I would like to introduce..., ... possibly the first WRC GT-Four in CANADA!!! YAY!&# Options

[KAOS]

So I received a phone call this morning from WALKER, and it went a little something like this:

KAOS: "Hello...?"
WALKER: "Whats up? You at home right now?"
KAOS: "Yup just working on the Vee-Dub all day today..."
WALKER: "Cool; we'll be there shortly..."

About a half hour later, "WALKER" and "ZenAutoworks" (Dave & Sean) pull up to my house...
... I was ready with my camera... lol.


(Sorry for the Blair Witch effect, but if you listen carefully, you can hear me giggling like a little school girl... ok, you don't have to listen all that hard. )

This car is a dream come true for me; I can only imagine how the new owner feels.

Somebody correct me if Im wrong, but I believe this is the first WRC GT-FOUR in Canada and its owner, WALKER:


And David was nice enough to let me have my way with his car...


No emblems were hurt in the having of my own way:



Random Engine Pics:





And now who of you out there can tell me what this is a picture of:


The interior is mint; such a great find!




I didn't really have much time to take any more pictures; but I did get to go for a quick ride in it... and wow - is it ever weird riding in the passenger seat of a right hand drive vehicle...



The battery died on me right away, but you can see the auto-climate control and the huge bulge of a hood that the GT-Four is... lol.

Enjoy!

... I'm totally set on buying one now...

Thanks Dave & Sean; you totally made my day!!

This post has been edited by KAOS: Mar 14, 2009 - 2:24 PM

[MacgibaS2]

nice... lucky guy!

[Dragondog]

nice.........lol the xcitment in ur voice

[Random_Stranger]

I envy........... But lucky!

[joehernandez]

I envy........... But lucky!

+++++2 me tooo!
omg but one day i will drive one!!!!

[Axel04]

Did you ask him how much all togather he ended up paying for the car. j/w

[njccmd2002]

sweet. what is that littel stick beside the steering wheel.

i am tempted to live in canada...

[azian_advanced]

lol at the giggling... must have been very exciting..
nice wrc btw...

[KAOS]

sweet. what is that littel stick beside the steering wheel.

i am tempted to live in canada...

We're not even too sure; we noticed it just before they took off from my place... they'll have to tear it apart to see what the wiring is leading to...

As for the cost; it wasn't cheap.

61XXX KM's + WRC + CANADIAN COMPLIANCE = First born child + left testicle I'm sure.

[azian_advanced]

why not hit the switch and see what happens? I'm guessing its the fog light switch.

[cheela]

hhahah... I would've reacted the same if not worse LOL

[delusionz]

Hehe gt4s are cool.

And now who of you out there can tell me what this is a picture of:

Heat shielding for the W2A intercooler?

[tankd0g]

I figured it would be about 20 times cooler than an STI but it's only about 18 times cooler.

sweet. what is that littel stick beside the steering wheel.

i am tempted to live in canada...

We're not even too sure; we noticed it just before they took off from my place... they'll have to tear it apart to see what the wiring is leading to...

As for the cost; it wasn't cheap.

61XXX KM's + WRC + CANADIAN COMPLIANCE = First born child + left testicle I'm sure.

Power mirror control?

[99GT]

How much?

[Rusty]

wow done 3,000km less than mine (when I first bourght it), good find

as for the switch my guesses are
launch control
antilag
km odometer control

This post has been edited by Rusty: Mar 15, 2009 - 12:23 AM

[BBoYRuGGeD]

oh holy crap sweet car!! yes little school girl sound effect very understandable lol

-bboy

[Driveby]

The pic is of the antilag piping where it meets the exhaust manifold. A nice clean stock example hes got right there.

[Rayme]

I couldnt stop thinkign about how that REAL gt-four looked like my old celica.

Awesome car dude!

[Helix]

Great car !!!

That switch adjusts the brightness of the instrument panel lighting.
Watch at the left side of steering wheel:




I guess someone broke the switch and replaced it with that stick. Don't you have that switch in your cars??

This post has been edited by Helix: Mar 15, 2009 - 8:50 AM

[Nial]

Great car !!!

That switch adjusts the brightness of the instrument panel lighting.
Watch at the left side of steering wheel:




I guess someone broke the switch and replaced it with that stick. Don't you have that switch in your cars??

Not on a GT4.....nothing so posh on these cars....usually its a blank...on cars imported to the UK its turned into a fog light switch....if its from Japan then it`ll be whatever the previous owner intended it to be, it could be anything.

[Helix]

Cuts_the_Pilot 's GT-4 Interior shot from another topic:
notice the switch i'm talking about



This post has been edited by Helix: Mar 15, 2009 - 2:22 PM

[Nial]

I always wanted a switch to do that to my dials....but on my GT4 its a fog light switch....and on pretty much every other GT4 I have been in / worked on / seen its either a fog light switch, a boost controller switch or a blank......it must be an option from dealers as thats the first time I have seen a dial dimmer switch on a GT4.

Maybe only an option on Australian GT4s

This post has been edited by Nial: Mar 15, 2009 - 3:01 PM

[WALKER]

Hey guys. I am pretty excited to have a GT-FOUR. Finally the 15 year rule hit here in Canada for legal importing of ST205's! I have to thank Sean at Zen Autoworks for helping me get my dream car! He is a great guy and I would highly recommend talking to him if you are seriously thinking of importing a car to Canada.

As for all of you wondering how much it cost, well that is between me and Sean. The cost is definately much more than a ST204 would run you since this is a mint car. It's ST205 WRC with ~60,000 kilometers on it and is extremely clean. To me though the cost was cheap when you compare it to any new vehicle on the market these days and when it's my dream car and I would pick this over anything new.

As for that switch it doesn't control the fog lights as those are on the stalk with the headlights. It may be a dimmer for the interior lights, I will have to look into that and see.



Thanks everyone for your comments. I guess we will have to see how many viewings and rides it will take for Jeremey (KAOS) to lose his school girl laugh!

I also posted a few more pictures in the multimedia section.

This post has been edited by WALKER: Mar 16, 2009 - 10:19 AM

[delusionz]

For those of you that don't know, I ran into this when I had my first JDM and I was going crazy looking for a dial to turn up the brightness of the dash.

JDM Celicas (I've had 3 of them including my GT-Four) do not have anything installed in that place, it's a blank circle, they don't come with dash dimmers. The backlight on the dash only has 2 modes, on or off. Cuts_the_pilot's GT-Four WRC is an export model (Australian version) and has the same dash dimmer that comes in USDM Celicas, also notice his manual aircon in his other pics.

A common thing to be installed in that place is a switch to short the hand brake circuit on the DVD head unit when an LCD is installed as it only displays when the handbrake is up as a safety standard.

But since it is a turbo car, it's most likely to be something to do with boost.

[blu94gt]

Cuts_the_Pilot 's GT-4 Interior shot from another topic:
notice the switch i'm talking about

I know it's totally a thread jack, but what is the clock-overlay in that car?

[pittfirefighter]

its not an overlay... the clock has been removed and replaced with a greddy boost controller

[KAOS]

As for that switch it doesn't control the fog lights as those are on the stalk with the headlights. It may be a dimmer for the interior lights, I will have to look into that and see.



Thanks everyone for your comments. I guess we will have to see how many viewings and rides it will take for Jeremy (KAOS) to lose his school girl laugh!

I also posted a few more pictures in the multimedia section.

I will lose my school-girl laugh when you are willing to let me try my hand at a right-hand drive car... lol.
You & I both know that the GT-Four is my/our dream car, every since Gran Turismo on the Playstation I've wanted one...

Dave; I had a dream that the unknown switch forced the car to transform into a robot.

Thats right; I dream about your car too...

(BTW, can't see sh!t in that pic you posted... fix the link?)

[Sinyk]

SO nice

I am definitely going to have to see that sometime soon. Really great pickup there Walker!

lol @ KAOS' girly giggles!

[Cuts_the_Pilot]

yep everything you all have summerised is correct.

the switch is indeed a dash backlight dimmer, all aus delivery 205's have them, and infact all aus delivery celicas for that matter, right back to the ta's and ra's.

yes we also all have manual air con (which is fine by me, doesnt look as cool as climate control tho), again all aus delivery celicas have manual air con including 7th gens.

and yes thats a boost controller where the clock once was.

anywho back on topic. Sweet asGT-Four man.

[reko]

Sorry pal but i live in Quebec and saw 5 already

[Sinyk]

Quebec doesn't count. Just like all those contests that exclude quebec.

[KAOS]

Sorry pal but i live in Quebec and saw 5 already

Oh Yea? Are you sure they're genuine GT-Fours and not just converted? I've noticed that in prior years most engines/clips for sale in Canada are from Quebec...

[Sinyk]

There's an importer in Campbell River on the island who has 3 GT-Fours, none are labeled WRC though. (still, I wonder if they accept trades )

[ZenAutoworks]

KAOS .... that video put a smile on my face (after I got over the motion sickness)

The switch on the dash .... WALKER, we'll have to trace the wires back. The original JDM GT-Fours just have a blank in place of the dimmer, yes.

As there were only a handful of WRC models with a Feb build, it is unlikely there are 5 running around Quebec .... but not entirely impossible. Nothing has shown up on the boards yet as far as new Canadian ST205 owners.

[reko]

Sorry pal but i live in Quebec and saw 5 already

Oh Yea? Are you sure they're genuine GT-Fours and not just converted? I've noticed that in prior years most engines/clips for sale in Canada are from Quebec...

1 was a conversion and was up for sale in late october (2008) but all the others were genuine... i saw one at my college and 2 at a local JDM dealer (yes, i checked the firewall, dont worry i'm not a fool ) + the one that i might buy when i'll get my tax check back

Here's an example http://forums.montrealracing.com/voitures-...st-arrived.html

and one who's sold http://forums.montrealracing.com/voitures-...u-sold-out.html

Quebec doesn't count. Just like all those contests that exclude quebec.

Do you even know why? It's to prevent scams... you have to register your contest at the "Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux" which belongs to the gov. and if you don't, your contest is illegal. That's the reason why some constests exclude Quebec, because either they are scams, or because they don't wanna pay the rights.

This post has been edited by reko: Mar 17, 2009 - 1:43 PM

[Sinyk]

please note the " " at the end of my post stating that I was being an ass. Please don't take offense and/or too literally the comment preceding the raspberry smiley.

- Sinyk


I suppose we could say the first WRC Celica in Canada on 6gc.net then? Grats Walker!

[KAOS]

I suppose we could say the first WRC Celica in Canada on 6gc.net then? Grats Walker!

Just to be safe; maybe we should say, "The first WHITE WRC in Canada on 6GC.net".

[paul_gt4]

welcome to the club buddy!!! the ST205WRC club that is.

This post has been edited by paul_gt4: Mar 19, 2009 - 9:07 AM

[schmooot]

I suppose we could say the first WRC Celica in Canada on 6gc.net then? Grats Walker!

If he has the first then I may just have the second. I'm not sure though I haven't seen it yet. Only a couple more hours to go......

[supershannon77]

What a beautiful car...I hope your having fun and ready for the snow when the real fun starts

I suppose we could say the first WRC Celica in Canada on 6gc.net then? Grats Walker!

If he has the first then I may just have the second. I'm not sure though I haven't seen it yet. Only a couple more hours to go......

If it is the black gt-4 in your profile then yes you have the second

[WALKER]

There are a few of us out here in western Canada that have Gt-FOUR's. Calgary brings them all in!
There are 3 WRC's that I know of that Sean at ZenAutoworks imported. White one for me, red one for Sean, and black one for Chris.

[Sinyk]

If he came to the Vernon Celica meet he would have seen that he's somewhere lower down than second

[FORGMANN]

Well technically it is first "registered" WRC in Canada
My white WRC was in Calgary in 2003 and picked up
in 2004 .. but let's forget about that as i don't even
live in Canada and too old to care anyway ..

BTW nice car and be greatful you got the later spec
floor mats and not shag carpet ones i got ..i had to
buy later spec ones...