one member here shipped my exhaust. he bought it off yahoo auction and then i paid him cause he was the middle man. but shipping was super cheap since he's in the Military or is it the Marines? I haven't spoke with him in a while, communication seems to have been lost with him on his end. the fujitsubo if you look on their website, weighs 1-2kg heavier than stock. it doesn't list the weight under the ST206 model but it lists it under the ST202 Celiac SS-I 3SFE engine (not this 3SFE fujitsubo exhaust will not bolt onto your car or any other trim celica for that matter)

Im actually thinking about going to the Kakimoto N1 (if someone will buy my Fujitsubo Local) in the future for perhaps more power, but definitely more weight savings. also note the HKS is under the rear subframe so it is a very low muffler.

Getting a 3 piece exhaust shipped will obviously be cheapest. I actually asked my convertible man to give me a good video of a flyby in his celica when he had the beams engine inside but now hes onto the V6

type this in the search bar of yahoo japan auction : st206 マフラー or st202 マフラー

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Dec 12, 2014 - 4:29 PM

i had a special cat made...

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I did want bolt in, but Bonzai reminded me that I would be changing to a high-flow cat for more POWERRRR anyway so there will definately be custom work required.

It would still be nice to get a full Japanese system though because they are full stainless steel, mandrel bent, and engineered to be the best path for the car... and about the same price as building a system at the local shop.

In Queensland we have a 90dB limit as measured 0.5m (just under 2 feet) away at 45 degrees off-centre at the same height of the muffler at a certain RPM (About 2/3rd redline I think).

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Ahh okay, that USPS perk. Yeah, we don't have that here The way I usually ship big and heavy things is through sea mail (10kg = $70), but they have a 105cm (3-3.5 ish feet) length limit. EMS express has a 1.5m limit, but is much more expensive (10kg = $145). Anything bigger than that (there are also volume limits) and it is DHL for a billion dollars or finding somebody to share container space to your local port.

Also, thanks but I have the Yahoo down pat All the models I was talking about on the previous page are ones that I found new for sale on YJP. All around $600 + shipping. Also, as you found out with your exhaust tip... I don't want a Curren exhaust that extends 2 inches past my bumper (that is illegal here, and I don't like the look), so I'm only looking for ST202 systems. There are more options if I look used as well, but I wanted to buy new since it is a consumable.


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I did notice that That is the rare $120+ BEAMS conversion pipe that you chopped up doing it too

How do you find the volume though? Because I am very interested in that system.



Also, one of these is mine!

Hmm... Your exhaust shop needs to charge better rates then.

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It is called the 'Australia Tax' -.-



EXCITING NEWS TODAY!!!

Firstly, I finally have official confirmation that a friend of a friend is going to help me buy a full SSIII in Japan and cut it down into a half-cut, pull off everything I want and put it in a shipping container direct to Brisbane!

The next container isn't leaving until February which is a little annoying, but there are currently no BEAMS engines for sale from importers in Australia, regardless of cost, but doing it my way is going to work out very cost effectively for me.

So yeah... I WILL have a BEAMS on that boat


Also, just as excitingly, I HAVE AN EXHAUST FOR IT I was just about to bid on a cheap 5Zigen auction when something magical came up for sale... 100 internet points for the first person to guess it! Will bolt straight up to the BEAMS too!!!

Teaser...

Can he put one on a boat for me? and if so what does that cost in addition to the vehicle? I know a couple of people in international shipping.

It's a C-One

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I think the Jap costs will be around $600 on top of the cost of the car, including labour to chop up the car and disposal of non-required parts. I'm not sure if he would do more for other people or not, but I don't want to go bugging him about stuff until mine is done

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Well now, mr know-it-all







Sah excited.... I have never seen one of these for sale before, then it came up just as I was bidding on something else. Perfect timing

I've been lurking on the Yahoo auctions for almost 2 years and have seen many different types of exhausts and this one has popped up once since then. My friend has the oval OEM style C-One on his car it's quiet. If you look up the guy motokuro on YouTube, he has a track ready beams that he races in Japan and he has the OEM canister style c-one exhaust which is quite quiet

Only downside to that exhaust your buying is that it sits low to the ground

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Dec 17, 2014 - 7:24 PM

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Yeah, I didn't even know they existed. I had found it and asked my agent to buy it within about 20 min of the listing going up but it was a stressful night waiting for the reply!

I know... I didn't realise at first that this was an under-axle exhaust... so I may have to replace it if the choice comes down to exhaust or 'lowness' (pretty strict on the 100mm min clearance here).

The volume may also be an issue. Looking at its design I expect a similar volume to the Kakimoto N1, but even that may end up a little too loud when redlining on a daily basis around town At least it comes with the silencer so I can use that when I am making up my mind. I will be swapping to a 200 cell 2.5" high flow cat for that bit of extra flow over stock, so that will bump the volume up a little.



Now for a photo shoot teaser:



This post has been edited by JoshuaM: Jan 6, 2015 - 6:19 AM

wait for it....



Thanks KAOS

Woooo hood struts.

I was being bugged to make some more exhaust clips of my car (with flybys)... and I obliged.

To summarise specs:
-Hurricane Headers
-200 Cell 2.25" High flow catalytic converter
-2.25" bullet style resonator (12" from memory)
-PROF JDM muffler (baffled) 60mm (2.3") in, 100mm out.
-2.25" crush bent piping the whole way (but neat)

Then a 2" bullet muffler added to cut down on the raspyness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85HnA51dlQ

That sounds fantastic.

Have you considered getting a v-band connection just before the cat, so you can run 2.25" straight pipe and nothing else? Maximum rasp is the pinnacle of 'hilarious for driver, obnoxious for bystanders'

It still has some raspiness to it when you first start off, but aside from that not bad for a non-turbo 4-cylinder. I'm guessing the muffler has a baffled insert? A chambered muffler would probably remove the rest of the rasp, but I don't think it's bad enough to worry about.

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Did it really take you from day to night to install those hood struts?

anyways, looks great, I love them on mine. makes engine work alot easier.

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Thanks Rasp can be funny, but I felt to self-conscious driving around town and was embarrassed to rev it to hard... which is no fun!

Apart from the fact that any measures to circumnavigate the cat means BIG trouble here (and they do check), I'm not allowed to touch it because another member on here has fallen in love with it and is buying my entire system as soon as the BEAMS + C-One exhaust goes on.

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I think its just baffled - you can see where the piping goes through the body of the muffler with the perferated internal piping. I like it just as it is now And I wouldn't change the muffler for that reason.... that muffler is the whole reason that I started building an exhaust!

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Haha, maybe.... Nah, first shot was at dusk, and the second shot was like 20 min after I finished. Took me a bit longer than I should because I wasn't thinking right and put the brackets on wrong

Yeah, I have wanted them for a while.... also lets you do crazy things like buy genuine grand new C-One radiator cooling panels late at night from Japan

Just went and looked at the picture up top and it looks like it has an insert that sits in the tip. Plus I know what you mean, the Miata sounded awful even with the factory exhaust. Old man driving habits aside I'd never take it past 4K because it'd sound like a Civic, and nobody wants that. Well, obviously some people do. Bad people.

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I have a friend with a Civic and ricy exhaust (he didn't want it but exhaust shop made assumptions on what 'quiet' meant to a teenager in a Honda ).... And when I could no longer tease him about his ricy exhaust I had to take action

Also, I just bought both sets of these;

OZ Superturismo 17x8 +35mm



OZ Chrono 17x8 +35mm



Thoughts on my car?

OZ Chronos are pure win. That is all.

Hmmm, if it were me I'd choose the Chrono.

I pick Chrono, your ride is soo clean, love it

OZ's. and paint em!

Before my big post, I promised you pictures at the end of last year and never delivered!

From my teaser you should have noticed that I met up with Rentaspace (Ryan) from Sydney (we have met several times in real life when I have had to fly to Sydney, but I have always flown). With him and his girlfriend up in Queeensland on holidays it was only right that we met up and took some photos.

The first meet was accidental – I was about to head out for the afternoon and MarbleFlame (Ben) had been to my place a few minutes earlier to pick up my spare PROF JDM ST202 muffler (he is also from interstate, about 5 hours away). Ryan decided to swing past before our meet the next day, and Ben saw him driving past and pulled a U-Turn and followed him back to my house. And there you go, a mini 6GC meet was born!







Ryan’s girlfriend also had the life scared out of her when we noticed that she was standing about a foot in front of a giant (harmless) snake in the neighbours front yard



They next day we went on a Brisbane Celica Club cruise, organised in Ryan’s honour (the perks of running the club ). This is where Ryan swapped out the ST205 hood to a local member (the other white ST204 – this car is where a lot of my parts went to, but has since been sold).













Another day on and we went and did our photo-shoot. I thought we would head out into the industrial side of the city to get some interesting backdrops, but we didn’t end up finding anything suitable (and had some cops tail us for a bit too ), so we just found a random shopping centre.















And finally, a couple of random shots from when we drove out to Dalby to launch a weather balloon into the stratosphere with electronics we designed through the Electrical Engineering Student Society that I help run…. On the day we had 3 4WD light trucks, and a Toyota Landcruiser Prado carrying people around out-back…… therefore I decided that a lowered Celica would be the perfect lead retrieval vehicle! (some skids were had in the gravel )





Big post coming.....

So, I guess I owe you guys a bit of an explanation! Most of you will have seen around the place that I have taken a new direction.

So what happened?

I went crazy all-in with this car…. I had amassed thousands of dollars of parts and I was going for more (on top of buying a whole car in Japan to chop up, I was looking for a set of Evo 9 MR leather bucket seats, C-One CF hood etc on top of the huge selection of parts I had). Really, I needed somebody or some event to snap me out of it, and that came in the form of my friend (who was going to facilitate and probably do most of the engine swap with me) having to move house with no more garage. I had a small window (up until Easter) that we could still make it work, but with basically a blank cheque-book and 6 weeks of searching in Japan no suitable donor cars came through the auctions.

I did not see value in paying a shop to do a BEAMS swap (would be $2k+ labour), so I started to weigh up my options. There was nothing wrong with the current engine, it was still a nice car, but I did want a bit more. With the rare parts I had on order, plus the cost of the swap, plus the cost of painting the Celica when it was done, and the residual value of the car…. I had a lot of money, and a lot of options. I could have waited another ~12 months and continued with the original plan, but I was already getting itchy feet.

So I started selling off the swap parts, and other parts I had around the house or on the way from Japan. I did make sure I did install the spacers for a couple of months so that I could experience the ‘finished package’ and get some photos though (Unfortunately the exhaust was already gone before these pics).











My full exhaust system (hurricane headers, custom 2.25” piping and Sheepdog by PROF JDM muffler) lives on in JFXtreme007’s Celica, along with my coilovers, whiteline sway bar, Cusco 4pt under brace, spacers (he already had the same wheels), hood struts and C-One cooling panel. Tigawoods got my ORC Ogura lightweight JDM flywheel. A cool guy in Sydney (not sure if on 6GC though) got the C-One exhaust I was importing, somebody in Coffs Harbour bought the TRD quickshifter and TRD front strut bar. The person with the white ST204 that bought Ryan’s 205 hood bought my JDM side rain visors, TRD door strikers, Endworks cluster and aluminium door sills. Somebody who is getting a ST205 locally soon bought the Chronos and the JDM floor mats, and the Superturismos went to a random in Adelaide. Oh, and of course RabidTRD got the euro risers.

You can probably guess where this is going….. I was selling the Celica.

I actually bought a new car back in March (hence you will notice my personalised plates have been removed for most of the last photos, except where staged). However, I didn’t actually list the car for sale until late July because I was removing a lot of parts, and waiting until after my mid-year exams to do it. I left most of the cosmetic goodies on the car to enhance the sale; projectors, SSIII front and TRD rear splitters, SSIII grill and crystal indicators. The vinyl roof had to come off though, which was a MASSIVE PITA…. Took a good couple of days.

Here are the photos I used for the ad;

















And some interior shots after I took everything out…. Which I took so late I only sent them to one person, they never made it on the ad Also taken on request late one night, so I didn’t really get to clean it either.

















On Saturday the 29th of August 2015, I met the new owner and signed away my Celica.

Fear not, it is going to an enthusiast though. I sold the car to a young lad from Mackay, who currently owns a different 6th Gen Celica, but he liked the look of mine so he is trading up. He is still on his Learners permit, so this will be a nice car for him to finish learning in and then take on the world when he gets his full licence.

I haven’t yet told him about this thread and 6GC.Net, because I didn’t want to rain on the excitement of a new car purchase by showing off all the parts I had taken off and sold already. I did however have to have an awkward conversation when he sent me an email asking me if my Celica was the one doing skids in the review on Youtube (Richard On Cars Toyota Celica), which was my friend using my car for a few weeks when I was living in California in 2014

I am still in contact with him though, so when the time is right and he is finding his own way with the car I’ll point him in this direction.

So what about me?

Well I started shopping for a Mazda RX8 back in February – more than BEAMS power, leather / luxury interior, 6 speed manual, RWD + LSD, sporty looks but still pretty practical. It was pretty much perfect…… but then I drove a Miata.

It just felt like nothing I had ever experienced before – simple, tiny and AMAZING fun. It was the opposite of pretty much everything I was looking for – it was hideously impractical and it was only a tiny bit more powerful than the 5S (but less torque!)…. But I had to have one.

I did a lot of research into all of the different models available and the NB8B came out a clear winner for me. Entering my final year of university, I needed something that I knew would be reliable. I wanted a clean, fairly low kms car with good paint (NOT SILVER! ). The car was to spend most of its time commuting, so safety in the form of dual airbags and ABS were highly desirable.

So at the start of March I flew to Sydney to buy a late ’00 midnight blue NB8B model with the 6 speed manual. It was a single owner car with 65,200 kms!!!

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The road with the Miata (MX5 here) hasn’t been exactly as smooth as I expected, but I am absolutely loving it and modding it like crazy. I am saving up for a couple of months in Europe at the end of the year now, but I hope to do some racing in it early next year.

Its already got a shorter rear dif, Torsen LSD, shoft shifter and new Tein Flex Z coilovers, plus some cosmetics.









Its been temporarily raised to deal with some body work (not my fault -.-), but this is how it is sitting now;



You can follow more progress on the MX5 in my off topic thread;
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=95671

I have ABSOLUTELY LOVED these past 3 and a half years with my Celica, and I can say with HUGE confidence that this is due to the amazing encouragement, support and inspiration hosted through 6GC.Net. I have made some amazing friends, met up with 6GC people interstate in Aus and internationally in California. I learned a lot from you all, I hope I have given my fair share in return, but most importantly had an amazing time.

This is likely the end of my Celica journey (maybe a ST205 could happen in a few years, but I'm not making any promises), but I hope to pop back every now and again to keep up to date with everything and let anybody who still cares know what is happening on my end.

Gah, took you long enough.

Ahh after a few first paragraphs and details about selling off all your parts I knew where it was going. Ah beams is so fun oh well

Awesome last post! but your celica will be surely missed!

Bummer seeing you sell off the celica, but all of us probably figured from the parts being sold that it was eventual. Best of luck with the MX5 and hope to see you on here again with an ST205.