My Solara Build Thread (The Red One)
by CamryOnBronze » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:57 am
Alright, so technically this is my wife's car right now. 
But that doesn't mean I can't have a little fun with it, right?!
Most of you guys know the back story on this car, but I took some of this post from a build thread on a local forum. Basically, we picked this car up about a year ago with around 93k miles on it. I bought it from a friend from Brett (YESCA) on SG that lives in St. Louis and had it shipped here for my wife to drive. When we bought it, it had a few modifications done to it- a TRD supercharger, K&N stock filter, some "Swoosh" gauges in a pod on the dash, Magnecore plug wires, a GReddy SP2 muffler welded onto the stock piping, Renova Grille, and a TRD badge on the trunk.
My wife was not a fan of buying premium gas, so we sold the supercharger kit to Tony the Tiger for his Camry. It actually wasn't as fun on the automatic trans as it was on my five speed Solara I had previously, so I wasn't too bummed about it. Not to mention the fact that we got the car for about half of the KBB value after selling the mods- Brett hooked me up! I have the 240 for going fast, so it isn't a big deal.
Here is how the car sits now. (These pics suck- just snapped some quick to start the thread, lol) These are the current mods that are still left from YESCA:
GReddy SP2 Muffler
K&N Drop In Filter
Renova Grille
Shaved Emblems
White balance/focus fail, lol:
I wanted a GReddy Evo 2 like I had on my Solara for a while, and the piping was leaking at the welds on the SP2 setup, so I went ahead and bought Vik's GReddy from him. I also picked up an Injen intake that he had posted up to make a little more noise. The Muffler and the intake came yesterday- the mid-pipe is still on the way:
So I cleaned the air filter tonight and polished the muffler.
(dirty filter)
My wife will be out of town over labor day weekend, so I am planning to do some maintenance on the car. I'm planning to install the catback and intake, clean the interior and engine bay a bit, change the oil, filter, and trans fluid; and put the new rear brake pads that have been sitting in the garage for two months on.
Before winter, I need to do the timing belt and water pump, since the car now has about 112k miles on it. As for future mods, Here's what I have planned:
H&R Lowering Springs (Currently on my Camry, lol)
Independent Fog Light Mod
Kaminari Lip Kit (The same as my previous Camry)
35% Tint all around
New Headlights (Stock, just want clean ones)
Eventually, this is going to become my daily driver and my wife will get a new car. I'm hoping this will go down sometime next year. If that happens, I'll probably end up with coilovers and aggressive fitting 18s on the car. Time will tell!
I'll end this installment with a couple snaps of my previous Solara, for those that never saw it:
-Damon
DISCLAIMER: This build will go A LOT slower than my Solara/240 builds did! lol.
But that doesn't mean I can't have a little fun with it, right?!Most of you guys know the back story on this car, but I took some of this post from a build thread on a local forum. Basically, we picked this car up about a year ago with around 93k miles on it. I bought it from a friend from Brett (YESCA) on SG that lives in St. Louis and had it shipped here for my wife to drive. When we bought it, it had a few modifications done to it- a TRD supercharger, K&N stock filter, some "Swoosh" gauges in a pod on the dash, Magnecore plug wires, a GReddy SP2 muffler welded onto the stock piping, Renova Grille, and a TRD badge on the trunk.
My wife was not a fan of buying premium gas, so we sold the supercharger kit to Tony the Tiger for his Camry. It actually wasn't as fun on the automatic trans as it was on my five speed Solara I had previously, so I wasn't too bummed about it. Not to mention the fact that we got the car for about half of the KBB value after selling the mods- Brett hooked me up! I have the 240 for going fast, so it isn't a big deal.
Here is how the car sits now. (These pics suck- just snapped some quick to start the thread, lol) These are the current mods that are still left from YESCA:
GReddy SP2 Muffler
K&N Drop In Filter
Renova Grille
Shaved Emblems
White balance/focus fail, lol:
I wanted a GReddy Evo 2 like I had on my Solara for a while, and the piping was leaking at the welds on the SP2 setup, so I went ahead and bought Vik's GReddy from him. I also picked up an Injen intake that he had posted up to make a little more noise.
The Muffler and the intake came yesterday- the mid-pipe is still on the way:So I cleaned the air filter tonight and polished the muffler.
(dirty filter)
My wife will be out of town over labor day weekend, so I am planning to do some maintenance on the car. I'm planning to install the catback and intake, clean the interior and engine bay a bit, change the oil, filter, and trans fluid; and put the new rear brake pads that have been sitting in the garage for two months on.
Before winter, I need to do the timing belt and water pump, since the car now has about 112k miles on it. As for future mods, Here's what I have planned:
H&R Lowering Springs (Currently on my Camry, lol)
Independent Fog Light Mod
Kaminari Lip Kit (The same as my previous Camry)
35% Tint all around
New Headlights (Stock, just want clean ones)
Eventually, this is going to become my daily driver and my wife will get a new car. I'm hoping this will go down sometime next year. If that happens, I'll probably end up with coilovers and aggressive fitting 18s on the car.
Time will tell!I'll end this installment with a couple snaps of my previous Solara, for those that never saw it:
-Damon
DISCLAIMER: This build will go A LOT slower than my Solara/240 builds did! lol.
94 Camry: Beater
99 Solara: S/C & Totaled (RIP)
93 240SX: SR20DET
-
CamryOnBronze - SolaraGuy Moderator
- Posts: 3337
- Joined: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:14 pm
Musubi
