have been ordering some parts and getting othhers ready, i plan on having my car built to a replica ssiii by the summer, i am still waiting on splitters form vince, and rears from dustin15brown, and a hell of a deal on skirts from straightthuggin4ya, and my short shifter, monday all my classes were cancelled so i was able to get some work done, i got my clear side markers on as well as putting my alpine type s speakers in the back, still waiting on the front, but i will have pics up soon.... stay tuned for more

nice progress yo!!

k so i got up early today and put the short throw in, let me just say it was a big pain in the ass but o so worth it, also got my speakers in yesterday as well as my skirts, so i just have to put the front speakers in soon and get the side skirts fitted soon, but as asked for here are all the pics, please excuse how dirty the car is, it has been snowing non stop up here
this is the repaired spot that was fixed
these are the old amber markers
these are the clears

this is how the subs were run before, i re ran the rcas down the other side now so there is no interferience





old shifter
the new short throw, no i did not hack it off, it twas a kit
and the new skirts
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This post has been edited by 96stgreendemon: Feb 13, 2010 - 12:17 PM

Nice progress! Can't wait to see it in person..hopefully at the spring meet!
I'm looking everywhere for 7gc rims..no one seems to have any around here..

so i have aquired some parts over the past few weeks so i thought i would show you all my progress
this is the repaired spot that was fixed
these are the old amber markers
these are the clears

this is how the subs were run before, i re ran the rcas down the other side now so there is no interferience





old shifter
the new short throw, no i did not hack it off, it twas a kit
and the new skirts
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Just a test fit, few pics of them


skirts, they may need some work to fit



painted and then sanded back down due to cheetah pattern

gun and setup i was using






this is after the second coat



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so this is the progress over the past few weeks, this is why i have not been as active on here

Listen, I can tell you're proud of your modifications...but please put the correct car in your profile, you DON'T have an SS-III.

Having said that, nice progress.

You do good work!! Skirts & splitters look pro!!
Anxious to see the final results....!

Looking good! Can't wait to see it all put together. Gives me something to look forward to

ha ha and yeah i cannot wait to get them on, just gotta wait for the paint to cure and then mount them,
and ferdi, its an SSIII to me

Dude! I love your car man. You are really getting some where now. That color is freaking awesome. If you shaved off those front USDM fender lights on the side. It would look super sicker. Can't wait to see the SS-III lip kit on man. Awesome paint job too on the side skirts. You need to get some mud flaps. I've seen those rally mud flaps with the lip kit and it looks sex x4. I got my GT4 front end done. I'll send you some pics when it stops snowing every freaking day. Your car's color flow 100% with the 2k GTS Celica rims.

thankyou very much, i have put alot of work into making those look good, i love the positive feedback, and i wanna see your gt4 front end

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nice progress yo!! and I agree with that guy up there ^ your paint work looks really good

thankyou, i primed and sanded them over and over again to fill spots and scratches

I agree with Ferdi.

If only you had a chance to drive a REAL SS-III (or a Celica with Superstrut & LSD conversion and a 200BHP 3S-GE motor) lol.

Try going 60mph around a hairpin in your ST or GT with your foot flat. LOL then come back and tell us it's an SS-III.

Sorry to kill your buzz but your bodykit doesn't make a GT into SS-III spec, but rather an 1998 facelift lookalike.

Just as though a Ferrari Enzo bodykit doesn't make an MR2 anymore than an MR2 Enzo lookalike, you'd be a laughing stock if you took such a thing to a Ferrari meet.

On another note, props for getting some OEM style extensions that I like, atleast you have taste