Assorted 3rd gen questions

1994 V6 SE. Must be a coupe, right? I hope you're taking care of her, especially at that low milage! That's a desirable configuration. Put up some pics if you get a second!

Anyways, EGR... yeah I wouldn't worry too much about it for now. But you're fuel economy CAN go to crap if you leave it alone. Maybe. See if you can grab the code from him. Usually PXXXX where X= a number, of course. Just to see what's going on... especially if the light is still on.

100,000 mile maintaince! IF regular oil changes have been done, all that you're going to need is a timing belt and water pump (while youre in there.) $1000 is a little high for my area (even with a V6 engine) but i'm in Virginia. Shop around and see what other prices you can get for a water pump and timing belt change. But yes, this should probably be done sooner or later if you want to take good care of your ride.

Tweeters in the doors usually means premium sound. Which means there's usually an amp under the passenger's seat. You can either bypass the stock amp and use your own head unit, or use your own headunit. Replace the speakers or don't Your choice. I will say that the facotry system is rather gutless compared to modern car's systems. But I'm not really a huge audio guy. I think money can be better spent else wear. (SUSPENSION!) :naughty:

Good luck with her. If you have questions, ask 'em! And :welcome: to TN.

looking at putting the Avalon speaks in....midrange and tweets.....hopefully they fit...I am a 94 but a LE sedan......but the door config should be close....your glass is alot heavier as are the doors....but you may have more room than I do.....I havent looked yet. Also gonna see about a radio upgrade although I dont have the premium sound...I am looking at a factory upgrade....though I fear NO wire. LOL!

Timing be....not too hard really...if you have some savvy...you could pull it off.....basic hand tools and some time....though air is soooo much faster


Egr....that is not hard at all....its mounted right by the throttle body (TB)....you can pull it off.....clean it out with some scraping and carb cleaner......reinstall.....and voila'!!!!!!!! done!!!

gas mileage will increase


You got a great sounding car...keep up on it and will last you a gooooood long time....I should know....Im running 275,xxx miles!!!!!!!

Glad to see you got those issues taken care of! Now, I've done both audio and suspension upgrades on my car (you can take a look at the website for greater detail ). I also had premium sound out of the factory on my car so I was in the same boat as you

My personal opinion would be to upgrade the suspension completely first. Having gone thru that, here is what I would do :thumbsup: I would lower the car, get some shocks to your taste. I would go with KYB for confort or Tokico's for street performance, that seems to be the general wave in this subforum What I would do next is a Rear Sway Bar(RSB) upgrade, a Whiteline BTR36 should do great, or you can look for the much rare-er Gen 4 TRD RSB. That might be a tad bit tough to find though. For the whiteline one, you can always go thru their website (shipping would be expensive). There is also an Ebay seller, neverenoughauto, based out of Grant, MI, that can supply you with one for 140$ shipped. I would then move on to get Polyurethane bushings for front and rear control arms, the rear trailing arms, the rack and pinion and the sway bar bushings. This should cost you a pretty penny, BUT, BUT, you will be a happy man! The last step, which you can skip, would be to plussize your rims and get good quality rubber. You can always just upgrade the rubber and stick to your stock rims, that's up to you

Now, moving on! Sound system. Here is what I learned: Do it right the first time, or don't do it at all. I would buy a headunit that has the function you would like. A standard, good brand, headunit should do i.e. Pioneer, Alpine, Clarion, etc... I would the get a 4, 5 or 6 channel amplifier, depending on wether or not you would like to get subwoofers at some point in time.

Bear in mind, with a 6 channel amplifier, 2 channels will usually have a permanent low pass filter, meaning they will output bass only, so you can also hook up tweeters if you would like! Again, here, don't cheap out on the brand! Personally, I would pick either Infinity or JL Audio (Both Harmon companies) for your amplifier as well as your speakers. Next step: Pick out some speakers that match the RMS channel output on your amplifier. This is important when searching, you are looking at RMS (root mean squared) output values and not peak values. RMS values are what the channels are outputting most of the time, this goes for speakers as well. Peak values can only be maintained for short periods of time before somethings goes. I would stick to Infinity or JL audio here is well!

I know I threw a lot of info your way, and I may have missed some important points, which I'll post up later if I remember, but I hope this helps!

EDIT: Also forgot, for sound system, you might want to consider getting some sound deadning for the car as well!