Hello,

I gave up on ever getting a CARB approved turbo so I just went out and ordered an SRT-4.. I now have my SPEC-V for sale, it's cloud white. Has around 5,500 miles.. 2003 - bought from dealership 3 months ago.

Nte that there's 5 companies making turbo's for the SPECV (aftermarket is now getting better).

dude why not do a SR20 swap???

that should be smog legal.

kids these days always takin the easy way out. but with a neon...uckk.

hehe just jokin.

maybe a dumb question but why is the front and rear bumper black?

-Celica94GT+Sep 8, 2003 - 2:53 PM

It's black due to the people at work.. I got the rear bumper repainted twice already (250$ each time) - people who have no love for cars don't care about who they scuff.. There's nothing worst than a big black streak mark on a white bumper..

So the third time, I said fuq it, just replaced both front and rear to the unpainted bumper. No paint to scuff, problem solved.

Don't look too bad, especially if one adds a CF fiber hood.

As for an SR20 swap, why would one do that considering the QR25 CVTC is a torque monster (SR20 has a lot less HP and torque) ? Moreover, we cali peeps can only swap in engines of the same year or newer (the SR20 is on older than '03 cars).. The only swap I would want to do is an SR20DET swap <-- but that wouldn't make sense as they never released those here..

check out a vid of a SPEC with SSR Engineering's Turbo Kit

check out this dyno by FIR's turbo kit



It's running at Stock Internals with 8.5 PSI - so much good stuff for non-cali peeps >>

AEBS will be showing their Turbo Kit for the QR25 this September 20th at San Diego during their Mossy Show..

This post has been edited by funks: Sep 8, 2003 - 8:18 PM