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Originally Posted by silent runner
Hi guys. I'm new here on this forum, but I've been working on, and playing with Toyota's for many years. My first Toyota project was a 1976 Celica GT. I had a blast customizing this car with wheels tires, springs, front and rear sway bars, a custom ground camshaft, porting and polishing, a twin side draft Weber carb. system, and many days of sanctioned road-rally, and auto-slalem events. I followed this up with a 1982, Corolla SR-5, hatchback, that eventually got a later model twin-cam 1600, and was treated to the same type of driving events.
After that, I admit I left the family for a Honda Prelude, then a Mazda 626 Turbo. Time and experience has brought me back to the Toyota family. I had the opportunity to pick-up my folks old Camry as a cheap work/dayly driver, and I've been hooked ever-since. I've made some interesting alterations to the Camry to bring it up to my specs', but when the first few FRS's showed up a my local Country Hills Toyota/Scion dealer they had me hooked.
I've been dying to add a sports car to my garage, and this seemed to be the best place to check out how this one was working. I haven't taken the plunge yet, I'm waiting for a little more/or a slightly enhanced power band to find production. (This was always a weak point in my old Corolla/86 build) Along the way though, I want to follow what you new young guys, the best and the brightest, are doing to develope the car on your own.  |
Welcome to the forum!!
Like you, I want to develop my FRS, this is my first time ever considering modification, I have no idea where to begin, I'm paranoid about a lot of things. I like pure, clean, usable, reliable, performance that I can call upon when I want. Nothing too crazy, I don't have mountains of cash to throw at the car and with the car payments I'm doing, I won't have a lot of usable cash.
I'll be upgrading small components and strengthening areas where there could be a weak link.
Perrin makes some good stuff from what I've seen so far. TRD hasn't come out with as many parts for the car as I thought they would have by now. Maybe they are taking longer to R&D some of it.