wow man.... sounds like a great list of mods, and it even sounds like you know quite abit about what you want! Those are like the exact same things im thinking right now especially the drum to disc. I can't wait to see some progress you make on all that stuff. I think you could also get some discs from an ES300, not for sure though. anyways good luck!

P.S. this is IMO the best kit for a gen. 4 (JT EVO)

http://www.jtautostyle.com/whole.htm

 

the rippmods supercharger would work too, and no lag...

 

Adam -

I know very little about HIDs, although several on this board have gone that route. Search for "HID" and you should be able to find a bunch of very information...

Kocho has done a great write up of a rear drum to disk conversion, a search should turn that up, as well...

Sounds like you're on the right path with the suspension, if you're serious about handling, you'll probably want to consider at least an upgraded rear sway bar, and probably a front as well. TRD makes an upgraded rear sway bar, and Whiteline (based in AU) makes upgraded F&R bars for the Gen4. I have an OBX strut tower bar, but I'm not convinced it's doing that much. IMHO, the other things you're looking at will give you more bang for the buck.

In terms of turbo, my personal opinion is to check out the Rippmods S/C. Very impressive dyno #s, and the black box they have takes care of the tuning. Tuning a turbo is a lot of work, and you really won't have much in terms of support from Burien. It's a very rough kit, the Rippmods S/C is a finished product that seems to be well-supported...

Just my $0.02...

DJ

 

Thanks for the input,
Looking at the horsepower differnce for the Rippmods s/c on an Auto and Manual transmission makes me want to switch from my auto to a manual just for the power.

I looked over the drum to disc conversion I found on the net and it seems like a no brainer, so I will probably do that, the shocks, springs all at the same time.
My guess is thats gonna cost $1000 bucks for everything(brakes,shocks,springs) not including all the time its gonna take.

Is there any problems with swithing to the TRD sway bars after the shocks and springs have been upgraded?

adam

 

Thanks for the input,
Looking at the horsepower differnce for the Rippmods s/c on an Auto and Manual transmission makes me want to switch from my auto to a manual just for the power.

I looked over the drum to disc conversion I found on the net and it seems like a no brainer, so I will probably do that, the shocks, springs all at the same time.
My guess is thats gonna cost $1000 bucks for everything(brakes,shocks,springs) not including all the time its gonna take.

Is there any problems with swithing to the TRD sway bars after the shocks and springs have been upgraded?

adam

Adam it wont cost you a $1000 bucks to do the conversion if you do it yourself and buy the parts from the Junkyard. It'll probably not even going to cost you half that ...

 

Drum to disk conversion - still going strong after almost another 10K on the car...

After I braved it, I think a couple of other folks did it as well-with good results. Each of us were able to get the parts for under $300 USD from a junk yard. Self installed.

The springs and struts are unrelated to the brakes and I'd say $250 for springs and $350 for Tokico struts is a decent price. So your $1000 total for conversion, springs, struts is not far off, provided you do not pay labor (labor would add at least 50% on top)

Here's the link to the original post:
http://www.toyotanation.com/showthread.php?threadid=18604&highlight=drum+to+disk+conversion

Go towards the end of the above post for a link to the web site to download a PDF with the instructions.

 

Adam -

No issues changing the swaybars after the struts/springs, it's just a little easier to do them when you have everything apart...

DJ

 

Headlights to HID
Going to get a pair of BI-xenon projectors and retrofit the H4 headlamp with the new projectors and philips 4100k lights and ballast. (alot of work on that, it will look coooool) Has any one seen camry headlamps already retrofitted for projectors? (check out www.hidforum.com for cool stuff)

what do you mean by "retrofit the H4 headlamp with the new projectors..."????? is that mean that u gonna put a projector headlamp into the OEM housing?? or the whole housing will be changed??

 

Re: Re: Upgrading everything! Gen 4 camry

what do you mean by "retrofit the H4 headlamp with the new projectors..."????? is that mean that u gonna put a projector headlamp into the OEM housing?? or the whole housing will be changed??

Well when U hear the word "retrofit " means that the projector will be mounted from the back of the existing housing using the stock headlight !!!! We don't have much choice after all !!!!

 

last time i saw a projector headlite housing for gen4 camry, but i couldnt find it now........... i am sure thatz for 97 ~ 99 camry.......
they might be mis-type the year, but then it might rite, i am tryin to find it now........... i hate myself
haha~~~~