Rusty's SS-II progress thread, Many TRD goodies Options

[Rusty]

So heres the finished product of my cold airbox installed with carbon fibre vinyl.

[delusionz]

That's awesome bro I love it!!!




now shave those nuts off the extractors and re-wrap

[CoreyST]

That is beautiful, ever think about making more?

[S8S8]

Cracking job, looks fantastic.

Well done.

[Rusty]

Thanks for the comments guys, really happy with how its turned out.


Was a bit of a pain to wrap those (1 & 2 was the hardest), I was thinking of getting a secoundhand set and removing those metal nubs off and tidying up the welds for better exhaust flow.


Make more to sell? A lot of time & work is required. Each engine (BEAMS, 3S-GTE, 5S-FE & 7A-FE) are a bit different with the way they route the intake piping, so may require the box to be a different shape.

I'll hopefully do a write up soon, which should have some good info & ideas on how to make one.

[Quidam]

Impressive dude. All these Kiwi DIY skills make me feel guilty -I just throw money at someone else to do it, or just buy a whole new car lol

[BonzaiCelica]

about replicating the cold air box for members to buy. If you think about it all ST202 stock boxes are located in the same spot. The mounting screws all go on the same place right. So if you could just buy the pieces of metal and cut them to your same exact size and them ship em out to wherever. Then when the members receive them they can cut the whole on either the top part or left size of the box once they weld the pieces together.

Am I making sense? Just throwing it out there...

[Timmyface]

True that bonzai.

When i made mine, i made mine with a different design, without that little edge like rusty, and made it more of a square. In saying that, it looks exactly the same, and am sure the holes etc would line up. My hole for the intake pipe is a little lower and more centered for the pipes i had. other than that.. pretty much the same.

So in what your saying, it should work fine if rusty leaves the hole making to the buyer... if he wanted to make these of course haha.

[Rusty]

I don't think its very cost effective imo. to buy, cut and send (remember I'm in NZ and the NZ$ vs US$ aswell)

As I said before I intend to do a write up soon.


I got a bit tricky on mine to try and maximize all the free space I had.

[delusionz]

wait till you see what i have in store for cold air

[jordisonjr]

I love that cold air box as well.
A write up would be awesome.
Not saying you should, but someone should start selling these, because im sure there are lots of members on here who would like one, but don't have access or skills to weld one up.
But you're right, it would be difficult due to different motors' intake setup, as well as which actually SRI everyone has because they are all lsightly different.

But good job on it, it looks awesome

[Timmyface]

The way i done mine, was basically like a paper cube that you can make. Make a your cube with sides touching one another, cut it out as one, than fold along the lines to make the box. Than all i done was pop-rivited the remaining side up, and made a lid. I used thinner sheet than rusty though.

[celicamike]

Dude, your car is pure sex. Hurry up and get that spoiler on there already, I want PICS!

[BonzaiCelica]

booo! we haven't seen an update in over a month and a half! SLAP on that trd spoiler and take off the hideous oem 96+ spoiler!!

[TRDGT4]

People are waiting Rusty

[Rusty]

Last week, dropped my celica in to get the TRD spoiler fitted picked it up a couple of days ago, we've tried polishing up the spoiler the past months to get rid of the colour fade/dullness which worked out ok, but in the end the colour match was out so had it painted aswell as the hatch. The caps are still being painted picking them up next week.









so after all this time it would be rude not to post some pictures...








some of the first pictures after I got it home.
















Going to hopefully get some better shots next weekend

[richee3]

Love it!

[BonzaiCelica]

looks very jdm yoo nice addition way better than the 3 post spoiler!!!!

[Timmyface]

Now gogo take a high res photo for the calendar!!

[Rusty]

thanks for the comments guys really happy how its turned out, the shop that did the work was really impressed with my celica, they especially liked the airbox aswell


malpaso has made up mine for the calendar which looks awesome, the weather is suppose to turn bad for a bit and I'm a bit busy working on my brothers R34, which is getting shipped over to aussie soon