Hmm I just realised that I havent put many pics of the car here yet. So here is kinda a build up. Except I dont have a picture of it before I started the mods lol so I "borrowed" this picture to use.
Bought the car when it was 1 year old with only 11000km on the clock! Drove the car in stock form for about 2 years before the modding bug bit. First came the wheels and superlows. I got sick of seeing the huge gap in the guards.
It changed the way it handles but decided to make it better after finding one of these going cheap on ebay! This completely changed the way it handles! No more understeer...
Then I was introduced to my toyota contact through my friend and he sourced a Genuine Toyota Australia GTP kit for me. I was initially going to import a second hand TRD kit over but this was way cheaper and I like the look of it more as well.
Red calipers too!
And this was when my neons were working. But I can't be bothered with fixing them anymore as I dont want to anymore attention from the po po's. Fast and Furious stole idea of me! :p
Sexy debadged ass
Then with all the talk about how cool HID's were on TN, I decided to buy some of these for the mod. Didnt want to just do the plug and play thing and annoy everyone else on the road. (one of my pet hates!)
And cut a nice big hole in the back to fit the Lexus RX330 projectors into them
Back on the car they go.
Before!
With them on!
Nicely defined cutoff! Ignore the slanty-ness due to the carpark not being flat and crappy camera phone quality night pic.
Also had an exhaust shop redo my Y-Pipe
Stock
After - I know it not the prettiest, or equal lengths :p but it seems to work well enough.
Then came something special
Whine whine whine or whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeee eeee
And somewhere during the whole thing I got cool sexy number plates
And finally, my new TRD wheels. And D2 coilovers which i forgot to mention earlier. Very small gap in the guards now!
Stereo wise now after several upgrades
Dynaudio Esotars up front with 1 Tru Technology T2.100 running per side
Image Dynamics IDMax with the Tru Technology Hammer H1 running it
Was
Then
Now
Basic install stayed the same, just different positions and then different equipment.
But I havent had the car for about 4 weeks now. Its sitting at the mechanics missing some major components - saving weight :p.
A 5sp swap with TRD bits inside ! We are just waiting on axles ...
More pics after I get the car back. If I'm lucky end of this week!
Gen4.5 build up :) LOTS of pics! - 56k might have a little prob.
I'll take some pictures of it later today since I gave the car a nice wash,
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