4doorVIPs Tercel SR5 BEAST

[4doorVIP]

Okie dokie, car is back from the clutch with a brand new clutch, and header pipe. I'm so happy to have her back, I also heard it may be snowing soon and gas prices are on the rise.

BRING IT ON

[Petros]

since it was done by students you might want to just verify that they actually got all 4 liters of gear oil in the trans after they pulled it for the clutch job.

What was wrong with the header pipe? These usually hold up pretty good.

and what is the emoticon in your post doing?!?!

[dlb]

and what is the emoticon in your post doing?!?!

i think it's drinking a cool glass of water, indicating that he is cool as a cucumber despite the impending hardships of poor weather and rising gas prices. no wait, it just spat the water out and laughed. i have no idea either.

[4doorVIP]

I didn't pay enough attention to the avatar before I posted it.. no clue what it means don't look too deep into it sorry guys

Good advice as always Petros I will check the gear fluid level... no leaks so far which is a good sign. They replaced the front pipe because they could not remove the old one due to it being severly rusted-out.. The Terce now has a complely new exhaust (I replaced the cat-back a few months ago)


Going to tackle some rust issues this spring/summer... look at lift options (rear struts on the way out..might as well upgrade while your in there). Going to eventually upgrade to 14's, here are the wheels I'm sourcing
I might be able to get them for a steal, but we'll see how much shipment from Japan will work out to be.. They are 14x6 4x100 Watanabe's

[TercelTeege]

Those wheels on your T4WD sure would look sweet. Hope shipping isn't too bad.
If you didn't already take care of the window regulator issue, I found some on partsgeek.com for like 34 dollars each or something around there. Quite cheap for new parts!

[4doorVIP]

thank you, I think these wheels should suite the car pretty well, i know they look great on ae86s
great find on the regulator, I'll be picking one of those up pretty quickly me thinks

[4doorVIP]

Installed a bit of rice in the interior this weekend, a 12-LED dome light from Walmart. I'm pretty happy with the results, the light is a lot more intense than oem bulbs and use less draw.


installed LED strip lighting in both driver and pass side footwells. It looks blue in the pictures but its a pure white light

put it a bluetooth rear view mirror , its a lot bit bigger than factory and has a wider sight of view - I can see out the back window and the two rear side windows with it


Heres the rear hatch that has been treated with POR-15, all the black spots used to be rust


another shot of the POR15..can anyone spot Domo?

[4doorVIP]

Just took the Tercel on its first road trip this weekend - everything went well with the new clutch. I'm pleased as punch with this car. Anywho I was bored this evening and decided to search for JP carib pictures...Here are some results - hope these are not reposts!


Pretty sad that I did not even realize how far back these seats recline, makes for a spacious back seat!


this one reminded me a bit of dlb's ride with the green


poor brown Terc

How about a bit of snow drift?

pretty cool mirrors, I also like the shift knobs


56k beware..pretty cool close up shot of a Carib

[dlb]

vip, check out the old german brochure that board member terceldude posted several years ago. i love the colour schemes on the 'page 6' scan.

https://tercel4wd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4540

[4doorVIP]

^thanks man, I checked out that thread and updated it with some pics.


Last weekend I did a dump-run in the tercel, and felt guilty about the mess it left.

So I hauled out the hatch carpet, gave it a good vacuum, steam cleaned, and removed all the grungy underfelt/sound deadening material from the bottom (a steamer remove this stuff quite easily with a bit of scrubbing)



Scrubbed and simple greened the spare wheel well. After it was fully cleaned and dry, I hit with a layer of POR15


spare wheel cleaned up and re-installed


The nice clean carpet put back in, you can hardly tell in the pic but I also installed $36 200W 6.5" speakers in the rear



If you guys have any asian specialty stores around try to find these air fresheners. My interior smells like a millon bucks




Here's the after math of cleaning out the rear hatch area...loose rust/grime/rotten sound deadening


Also noticed this cars horn does not function. Does this plug have anything to do with it? I see it is not connected to anything (this is located infront of the car battery)


Finished the job off with some home made vietnamese drip-coffee (good noms)

[4doorVIP]

LEDs came in the mail for the cluster and climate controls, not a bad way to spend $20

[4doorVIP]

put new brakes on the fronts (rotors,pads and refreshed the calipers) - 1 medium McCafe and a 1-man brake valve kit made for a nice way to bleed these properly. DOT3-Decafe

[4doorVIP]

Installed new belts...next is a new radiator


my gf took this epic shot of The Beast - good from a far but far from good

[marlinh]

What other preparation did you do before applying POR 15. Did you use a specific product or just the simple green? How does it work on areas that aren't rusty?

[4doorVIP]

I used SOS pads, simple green degreaser, and a scrub brush. Then just used paper towel to collect up and loose bits and made sure it was all dry.
POR15 will pretty much stick well to anything, but hit non rusty areas with an SOS to rough it up a bit first