My XRS is complete (for now)

[357wheelgunner]

My first real project car is complete

I'll still do a few more small modifications to it, but it is now like it should have been when I got it. 9 months and a little over $1000 later I'm completely happy with my ride. Now I just have to enjoy it. Here is what I have done:

Injen Cold Air Intake (from 2004 matrix XRS)
Flowmaster 40 series exaust (stealth mode, hidden up under my body kit)
HKS Grounding Kit
Tien S-Tech Springs
Energy Suspension motor mount inserts
Tinted windows 30%
Tinted licence plate cover
Red licence plate lights (the cover and light make the plate glow red at night)
Red brake calipers (I may change this to gunmetal or silver soon)
OBX silver pedals (they are cheap plastic, but so is the rest of my interior)

Thanks to the grounding kit, ES motor mount inserts, CAI, and exaust my car takes off very quickly and has plenty of power on tap at all rpms. It also sounds sweet wiht a very deep throaty growling tone.



The Injen CAI is a well made piece that looks sweet, sounds sweet, and adds sweet power. It makes lift sound like the motor is going to jump out of the hood, I love to time my passes so that lift kicks in when my motor is right next to the other driver, preferably with his/her window down.

The grounding kit helped a little bit, but mostly gave me something to do on a Saturday and looks neat. The car starts quicker, the radio sounds nicer, and the motor pulls a little bit harder at low rpms. No more rpm searching at idle either. I like it.

I hid my flowmaster 40 series exaust up under my body kit because I hate shiny huge fart can ricer mufflers. I hate em!!!!! I love it when people hear me start up and then walk around the back of my car looking for my muffler. The flowmaster 40 series mufflers sound great, very very deep throaty growl sound and it helped a lot with my low end power. I really noticed a difference. Oh and it is still a 2" exaust system, a NA 1.8Liter motor does NOT need bigger piping than that.



My shifting is immensely better thanks to the ES motor mount inserts. There is no wheel hop on a hard launch and every gear shifts smoothly. It is also much better in stop and go traffic, the motor is not flopping all over in the bay anymore.

It handles like it's on rails thanks to the springs from Tien. I tried and tried and the body will not roll on a sharp turn. It will understeer before showing body roll, and it takes a lot to get it to understeer now. The ride is also softer now.



The tint, plate cover, red bulbs in the plate light, and red calipers helped dress up the exterior while maintaining a clean look.

I hate exterior stickers on a car so I put all of mine on the inside where I can enjoy them and not suffer ricer looks from people. I got the cheap OBX pedal covers because they match the shitty cheap plastic that Toyota graced the interior of the XRS with.



As far as future mods go, I plan on adding a few things down the line. I'm gonna have this car for a while so I plan on enjoying it. Eventually I want a nitrous kit, lightweight flywheel, beefy clutch, new wheels, stainless brake lines, slotted rotors, better brake pads, and more

I totally dig my car, what do you all think? It sure is nice to be done with something, for a while at least.....

[fontukyracer]

heres mine

----STREIGHT UP JDM --- ELDERLY DRIVER-- NA TUNED

--TEAH I KNOW , ITS DIRTY LOL

STREIGHT PIPE HEADERS BACK....-CATS ARE A ROB OF HP

-U CAN CATCH ME IN THE CITY OF ONTARIO IN SOCAL ON THE STREETS FROM 12AM TO 4AM

[toyotaholic]

LOL, i like how you did the stickers...very clean rolla. i say go get lightweight wheels like the enkei rpf1. swaybar, and trd quickshifter. keep it up man

[4A-GE]

Originally Posted by fontukyracer

whoa.. check engine lite is on?

[toyotaholic]

i just realized hes going 130mph..wth u going that fast?

[ToyotaMan1281]

357 wheelgunner, your corolla is clean! should be in the showroom. Great job on the mods. How much power u puttin down now?

[shoes1382006]

ha not as clean as my yota

[357wheelgunner]

Originally Posted by ToyotaMan1281

357 wheelgunner, your corolla is clean! should be in the showroom. Great job on the mods. How much power u puttin down now?

Thanks I have no idea exactly how much power, but I'm running it in the 1320 soon. I expect high 14s

[Ukrainian102]

Yo man goooood stuff. I like how you hid the muffler... definitely original.

Did the Teins give you much of a drop and are the stock XRS struts enough to handle them?

[357wheelgunner]

Originally Posted by Ukrainian102

Yo man goooood stuff. I like how you hid the muffler... definitely original.

Did the Teins give you much of a drop and are the stock XRS struts enough to handle them?

It was a 2.5" drop for a Corolla S or CE, and a 1.75" drop for the already lower XRS. It handles very well. People who have had them on their Corolla for 2 or more years have not suffered blown shocks. This could be because all 9th gen corollas come with KYB nitrogen shocks from the factory.

Thanks for the muffler compliment

[steelrzrv85]

hey man i like your ride a lot i just got an 06 xrs and im lovin it. whered you pick up that cold air at cause ive been searching for like a week to get things started and i dont have a clue. im picking up greddy evo 2 exaust in like a week then some underdrive pulleys for me love what youve done with yours how fast is it like 1/4 mile gimme some times just curious how yours is doing heres my email if you can. tylerintheus@yahoo.com

[fontukyracer]

yeah because i have no cats and the sensor is reading i am not burning the emissions

[05XrsRolla]

Originally Posted by 357wheelgunner

Thanks I have no idea exactly how much power, but I'm running it in the 1320 soon. I expect high 14s

Just curious where you bought the Injen cold air intake as well. I have an 2005 Xrs same colour as yours and I even have the OBX pedals lol

nice ride.

[357wheelgunner]

Originally Posted by steelrzrv85

hey man i like your ride a lot i just got an 06 xrs and im lovin it. whered you pick up that cold air at cause ive been searching for like a week to get things started and i dont have a clue. im picking up greddy evo 2 exaust in like a week then some underdrive pulleys for me love what youve done with yours how fast is it like 1/4 mile gimme some times just curious how yours is doing heres my email if you can. tylerintheus@yahoo.com

Not to tear you down but.....

Have you seen the Greddy exaust? It is unbelievable HUGE. People scrape theirs on speedbumps at stock spring hieght, and it is disasterous to lower it. The exaust is seriously huge. I'd recomend something else.

As far as underdrive pulleys go, many many Celica GT-S owners have torn up their engines using them, the 2zz motor does not respond well to pulleys for whatever reason. Go look at www. newcelica .org and do a search.

You can get the Injen CAI anywhere, just order one for the 2004 Matrix XRS, it is the exact same thing, right down to the smog pump. It is a 2 piece tube for easier installation, and the filter is hidden up inside your bumper safe from hydrolock, unless you drive in to a lake or something. I got mine from ptuning.com I highly recomend the Injen intake, people have dyno'd it and found 10+ WHP gains.

Thanks for all the compliments

[aaron7]

I had a 40 series flowie on my 88 Camaro