New member here guys! I'm Chris, and I live on a farm in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Last September I saw an ad for a Toyota Celica that needed motor work. After looking at it, I bought it a week later and towed home my (First) car and project: a 1988 Celica GTS with 130,000km and a blown motor. The motor was starved of oil, and it tossed a rod. I spent a couple of weeks looking for another engine (I was sorely tempted to get a 3SGTE, but decided to keep it stock) and I got a JDM 3SGE from Toronto. Since I did not want to pull the motor out anytime soon, I set out to completely rebuild the engine. It wound up getting new pistons, rings and bearings. I am currently working on cleaning/inspecting the injectors and then I will be ready to bolt the intake manifold on. The clutch is being replaced (More work-avoidance insurance ) and I resurfaced the flywheel. I will be installing air conditioning in it and then I was thinking about maybe repainting it.
Hey, welcome Chris. Looks like your 1 year anniversary is coming up Nice looking body on that 88GTS, very clean. What did you steal that for? The lighting is throwing me off but what colour is that? Looks to be metallic grey/gunmetal?
Good luck with the car reminds me of my old girl The color looks to be 168 which is Merlin grey i think. Thats a ood looking exhaust manifold cover on your new engine :S dont think ive seen one like that b4
Got it for $900. It does have a few rust spots, but They are early enough that some sanding/paint should get them. It spent a lot of it's life in a garage which attributes to its great overall shape. The car is a metallic Grey color. Hmmm, can't think of why that would be -I reused the one from the old engine- ... It might be the coat of High-heat black I put on it...
for one that has been sitting the body is freakin' straight. im jealous. sweet ride though. keep it up! post more pictures once its running!
