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New Guy with a question #430204 Mar 30, 5:27pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California i bought my celica 01 gts like slightly over a month ago, this is my first car, and i got it certified used, and i dont really know a lot about cars, but i found some things in my car that i think dont come in stocks, can you tell me if they're good to have? have a couple pics.

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430205 Mar 30, 5:31pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California picture

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430206 Mar 30, 5:34pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California pic2

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430207 Mar 30, 5:36pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California pic3

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430208 Mar 30, 5:37pm Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA ok I dont know what the first pic is but the 2nd one is TRD springs perhaps?

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430209 Mar 30, 5:37pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California btw the red thing is in the front of the car, i cant see the springs, they're hidden.

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430210 Mar 30, 5:37pm Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA got a full pic of the car?

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430211 Mar 30, 5:38pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California there are 2 red things one in the back and one in the front of the car, dont mean any confusion

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430212 Mar 30, 5:39pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California yes Last edited by cloakedpegasus; Mar 30, 2005 5:42pm.

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430213 Mar 30, 5:40pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California car Last edited by cloakedpegasus; Mar 30, 2005 5:44pm.

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430214 Mar 30, 5:49pm Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica RookieGTS Boobie Vision 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,971 Turlock, CA damn that was toyota certified! in meaning if it was than all of the parts you have on your car are TRD parts! freaking nice! if you ask me!

Re: New Guy with a question RookieGTS #430215 Mar 30, 6:00pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California the red thing in front and back are hotchkis sway bars looks like you scored a couple of nice mods with your car "Be kind to animals... Hug a Hockey Player!" AFLAC!!!

Re: New Guy with a question RookieGTS #430216 Mar 30, 6:01pm Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 489 Hampton, VA CRBN BLU Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT CRBN BLU Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 489 Hampton, VA You have a set of Hotchkis sway bars, likely the sport set and a set of the TRD lowering springs. Congrats! "Everything that has a beginning, has an end." -The Oracle

Re: New Guy with a question CRBN BLU #430217 Mar 30, 6:02pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 254 Wilkes, NC wiredthief Member 2004 Toyota Celica wiredthief Member 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 254 Wilkes, NC seriously, i want them lol

Re: New Guy with a question wiredthief #430218 Mar 30, 6:03pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California also looks like you got rims on it too "Be kind to animals... Hug a Hockey Player!" AFLAC!!!

Re: New Guy with a question speedducky #430219 Mar 30, 6:08pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California nice... at least i wont have to spend money on those things... not like i make a lot of money anyways

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430220 Mar 30, 6:23pm Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA wow, youre lucky. hotchkis sways and trd lowering springs. your car's handling just improved greatly over stock nice rims too I've mastered the art of the After Image Technique.

Re: New Guy with a question Zero #430221 Mar 30, 6:30pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA Wow, nice find!!! Aggressively Driven 2000 Celica GT-S 6 Speed

Re: New Guy with a question Chelica815 #430222 Mar 30, 6:40pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica speedducky ECelica Staff 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 355 Southern California pick up a strut brace and your set "Be kind to animals... Hug a Hockey Player!" AFLAC!!!

Re: New Guy with a question speedducky #430223 Mar 30, 8:46pm Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,174 Frankfort, IL combatc87 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT combatc87 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,174 Frankfort, IL Are those the TRD wheels too? Oh, and pick up the APR Strut Bar from the e-celica store. Can't beat the price. -Combatc87- / -SgT._BiLkO-

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430224 Mar 30, 8:49pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 139 greenville, sc barefoott4 Member 2000 Toyota Celica barefoott4 Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 139 greenville, sc Hotchis sway bars go for around $400 new. TRD springs are around $250 new. Don't really know what the wheels are, but you probably just saved $650 in mods that you might have done down the road. Hotchis makes excellent sway bars for our cars also, and TRD springs give a nice ride height and comfort. You got nice and lucky!

Re: New Guy with a question barefoott4 #430225 Mar 30, 8:51pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL wow kick ass. nice ride and you already have some good mods done

Re: New Guy with a question hombredelassrtas #430226 Mar 30, 9:19pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica cloakedpegasus Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Oceanside, California yeah thx. those wheels are rage. I dunno, i guess they're allright. I dont know enough whether to say if they're good or bad. Thanks for all the info guys!

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430227 Mar 30, 9:29pm Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,093 SoCal Eman Black Sheep 2000 Toyota Celica GT Eman Black Sheep 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,093 SoCal man yo ur ready for the winding roads my friend, a few more suspension work and youll be in tip top shape...must handle really nice bad ass car. congrats.

Re: New Guy with a question cloakedpegasus #430228 Mar 30, 9:39pm Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 405 Edgewater, Colorado RyOlSe Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica RyOlSe Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 405 Edgewater, Colorado man all i got from my "toyota certified" was the TRD kit, and a year later i find out that the dealership was full of $h!t and that the car was wrecked. damn good find though, the fun i could have with those little goodies [/color]

Re: New Guy with a question RyOlSe #430229 Mar 30, 11:24pm Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 211 Salt Lake City, Utah sekytwo Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT sekytwo Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 211 Salt Lake City, Utah dang, new to the celi and already your kicking ass, nice bro!!

Re: New Guy with a question sekytwo #430230 Mar 31, 4:04am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 172 COPPELL, TX CARBON_SYPHER Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT CARBON_SYPHER Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 172 COPPELL, TX nice find! nice car and a fist full of nice easter eggs!

Re: New Guy with a question CARBON_SYPHER #430231 Mar 31, 7:33am Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 774 Tempe, AZ ExNihilo Cold Warrior 2004 Toyota Celica GTS ExNihilo Cold Warrior 2004 Toyota Celica GTS Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 774 Tempe, AZ Nice!

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