don't Get me wrong. The positive terminal was just as small.... Both huge pains in the ass. Vice grips required on neg terminal. Vice grips, 12mm end wrench and a 12" crescent wrench cheater bar on the end wrench finally got the positive terminal

wow, thats good work on the lip, dd he charge u?

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he would have done it for free, but I told him I'd pay him.
I asked him what his time was worth, he said 50$. I'll prolly give him more than that. 75 or so.

Noberto..... gonna need that hks maf adapter.

So here's the story, shop was broken into on monday and they stole and bunch of stuff. Aluminum primarily, sockets, drills, welder. Tried to steal my cat. left my metric stuff sitting on my car though... weird. But took my tool box top and my two stock front wheels that were beside the car, a set of aluminum wheels we had in 4 lug in the hallway, ***my aluminum maf adapter that is maybe worth 30 cents in scrap at 80 cents per pound... prolly not even that. so long story short, shoot them all. Thieves have no place in this world and if I ever catch anyone doing it, me and my .45auto are going to be doing some talking..... but I digress....

In lew of my new found motive for getting the car out of the garage where all my expensive parts lay..... I worked on the car. Small, but getting there. big ball joint nut is holding me back right now. I can't find one anywhere.

one of the ball joints ON the superstrut is the same as the USDM celica ball joint and so I had some castle nuts to work there. but the lower superstrut ball joint that's on the subframe is like an m14 or something. local hardware stores dont even carry a nut in that size, let alone a castle nut. So the search continues. If anyone has one they dont need..... HIT MY ASSSSS UP!!!

IN OTHER NEWS: the car with the battery in it (but no fluids because they also stole my motor oil, brake fluid, and radiator coolant) started bonging at me. . Turned the key to the ACC position and the sunroof went back!! which is good because that was a custom wiring harness there. the ss3 clip I had didn't have sunroof on it.

Here she be:









Everything will be coming back out after a while when I FINALLY get my new timing belts from lithia..... bastards were out of "that part number" when I ordered them, so they are on back order. Killing me smalls!!!

Hoooly crap dude that blows . Been there before so I know the feeling. At least you still have your metric tools...


...How do you know they tried to steal the cat?

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The cat that was on the 5sfe exhaust .... i removed the exhaust obviously and had it laying on the floor. They took the exhaust pipe, and crammed it underneath the fork truck, wedging it on the steering tie rod, exposing the cat out the back of the fork truck by about 2 inches. the other end of the pipe that was greasy had smear marks from hands trying to lift up and break the pipe off at the cat..... dunno why the idiots who obviously had a truck didn't just take the whole pipe and cut the cat off later.... stupid crooks for sure.

Seriously, who breaks into creepy old haunted schools and steals anything? You've got my number if you ever need to be bailed out.

for progress and a working moon roof!

i dont have a cat in mine....

sorry to hear that..

http://www.rhdjapan.com/hks-fine-tune-timi...ota-3s-ge-11401

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In the state of ohio, we have something called the castle rule.

incase you want to read - > state legislature http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_SB_184

general wikipedia info > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine

noberto.... didn't ask for the cat....

YOUR HKS MAF ADAPTER YOU HAVE FOR SALE!!!! LOL

That sucks horrendously... May those worthless pieces of **** be struck by lightning.

So basically you can shoot him (or them) if they ever come back and you can't get in trouble for it?

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The burden of proof lies with the prosecutors to prove that the shooter/owner was not acting in self defense. But when they have already robbed us once, it's on record, if we caught them and instructed them to leave and they didn't.... we have the right to yes.

Obviously you never want to actually shoot someone, but I take my CCW out there with me all the time. they break in while I'm there, I know i'd feel threatened because that's really really brazen to do it while you're there.

special thanks to death2009 the other night for the help.

Tonight I found out the drain plug in the rad doesn't seal. Found out my motor holds 4 qts of oil LOL. concluded that the 5s air filter fits perfectly in the BEAMS box. Also found out my starter works, but battery too dead to do too much.

Found out that SuperStrut fits perfectly.
The MISSING NUT for the big ball joint in the bottom of the super strut is an M16x1.5 16 mm with 1.5mm pitch. Just fyi.
Also found out 5sfe brake rotors are perfectly centered in the caliber.... but surprisingly, they are a bit BIG???
I wouldn't have believed it myself, but the rotors are a touch big.
Evidence below.




From underneath:


From the top:


The rotor spins, but man is it ever close.
Prolly have them turned down 2-5 mm. I just worry about the pad springs rubbing... We'll see though

This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Oct 6, 2012 - 12:08 AM

brake rotors are gonna work just fine.

video:


This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Oct 6, 2012 - 11:55 PM

the caliper design is rounder on stock gt vs the twin piston caliper. you can obviously tell also because of the brake pad.

nice to see you got all superstrut parts fixed.

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he also bolted superstrut brakes onto his mcpherson suspension on stock rotors... i pmed him to make sure of it too.

bolt pattern is the same, but he had to have had either a superstrut hub with mcphearson front, or he modified the caliper. If you look at Nobertos thread, he compares the ss3 brakes to the stock gt brakes and they are about .75" different where the caliper mounts to the bracket or something. I'd have to look it back up, but I know I saw it.

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all 94-99 celica front hubs are the same. the twin pistons should make complete contact with the rotors. it seems very odd in your pic... compare stock gt mounting caliper bracket vs superstrut.

he as in NJCMD2002 (convertible Norberto) installed mr2 twin piston calipers. If you look at the thread he created you can even see he says they are harder to find then a roosters teeth. then he has the pic of the cow and rooster from cartoon network. twin piston calipers are as hard to come by as the oem air box is.

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Oct 8, 2012 - 6:33 PM

Are you talking about whoever owns the car above^?
Or are you talking about Noberto?

If you are referencing Noberto, I know he ended up using Mr2 twin piston brakes.

He FIRST purchased ss3 brakes and they were in fact different. That difference is what I'm talking about.

EDIT: Nevermind. I stand corrected. They were lexus brakes. Not ss3 brakes. My bad.

This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Oct 8, 2012 - 6:01 PM

Nice!!
But it'll work alot better in the car

can't get power to the fuel pump. Unsure as to why.
Every fuse on the car seems to be good. Everything else has power on the whole car electrically speaking. Anyone have any experience with this?

Got the relay by the ecu plugged in l?

It was order of operations. Fuel pump doesn't kick on until after the starter is tripped! LOL. Such a relief!

That's still strange to me... I know the fuel pump does a two second pump when the key is turned on. Maybe the JDM Celicas or just the BEAMS specifically doesn't do that.

yeah who knows.... we're in uncharted territory here as far as documentation is concerned.

oh yeah....





This post has been edited by ricochet1490: Oct 20, 2012 - 3:04 PM

Congratulations.

fantastic work bud. Don't you love the suspense before first crank?

Congrats again Trace! I'll bet your garage smelled awesome after that startup.