Marshmallow - 1987 Celica GT-S

Been on here for a while now (year and a half or so), so I figure it's time to introduce myself.

Some of you may recognize my pictures from the Facebook page or Offical 5th Gen Celica, if so, hi!

Plenty of more photos up on my instagram @southeast_celica

anywho, I'm actually in the middle of a build, and I'll probably just put updates in this thread as more parts come in.

 

Some more pictures.

 

Recently I installed a six puck clutch for no damn reason other than it was cheap, but I have just about every single image for every nut, bolt, washer, etc. Soon I'll be putting up a writeup on the Facebook page including torque specs.

 

Thanks

I do my best.

 

Some more images, and some info

The car right now...

Old oil pan damage...

Also, ignore the bead, I just put that on as a moisture barrier while I waited for the new pan.

New oil pan on the car...


Various items I'm putting back on...


Anywho, story time for whats been going on.

My car had the clutch go out after 170k miles (not bad, in my book), so I put it in a local shop where i could tinker with it while I collected more money to fix it. Well, aside from finding more and more things wrong with it, the people at the shop kept fucking with it, breaking stuff, tearing wires, loosing bolts, etc. while I was away.

As of right now, I have replaced (in this period of time);
Clutch/flywheel/pressure plate/throw out
rear main seal
CV axles
oil pan gasket
oil pan
exhaust gaskets
exhaust stud x1
most bolts related to a clutch job
related washers, lock washers, etc
front transmission mount
crossmember bushings
inner axle seals
input shaft seal
redid several grounds
repaired wiring for my radiator fans
new tie rod ends
new air filter
new hood prop

I still need (to be "finished", not to drive)
Valve cover gasket
valve seals
new PWS pressure lines
new boots for the rack

Now, a lot of stuff was desperately needed, most was actually repairing damage thanks to the shop (I also need a new hood now), but a chunk of it was actually caused by a shop the previous owner took the car to. They were supposed to rebuild the transmission, but instead dissassembled half of it, realized it was a shifter cable issue, put on new shifter cables (with no bushings), didnt reassemble it/put bolts in finger tight and charged him for a transmission rebuild and let him drive off.

As you can imagine, this has caused a lot of wear and damage...

 

... and has caused me to do a lot of backtracking.

On the lighter side, I'll be installing a Gen2 3S-GTE here... eventually, whenever I'm done building it, an E150F converted to a LSD FWD transmission, Fortran Drag Valkyries with a 5x114.3 hub conversion, ST185 (1993 GTS) calipers (yet to purchace), BC coilovers (yet to purchace), Borla Pro XS muffler with deleted cat (YTP), and the rest of the exhaust is to be determined (why put together and exhaust set for an NA when im switching to turbo, yknow?)


But thats the current gist of that. I'll have pictures of that stuff sooner or later

 

Thanks, as promised, here are some more pictures,

 

5x114.3, 17x8 +35.

Still need to do a little fanagaling to get them to fit[emoji14]

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Tires are around $140 apeice. Currently, for the wrong size r14 tires, I'm looking at $200 apeice. For the correct size, its around $260 apeice.

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I'm going to try and post a startup video tomorrow.

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Can't imagine why the engine was vibrating...

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https://vimeo.com/164244642

https://vimeo.com/164244701

Well, its more than I expected, and more than I deserved, anyhow. After a few attempts I got it to run for a few seconds before dying, and decided to call it a night. Will be hitting it again in full force today.