Ok....sooo....I know it's a bit late for me to start it but might as well do it now. Lol. I bought my 1997 Toyota Celica GT for $4,500 on February 27, 2012. It had 175,000 miles on the cluster. It was in very good condition. The only problem I had on it was it had a CEL light on. Which was just the speed sensor in the cluster not working. Replaced that and the CEL was cleared. Also my car didn't pass emissions test but I eventually had that fixed after running on premium and Lucas Cleaner. Overall I was more than happy to pay the overpriced $4500.

>>Winner of May 2014 COTM>>

>>"This car is not about racing, this car is not about power; performance, it's purely about being cool.">>

Previous Owner: http://www.6gc.net/members/9609
Very ricey and not my flavor.

Here's a link to my FB album of my car. It has all of my pics of my silly97.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2...0238&type=3

Here some things my car had on when I first bought it:

Bone stock performance
7GC GTS Rims
AG Lowering Springs
JDM Tail lights
Stock side skirts
2post spoiler
Rear tinted windows
Window stickers




Here's what I've done to it so far:

Performance
Injen Short Ram Intake


Suspension
Megan Coilovers


Ichiba Spacers 15mm and extended lug studs all around


Eibach Camber Bolt


Fender Rolled All Around



Exterior
3k Hi halogen bulb


8k Lo HiD conversion
3k halogen fog light bulb
Amber turn signal bulb


Clear side lights


TRD Roof Spoiler REPLICA(Hi-C)


OEM SSIII front grill
Tom's Front Lip REPLICA(Zonz540)


Enkei RPF1 17x8 +45Front +35Rear
Nankang NS1 205/40/17



Interior
TRD Shift Boot


SpreeLED White Gauge Lights


GT4 Rear Strut Bar




I do have a set of GT4 splitters that are waiting to be painted.



The rest of my plans for my car is to get it repainted and installed with the gt4 splitters. I want to go wit the Supra Limited Edition Silver code 1B9. I also want to get a custom exhaust. I really want the JDM projectors also. We will see what else will be added onto my list as days goes by. Lol. Also I'm planning to keep my silly FOREVER!!! XD

How it looks before:



How it looks now:



This post has been edited by ILoveMySilly97: Nov 25, 2018 - 6:13 PM

FINALLY! I have looked for this before and couldn't believe you hadn't made one yet!

I can't remember if its actually been said or if I was just planning to say it, but I was always very interested in your thread, because I also bought a Silver '97 Celica GT-equiv. manual in March last year for my first car It amazed me how much you had done in the same time that I hadn't... But I'm getting my act together now and just put 7th gen wheels on too... Hopefully I'll beat you to the projector headlights soon

Edit: And your overpriced $4500... I paid $8k and had to fly to the other side of the country to get it!

This post has been edited by JoshuaM: Apr 4, 2013 - 5:44 AM

looks good. that drop is so nice!

Finally made one sounds about right

Your car looks epic I'm glad someone convinced you finally

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I never really thought of making one actually. Until Ryan convinced me. Lol. Silver and teal is my face colors on our 6gc btw. We will see who gets them projectors. Haha. Dang. You really did pay a lot then. Lol. I thought I had it bad.

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Yea thanks. I can go lower but I won't be able to pull out my driveway if I do. Lol.

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Ryan you actually convinced me to make one. Haha.

This post has been edited by ILoveMySilly97: Apr 4, 2013 - 2:39 PM

LOL! yeah I saw that pic was like whoa, tha'ts gonna be scary going up and down. hahha. I feel like that already with my stupid driveway and I'm not even dropped. I don't know how i'm gonna do it once i'm dropped. hahahah

I'm glad I did mate

Just seen on the pic showing clear repeaters how low the car is to the floor

That looks awesome

What a coincidence, I also happen to have bought a set of rear TRD splitters in red... haha

Car looks great, love that driver side quarter shot with the RPF-1s on

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Yea. Im actually lower than that right now so I have to come at my driveway at a hard angle or I'll scrape. Lol. Earlier today I went over speed bumps at the mall parking lot. I drove my front wheel over and once it went over I heard the bottom of my frame scrape. Lol. Its too much so ima lift it up a bit tomorrow. Drop it back down when I want to again. Lol.

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Yea. A bit too low for a daily driven car. Lol.

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Yea. For some odd reason. A lot of trd splitters being sold are red? Lol. Yea thanks. I took that shot and edited it a bit. Show off my wheels. Haha. J/p.

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I laughed when I read that... I also got some rear red trd splitters a couple weeks ago.

I may have said ths before but I call your Tom's Lip mine since you bought it just days before had the cash saved up to buy it off zonz.. LOL
Anyway, looking good man!

Haha, and I was going to buy a red set of Trd splitters a couple of weeks ago too, until the local shops quoted $250 to respray them. So I am just about to order the overpriced not so great condition silver ones on eBay

Edit: *Just bought

This post has been edited by JoshuaM: Apr 5, 2013 - 5:56 AM

oh man, I was actually looking at some red ones too but I didn't wanna have red on my car or have to respray it so I held out for some green ones. Got'em and just threw them on. Love it! hahahah

Luckily my car is black so I can respray them at home pretty easy

Love it. It looks great on Megans

This post has been edited by Julian_Navia: Apr 5, 2013 - 12:01 PM

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It makes me think that the GT4 splitters only came stock with red GT4. LOL! J/p. Yea. Sorry to grab the lip off of you but it was one of the two lips that I wanted to get for my car and it was already silver so I had to get it. Lol.

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It sucks but I'm just waiting til I get my car repainted to install it. Lol.

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There goes another red set. Hahah.

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I was actually thinking of just doing it myself but never really had the time and space to do it.

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Megans are very good for it's price.

BTW. I raised my car. Raised the rear up like 1/4" and the front 3/4". So now I don't have to worry about scraping my bottom frame over speed bumps and scraping my front lip.

EDIT: Finally got around and took a pic. It's still low but not too low. Just about perfect height for DD to clear them speed bumps and driveways.



This post has been edited by ILoveMySilly97: Apr 18, 2013 - 10:42 PM

Yeap. It's about that time. Bought the products. Just need to get my hands dirty now! Muahahhaha! >:D

This forum is full of good looking Celicas.

A noob question, did you roll it so when you drop it the tires won't hit the fender?

Also, do you have any pictures of the SpreeLED kit and some pictures of the process. Or it's just 3 LEDs that you plug/unplug and done?

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Thanks. Yea. Its recommended to roll at least the rear febders for our cars if you want to go low. The front is already factory rolled but id still recommend getting it rolled.

The spreeled kit that I bought was for the cluster and the climate and clock but I only installed the cluster because the other two was too complex for me. Lol. Only pic I have of it is the one I have above.

This post has been edited by ILoveMySilly97: Apr 19, 2013 - 4:03 PM

Got done with 3 hrs of sanding. All i need to do now is prime it, paint it, and gloss it. Can't wait for it to be done and installed! This is my first time ever prepping anything for a repaint.

Looks good. Make sure those white seams don't have a texture to it, or it'll show through the paint.

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Nope. Its all smooth.

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Awesome. I didn't see any primer in the previous pic. Are you using any?

Nope. Didn't think of it til today so I'm going to have to make quick run on sunday morning to get my primer. Lol.

Use the primer and the adhesion promoter on top of it.

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Adhesion promoter then primer then colour then gloss. Sounds good?

I hit 200,000 miles last night! XD

Here it is. Finished painting it! Still waiting a couple days for the paint to cure so I can sand it, rub it, polish it, and wax it.

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Looking good... Much better condition than my ones, I just didn't want to try and paint it myself Will be interesting to see how the colour match goes

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nice work!