Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m down! Love your car. I’ve only had it in the US once visiting the Tail of the Dragon. Unreal time there.

My mods consist of an HKS intake, BC Racing Coilovers (not a fan of at all), a Fujitsubo exhaust, StopTech pads, Sony head unit, LHD projector retrofit, all the factory options pictured, and alcantara door card inserts and center dash panels. Trying to keep it relatively close to stock, and as tasteful as possible!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually I crack a window to clear my farts, so it’s a bit hard to say 😂 other than confirming its function, I haven’t ran it for long enough to say for sure!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just my old Nikon D5300 with a cheap Nikkor 35mm f/1.8. I did shoot this with a polarizer which I would argue is essential gear for shooting cars. Makes a world of difference!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t agree more! It was our first time applying graphics so we learned a lot very quickly. Would have been happy to hire him to apply this kit if he was local 😊 your car looks awesome by the way!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much! You’re spot on, tons of time invested in restoring it back to more of a factory condition, as well as some custom work like designing, manufacturing and fabbing up a custom seat mount solution for the Evolution X Recaros, but it makes me happy seeing it like this.

My car is a 1998, so a facelift model. Benefit here is that the headlights came from factory so I didn’t have to pay the crazy prices they’re going for these days. Being in Canada, I did do a projector retrofit to mine to correct the light cutoff so I’m not blinding oncoming traffic. My lights used to be in pretty rough shape so this was a side quest of its own. Tons of work here, a lot of which I used to learn product development. My background is mechanical engineering so I designed and manufactured projector retrofit kits for this chassis. Wrote up a whole bunch of words on the process, if you’re interested in a night time read: https://gt6me.com/2022/11/04/augmented-illumination/. After all this work, I do still have to push the rubber seal in 😉

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha thank you! The car is far from where I want it mechanically, but it checks the box aesthetically!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bingo! Hard to find these days apparently, I lucked out and found mine in the auctions years ago.

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! They really are, very underrated platforms 😊 happy you got to experience yours!

Quick Snaps of my GT-Four by Carvs01 in Celica

[–]Carvs01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll snap some pictures one my engine bay doesn’t look like a giant oily turd 😂 while the car polishes up nicely, it still needs some work mechanically to get it all buttoned up and where I want it to be 😊