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[BonzaiCelica]

Dang huge spacers say bye bye to your wheel bearings!

Did you extend your fender in with some Bondo so you could use that little hole to mound the front spat to your fender.

Beams is a good engine. You'll want the limited slip with it for sure. And if your crazy about suspension swap over the super strut.

[Tigawoods]

he will be fine with those spacers.


all those big fancy drift cars that the pro's are driving have like 3" spacers without any issues.

[JFXtreme007]

Dang huge spacers say bye bye to your wheel bearings!

Did you extend your fender in with some Bondo so you could use that little hole to mound the front spat to your fender.

Beams is a good engine. You'll want the limited slip with it for sure. And if your crazy about suspension swap over the super strut.

From memory and not looking at the car, I think I just used one exsisting hole along with double sided tape for the front spat haha.
And the spacers looking at them aren't too big a due to others I know having used the same (JoshuaM and Rentaspace) they should work fine
And an engine swap is definitely a thought that is on my mind, just which way to go is the question, I'm definitely leaning towards beams cause it'd go with the FWD well and since my cars handling now is gonna be much more superior to its current engine (5sfe) although I think the 5sfe is more fun than it is given credit for, great torque

he will be fine with those spacers.


all those big fancy drift cars that the pro's are driving have like 3" spacers without any issues.

Very true, and based on the others I mentioned having the same spacers I should be fine plus it makes the car look a lot sportier in my opinion

[JFXtreme007]

Yesterday I drove my car up the hill to the local mechanics to get my coils, sway bar, spacers and underbody brace and end links (front and rear) all installed (since my parents wouldnt let me do it myself due to lack of tools etc). And so it turns out it was a little tricker than I would have thought, especially for the bracing and sway bar.

For the Whiteline rear swaybar exhaust and fuel tank had to be slightly moved for the sway bar to fit through. And for the Cusco 4 point underbody bracing the whole plastic cover underneath the car had to be removed (the brace is now the lowest point of the car by a long shot!)

Anyhow here are some pictures from today

When I first saw her, when going to pick her up this morning:



Filling her up after driving round the block:



A few of photos taken round the corner:







And a picture of the underbody brace and how low it is :



Also when I was on my way home today from the grandparents place I was behind this ST185, only the second one i've ever seen driving around

[JFXtreme007]

Okay so here we go,
About 3 weeks ago now I was involved in an almost head on car crash (I was at blame for turning on a green light but no arrow). The car looked like this at the time:





while the Holden Rodeo that hit me, had only a broken headlight and fender damage (very slight). Once this crash had occurred i thought it was all over for my celica, she was not in good shape at all and i was understandably devastated.
However later that night my Dad got a call from a friend of my Grandfather's who had done my previous repair (earlier on in the thread) and had said he could repair it, and that is exactly what he did after I had purchased a nose cut (including bonnet and fenders) for $500 off of a white 1998 donor car:



However the body still needed a lot of work and was needing to be straightened up etc. Also the paint was good to just buff and polish without much respray needed, except of course for the really average rising sun attempt
A week after the car was towed to his place this was the result:





Looking a lot better! and at this point i was very relieved in knowing that I got to keep my car! The saviors of the crash were,
1) That the wheel wasn't hit therefore suspension and all was fine.
2) the TRD bracing saved the engine from and damage. and
3) was the fact i had a bolt missing off the bonnet due to the end of it snapping off inside while i attempted to install hood struts (which i can now attempt again ) The reason this help was it gave same room for the bonnet to bend up and therefore didn't crack the windscreen.

Anyhow, fast forwarding to today, I got the car back and am extremely happy with the end result (I ended up having to buy new projectors and crystal indicators, 1 fog light, and the left front splitter just needs a respray and thus is why it is currently not on the car) So here is the car as of today:







I decided to ask if i could grab the rear bezel off the donor car, and i ended up getting it for free and painting it black
All in all, Michael who helped so much to restore this car is really the best at what he does!

[JoshuaM]

Car is looking HAWT, glad to see she's back on the road. Now get that wheel alignment done!

As for the new direction with the black.... once you start you should do it right!





More: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...42210&st=80 and http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=50887

That is with the centre painted black with JDM tails that have been 'de-yolked' (orange bits taken out of indicators and replaced with LED) and been painted / tinted around the edges only to tie in with the middle.

[JFXtreme007]

Car is looking HAWT, glad to see she's back on the road. Now get that wheel alignment done!

As for the new direction with the black.... once you start you should do it right!





More: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...42210&st=80 and http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=50887

That is with the centre painted black with JDM tails that have been 'de-yolked' (orange bits taken out of indicators and replaced with LED) and been painted / tinted around the edges only to tie in with the middle.

Yeah i'm very glad she is back on the road and that actually looks awesome! but looks tricky too

[jordisonjr]

It looks soo much cleaner without and rear emblems.

[JoshuaM]

Need to see the new pics!!!

[JFXtreme007]

As per request ^

Here are just some photos I took around the corner from my place, finally with a professional camera! in hope one may be good enough to make next years calendar I'm really happy with how they turned out. Here are 15 out of 100 total taken haha. I'll be using this camera more often!

[LtSolid]

hey wassup. car looks awsome in white! and i love the front bulb light setup! wanna ask you tho, do the es300 door strikers make any difference when you close the door? do they thump? or do they rattle?

[JFXtreme007]

hey wassup. car looks awsome in white! and i love the front bulb light setup! wanna ask you tho, do the es300 door strikers make any difference when you close the door? do they thump? or do they rattle?

Thanks very much! and no difference at all, just look nicer

[JFXtreme007]

Just a little update,
Not too much has been happening with my celica lately, a few things to mention though are my Custom Air Intake (CAI) with a K&N Pod, it sounds like a beast also since the TRD front strut brace pretty well saved my car in the accident, I decided it deserved a respray So with help from Tigawoods on giving me the colour of his, I had resprayed it in VHS Cast Iron, and I did the same with my steering wheel! (Check my profile to see the pictures)

Other than all that, I have just ordered some Vincent doggy door cards with blue stitching and also have some carbon fibre vinyl to wrap my centre console

Im also on the look out for leather seats (Currently pending), windows need tinting and also need an alarm system. So I few things to still happen, and I will keep you all updated The main goal for me currently is to make the 6GC.net 2016 Calendar!

[UndaGrwnD]

looks clean!

what kind of rear muffler is that ?

[JFXtreme007]

looks clean!

what kind of rear muffler is that ?

Thank you very much means a lot coming from you
And the muffler is a JDM Prof. Muffler

[UndaGrwnD]

haha lol

i like the muffler...hard to find.

[JFXtreme007]

haha lol

i like the muffler...hard to find.

Thankyou and yeah I only know one other person with one

[JFXtreme007]

Just a small update

so today with a couple of friends I went for a small drive out to the closest Autobarn, sadly that is 45 minutes, good roads though! And when we were there I found a SAAS shift knob that is weighted (375 grams) and wasn't too tall, only 70mm, and so I bought it! after looking around for a while.
And also today I thought id give vinyl wrapping a small go, so I wrapped my coin holder lip in carbon fibre vinyl



Just another small thing, if anyone wants to follow me on Instagram my username is; JAMESF_007

This post has been edited by JFXtreme007: Oct 24, 2015 - 1:57 AM

[LeonFox]

Really love this car, it's given me some ideas for mine and I just wish I had the money to do it!

I've gotten some SS-III Side skirts and rear caps, but still looking for a front lip. I was a bit worried about what they would look like without the fronts but after seeing yours without them on it doesn't look too strange actually, definitely better with them though.

[JFXtreme007]

Really love this car, it's given me some ideas for mine and I just wish I had the money to do it!

I've gotten some SS-III Side skirts and rear caps, but still looking for a front lip. I was a bit worried about what they would look like without the fronts but after seeing yours without them on it doesn't look too strange actually, definitely better with them though.

Thankyou very much! And yeah it doesn't look bad without, just looks much better with!