Tigawoods' 1995 Celica, Racing n Stuff Options

[Tigawoods]

I guess its a little harder to paint fiberglass/carbon hoods than I thought








This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Jul 18, 2016 - 7:31 AM

[BonzaiCelica]

Wow real awesome. Cool points be going through the roof. But a sunroof, hmm. 32 lbs of savings, 33 without headliner

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Jul 17, 2016 - 3:57 PM

[Box]

Looks great, hopefully it accomplishes what you're wanting.

[Tigawoods]

Wow real awesome. Cool points be going through the roof. But a sunroof, hmm. 32 lbs of savings, 33 without headliner

yeaup. one day. Ill cut out a panel from a non sun room and make a removable panel or something

Looks great, hopefully it accomplishes what you're wanting.

once ducted it should.
Id like to see if its working now without the ducting but: cant get the temp sensors on the Racepak to read properly and I need some yarn and a gopro to see how the airflow is coming out and hopefully not in. In the case that its going in, a gurney flap will have to be put in front of the vent

[cheela]

looks great. interested to see the airflow as well.

but *gasp* no washer nozzles!? what will u do when a fly hits your windshield while you're racing?!

[NgoFcukinWay]

looks great. interested to see the airflow as well.

but *gasp* no washer nozzles!? what will u do when a fly hits your windshield while you're racing?!

Yolo

[Tigawoods]

looks great. interested to see the airflow as well.

but *gasp* no washer nozzles!? what will u do when a fly hits your windshield while you're racing?!

it will be obliterated into dust due to the rocket like speed my car will be going

[Box]

It might be worth doing a Gurney flap anyway, look forward to seeing the results.

[Tigawoods]

non hood related update.

went yesterday to get the hubs installed only to find out I made another oversight.
The camry hubs I have use a different size bearing from the celica.

SO.

In my sheer frustration and anger from this whole hubs situation I just ordered new RAV4 hubs from the dealer with overnight shipping so that I can get them here, put the new studs in, install the hubs, align the car, and have the car ready for the trek up to CSP

If these hubs have the same small stud hole issue as all these damn reman'd hubs, Im done with this whole extended stud thing for a while. If a lug backs out it backs out....thats why we have 5 lugs right? backup

[njccmd2002]

I tought i told you the bearings were different. I tried before with one

[Box]

I tought i told you the bearings were different. I tried before with one

Hmmm...

i picked up one from a camry, and the bearing was different.

The bearing I could see being different but was the actual hub different?

Took out one of the studs from the Solara hub and its knurl measured .557". The IS300 ARP studs I have are .558"




Also came across a hub manufacturer in PA.
SKF. They have listed on their site a hub that fits a 94-03 V6 Camry and 99-06 V6 Solara. I just saw it as good info that he hub will fit but I will also call to see if they also do the weird stud bore.

Hmmmmmm.....

[Tigawoods]

I was thinking it was the OD that was different and not the ID as well.

Sadly I was in the middle of the stud bore frenzy...I was blind to everything haha

[njccmd2002]

Lol. It happens. Just when you think everything is going right, it crumbles

[njccmd2002]

I happen to have a camry front hub. The idea was the same. But i wanted to replace the whole front hub for the celica. Mount points are similar. But never measured. Idea was to use this caliper to try gt4 or supra calipers

[Tigawoods]

the mount points look VERY similar but like most of these things I bet there is a small difference between the two. Worth looking into though



finally.
the hubs to rule them all!

worth the trouble in the end. They look alot better than the junkyard hubs I had. Probably better to go this way than re-drill some Dorman hubs, I would be too frightened of any imbalance caused from not perfectly aligned drilling





If all goes well, Ill be putting everything back on this evening and aligning the car tomorrow morning

[Box]

Moral of the story, just buy the expensive OEM parts to begin with.

[playr158]

looking good dude!
if you're still in the NoVa area let me know and we should hit up cars and coffee

[Tigawoods]

Moral of the story, just buy the expensive OEM parts to begin with.

that truly is the moral of the story

looking good dude!
if you're still in the NoVa area let me know and we should hit up cars and coffee

I will probably get down there in the Fall sometime. Once this heatwave is over

[Tigawoods]

few pics from the past couple weeks of travels. I still need to upload the couple pics I took at Tuner Evo


When installing the knuckles, I took a look at the calipers and saw that this little patch had the powder coat removed, which makes me think that using a thinner rotor might be a good idea. The 30mm's may be a BIT too thick.



Unexpectedly ran into Jeff on the way up to CSP!




makeshift vent cover for a flash storm that came through



got in the 10mm spacers and put them on yesterday.


I am not sure if they rub yet but itll be close! Fitment is now completely to my liking now


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Aug 1, 2016 - 11:30 AM

[NgoFcukinWay]

is it really that loud that you require ear plugs to drive the car?