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i got my Pioneer headunit from an American company called speedsound.com - it has a switch on the side to tell it to change from us to european frequency settings.

FM works fine - it only affects AM,

have a look on www.celica-club.co.uk in the Gen 6 section - I did a write up on the speaker fittng in my GT. I had to fabricate MDF mountings to get my speakers to fit.

Hiya !

Hi Al.. uk invasion !!

bollocks - gen 7 seats fit fine. you just need to cut off the Gen 6 seat mounting brackets and the Gen 7 ones off the Gen 7 seats.
then weld the Gen 6 mounting brackets onto the Gen 7 runners.

Here's a how-to > http://www.celica-club.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=49442

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x2... I have installed them a few months ago... sorry I didn't made more pics


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you could bend the panel back a little bit. Less work to do but less space to work on. This is how I did mine.

so I'm guessing most people just make custom brackets? how hard is it to do that?
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If you look at the picture above you can see it's going to be a bitch to cut out of MDF with a jigsaw - but it is doable.

That's a stock 6" speaker - a 6.5" speaker will mean trimming away the side ridges of the plastic mounting - and depending on the conse style you might need to trim the inner diameter to fit the new speaker in. Then you have to consider how you can fix the 6.5" speaker to the stock mounting.

I guess what you could do is trim the mounting down to be a flat surface then make a mounting ring our of persepx or 3mm MDF to fix to the the stock mounting and then fix the 6.5" speaker to the ring. This then raises the question of the 'paper' ring fitted to the stock speaker which stops the panel vibrating too much. I re-used this on my 6" speakers as the foam ring on the outer edge secures the panel against the speaker.

The stock speakers are definitely 6" - ideal replacement which fits perfect is the Pioneer TSE1675 speaker. these are withdrawn but I managed to get some from a german company on ebay. They cost me less than £50 shipped. You can fit 6.5" speakers but you will need to trim down the mouting bracket - but it also means that you may not fit the speaker ring back on properly to stop the panel vibrating.

Jimmy - the write up is now on www.celica-club.co.uk in the Gen 6 guides in our forum.

Jimmy - have you looked at www.celica-club.co.uk.

Some good info in there.. I'll also do a write-up on my speaker swap in the next day or so.

TSE2096's are sounbding good - when I bolted the speaker mounts to the door I made sure I had strips of dynamat on the door skin first - they can go pretty loud without any issues.

No-one ever seems to do a write-up/pictures of swapping out the rear speakers so I think I'll do that this weekend.

i've just fitted some Pioneer TSE2096's (3 ways) to replace the stock front speakers.

I had to make my own mounting out of MDF and dowels but they fit ok - i did have to dut a bit off the inner door skin to fit the magents behind.

Taking the easy option with the rears and have managed to source some new boxed TSE1675's

Nigel - join the uk club as well - ww.celica-club.co.uk

Best place for a speedo would be TCB (Based in Cornwall) they are Celica breakers and wil post parts out to you.

Call them on : 01579383879

you need to remove it from the console. then take it abaprt - it's held together with 4 small screws.

When you get the circuit board out, you'll notice that the inner side of the front piece of plastic has a curved 'amber' lens.

Remove this and superglue a piece of stage lighting gel over the hole just choose the colour you want.

The paint colour is actually known as 'Purple Royale'...

D'oh - not paid much attention to your car when washing it have you....

Yep they make they and they are a toyota part. Speak to Chris Chen known as ChrisC on here as he supplied the last lot to me.

They have sticky tape and slide grips to hold them on - once they are on and you have taken the backing off the stiky tape - they will not move - so make sure you line them up properly !

peeps - still lookign for a different shifter ? try this thread
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18042

jesus .. don't spend $55.. just 1 min in a warm oven will make the front ones clear..

to make your facelift indicator lights clear.

get a small philips head screw driver - you'll need this later.

1. take the indicator lights out of the bumper.
2. heat the oven upto about 200 deg c. (gas mark 6)
3. put the light on a baking tray - put in the oven for about 30 seconds.
4. take the lights out of the oven. Prise of the clear front lense (the glue will be soft)
5. you will see an orange square lense. this is held in place by a small philips screw. remove it.
6. do the other light cluster.
7. put the parts back onto the tray and heat them again for aout 15 seconds.
8. remove them from the oven and push the clutser back to gether again so the glue seals them again.
9. Let them cool
10. Using a kebab stick or similar implement, use a pieve of absorbent paper to soak up any condensation or moisture in the lense.
11. you mith want to use soem clear sealant to just seal the edge.
12. using either orange bulbs, but preferably silver vision ones, replace the cluster.

all done - looks cool ! 30 mins tops !

for the side ones just get some avensis or corolla side repeaters from MrT. costs about £10 over here - so maybe $20 there. again get type 194 silvered bulbs that flash orange..

btw you do this at your own risk - if you neeed adult supervision ask for it !
don't try and sue me cos you damage yourself or something !!

yup - only way to replace the lights is to remove the front bumper.

There's a thread on the uk site - www.celica-club.co.uk
It'll take you about an hr to take off btw..

no-one makes clear markers for the pre-facleift model... you can make your own thought with time and a bit of patience.
There's a guy who's done it on the uk club.

Check out www.celica-club.co.uk. Woz and Slam have done this mod...

Hi sorry for the delayed response..

We're looking at 2 months to get these made. We need 30 to place the order. We've got about 15 so far..

I'll add you to the list.

Thanks !

not really - we're doing one for the 7's which will have the 7 gears on it..

If you know anythng about metalwork it's quite hard to line designed up on 2 axis...

as such designs like TTE or TRD will cost about £170 per knob.. hence we chose this one to stick with for the new batch as the lathe program has already been written.

believe me it's just a bit bigger then a golfball and fits in the hand perfectly.. you just have to be careful when you've parked in direct sunlight !

Peeps,

We're doing a GB on custom gearknobs.. would any of you be interested ?

http://www.celica-club.co.uk/cgibin/phpbb2...pic.php?t=19934

you should be able to get it from any theatrical supplies shop or art supplies shop.. but it usually oncly comes in large sheets or rolls and you only need about a square inch of it...

I posted how to do this in the changling lights colour bit lower down. Just get yourself some stage lighting gel (the coloured film).

Take the clock out and replace the orangeyyellow lens with the gel.

WARNING - not all colours work due to the actual colour of the numbers without a couloured lense in fronof the,

once again I can't take the credit.. one of the UK club members sorted it out.. all kudos goes to him.. I just like to share information out.