zake's progression thread, UPDATED 5/16/12 Options

[4-eyed-freek]

sounds like and interesting project

[dudeofchaos]

Love the color!!!!!!!!

[NOVAKx17]

what did you use to plug the holes in the hatch? thanks
also where did you get them?

lovin the progress, keep it up!

[mgnt232]

When I did mine, it didnt scratch the paint the basically popped right off. Its the adhesive stuff behind that is hard to get off!
But i imagine with some sort of tar remover stuff it would be pretty easy. I just sanded the stuff, because i was painting my car anyhow, and it actually didnt leave too much scratching and i was forcefully sanding lol

[freddy121389]

if you want to get it more cleanly off to begin with use floss, that's what i used. Car came with the christian fish on the back and the color of it was weird.

[Zake]

come to think of it, i think i used bug and tar remover. but it still took a long time and i ended up getting blisters, but it was worth it. iv never used goo gone on paint before, i wouldn't think it was do harm. but I'm not sure.

Holy sh!t, blisters?! How long were you working?!
And I just went to walmart and tugged on the Toyota one with my hand and it popped right off haha.

ha ha, it doesn't take long to get blisters when your pressing as hard as i was, and scrubbing.

what did you use to plug the holes in the hatch? thanks
also where did you get them?

lovin the progress, keep it up!

i used silicon gel, and cut little circles out of a piece of plastic, painted them black, then stuck them on the silicon. it seems to work nicely. atleast till i can plug them permanently.

[HectortheRican]

ha ha, it doesn't take long to get blisters when your pressing as hard as i was, and scrubbing.

What did you use to scrub?

[Zake]

ha ha, it doesn't take long to get blisters when your pressing as hard as i was, and scrubbing.

What did you use to scrub?

paper towels with bug and tar remover on them, and wet paper towels.

[HectortheRican]

paper towels with bug and tar remover on them, and wet paper towels.

I'm gonna try Goo-Gone with paper towels, see if that works. If not, I'll do the tar remover

[Zake]

So I went to urban tanks today which is a car audio shop where I live, and I had the guy look at my subs. Within 20 seconds he had them pounding. So I was like wtf did you do?? he said he just reversed the polarity on one of my subs. (I, like a moron, hooked up the wires backwards when i put them in the celica ) so we were talking about "how to make the most of what you have" and he showed me different kinds of boxes, and was explaining how vented boxes can make you subs that much better. so i asked how much it would be for one, and he said 100. so i said i want it. he installs the subs in it and puts it in the car, i turn it on and WOW! it was a significant difference! all that with a 760 watt amp pushing 2 12 inch subs!
old box. my cat is huge.

new box, and my tools sitting in the bottom right. thats right, some people ony carry a few. I CARRY THEM ALL! lol

vent

sub in new box

[Zake]

thanks to sodo, i was able to replace this. (i didn't know it was like this till i started to replace it. )


replaced with this




and in the near future, (hopefully next weekend) i will install this

which i also got from sodo. thanks again man.

[Zake]

ok, so i keep buying stuff for my car that really wasnt on my list. here is my latest purchase.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...6146#vi-content

[HectortheRican]

Yeaaaah you'll join the club soon!


We've got embroidered jackets

[Zake]

Yeaaaah you'll join the club soon!


We've got embroidered jackets

ha ha ha, funny you should say that, i was just talking to my mother about embroidering the celica emblem on a hoodie for me.

[SwissFerdi]

What the duck...JDM tails for 120 on ebay, I'll be damned.

[HectortheRican]

ha ha ha, funny you should say that, i was just talking to my mother about embroidering the celica emblem on a hoodie for me.

Bahaha, I should ask my mom to do that too..

What the duck...JDM tails for 120 on ebay, I'll be damned.

That's exactly what I thought. I paid almost twice as much

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Oct 22, 2010 - 1:35 PM

[Zake]

What the duck...JDM tails for 120 on ebay, I'll be damned.

thats what i thought, i went on last night just typing random stuff in to see if anyone had it, and i said what the heck, and put in jdm tails. these popped up for 6 bucks.. so i was like WOOO and bid. the bid stayed at 26 till around 7 minutes before it ended, thats when it jumped to 66. but its still a deal!

That's exactly what I thought. I paid almost twice as much

that's the reason why i bought them, i couldn't pass them up.

This post has been edited by Zake: Oct 22, 2010 - 1:40 PM

[richee3]

You watch Ebay close enough and you can always get a good deal. Earlier this year, I let a set go for around $120 shipped. Can't wait to see them on the car! They're very subtle on this color, but make the rear end look perfect.



This post has been edited by richee3: Oct 22, 2010 - 3:41 PM

[Zake]

wow, that does look very nice! i can't wait

[Zake]

so i was working on a little side project for a couple weeks, (weekends only) and im not done yet, but it has gotten too cold to do anything else to it. so here it is around halfway done.

before


after-ish


with GPS

again, im still not done yet.