I went out for two shoots this weekend with some local photographers. Ill let the photos speak for themselves:
IMG_8739 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8724 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8729 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8734 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8741 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8742 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8750 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8758 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8759 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8762 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8763 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8765 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8769 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8747 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr
IMG_8777 by Darcy Tiderman, on Flickr

After Owning my car for about 7 years, Keith and I have wanted to get together for a shoot, and I finally felt I had made enough progress to shoot together!\
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
IMG_1940 by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr
Colin & Keith - Celica by Ken Au, on Flickr

the full kit totally transforms your car. pics look great! keep up the good work. makes me feel lazy.

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I agree it definitely makes a world of difference. Don't feel lazy, before this, I can't even remember the last time I did something to it!

After taking my car out of storage and driving for a couple days, one of my tires no longer holds air. I knew it was coming, but didn't think it was going to happen this soon.
I was originally planning on getting some 17's for the summer, but after this I was in a bit of a scramble to get wheels, as my OEM wheels and tires are in rough shape.

I ended up finding a set of Enkei RP-01's with tires for a decent price. Cheaper than what I was originally going to go with (New CR-Kai Reps, and new tires) So I'm pretty pumped it worked out. Put them on the car, knowing they'd be fairly sunk at 16x7 +35, but they fit better than I expected. Now I just need a set of spacer, and possibly powdercoat them white, but these will do for the time being.

Nice find! Spacers would suit it well but doesn't look bad at all how it is.

How's that extra sidewall feel? lol

Very Nice! I have the exact same wheels as you do(except for the Center caps cause i didnt like the "racing" engraved)! Only difference is that I haven't mounted mines on the car yet. Oh, and they use to be in Silver too! Anyway, the Enkei RP01's look fantastic on the 6G's.

the other wheels were better imo lol

why not get new tires for the 18s?

He's better off with these wheels where we live lol

I always like the look of extra meat on the tires.

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Definitely go to invest in spacers, but for now I just wanted to get a reliable set up in the car. But it does look a lot better as is, than I thought it was going to. The extra sidewall is great. It even feels better than the OEM wheels which had the same
Profile tire.

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Yeaaa the center caps are kind of lame, maybe I'll change those out one day, I didn't even k ow you could hah. What do your centers say now?

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Honestly, they were just too big for my liking. I was kind of over how they looked. Ideally I wanted 17's but wheels with the proper specs for this car are difficult to find, in "real" wheels or reps, and then these turned up and it seemed to be the cheapest and easiest, and I liked the look of them, so I just went for t.

The 18's were also really heavy, which I think cause a bunch of wear. I also had them for a long time so it was time for a change.


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Yea it looks good IMO. I've kind of always been for bigger wheels, but I like how this set up looks on the car right now, and I can't co plain with how it rides either!

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I'm the same way, the rubber band look doesn't do anything for me. At the same time neither does the monster truck tire look. Around 4" of sidewall give or take a little usually looks ideal to me. Anyhow, I think the new Enkei 16's look great.

Looking slick man I like the rp1 much better the 18's almost look to much, takes away from the style I think

Thanks for the kind words guys!

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They currently have the "Toyota" emblem on them. Once I have the time to mount them on(tomorrow hopefully), I'll show you.

I like the RP01's much more than the old wheels.

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That would be solid! Not super keen on "racing" in the center either haha


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Me too! I was a little concerned before buying, but happy with the final outcome for now

Been a while since I've updated, and this ones not the greatest either:

Well I'd been having some issues with the car that started a couple weeks back. Had some bad vibrations, and a whirring/growling sound coming from the drive side front end. Vibrations were so bad that I could feel it through the floor with my feet, and as the speed increased it also increased.

With my experience with wheel bearings (I've done a couple now) I was convinced this was the issue. So I order a driver side wheel bearing and tore into it once it arrived.

As soon as I got the wheel off, I realized I didn't have a deep enough 30mm socket. So I did some running around, and called some friends, and managed to pick one up, so just a minor setback. Everything went fairly smoothly after that, except getting the tie rod out of the knuckle. This took about an hour of hammering to get out, making this job take quite a bit longer than expected.

I was pretty frustrated:


Anyways, took it to a shop to get the bearing pressed in the next day, and got the car back together.

Overall I paid 80 for the bearing and shipping, 80 to have it pressed and 15 for the socket I had to buy (but that's an investment, in my eyes), so about 160 bucks, after bein quoted 350 from a shop, so I was stoked on the savings.

Get the car back on the ground, and the exact same noise persisted. At that point I was pretty pissed and just left it. Came back the next day and after posting on the facebook page, and chatting with friends, looked into everything it could be, and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, and I was pretty stumped.

I ended up taking it in to a shop to have it done and over with, and because I was already tired of driving my moms Kia Soul (they suck! ) . SO, turns out, somehow, the axle on the passenger side wasn't spinning correctly on an axis, and ended up taking out the PASSENGER wheel bearing. No I have no idea how this happened, but I've learned that when a noise is coming from one side, don't always assume the culprit is on that side. So the shopped ended up saving the axle, nd replaced the wheel bearing for cheaper than expected.


After he called me and told me the problems, I received another call about an hour later, saying my air filter was pretty clogged, I had 2 nails in my rear tire, and that the motor had ZERO oil in it. I was pretty shocked and blown away at this as I like to monitor those types of things, ad was also curious why he was looking at other things on the car, that weren't related to the issue. He told me the bottom end was likely on its way out, and that I should consider selling, after being driven without oil for that long. We continued chatting and the things he was telling me didn't really make sense, so I asked "You are talking about the Celica right", and he instantly replied, oh SH!T I've got the wrong guy.

Luckily, some other poor sap has its motor on the way out, and not me

I considered changing the bearing myself, but the car was there, and he'd need to take it all apart to get at the axle anyways so I just let him finish it off.

And now I know that both my bearings should be good for a while now, I hope

This post has been edited by jordisonjr: Jul 29, 2016 - 12:11 PM

See but now you're glad it was just wheel bearings and not the engine having been run low on oil.

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Exactly. And I ALSO don't have to decide between rebuilding, swapping, or buying a different car

oh god, i was waiting for a horror story about that shop. like they put nails in ur tires and ran it with low oil etc. hahaha. glad it's getting all figured out though.

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Luckily it was nothing like that! But it was still pretty brutal haha.

Did a wash, Clay bar and wax today. It's been a while since I've done it, so I kind of forgot how much of a difference it makes. As always, pretty happy with the results.

Purchased a couple goodies for the car the other day. I've been searching for some projectors for a while, but nothing really had come up in my price range/the condition I was wanting. Luckily I ended up finding someone who was willing to get these off of Yahoo Japan auctions for me. At a steal of a deal as well. Thanks to RoadRage for referring me to the guy who bought them!


I've also been considering foglights over this summer as well. After keeping a close eye to the for sale threads, I've realized that the pre-facelift fogs are fairly difficult to come by. So I thought why not take a look through yahoo auctions for these as well since I was already having something shipped. Ended up finding this set for suuuper cheap, way cheaper than expected, and will save on shipping all the items together.



Now I just need to wait..

The waiting is the hardest part, though getting them at a good deal kind of balances it out.

Glad i could help

Cant waint to see them on the car

Got these in the mail the other day! I was expecting it to take about a month, so I was surpised when they got here withing 4 days. Turns out the shipper used EMS and that's why they got here so quick. Since I thought it would take forever to get here, I was rather pokie on ordering bulbs, and the H1 bulb adapter, so I can't really install the low beams untill those get here. And there's really no point in installing the high beams, and then the low beams at another time. It would be doing hte same job twice, so Ill just hold off a couple days untill the bulbs get here. I can rig them in to stay in the headlights untill the adapters get in.

I was a little worried about shipping, after hearing people have had issues with glass breaking in transit, but managed ot get these all in one piece, aside from one mounting tab breaking off on a low beam, whihc can be fixed fairly easily as I have the tab still.



As for the fog lights, I'm going to install these as soon as I can! However I'm a little stumped as to how I can wire them in. I was debating wiring htme into my Daytime running lights (Required in canada, always on when the car is on, except when the low beams are on), as well as the sidemarkers, so essentially they would always be on)



The other option is to run it on its own power, with a switch in the cabin, but I'm not quite sure how to do this. Where would I grab power from for this, and would I use an inline fuse? Or somehow tie this into the existing fuse panel? Not quite sure if there is an open spot for fog lights, since the 95 did come with fog lights, just not my particular vehicle.

Any adivce on wiring these in would be Greatly appreciate, as I don't really know a whole lot about wiring.

This post has been edited by jordisonjr: Aug 26, 2016 - 8:56 AM

Gonna look sick dude! Get them on before FNL tonight

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haha I don't have bulbs yet So I'd essentially be driving with no headlights, or my high beams on hahaha.
And its my girlfriends birthday, so I don't think thats going to happen.

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Bring her and get her some BDI

As far as wiring goes you have a few options. Either way you'll need an inline fuse, 10A would be about right using standard wattage bulbs. One method will require a relay and another will require a basic on/off switch. In either case you can take the negatives for your bulbs and ground them to the body to save some trouble, that or run them to the battery or tap into grounded wiring for a more certain connection. For the switch method you'll take the positive from your bulbs into one pin of your switch, then you wire from the other pin on the switch to an inline fuse then to either the positive on your battery or to an unused constant power source in the fuse panel. For the relay it gets slightly more involved but nothing too bad, just need a standard four pole relay. You have four pins that're arranged like so:
-----87
86-------85
-----30
85 goes to the chassis ground, your trigger source(in this case tapping into the positive wire on a DRL or side marker) goes to 86, 87 goes to the positive on your bulbs, then 30 goes to an inline fuse and then to battery or an unused constant power source in the fuse panel. Think that more or less covers it.

This post has been edited by Box: Aug 26, 2016 - 2:00 PM