Did some calculations because I thought I was getting bad gas mileage. I'm getting 26MPG average... not to bad at all considering how hard I push my car some times. Went 160 miles on 6.2 gallons with a mix of city driving and highway.

This post has been edited by RabidTRD: May 28, 2012 - 10:11 PM

Last run was 29mpg. Yippie! >.>

Not much is going on with the car for the next month or two. I've got a major paintball scenario happening in PA (Invasion of Normandy at Skirmish Paintball) and I need to save as much money as I can for that. It's a 4,000+ person scenario that goes for 24 hours. FUN! I'm also building a stock class gun currently... SO, here is a pic of me parked next to a nice looking 7th gen in my friends apartment complex.



And here is the gun I'm almost done building:

that celica looks so familiar like ive seen it before lol is that a gts or just gt either way nice looking car

Damn, that paintball scenario sounds epic. And I thought woodsball was super fun. So is it like Saving Private Ryan with paintball guns?

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Exactly like that lol. The battles are all planned out through the day. If you have a squad, you can run special missions, if not, you're a grunt basically and just dogfight the whole time. The opening sequence on the beach is ****ing nuts! Imagine 4,000 people shooting 15BPS for 30 minutes straight. You can't see across the field, that's how much paint is getting shot at the beginning. I had to wear a helmate last time because I had fear for my life due to the hole in my head. That hole was caused from a bad longboarding accident.

(I can bring my own thread off topic right? lol)
This is just the closing ceremony and awards:


That's after 30% of the people left and my camera could only capture 1/4 the area lol.




This is what hitting your head on the ground after getting speed-wobble at 20MPH looks like:



This is what it looks like 5 weeks later:


And to top it off (because of my addiction to upgrading) my Sector 9 - Sandwedge that was fully upgraded with double kingpin trucks, larger wheels, doh-doh red and blue bushings and my custom cut rising sun grip tape (took me hours to do) was stolen out of my car at Rochester Institute of Technology. I still had blood on it... it was like a momento of my life and how close I came to losing it.



Back on topic though:

Today it rained!





We also got Becca's rims mounted. These cheapies are light! The shop said they were as light as Grams!

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I don't remember, but it's owner lives in Penfield.

Damn, that looks crazy man! How much do you spend on paint?!

That longboard crash looks gnarly..good thing you were okay at least for the most part. Thats why I stopped skateboarding and longboarding and just decided I'll stick to cars in the spring and summer and snowboarding in the winter, haha! At least snowboarding, you won't get speed wobbles and hit your head on the asphalt.

Head on ice is almost as bad as asphalt. Only difference is there is no rocks lol! I enjoy my Giro helmet for the winter months, keeps me warm and safe. I can't afford to knock my head again the doctor says.

I only bought one case at $80. I play pump mostly and make my shots count. Needless to say, I wasn't the asshat shooting full auto at the beaches, I was the troll in the tree sniping the asshats trying to cross the line lol.

I'm pretty good at what I do.

NPPL (National Professional Paintball League) in Buffalo NY:






And sponsorship photos. She wore my jersey and pants and played with my gun during the shoot. Not showing the pics of me next to her because I was really awkward lol!

Ah the ol pb.. I used to play with troy epidemic and powersurge a lit at headrush and did axbl . Anyway nice progress :-)

Was that an old WWP Razorback II I spotted up there?

Why were you ackward lol to busy drooling to remember your photo being takin lol

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My old team, Murder Machine, started up again but under new management.. Timm and I gave the rights to this Aaron kid and he has turned it from something fun into annoying and expensive.

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Yes it is.

It's almost done too. Just need to paint the feed neck adapter and chronograph it


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I was a shy emo kid and she... well had no shame. I look at her as a slut today lmao. Here, since you don't believe me:



I've been playing paintball for 11 years. This photo was taken when I was... uhhh... 18 or 19

This post has been edited by RabidTRD: Jun 18, 2012 - 10:43 PM

The gun is done. Off to Invasion Of Normandy in PA in three weeks.

After which, I'll be ordering my SS lines, caliper paint and radiator. Excited to have the funds to tweak the Celica more.

Also, I think I've gone against getting a TRD spoiler and found a new love for the C-ONE.



Keith has one that I may buy I'd be painting the sides that contact the car Super White II to match the car, and then making the bar across white. The appearance from afar will look like horns. I will also be putting my black mirrors on too

This post has been edited by RabidTRD: Jun 24, 2012 - 11:44 PM

This time I have a real update.

Finally fitted my axle back exhaust (since the lower cat is deleted and there is still one on the manifold for now).



Old one's out, anyone need a mint muffler?


Res is mint too!






My buddy and co-worker James, welding it up.








Painting the pipe with ceramic VHT exhaust paint before install.


Pre paint on the muffler. Vibrant performance muffler and ultra quiet VP res.


Little ****er that wouldn't come out of the old pipe.... Man that thing sucked lol


More pics to follow in the morning when I get sunlight and a video as well. It hangs like... lol hard to describe, but it's pretty cool. We were going for an interesting routing to tuck the muffler as much as possible while still running the stock bends up and over the rear axle/cross member. What a pain in the ass that was. Next time, or if this fails, I'm running it under lol.

Oh and something more to add. I'll be buying the purple SS brake lines ASAP instead of the rad. Rad is still eeping, but not bad enough to warrant it and my co-worker/friend that just helped me on the exhaust, is getting a powder coating machine. Powder coated calipers anyone?! hehehe...

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LOL!! That girl must have been very smelly!! I always have a shower at least once every two to three weeks, and a shave once a month.

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Gross lol.

To show where it exits:



To show how it fits flush with the body line:



Under view:



Pipe routing, best we could do with how the previous owner bent the pipe. May have to do some tweaks later on.



How it looks from behind down low:



When following, you barely see it. It's great because it's not that noticeable from a cops perspective, it's really freaking quiet unless your romping on it and at idle it purrs. I have to give Vibrant Performance props for this exhaust... freaking amazing sound quality and flow. Ultra quiet res and 2.5" muffler with a 4" tip, 2.25" piping from the down pipe all the way back, soon to be 2.25" all the way.

Is your left rear tire feathering?

nice job welding your own exhaust. why so angled??

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I don't think so. Idk why it looks like it is in the pics.

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I didn't do all the welds. I bought the exhaust from someone on here a while back that did it their self and this is how it sat. We actually reduced the angle by making it exit to the passenger side. I would have looked like a limp wiener if we didn't. This isn't actually angled down much at all either.

I just noticed the positioning, that's pretty unique...I imagine passenger gets a lot more sound than driver now?

Sound isn't really that much more than with the stock exhaust and lower cat removed. The only difference is the sound is out the rear and not the small gap in piping I had up front. Also the sound is MUCH deeper and smooth. I still get a lot of sound from my seat, which is fine and my buddy rode with me and then drove and we didn't notice a difference in side. Apparently the Celica takes sounds and spreads them out inside the car lol. Which worries me because the rattle I have on the passenger rear wheel may not be the passenger side at all >.<

I'll take a video today after I polish the exhaust and wash the car.

Thought I posted this... guess not.

http://youtu.be/8VA9HBiZAMg

Ok, this is something that has been pissing me off for a while now... My clutch pedal makes this horrible "Creeeak" noise when I push it down, especially when I first start it. It sounds like rubber rubbing something but I can't figure it out. You can hear it in the exhaust video I posted above right before I start the car. Any ideas where I can check?

Will be changing the CV axles in the coming weeks. No money is going into mods until after my tattoo next month.

Finally have a day off from work, so I'm going to re-do my wire harness for my head unit. Discovered something today that I didn't know I had when I got the radio. Crutchfield included a wire harness that plugs directly INTO the factory GT amp. I was staring at it and looked at the factory wiring diagram and the plug. It finally dawned on me.

I've been driving with popping speakers and dead rear(on and off depending on bumps) because of the shot wire harness, so I'm excited to hear what it sounds like through the amp.

Radio harness adapters are the best thing ever. I mean that too.

This is what the harness looks like. The RCA ends plug into outputs from the radio (gives a more crisp sound) and goes right into the amp. I have never heard so much sound come from my car before. This is crazy! The volume of my preference before was 18 (out of 40 I think). Now I can't get it past 16 without feeling like I'm going to break something or blow my speakers lol. 12 or 13 is preference now (I think...). I've been sitting in the car for the past.... 30 mins... listening to music and adjusting things. It's amazing how a wire harness can make all the difference lol.

This is what I was doing during breakfast. I was looking at the two wire harnesses and trying to figure out where the Crutchfield one would go.


Then it dawned on me.

This harness makes it so easy!

You just wire it to this one, and plug and play!


Then you locate your amp


There it is! I knew I had it tucked somewhere lol.




Now for ****s and giggles, I found some old pics showing 6G Celica's around Rochester. Most of the good ones don't come from NY lol. But here ya go!


Me next to it.


This one was pretty clean.


This is a friend of mine, I convinced him to get one after he saw mine. He got the ST though... I guess he couldn't find a good GT.



This is what almost all of the Celica's in Rochester look like


Rotted and abused


With one mudflap.


It's depressing. But then there are days you see things like this:



I have a customer that has 5 AE86's. 3 of which are scrap... but one is pristene and the other is... interesting. Deff a winter car. She wanted one for each season, so she bought them all lol.