Dan23
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both them celicas have been up for sale for months on ebay, the silver one last time i looked had a starting bid of £1200 and after 10 days it was still no bids
and the black one has been up on a auction so many times aswell, they probably have a mate shell bidding so it dont sell for cheap -
its not sticking paper onto things dude
the wrap will come with sticky backs already.you could speak to Rich about getting some off him, try not to go for the cheap stuff as it is pretty thin and probably 1 wont last as long and to wont work as easy
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Spot, jack of all trades, master of none
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maybe a pre meet at yours Ray before the Ace cafe meet *hint hint*
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it was sunday and i was bored and i had it on discovery turbo and couldnt be arsed to change the channel lol
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well done Ray
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thats awesome, love the paint job too
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But that's a cost I don't wanna pay mate
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Yep this is true Ian, can't trust you cos your car don't even run with your bodge super chip fitting
The plenum is something I'm gonna look into, not to sure on playing about with the head as that's defiantly specialised work and I wanna try and keep costs down on the car and having the head ported and custom exhaust headers made up will probably push into the few hundred quid then the price of fitting and cos you cam belt would have to come off that will bump it up a few hundred quid again as it would be better to put a new belt on, that seems like more effort then it's worth ATM
I'm just trying to find cheap way of making the engine better where anyone can do it, like I say even if it just gave better response thats a bonus in itself
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Well I have the benefit of my old man who used to be a mechanic to help me. My main worry would be doing it and messing the engine up or worse distorting the engine due to it, I know that sounds extreme but you gotta take all things into account when doing stuff to the engine as I would be altering the air flow rate and as you say Andy, most places would probably use some kind of air flow bench, but in the same vain I can't see Toyota/yamaha really spending to much time making sure the plenums are as smooth as can be and being caste unless you port them you will always get imperfections on the tunnels, could explain why some 3s-ge's feel slightly quicker or get slightly better results as the caste was smoother when it came out the machine, again just a theory of course.
And on another note, my car has done 152,000 miles so I can imagine the tunnels on the plenum are not as smooth as when it was made, and it wouldn't surprise me if it also had oil in it too
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I might invest in a second hand plenum and give it a try, as you never know, it might help, and it might even just clean the thing out, might even to the tb too
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Well I think they added filter, system and sports cat but they seemed to free up a fair bit of power from doing it.
So I guess it would need to be down by someone who has the tools to get into the thing. From what I gather less resistance is better as it allows the air to flow better, but if gain was minimal and cost was high then it's obviously not worth doing
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Ok after watching chop shop this Sunday just gone and the BMW they mangled they ported the 1.8 intake engine to give it around 200bhp, now seeings as the 1.8 is only like 115bhp stock that was pretty impressive, so I was thinking would porting the plenum in the 3s-ge that would free up a few extra ponies would it not? As I understand it the plenum is caste steal and the tunnels on the plenum are probably not as smooth as they could be creating a resistance of air flow, so smoothing them would allow the air to flow freely??? Anyone got any thought on this, i.e is it worth doing? Is there going to be any decent increases in power? Am I thinking about the right part to port? Could a DIY enthusiast do it or could I potentially fuck up the performance if I was to say over smooth the ports?
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Basically that explanation sounds more impressive than it actually is
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no £5k isnt cheap, but for what you are getting and what price they were new, it makes them cheap in a expensive kinda way
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How much they was is irrelevant really...
He said all celicas are cheap to buy...I wouldnt call £2000 - £8000 cheap at all...
You think thats cheap?...
for a car that was £20k not 5 years ago, £8k is very cheap mate, that car has lost £12 in 5 years, in another 5 years the seller should be giving you £4k to take it if kept depreciating like that
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Kind of missed the point...
You said all celicas are cheap these days...but ok
still cheap tho mate, i mean £2-8k for a gen 7 when they was what about £17-20k new where they not?
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If you wanna come to me I don't mind helping, ain't got any tiger seal or alike tho lol
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There was a curren on eBay a few weeks back for breaking and I was tempted to get all the bits to do the conversion, but it does need a bit of cutting to the front to make it all fit, not something I'd really do to my Na celica, but on a gt4 I think it could look epic
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So I was right, was getting shit bored of the game to as I just knew it would be a normal celica. Now get your arse out and clean it so it's White and not cream
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i like em but i prefer the Toyota Levin which looks similar but smaller and with the awesome 4AGE engine
iv got a mate who is sticking a 3s-gte engine in one of them
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i do like the curren, they can be made to look very very nice, id say go for one Matt
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Other: pink.
i was oddly thinking the same before i even opened the thread
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Could always go down a custom turbo route on the ss1 mate, bump them power figures up to around 180-200bhp on pretty much stock internals
why are wings always dented ?
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my last two celicas both have the rear arch at the bottom by the bumper dented in, in exactly the same place on both of them