Car Progress Thread v2.0, Replacing rusted out quarter panel... yay body work. Options

[KAOS]

haha yea i do a few of those things. Its funny because I'm at school getting my civil engineering degree, I just work on the car as an escape from schoolwork.

I totally know what you mean... I work on the car because it has absolutely nothing to do with my job, LOL.

Its a great escape.

[HectortheRican]

I'm seeing all these little electronics you're getting and...

Do you wanna make the Celica a luxury car on the inside?!

[mkernz22]

get a JDM non-airbag one like me! it looks amazing!

Nice job mate

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p.s.
i can find a jdm 3 spoke wheel for you but becouse of the years i thing you need to put new leather on it - i mean i saw a few here in the local car graveyards so i can check for you....

cheers

Thanks guys, I am going to put on another stock celi 4-post that I have laying around. Its not leather, but its in perfect condition. I will eventually put on a 3post with an airbag, but not for a bit.

Airbags are for p*ssiesss! lol

On a serious note, they can be good or bad though

This post has been edited by mkernz22: Oct 22, 2010 - 10:54 AM

[jcbass7]

I'm seeing all these little electronics you're getting and...

Do you wanna make the Celica a luxury car on the inside?!

They are simple inexpensive things (mostly) that you can do to make the car a little nicer and more unique. Working on cars is my break from the real world so sometimes I have to create more work to do. I always have crazy ideas running through my head about doing different custom fabrication things on the car. Keeps it fun.

I've definitely been inspired by Dustin (Batman722) on a lot of these little projects and love his write ups about them. He's always got great ideas and makes everything look OEM.

[jcbass7]

Airbags are for p*ssiesss! lol

On a serious note, they can be good or bad though

After joining the service and having countless trainings and lectures about safety equipment I lean towards it a lot more. I'm a big enough guy (6'4") I feel like an airbag would help me in a crash more than harm me.

Driving the vette on the highway scares me sometimes though, I've seen crash test videos of cars from that era and many its not good. The car has no crumple zones at all and the driver usually ends up in the back seat... and well.. the vette has no back seat.. I just picture me, the 350 and a lot of fiberglass in a nasty tangled mess if I ever hit something hard.

[jcbass7]

More work done this weekend, not as much as I would have liked to get done, but better than nothing.

Progress:
-Installed a better condition steering wheel (4-post)
-Painted and installed GT-Four riser blocks
-De-badged the rear except Toyota emblem
-Installed Optima Red-top

pics...

Removing GT4 front end from Coupe:









Progress on Red Hatchback







goodbye old steering wheel


hello new one


red top

[jcbass7]

More progress, got some stuff in the mail today.

Progress
-JDM Tail Lights

they are on the car, but I couldn't get a decent pic in the dark. I'll get one tomorrow..




This post has been edited by jcbass7: Oct 25, 2010 - 7:12 PM

[HectortheRican]

JDM tails for the win bro!

[jcbass7]

as promised...

JDM Tails and debadged (still a bit of residue, need to get some goo gone)




This post has been edited by jcbass7: Oct 26, 2010 - 3:22 PM

[jcbass7]

got some more work done today..

Progress:
-DCW Shift boot dual gauge pod
-Prosport exh temp gauge installed
-Prosport voltage gauge installed
-Blox 450 gram weighted shift knob


I had the exh temp gauge and gauge pod sitting around, the volt gauge came in today as well as the shift knob and the lexus trunk/gas lid button

pics:


Day color = blue


Night color = white (still need to get my old gauge to work this way??)









gonna put this here...


and the seat heater buttons here and here..



and the gas trunk button will possibly go where the dimmer switch is and ill move that to the left vent area where the blank circle is..


This post has been edited by jcbass7: Oct 26, 2010 - 4:41 PM

[HectortheRican]

I just love all your custom interior work man.

[jcbass7]

I just love all your custom interior work man.

Thanks Hector, she's getting there slowly. Its been a lot of fun so far.

[presure2]

looking good jesse!
that black frame rail came off jenns car!

[jcbass7]

looking good jesse!
that black frame rail came off jenns car!

Thanks Manny, Its kinda fun having a little piece of everyone's car. Obviously I have a lot of parts from my old celi, but there are little pieces here and there from guys/gals all over this forum

[presure2]

looking good jesse!
that black frame rail came off jenns car!

Thanks Manny, Its kinda fun having a little piece of everyone's car. Obviously I have a lot of parts from my old celi, but there are little pieces here and there from guys/gals all over this forum

hehe good stuff man.

[jcbass7]

Well I contacted prosport and it looks like they made a change to their gauges about a year ago. So my old style ext temp gauge is only blue and cannot turn white at all, and the old ones have slightly less powerful LED's as well (as seen below). So for now I'll keep the blue all the time set up, but eventually I will upgrade so that I can have both gauges go white during the day.



Also I found a picture of the switches in a stock BMW


I need to figure out how they turn on and off. There is a high and low setting on the switch, but no off position like the toggle Toyota seat heater switches Dustin has. From what I gathered, the wiring on the back of the switch is as follows:

Wire
1: illumination +
2: Power (Hi?)
3: Power (Low?)
4: Ground (Illumintaion -)
5: Heat Pad Back
6: Heat Pad Seat

So this might be more interesting than I thought to get it to wire up correctly, but I'll make it work.

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Oct 27, 2010 - 10:02 AM

[jcbass7]

I'm getting good at spending money...

Seat Heater Elements



I got them at a great price. Its the same kit that sells for 75 shipped per side. Snagged both sets for 90 shipped.

Now I just need to get new seats... I can't justify putting them into my ripped leather seats that are currently in the car. I'm in the market for 7th gen leather seats. Trying to get a set at a good price. Anyone have a good estimate at what they run for? I was seeing prices around 300.

[mkernz22]

Looking great man! I love all your custom work as well, and I'm starting to go that route with some things as well haha
I do have an extra set of 6gen seats that are in pretty good condition, well, actually, I'll have 2 sets of extra sets of seats in a few weeks lol

[jcbass7]

I might be interested, got any pics? I also realized that I drive right by Norton every weekend when I head up 95 back to Gloucester from my school down here in CT.

[jcbass7]

Took the CC unit from the coupe apart since Eric (previous coupe owner) had made it blue.. but it started to get testy. I opened it up to find quite the hack job.. wires twisted around the LED posts with no solder or anything. So I ordered the following LED's to do this correctly as well as a few other interior pieces:

(all Blue)
1x 8mm Neo-wedge
3x 10mm Neo-wedge
12x 3mm LED's

Here are the pics of the hack job:




This post has been edited by jcbass7: Oct 29, 2010 - 10:30 AM