Project Econobox (94 celica st)

[ask92]

Just a little pre-story:I got this car from my dad about 2 years ago now, it had 267,000 miles and it was on its 2nd engine, but everything else(suspension,interior,exterior) was the same that rolled off the line in 93. All the mods,repair,paint,ect was done 95% by me and no shop. The reason i keep the car instead of selling for a mk3 is the car gets upwards of 35mpg,handles incredibly, insurance classifys it as a family car and ive basically grown up in this car.


This is what it looked like in early 08'

After a bit of TLC i had this:

Then the mods started, rims,sides,spoiler:

The start of the body work:

Coilovers and splitters:

Ready to go in the booth(yes the garage was the booth):

During paint my brother let me drive his 97 cobra, which got me hooked on the feel of heavy rwd cars and here i am on this site :

The finished product:

Raped the splitters on a unmarked compact parking spot so i was left stock:

Then found a new front on craigslist and installed(how the car sits now):

That is basically how the car sits right now. That's a VERY condensed version of the story, but this is a supra site on a celica site . Overall the car has never been in ANY shop expect for for a new windshield and an alignment, and ive done all the rest work myself(besides spraying paint, my brother did most of that). Future mods will be new rims,tint,new side skirts and rear splitters. The car has 296,xxx on it right now and yes I am only 18 years old.(Puts on flame suit)

Mod list:

Performance:
AEM cold air intake
4-2-1 headers
full 2.5" custom exhaust system with 1 cat
Off-brand muffer
Battery relocation to trunk
Tucked fuse boxes

Suspension:
Cusco front Strut bar
Gt front strut bar
GT brakes (front and rear disks)
Ebay coilovers
Gorrila locking lugs

Exterior:
Boomer side skirts
7th gen GTS rims(black)
3 converted to 2 post spoiler
Shaved C-one Front bumper
TRD wing
ss-3 front splitters
5th gen CF wrapped mirrors
CF wrapped rear bezel
Shaved sidemarkers, washers
Cf eyebrows
Tint all around
8k HID lows
xenon 6k highs
Aftermarket foglights

Interior
Black leather seats
Black carpet
Black headliner
CF interior pieces
2 12" kicker cvrs
Kenwood amp 1000x2
nitro amp 150x4
Pioneer Premier headunit
Radar detector
Sound proofing
4 6.5" Boston Acoustic speakers
Factory Tweeters

 

[ihateu3]

You have put a lot of money into visuals. My own opinion is always performance first!

 

[RazoE]

I honestly like how you got rid of the pedestal spoiler once you put the more aggressive GT-Four front on..

If you wanna be different, how about a Curren front end conversion..?

 

[ask92]

@ihate The reason on for the lack of performance is on these engines its either turbo or bust, theres not much else, and turboing doesnt give much benefit and destroys the life :/...

@Raz There was a time I was seriously considering it, but after pricing everything, it was just not feasible(was well over 2,000 for the full front conversion) .