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Mods I currently have on the car...

AEM CAI

TRD Extended Exhaust

Custom Climate Controls

Radio LED Swap

Instrument Cluster LED Swap

Reverse Indiglo Gauges

Eibach Sportline Springs

Moda R6 17" Rims wrapped in Yoks

TRD Authentic Wing w/ LED Brake Light

TRD Rear Strut Tower

AEM Tru-Power Pulley

TRD Short Shifter

Painted Brake Calipers



And probably a few others, but that's all I can pull off of the top of my head.



Future Mods...

TRD Side Skirts

TRD Rear Valence

TRD Front Bumper

Front Strut Bar

And anything else I may find down the road.




There are quite a few pictures, so please wait until I post that I am finished before you post.


And as always, comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome.


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Stock radio and Climate controls...
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Radio...
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Climate Controls...

Don't know why the middle knob looks dark in the picture, but it isn't otherwise...
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Instrument Cluster with LED swap, without the gauge lights on...

Did this like 6 months ago...
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Painted Center Console...A mod I forgot to add to the list above frown

Looks kinda gay during the day with the grey climate controls, but it's worth it the way it looks at night IMO.
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TRD Rear Strut Tower with Removed Back Seats...
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Just for fun...

RSX at stock height compared to a Celica with Eibach Sportlines...

My car always had a lower height, but now it's kinda funny looking...
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My whole car...

Please ignore the bug splatters. Washed it two days ago, and two days later it needs to be washed again... frown
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Another...
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Last one of whole car itself...


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Here's what an Extended TRD Exhaust looks like with the stock bumper...
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FINAL PICTURE...
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Oh, and I borrowed my friends digital camera, and have to give it back in a few hours, so if anyone would like a picture taken of something else that they are curious about, just ask, but only until around 8 p.m. central time.


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Looks very nice! Great work!


My car is gunna be 10x faster than yours...haha... I'm gunna buy like 10
of those speedchips! I figure if 1 gets me 20hp then 10 will get me 200hp!

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Thanks.

And if anyone is wondering what I used to light the climate controls, all I did was go to Autozone, and pick up a pair of red wedge bulbs, and attached them to wires, which I then spliced into the cigarette lighter.

Works great. Nice and bright.

I tried to do the same with LED's, but LEDs don't have a wide angle of viewing, meaning that light doesn't difuse from all sides like it does with a conventional bulb.


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very nice - thumbsup

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nice...a TRD spoiler doesn't loook that bad by itself.

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Originally Posted by Virgilson
nice...a TRD spoiler doesn't loook that bad by itself.
Nah, but I'd kill for at least some TRD skirts.


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lookin good!


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your car looks good as it is now.

dont need the whole TRD bodykit... grin

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Looks good, I like the way you lit up the stereo.

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Originally Posted by slidr
I tried to do the same with LED's, but LEDs don't have a wide angle of viewing, meaning that light doesn't difuse from all sides like it does with a conventional bulb.

really rolleyes
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and now it matches my gauge cluster better grin
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I just need to fix the lighting on my stereo now... tongue
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btw, my dash is painted... so the lighting actually goes through the paint as well - my camera just sucks
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Originally Posted by isaac
Originally Posted by slidr
I tried to do the same with LED's, but LEDs don't have a wide angle of viewing, meaning that light doesn't difuse from all sides like it does with a conventional bulb.

really rolleyes
Yeah, really.

I don't know why you have to be mean about it, I was just stating something that I tried before. frown

And if you notice in your picture, the light hasn't made it's way down to the AC and Rear Defrost buttons, nor the turn knobs very well.

Light will not be emitted from the side of the bulbs if you have them pointed up. Even the widest of LED lenses will only emit 45 degrees of light from the tip of the dome.


I tried 12 LED's similiar to the kind that you used, and and positioned them every which way in order to get everything lit up.

It was patchy at best. I found that with a bulb, light will even go to the rear defrost and ac button like it did with the shitty stock green lights.


After aligning and positioning all of the LED's I had in there, I found that they would just get repositioned if I had laid a wire in the path of a turning aparatus or that slide that controls the inside/outside air.


See in the picture below?

And I figured out why the middle knob on my setup isn't lighting up very well. It was the same knob that I got with the heater assembly from a junk yard, and I was forced to use it due to the fact that I lost my stock/clean knob.



BTW, we are all on the same side here, no need to bash me.
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Originally Posted by slidr
I don't know why you have to be mean about it, I was just stating something that I tried before. frown

And if you notice in your picture, the light hasn't made it's way down to the AC and Rear Defrost buttons, nor the turn knobs very well.

BTW, we are all on the same side here, no need to bash me.

Im sorry that you feel there is bashing going on here - because there is not... and it was not my intention to bash.

as for your comment about the light not making it down to the AC and defrost button - the light actualy makes it down there and its pretty bright!

Read my above statement about my dash being painted and how my camera sucks.

my camera is a 0.8 mega pixle kodak that had been discontinued from 2001 - and it sucks in night shots and in close-ups... it sucks really bad at night-close-up shots tongue

the paint used on my dash is a DARK candy-apple red... aprox 5 coats


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hey slidr could you post pics of the bulbs you used and the wiring? is it possible to get the same blue as your radio controls?

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Originally Posted by blueTRD
hey slidr could you post pics of the bulbs you used and the wiring? is it possible to get the same blue as your radio controls?

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The bulbs I used were small "wedge bulbs" that I bought at Autozone.


I bought a blue pair, but it turned out that they actually emitted white light.

So if you find some illegal blue wedge bulbs, those will give off blue light, but the ricer section at the Autozone I went to sucked. wink


I'll find a pic of the type that I used.


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These are an example of wedge bulbs.

I used some cheapo brand that cost like $1.50 a pair.

On the base of the bulb, there are tiny metal prongs that you need to gently pry down so that they aren't up against the base anymore.

Then, just connect a wire to each prong (I soldered it to it, but you can just tape it). One wire will be positive (12v power) and the other one will be negative (ground).
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^^^seem simple..but can you take a pic of the climate control removed?? i like to see how it look after the installation but b4 you put everything back together..if that's not too much to ask..

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