Well guys i got me a new car , couldnt resist the chance to get another Black one.

Drove 270 miles to see it and came home with his very nice Black GT.

Service Station on the way home with a very big smile on my face



Today i got changing a few things.

First up was to swap the JDM's from the white Celica



The car had a space saver but wasnt very space saving in went the space saver from desmond, in the pic you can see the difference.





I also swapped the parcel shelf,back boot trim and GT4 strut brace.



Then swapped over the HID's





Next up was the interior

Changed the clock to blue , installed stereo, also swapped the cubby hole over this meant i had to drill a hole on the gear surround for the alarm led, also got the silver dial trim over and the blue wide angle led bulbs







Last up was to de-tango the side repeaters, replaced the amber bulbs with amber leds



doesn't sound like much work but was at it all afternoon, if the weathers ok tomorrow i'll swap the halo plugs over and maybe swap the door cards.

Not got that much planned for this one as Jimmy has done all the big mods, biggest thing i have planned is Gen 7 interior, oh and put Desmonds boot on it with the GT4 blocks and 2 post spoiler





Earlier today i swapped the wheels from my other Celica






I’m a bit stumped as the wheels that were on it are ET38 and the new wheels are et42, I thought great i will just get 4mm spacers from freaky parts and they will look the same as before, well I measured and it’s just doesn’t add up, at the closest point to the wheel arch the fronts were 14mm and the rears 21mm the new wheels you would expect to be roughly 4mm more but no, the fronts are 27mm and the rears are 34mm, wtf is going on, 4mm spacers aren’t even going to make a dent in making them look closer to the wheel arches. No happy

This post has been edited by kevstir: Oct 31, 2009 - 9:26 PM

Wow, certainly a lot done in one day. Congratulations!

What exactly do you mean by 7GC interior...I know the wheel swaps over, but are you talking about seats as well?

Mate that's beautiful, exactly what I want mine to look like. Good look with it!

congrats Kev, nice pick up !

very tidy, clean lines, the other non space saver wouldn't happen to be a gt4, would it? (T125/70D17)

nice job on the brakes, not too ott. Do you know if they where powercoated?

more interior & engine bay pictures next.

any pics of the engine? what kind of engine is in this beautiful thing

Very nice celica Congratulations

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Yeah talking about the seat, a good few guys on Celica-club.co.uk have got them in their 6's, all thats need is to swap the brackets from the 6 seats and weld them or bolt them to the 7 runners.


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could be a GT4 space saver as the guy had just bought a GT4 so probaly swapped them over.

Brakes are just painted m8, they are starting to chip as you can see he used to have them painted gold, will get that sorted in the spring.


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Engine is the 3rd Gen 3S-GE, its soooo clean i will get some pics when the weather gets better, cant take any credit though as it was like that when i bought it.

Kev

Beautiful car!

So you took out the older taillights off the black and put the SS-III taillights on? What year is the black celica? Also I've never seen a Speedo on any Celica that goes
to 180mph. Aren't all the non USDM speedos only in Km/h?

This post has been edited by Tech-Nics: Nov 2, 2009 - 4:24 PM

Its a 97 m8

This is a UK GT m8, all UK GT speedos go to 180mph.

Huh. I noticed the speedo went to 180, but I didn't even think about it. I just assumed it km/h. Great looking car though!

Couple of mods bought

1st up Gen 7 seats, cant wait to get them in , they look 100 times better that the standard interior



Next up Volvo s60 washer jets, these are a straight swap for the standard jets, the difference is that instead of the crappy 2 jets of water these s60 ones give out a fan of water.

you can see a how to on celica-club.co.uk

http://www.celica-club.co.uk/wiki/index.ph...S60_washer_jets

Kev

This post has been edited by kevstir: Nov 3, 2009 - 6:02 PM

I've added that to a sticky for the washer swap, thought somepeople might be interested.

Gave it a wee wash and Wax today forgot how good it was to do all the work and stand back and admire nice shiney black paint work.













Even though im using a dslr to take the pics they still dont look as good as i would have liked, seems its very hard to take a good picutre of a black car, will have to get some filters for my lens to see if that helps.

Took the insert out of the Gen 7 sill plate covers i got with the seats, the mounts just break off of the back, sand down the plastic lugs and some double sided tape and we have this





also fitted the volvo s60 washer jets, they dont work very good as the washer pumps fecked , excuse the dirt in this pic, the cars never been driven since i waxed it , bloody rain grrr lol

Looks very nice and clean!

something about a black Celica that makes my dipstick rise.

love it.

very nice!!!!