My first car; a 2005 Corolla Sportivo!

[fupo1]

Like! Mighty DIY FTW

[Chain]

42 minutes ago, fupo1 said:

Like! Mighty DIY FTW

Best way to do things aswell buddy ;)

[Chain]

Today i'm attempting to wrap my roof lmao, with my mate it's still not an easy job but for $45 it's a fun learning experience anyway. Any advice would be appreciated too!
Yes i am lazy and didn't want to take the antenna off, i'm just going to cut around it don't judge me
Before


Not too far off being done

Making all kinds of rear delt/tricep gains from this i can tell you

[Chain]

Ended up accidentally ripping the roof wrap near my antenna and didn't have enough to redo it, so instead of re-wrapping the roof i found other things to wrap 

My mirror covers aswell as my mates' SV6's aswell 

The completed wrap, looks mad :)

Onto fixing my eyelid
 

The final product

[Chain]

Now finally onto installing my wingtips, i sanded them back and repainted them today as my paintjob wasn't what i hoped for. They are alot better now though!


This is a before photo without the tips


The wingtips aren't as glossy as they appear in the photo, not sure why it came out like that but yeah


Final product 


Really happy with how they look to be honest, definitely one of my favourite purchases so far.

Engine bay with the Celica Cover, i've ordered an Injen Spark cover and it will hopefully be here within the next few weeks.

 

 

[Chain]

So this is currently how it's sitting at the moment, have custom number plates on the way so am pretty excited for them to arrive aswell
Thanks for keeping up with the things i did guys i appreciate everyones help, not to say more won't be done but things get a bit more expensive from this point on haha :)
 

[KAA]

Sitting really nice now, you have done a great job take a pat on the back for it mate

And it's always the same for us all ..Love to do this and that..No Money tree in yard Grrr

Thanks for the update

KAA

[fupo1]

Nicely done! If you keep the car long enough I reckon you will probably get bored and the mod bug will bite and again you will be upgrading things on a already beautiful ride

[Chain]

Cheers guys, wasn't trying to say it's finished but it's just going to be a bit harder now.

So since attempting to change my foglight bulbs today to my new LED ones, they foglights dont work anymore. I tried them with the old bulbs and they still don't work so it's not the bulbs that are the issue. Any advice on what could be the issue? I looked for the fuse in the box but there isnt a fuse labelled foglight. Will test bulbs some way i suppose.

[fupo1]

Which fuse box? Did you look behind the glovebox 

[Chain]

Nah just the one in the engine bay, is there one behind the glovebox too? 

[fupo1]

Yes look for 15 amp

[Chain]

So today i got around to painting my brake calipers, i only had enough time to do the fronts today as i had to learn how to take it apart and put it back together. All though it was really simple and ill get the rear ones done in half the time, i did really enjoy doing this. Just listened to some music and spend some quality modding time with my stivo. 

So i started with these rusty slotted brake discs. I took off all the paint using WD40 and a wire brush, was a bit monotonous but the end product was absolutely worth it.




After some WD40, a wire brush, a bit of primer and some lush gloss black paint;


And then onto my calipers!



And my final product, not the most flattering photo i know but the difference in them is fantastic.



Surely my custom plates and spark plug cover arrives soon?? 

Edited August 3, 2016 by Chain

[Chain]

How the stivo is currently sitting at the moment, wish my iphone took better photos as this would have been perfect if not for the kind of fuzziness. Photoshoot soon though with a good friend of mine!
New additions as of late;
- Bridgestone decals on my tyres, Yokohama r1's all the way around
- Rubber Lip 
- Bonnet Protector 
- New plates KEEPMIRIN the stivo ;)
- Still waiting on front splitters, have ordered carbon fibre ones and will update soon enough
- wrapping foglights in yellow vinyl soon
- Still waiting on my spark plug cover as it was being custom made, estimated ship date of august 4th

Cheers guys, hope everyone's doing well!

The photo isn't uploading, ill have to figure out another way sorry guys.

Edited August 2, 2016 by Chain

[trentmeyer23]

Why do you have Bridgestone decals on Yokohama tyres?

[Chain]

20 minutes ago, trentmeyer23 said:

Why do you have Bridgestone decals on Yokohama tyres?

I won them in a competition, doesn't really matter as most people won't look that close. Couldn't justify spending an extra 200 bucks on potenzas on a car i'm not tracking

Why is the photo upload size only 0.16mb now, i swear i've uploaded larger files and i cant compress my photo's that far without them looking bin.

Edited August 2, 2016 by Chain

[trentmeyer23]

10 hours ago, Chain said:

Why is the photo upload size only 0.16mb now, i swear i've uploaded larger files and i cant compress my photo's that far without them looking bin.

Because you have used your allocated space(which isn't much) on the forum server. You will need to use a photo storage site like Photobucket and post the links.

[Squalled]

Be careful with bonnet protectors. Had one on mine and it scratched the paint where the mount points are.

A suggestion from a mate was to get some clear wrap and wrap the bonnet to stop it from it wrecking the paint.

[Chain]

9 hours ago, Squalled said:

Be careful with bonnet protectors. Had one on mine and it scratched the paint where the mount points are.

A suggestion from a mate was to get some clear wrap and wrap the bonnet to stop it from it wrecking the paint.

I've got these little things that are meant to stop that from happening but i will take your advice, it should only be like 70 bucks too which is mad. Cheers man.
 

 

11 hours ago, trentmeyer23 said:

Because you have used your allocated space(which isn't much) on the forum server. You will need to use a photo storage site like Photobucket and post the links.

I thought it may work like that, thanks mate.

[Chain]

surely this works!

[Chain]

New Projectors retrofitted and had another amplifier installed underneath my passenger seat.
My eyelids and Wingtips are currently being repainted and they look absolutely fantastic! Will update once they're on tommorow!

Edited August 18, 2016 by Chain

[KAA]

Looking so good..Nice work

KAA

[Squalled]

I'm mirin hard man!

Lights look mint. Good work, car is looking nice.

[Chain]

Cheers guys, will get some photos soon with the eyelids and wingtips on. Hint; they look maddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[Yayvid]

Awesome effort with the rolla man! Rather jealous of white tivos. Recently did coilovers myself just to fix old original struts but now the mod bug has bitten *sigh.

WA represent