New to cars/ Just got a celica Options

[Nyczroflz]

Hey guys... I just got my 94' celica ST and I freakin love it. Im also new to modding and improving car performance. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions? Im kinda on a tight budget cuz im paying for college and stuff. Thanks

[hongkongnerdboy]

where are you located

[D-Man]

First let me say; "Welcome"

X2: where ARE you located?

The only good advice is to know what you want. If you know that, then any thing and everything to know bout that 6g is here thru the fourm archive.

So your new to car mods eh? Thats Fantasterific!! Rember that there is no such thing as a stupid question, Only stupid people who dont ask questions

Dont forget to read the stickys, (the first fourms when you chouse a catagory) They contain more information than you can handle. Really, i read them all and now i have to take medication

What are you looking to do to your car? Pics?

This post has been edited by D-Man: Feb 18, 2008 - 7:34 PM

[parriehunter]

Welcome.

Yea i also havn't had my celica for every long and as said before those stickys definitely do hold a lot of information about the 6gen celicas.

Picsx2

[Tigawoods]

just look around the forum get familiar with everyone and everything. dont rush anything

[Nyczroflz]

oh my bad, im from new york... i was thinking as of now i might wanna add either cai or sri but i really dont know which is better

[808celica]

isnt defgeph near new york???

whatever......

ALOHA!!!!!! WELCOME!!!

hmmm ST whats your budget???

i would say NOT to mod your 6gc too much while in college.

it attracts sooo much unwanted attention.......

well.........but then i live in hawaii

pm me any questions if you want........i've done alot of research and reading on here.......just no too much experience on actually tinkering with the car though getting there.

[Nyczroflz]

haha thx man. i appreciate that. well my budget right now is at 400... but im considering installing speakers, since i just installed my pioneer stereo =D

[Tigawoods]

thats the first thing i did, all JL

[axelrduvirage]

welcome to the nut house !!! this place is great for info, support and just a nice bunch to whine b.itch and complain to (off-topic of course). get some pics up!! save you rpennies. get some lowering springs. mostly keep it clean and enjoy !

[95CelicaST]

400.... hmmmm... Well, you can get your intake, thats for sure.

There isn't a company that makes them, other than Injen, but thats a SRI. You can get a CAI (which is much better... sucks up cold air instead of hot air from inside the engine bay.) on eBay, so I'd hit up eBay and buy an intake.

Or you can shop around in your area with exhaust shops and get a nice exhaust made up for that much.

Many different possibilities. Good luck and welcome to the forums.

[D-Man]

Oh speakers are good, But if you trying to get door speakers to be full range... Then rember that it's rare to find our 8in round size.

You may have to go with 4.5x8's to fit, or modify your brackts. But that's all been covered a million times in the wireing/electronics fourm.

[Nyczroflz]

yea i no about the speaker issue, well i got a hookup with pioneers cuz my friend works there. So imma get the 4.5 4 way speakers for like 60 bux n free installation. But im gonna watch them install it so i can learn lol

[D-Man]

yea i no about the speaker issue, well i got a hookup with pioneers cuz my friend works there. So imma get the 4.5 4 way speakers for like 60 bux n free installation. But im gonna watch them install it so i can learn lol

Oh, wow... you've got alot of catching up to do...

Go to howstuffworks.com and key word "everything"

Spearkers have 2 wires coming out of the cone. One is positive and one is negitive. You simply hook the positive feed (from your head unit, Stereo, Radio, Ipod, or other electronic noise making device) to the positive wire. And the negitive feed with the negitive stereo wire. IF you cross them, It dosent matter... Your cone will still play. Although depending on the speaker it may reduce speaker life.

4-way has 4 different "speakers" in it. Some are big, and some are small, some play highs and some play lows. Being a name brand product, it should be be prewired with built in cross over. Crossover makes sure that the right speakers are playing the right notes. EX: a tweeter plays a high note, a woofer plays a low note. it is the crossover's job to ensure that that tweeter plays those highs and not lows, Same for the woofer. Subwoofer and woofer are the same thing, Just abreviated.

In my house we call em SaBoofers, because my wife cannot say sub woofer... (She's Salvadorian) Neither can my daughter...

That'll start you out, Now goto how stuff works dot com and get cracken!!

[Nyczroflz]

hahaha thx man... yea im gonna check that site out... after that... TO THE INTAKE!!! lol

[97-SX]

Watchin them do it sounds like a good idea to me. there's a big difference between knowin which wire is + and which is -. The more difficult part is getting those wires where they need to be. I don't think many OEM setups are straight 'pull this speaker out and replace it with this one.' Haven't looked at the Celica one though, could be wrong.

[GriffGirl]

Read read read is the best thing you can do for now... there are a lot of knowledgeable and creative Celi owners on here from all over the world that will DEFINITELY educate and inspire you! Just guard your wallet tightly around these parts because money has a way of flying out of your hands and into shiny car stuff!

[axelrduvirage]

yea i no about the speaker issue, well i got a hookup with pioneers cuz my friend works there. So imma get the 4.5 4 way speakers for like 60 bux n free installation. But im gonna watch them install it so i can learn lol

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Speakers have 2 wires coming out of the cone. One is positive and one is negitive. You simply hook the positive feed (from your head unit, Stereo, Radio, Ipod, or other electronic noise making device) to the positive wire. And the negitive feed with the negitive stereo wire. IF you cross them, It dosent matter... Your cone will still play. Although depending on the speaker it may reduce speaker life.

a note on speaker positive and negative...it is very important to correctly hook up speakers in regards to positive and negative. sound is reproduced by sending electrical pulses to the speaker from the amplifier. these electrical impuses are PHASES DEPENDANT. that means that the voltage crosses the ZERO point and can be negative or positive. if hooked up incorrectly there exists a state of improper electrical phasing. that means that the left side can be "pushing" air when the right side is "pulling" air. the result is that the sound is perceived as weak or thin or boomy. unless you know exactly what you are doing or have a good coulour code chart of the pinout of your equipement...leave it for the professionals. that way if it doesn't sound right you can ge them to troubleshoot the problem and avoid doing things like frying your amp or speakers.

[speedfeen]

well since im late...



welcome!!! any q's we probably have the answers or know someone who does! good luck on your first modding adventure!

[_mikeE]

with 400 you can get yourself ebay headers (note that you're going to need the heatwrap as well I suggest you get DEI brand, the rest apparently aren't too good), and an intake. You should have approx. 200-250 left, however a good start is to always dump your money maintaining and fixing your car back up to good shape, just because our cars have some years on them.

Also about SRI and CAI, one sucks in hot air, and one sucks in cold air. Now i've heard about CAI being the better choice but they're both not bad. I personally have a SRI with the split head dual intake. Engine never heats up even when I go at higher rpm's or redline, the temp will go up and then back down.