Finaly done....or am I?... *UPDATED Nov 3*, Starting winterizing/rear end overhaul Options

[LeonStryfe]

yea its still a 5s, i think its a combo of my exhaust, headers and intake. She does growl pretty good. Im gonna take some good videos of my car probably in the next few days. I only have a few vids from inside my car, but i dont have a single vid from outside my car. But yea, my car pulls pretty good compaired to some of my other friends 5s powered celicas. Im just waitin till i actually tune my car on the dyno in a few days at my school and using my neo.

Very nice man, I have th eexhaust, the intake, but missing the header. Although most likely not a lot, it should still make a difference with those three installed? Any guestimate? Do you think getting a header is worth it?

[Valo666]

its good for throttel response. I like mine. If u got some spare $, its a good investment.

[shin]

dude i have the same HKS hoodie muahahahahahaha except i bought it at HKS website.

[Valo666]

more updates. Thanks to Vin and Stevenson, i managed to get some new parts.
J-Speed Front triangulated strut bar, and one of Vincent doggies cooling pannel

Now, i dont have much to do..lol..im runnin out of $ and ideas. I start working full time in amonths time or so, so when i get more $ coming in, ill be adding more additions to the car.

[Valo666]

nothin new to report except i blew my drivers side cv shaft now and i gotta change it, so thats gettin done on tuesday. And as for parts, only got 1 new part so far. Im gonna b buyin a 404 rear lip later on in the week. but as for now, only new parts are


hehehe

[jcbass7]

i don't know how i missed this thread nice work man!! keep it up!!!

[2bcelica]

hey- where did u get the polyurethane suspension component -- i'm thinking about doing mine -

[Valo666]

its only 1 poly part, i tryed gettin poly bushings for my strut rod, but they dont make em in the right size. I got thouse *not going to say what untill i install them* at my old work/the local speed shop. Im slowly gonna b taking things apart and measuring them to see if we can get polyurethane bushings from companies like energy. So, ill keep you guys posted as i find bushings that fit.

[Valo666]

so i did some minor work on the car the last few weeks, since ive been a bit short on $ and busy as hell, its nothing majour. I installed my energy suspension polyurethane sway bar mount bushings * made a big difference*, replaced my drivers side cv shaft that was almost in 3 peices by the time it was taken off, installed some new 6.5" in the rear, painted my cooling plate, and got me a wicked deal on a TRD oil cap. Theres a guy who lives about 20 min away from me in Toronto, who used to own a shop with his buddy, they closed down and had all this excess stock laying around, so they were sellin it for cheap. Got my TRD cap in the box, never opened b4 for $20 any ways, ill let the pics do the talking.

Oil cap and engine pics



hehehe...also got me a new HIM wrist band i use as a resivour cover


New speakers, they are JBL's i got from best buy. Regular price was like $110 a pair, then they had them on sale for $50 a pair..so i got 2sets for $4 more than regular price



they sound good too, im gonna be puttin the same ones in my doors when ever i get a chance.

[94celigts]

You know what crazy, you have a red celica, i have a red celica, u obviously like HIM, i am in love with HIM. You live in Ontario, I live in Ontario, i thinks this was meant to be my friend hahaha jk

Anyway this is off topic but did u go to the HIM concert a while back like 2 octobers ago, i went it was absolutely amazing at the coolhaus in Toronto, i also met with the guys at the HMV meet and greet, one of the better days in my life so far.

[Valo666]

You know what crazy, you have a red celica, i have a red celica, u obviously like HIM, i am in love with HIM. You live in Ontario, I live in Ontario, i thinks this was meant to be my friend hahaha jk

Anyway this is off topic but did u go to the HIM concert a while back like 2 octobers ago, i went it was absolutely amazing at the coolhaus in Toronto, i also met with the guys at the HMV meet and greet, one of the better days in my life so far.

yes and i did get to meet them too, i got my sacrament poster signed by the band. I went to that concert and the last time they were in town. Im also gonna b going to the one here in Detroit in a few weeks time. Im a huge fan of HIM though, i have all of their albums, plus 2 original european presses, their biography on cd, a t-shirt i got like in 2000 or somethin like that from my friend in bulgaria thats got the RBR cover on the front and a pic of Ville singing on the back. Also i got the same tattoo as Ville Valo does,

[RbrtNdrws]

Looks good. I wonder if my best buy is having a sale on those hmmm. I'm seeing HIM in August in Raleigh, NC .

[celicadude04]

Looks good

[Valo666]

newest mod, i decided to try a set of Nokya Hyper Yellow headlight bulbs, my daytime running lights are pretty useless, so i figured it would b more for styling than any thing, paid $20 for them so, it looks so why not.
pics

[94celigts]

lol thats jokes i just got my yellow laminates i ordered like 4 weeks ago in the mail looks like were copying eachother... i have not put them on yet but i plan to this weekend. I wanted it too look yellow all the time though not just when the lights are on which is why i went with laminates. Hopefully it llooks good maybe ill post a pic up

[Valo666]

you gonna come out to the mini-meet this weekend??

[94celigts]

Im up at my cottage till about 6 sunday... when are you guys having it?

[Valo666]

i might change it to saturday cuz a few ppl have said they cant make it on sunday

[Valo666]

UPDATE: well..nothing new has been done to the car, but i did place a good sized order into toyotaworld this afternoon for some new parts. Its gonna take about 2 months to get them though because they are coming in from japan, then going to huston then coming up here. But i ordered a set of TRD strut bar bushings *one of mine is shot and squeakes constantly*, TRD thermostat, and a set of TRD wires. Only other thing thats gonna b coming soon is a set of rear leather seats, my new seat covers when i get the material and time, aswell as im trying to get a euro rear lip and a set of euro side skirts....and if i can get the $, im gonna get a set of GT4 blocks too.

[Valo666]

HOLY CRAP!..back from the dead eh?? Well..i actually got some new work done/in the process of doing it. I finaly got some time off working on sarahs car, and decided to go out and start to put my speakers in. So i got some new Pioneer tweeters, and JBL 6.5s for the doors. So the brackets i had from the speakers that i thought would fit, dont...so i had to make up some mounts, but my batteries died on my saw and drill...so i only had half of the brackets made. But i did get one of the 2 tweaters mounted up. I didnt get to soilder them yet though cuz the only thing i have is just one of thouse crappy "Coldheat" guns..that doesnt work for crap. So i gotta go out and buy a new soildering gun tonight and finish this all up tomorrow. But enjoy the pics.


Tweaters

mount/OEM mount and speakers


my original speakers had rust on them too...so im guessin it was a good thing i decided to put some new ones in.



as my car sits right now....