Tigawoods' 1995 Celica, Racing n Stuff Options

[Tigawoods]

I hope so!

I wish they were black, I would have driven around with them for a while. There were a couple black sets for sale but they were super expensive and didnt come with tires
I like how the Yellow pops from behind the dark color, if only there was an easy and cheap way to powdercoat wheels over an over again. I may plastidip (AUUUGH) them black someday just to see




This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Feb 27, 2016 - 5:26 PM

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At least the blue works with the car though.

[Tigawoods]

At least the blue works with the car though.

I totally disagree lol, I hate how the color looks with the car

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Opposed to if your car were red or yellow, etc... Could be worse, they could be pink.

[4-eyed-freek]

I envy you on many levels! They will look great in white

[mkernz22]

I do like them, just not the blue.

Get them wrapped? That would be your cheaper option without doing plastidip.

[Tigawoods]

I envy you on many levels! They will look great in white

AHHH!!! I hope they will! I am nervously excited. I hope they turn out well

I do like them, just not the blue.

Get them wrapped? That would be your cheaper option without doing plastidip.

Is that a thing? wrapping wheels? That sounds complicated

[4-eyed-freek]

Are you going for a super white or something with some bling like a metallic or pearl?

[Tigawoods]

I planned on having them paint match the championship white that my gramlights have.

Also another note on the TEIN coilovers.
The rears are as low as they are able to ever go.

The spring is lowered to the max on the shock body (and when the suspension is unloaded and off the ground) to the ppoint where the spring becomes unseated from the upper rubber perch. That is the only way I can lower it to the point pictured below.
This shouldnt be an issue on street driving but may cause some issues when dog-legging on auto-x or track days. I will find out soon



I think my mind is corrupted after seeing stance after stance car and promotes some sort of idea in my head that my car needs to be flush.
BUT I do think the rear does need to be a little lower to prevent all the rear rotation I am getting. I dont want to spin out at the track.
I am going to inquire to TEIN about doing 2 custom coilovers to replace these.


also I have a new favorite area of the engine bay.


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Feb 29, 2016 - 10:28 AM

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Not sure if this is what he meant by wrapped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5wWPDPDKQQ

[4-eyed-freek]

I am in no way telling you how to set your car up haha. I personally would try a run without/stock front sway bar. I encountered a rotational spin on decal or quick transitions on my lexus that had F Sport front and rear sway bars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDOIM9a8gs (43 sec you can see a slight twitch after coming out of a corner and trail braking to try to stabilize the car after it being unbalanced) Long story short the car is unbelievably more neutral with the stock front sway bar, although a modest increase in body roll is current the performance is night and day different. I'm sure the majority of your symptoms can be taken care with a few dampening changes.

This post has been edited by 4-eyed-freek: Feb 29, 2016 - 7:19 PM

[Tigawoods]

I usually see it happening towards the end of a slalom when the lateral momentum is at its highest. I think the rear is just so damn light.

Seeing as how I dont really plan to do much more auto-x I have been thinking the best solution right now looking forward to tracking is to flatten out the underside of the car and see how that sucks the car down and then see if I need a wing. Honestly I think the suspension is fine, I just need to learn to drive better. I really havent raced in a looooonngg time. Only a couple times last summer and I was still getting used to the motor and new suspension (which wasnt even on right as I noted earlier lol)

[4-eyed-freek]

Aero is huge on a lapping/open track day where speeds are higher. Flat bottoms are epic improvements, ill try to find the link that shows how a drive shaft tunnel creates turbulence that disrupts the car. Its a pretty cool read if I can dig it up. Would be amazing to see a full composite under tray, cough cough

[Tigawoods]

yeah dig that ish up! I love reading aero articles.

We are picking up my buddies Z in chicago this weekend and we have been talking about building under trays (he wants to start playing with composites when he gets the car back home). We are going to do the under trays on both our cars at the same time and if his trials with composites work...maybe we will do parts CF but I guarantee that it will end up being alumalite and some jabroc because we dont have money lol

[4-eyed-freek]

Chicago?? Might as well come see the gt4, only another 3 hours north

[Tigawoods]

bring it down! with the new wheels and tires on hahaha

We are going to Tuner Galleria in Chicago.

[4-eyed-freek]

bring it down! with the new wheels and tires on hahaha

We are going to Tuner Galleria in Chicago.

If it wasn't winter I definitely would! Did touge factory build his car? I feel like I've seen it somewhere lol

[Tigawoods]

All that AWD and no go! Lolol
I understand, mine isn't seeing sunlight for another month

Yeah he gave them the shell and parts and worked with them to design what we have here now.
I wish I had the patience (6yrs without a cool car) and money to do that to my car haha

[mkernz22]

I meant like this for wrapping them..

http://speedsociety.com/diy-wrapping-your-...our-rims-again/

There's a guy I know that has a vinyl shop and he wraps everything. They even have high heat vinyl in which he wraps calipers.

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Hydro dipping is the future though.