Had the car nearly 5 years and it wasn't 'till this year when the cv's needed replacing that I bothered to do anything with it.

Replaced the green/blue/gray(what colour is it!?) original dash top with a black one from a POS seca I bought for the factory alloys 'cause there was five of them.

Changed the gauge faces and added a clock.

 

The rear window wiper wasn't working so I shaved the back.

 

I've tried a couple of different front bumpers, still not quite happy yet...

 

In the near future I'll put in a 7AFE bottom end bored out a bit with a new exhaust, shave the vents on the c pillar and lower it a bit.

Eventually I'll have to do better than a "20 ft paintjob" ...

Have added a chuckleworthy cold air intake

 

throttle response and fuel economy have both improved. ;)

lol, nice!

I remember when my friends and I had paddock bashers we would always cut a hole in the bonnet and run a vacuum cleaner pipe from outside the bonnet into the air filter. One time we even mounted a petrol engined leaf blower that fed air straight into the engine, that was a great day.

That's actually the piping from the efi air filter box to the resonator from the POS seca I bought. It had one end that was the right shape to fit the air filter intake so ...

Have taken 45mm out of the middle of the shifter.

Seemed a bit too short at first but I'm used to it now. It's a little bit notchy changing gears but that's ok.

Are you planning on changing the suspension in this car?

I've already gone through the suspension and made sure the stock parts are all ok.

I've been driving this car for ages now so I want to make changes one step at a time and see what actually makes a diference.

This week or next, depending on when I get free time at work, I am making top and bottom strut braces to see what benefit there is to them for the hatch. I can feel that the body roll starts from the back end when I speed up for corners so that's what I am concentrating on first. Then I'll check out what benefit superpro bushes bring and if more is needed then I'll make a larger diameter sway bar.

I drive on some god awful roads on my daily commute so I don't want firmer springs. There's a spring works I pass on my commute so I was going to see them about resetting the stock springs so the hatch sits 30mm lower.

I'm in no rush. Plan to have the car for a while, at least 'till the new cv's wear out ;)

Edited September 8, 201313 yr by Moetunes

Old boring job ended last week so making stuff will be a little bit slower now...

I'll have to actually pay for steel !

nice car man, at the moment ive got the seca version. I replaced the headunit with something more respectable and now the clock is gone, where did you buy the replacement clock panel from? Cause i don't want to have to buy a whole new dash from a sx model.

nice car man, at the moment ive got the seca version. I replaced the headunit with something more respectable and now the clock is gone, where did you buy the replacement clock panel from? Cause i don't want to have to buy a whole new dash from a sx model.

The clock was in a busted arse seca I bought for some parts. I've seen a few corollas with clocks at the wreckers. The clocks can be seperated from the dash and bought afaik.

ok mate ill have a look at the wreckers :) thanks for the reply