got the speakers in...took me like 2 hours to do the drivers side...took me 20 min to do the passangers..lol. I finished up the brackets today, sanded them down, painted them up, then mounted every thing in the car and it sounds sooo good. Nice crisp clear sound and doesnt distort at higher levels. Im probably gonna need to go out and buy a 4 channel amp sometime soon to power the speakers.
Some pics
the mount waiting to dry...

New tweeters mounted up


And as for sarahs car...i went to put her new decklid on...but one of the struts wouldnt come off the trunk or mount...so tomorrow i gotta go to the local scrap yard to get the mount and struts off this


dont ask for any thing off it though...its pretty much been picked clean. Mostly by me and sarah, but it was missing things like the door, wheels, suspension, etc.

So next bit of plans are..97 front end, GT4 spoiler blocks, OEM sides, JDM headlights, new seat covers *custom made ones*, and bringing the interior back to stock looking. No more painted interior bits. So as soon as i start my job at toyota next week, im gonna b ordering all the parts to get this thing starting to look the way ive wanted it to look since i got it 2 years ago. So i think Stage 3 is done for now...but stage 3.5 is gonna start around Dec or so..depending on if i get a winter beater or not.

Looks good man! I bet you're having fun...

quick update. i managed to get some new things done/new parts
I FINALY mounted my NEO, i gotta do some little things to make it fit a bit better, but its finaly in place. the rest of the install is gonna b done tonight.



and i woke up this morning to see this in my room. Sarah brought it up to our room.


what could it be??

fiberglass that in.

i would, but i want my interior stock looking again..i dont wanna go with the painted interior

looks like sway bars?

Nice thread you have here. Keep up the nice work on your celi!

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nope.

Dang it, I'm kinda stumped as to what it is...

is it custom made?

nope..well..kinda..its a replica

new cupholders

the 404 lips...

LOL

GT4 blocks?

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no, no and no if no one gets it b4 9pm tonight, ill just post some pics.

TRD replica side skirts!

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They make a product called trim black it is a semi gloss black and generaly matches well the semi gloss look of the plastic. so if you really could mold that in and have it look factory if you wanted to.
and as far as what is in the box i have no idea......its gotta be something cool espically if it is on par with everything else you have done.

his and her skirts?

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i wish

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once again..i wish, but sarah has invader sides sittin waiting to be installed.

Any ways, since no one got it...





i got an OEM roof spoiler from ChrisC. It only cost me $35 cuz a buddy of mine owed me a fav.

any ways, i also got the neo mounted and installed. I used some black automotive goo to fill up the gaps around the neo. I need to go over it one more time. Also i changed my climate control lights again...i used a small screw driver and a set of needle nose plyers to take off the green bulb condoms and i sprayed the windows on the knobs, im gonna re-spray all the buttons again tomorrow.

nice, how much it cost you?

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the NEO?...i bought it on sale for $460 taxes in like...2 or 3 months ago.

yah... that calls for fiberglass.

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You talking about the neo install? I think it needs to be glassed in myself. Mabey a rubber gromet around it since he wants to keep from having painted dash peices.

How much did the spoiler run ya?

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i dont want to fiberglass and this way is soo much eaiser. All i do is squeeze some on, mould it, let it sit, cut the excess around it, and then just rub my finger across the excess and it just peels off.

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thats exactly why i did it, plus when u push onto the bottons, the NEO its self moves a bit, and if i fiberglassed it, the glass would crack. And like i said cleanin up the excess is just giving a little slice, and peeling the excess off.

and the spoiler only cost me $40 cuz i had a buddy who owd me a fav. But it was regularly $90

nice!

sick spoiler for 40

so i brought most of my inteior back to stock now. Im just waiting on a few more peices. I still need a new radio surround, drivers side window switch, drivers side window switch surround, and the drivers side rear speaker grill. I managed to get every thing i needed to bring it back from a scrap yard for $25 but the car they had, we already took the radio surround off for my girlfriends car *hers was broken in 2 peices*, it was missing the drivers side door, and it was a convertable, so the rear speaker grills wont work on a hatchback since they are built into the 1/4 pannel cover. So its almost done. Im gonna go with an OEM shiftboot soon, probably either a JDM SS-III one, or a 98 MR2 one with the red stiching.




and my shops gettin pretty full and pretty messy too.



my crappy makeshift welding station...consisting of my rolling stool, some crappy chair in the garage, a peice of RCA cabel to hold the piping in place, and my buddies welder.


I should b finishin every thing up for the most part in the next few weeks.

my next little project was suppost to be re-doing/dying my headliner black and adding a drain tube to my aftermarket sunroof. So i headed out to the local parts store, got me some vynal/fabric dye, and i got home and started to rip into my headliner. So i took every thing out, every thing off, and then tryed to pry my headliner down....couldnt figure out why it was stuck, So i started to peel the material back where i knew i could get a handel on it....then kept pulling..and pulling..and pulling...and i pretty much ended up with a peice of material with some foam on the back. I looked up and i see this.


yeaa....so i figure that when they went to put in my sunroof, they didnt know what to do with my original headliner and didnt know how to modify the headliner to make it fit...so they hacked up the original, duct taped the original to the sunroof and any other parts they could attach it to, and then sprayed some adhesive down, put the new foam up, and put every thing back in. Extreamly hacked. So now, its up to me to fix their screw ups. So my first task is im making some templates out of some spare card board to fill in all thouse gaps and hopefully be able to line them up with the original headliner so that i can make it 1 big seamless peice when i put the new material/foam up there. I got some work done on it tonight while i was screwin around with it.




so tomorrow im gonnna head over to the UPS store and get some thicker cardboard or im gonna head to the local home depot and buy some thin pressboard to make the new healiner. And then im also gonna go out and buy the new headliner material/foam. And then i also have to figure out how im gonna put a drain tube into the sunroof. Im thinkin im gonna drill a hole into the tray, weld in a peice of tubing and then put a peice of vynal tube and run it down and out under my fender.

Just when i think im gonna b finished eh??

got the new headliner in today. It was actually pretty easy and looks amazingly good except for 1 small spot i messed up. I also died my sun visors black again. The best part is...it only cost me $30 for the material and for some good spray adhesive. And as for installing it, it was just puttin the peice in, tucking it up over the front, down the sides and rear, spraying some spray adheasive, smoothing out the sections as i go, pulling the material tight, then cutting away the excess. any ways, heres the pics.



you can see the one small screw up spot on the left.

and sun visor...it needs a few more coats of the dye though.


the headliner is fully black, just the flash makes it gray looking.

nice work man. why are you going back to stock again?

what are all those wires for under the liner?