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Thanks guise :3. Next on the list aesthetically is clear fogs and a diffuser.

And CMS - maybe 2"? What you see there is as low as it'll go while still being captive (just). I'm not sure what the standard strut length is for a 185, but with the welding battle I'd suggest getting BCs if they do them out of the box - which is infinitely easier (and potentially safer!).

Nah, sadly. Just a bare metal tip and I found a spare pair of struts to be hacked apart and welded on - which leads to certification issues here in NZ because of welded suspension components (which need x-ray testing).

Definitely spendy, but seals (interior, engine or otherwise!) are so much better when they're fresh out the oven. Especially for 20 year old cars.

That sounds fantastic.

Have you considered getting a v-band connection just before the cat, so you can run 2.25" straight pipe and nothing else? Maximum rasp is the pinnacle of 'hilarious for driver, obnoxious for bystanders'

So it turns out that nice, soft guards will mostly solve their own problems if you hit them with tyres a fair bit.

It's basically stopped rubbing now, even on aggressive drives up hills. A++ trader. Would trade again.

Photos happened:

No more than 500m worth of drive away... right?

Right?

Please send my condolences to your centre diff D:

Did you get the trim directly from Toyota?

That's been on the 'to do' list for pretty much ever, didn't know if Toyota even had them in stock.

This does appear to be a series of unfortunate events.

Aesthetic damage notwithstanding, with a couple of decent hits (in opposite corners?), you're probably working with a bent chassis - meaning if you've got big dreams for a sillycar, it might be best (and safest) to find another base to work from before sinking further money into this shell.


Bad feels, man

I need pearled paint in my life.

If I'm not mistaken, that's a Japanese registration/roadworthiness sticker.

Guardwork at the rear completed. Threw a little something extra in because it happened to be sitting around >.>

More than enough clearance at the rear now - like, I would have considered 9.5" at a similar offset if I knew there would be this much clearance.

Fronts still not resolved - been pondering wider front fenders from Yahoo.co.jp auctions, or just laying waste to the ones I have.

Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrngh

I don't envy you gents with such vicious restrictions on what you can/can't do to your cars. Since a silvertop is out of the question, I presume a Gen3 or 4 3S-GE would be too?

RPF sizing is just too conservative in 5x100

Am a big fan. I'd be more of a fan if it weren't for sillystrut and needing to get them crack tested to pass cert, but at 10/8kgmm they're actually really pleasantly riding.

I've had to crank the dampers up because of the wheel fitment now - still pleasant, and awfully rewarding while driving aggressively, but it's not a comfortable ride in comparison.

I was quite certain I had updated this more recently than 18 months ago @_@.

Stuff that has happened since I last posted:

Whiteline rear swaybar!


I greatly underestimated the difference in handling that it would make, which resulted in spinning out just after this corner here. Bum-clenchingly fun!
https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-40.9970727,174.9471144,19z

#neveragain

Then I acquired a TiAL Q BOV and had it welded to the intercooler


Cleaned all 250,000km of brown muck out of my radiator/overflow;


Acquired a 350mm deep corn Nardi


So then at some point, I got my projectors in:


Replaced a door card with a less crappy one (before/after):



Installed a hektik poddy and polished the underside of the bonnet
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Played with a GoPro (over the hill I spun out on >.>)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5STylvAjXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-TZ2xWbpuY

Acquired some Fortune Auto 500 series coilovers:


Turns out that when you take the rear quite far down, you end up with around 4 degrees of negative camber. Lel.

Just the rear down (with 20mm spacers on the 17x8+35 RPF1s)


And then I had an associate take some pretty as **** photos of it (still no front coilovers in at this point. Some regrets, as I got the first picture made into a canvas):



Went on a trackday (with new clear indicators as seen here):


Trackday footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Y7fbZGTLg

Then a whole bunch of time passed where it sat on blocks cause I sold the RPF1s and pondered parting it out. But then I returned to instability and started buying stuff again.

New bluetooth headunit:


And then after being quoted 6-12 weeks, but taking 6 months, these things turned up:


17x9+17 Bronze (AHG) Work CR Kiwami.

Turns out I overcooked it, as they're not easy to fit.

But fit they do, eventually, with 245/40/17 RE002.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KuKUQYrdtE







I'm Craig and that's my story.

/wallofpictures

Just waiting on the guy who runs Bwarp to get home and send me the ones he took :3

Oh herro! I presume it was your Celica I saw lurking at Jamboree?

What brought the tear-down on?

Most likely still on the bumper they came out of; such is life.

Today: Played with a duck caller; recorded footage on a potato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkcG5fDqAQk

Overnight (plus several months) parts from Japan.



These won't be going on till I have projector spotlights (Narva 71850, same as TRDGT4), and I need to get a tab plastic welded back on.

Excited that they've arrived though!

I've also purchased a duck caller to wedge onto the BOV. VrrmmmmmMMMMMQUUAaaaaaaacccckkkk.

56k warning!

Oh ****, that's right - I have projectors turning up within the next week. Christmas!

Oh my, haven't posted for a while.

Adventures since I last posted:

- check engine light - code 54'd. When the clutch was replaced, it doesn't appear they took the time to fill the I/C too stringently. No harm done.

- replaced the air filter (still panel, still stock box) because the old one was full of badgers and ****

- went and got the car weighed with a full tank + me in it: 1500kg. Fatties gonna fat.

- dyed the headliner black - still need to remove the sunroof unit and get the cover out and black that, as well as some of the plastic stuff (around the lights etc)


- Put it on STM's dyno - with downpipe and exhaust only - made 158.5wkw. Clearly not enough, so that day I arranged to pick up a Gizzmo MS-IBC from a mate.


- Installed EBC - later moved it to the DIN pocket under the headunit - the intention is to move it to the centre console at some point.


- Got the EBC tuned by STM again, because 3rd gear pulls on the motorway are a pretty good way to lose your licence. Went to 16psi and left it there (because after 222,xxxkm, pushing a ceramic turbine is not quite the best idea), made 174wkw. It's running rich as hell, so there's plenty more horseponies to be made through a link + tune, or a turbo that can actually manage to hold boost to redline - it tapers to around 14.8 at 7k.


Or both. Where's my credit card at...

Will your car be at Jamboree, Mr B?

It's the deciding factor as to whether or not I go