Reply With Quoteso tidy! the blue rad piping I'm a bit iffy on, but everything else is pretty mint. treat her well!
This car is sooo clean! Love it dude, awesome work!
so tidy! the blue rad piping I'm a bit iffy on, but everything else is pretty mint. treat her well!
When I bought the car it had no other gauges apart from the standard ones & the Defi tachometer. So I wanted the basics oil temp/water temp/oil pressure & had been tossing up between some Stack gauges or try & get a set of Omori gauges. I really wanted the Omori gauges but knew they would be 2nd hand,missing parts etc as apposed to the Stacks that are brand new. Then the Omori's just came up when I was about to order the Stacks. Ended up getting the oil pressure from another ae86dc forum member,oil temp from a shop in Bangkok & water temp from Yahoo Japan all in the space of a week so I was stoked.
My car didn't have the center console or anything just the handbrake surround & that's were I wanted to mount the gauges so after I got one of those & a 3 gauge din panel I pretty much had everything I needed.
Center console with the din panel mounted. Little bit of cutting & filing of the plastic on the console to make it fit nice. Was happy with the result looking very tidy & almost factory. Doing all this in my kitchen by the way.
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I had been reading on a few different forums about changing the standard old Omori globes out for some LED globes & after testing & checking my gauges 2 out of the 3 had blown globes so took them apart, cleaned them,fitted LED globes & gave the outer ring a quick spray with black paint they were looking good & lighting up clear & bright.
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Oil Temp was the only mechanical gauge out of the 3.
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Electrical oil pressure gauge
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All 3 cleaned & LED globes fitted, just waiting for the outer rings to dry.
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All back together & mounted in the center console. I was super happy how it looked & couldn't wait to get mounted in my car. But as usual I ran out of time at home & would have to finish the job next break.
**If anyone else has been thinking about replacing the standard globes in their Omori gauges to LEDs here are a couple of links that I used.
It's not hard at all just got to take care when handling them, especially the mechanical ones. Getting the outer rim off is the hardest part & just take it easy, it is only alloy so it will pry off easy once you get going, I ended up using a knife & just kept going around until it popped off but take care when taking it off because they have a glass lens.
Didn't think I had one but here is a photo with the LEDs in the dark.
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Also sorry about the picture quality, all the photo's are from my phone.
Cheers
I am trying to get up to date with these updates! I have done a few other things recently but keeping the thread in the order I have done things !
Anyway, So everything was ready for the Omori Meters to go in & all the other bits & pieces there.
**Before. This is how my interior was looking before hand with the Tom's Strada wheel, No gauges & you can also see the little tweeter speakers on the dash.
1st I had to cut the carpet & find the holes for the mounting bracket.
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The previous dude's wiring job was really well done & I could easily find what I needed ! ( *' - ' ) I'm not that skilled at wiring in cars but was lucky to find where my tachometer had been wired in so that made it a shit load easier !
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After getting all the wiring sorted out & everything working on the electrical side of things & a test fit.
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Was really happy how it was all looking & now to just run the wiring/ sensors to the engine bay. I was lucky & didn't have to drill any new holes in the firewall. Got an water temperature sensor adaptor for the water & got a oil T piece for oil pressure & to keep the original oil light working but that wasn't going to work, there was no way I was getting into that spot with out pulling heaps of stuff off & even then I didn't know if it was all going to fit so got an oil plate adaptor for the oil temperature and pressure sensors.
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The Tom's Strada wheel is rad but it wasn't the one I really wanted & didn't like the feel of it that much. Then the one I wanted came up so had to get it! It was in OK condition but for what I payed for it, I could not complain. The logo was rubbing of & the leather had a fairly decent size wear mark on the right top.
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Took quite a while to find & that was looking all over the internet & wasn't paying some of the prices people wanted for a Tom's horn button & some dudes would take 3 weeks to reply to an email saying it will take him another 4 weeks to get a price to post it to Bangkok from Malaysia & couldn't do paypal blah blah so I was well over that dude & now understand the stories of people getting parts from there & them taking for ever to come if at all. But anyway I spotted one in the background of a photo of a dude selling a steering wheel & he was happy to sell it for a reasonable price So I was happy with that.
**After. How my interior is looking now. Tom's Steering wheel & horn button put on & gauges all mounted & working good. Very very happy with how it looks now. Also few other things I did, hid the tweeters in the dash & covered up the place that would have been a dimmer for the dash lights. Wiring is still a mess under the dash & missing the drivers side A pillar cover. I also got a razor blade & shaved the worn leather area of the steering wheel & it is smooth now but do want to get it recovered again. But love the feel of this wheel.
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so good
agreed. amazing work!
Wasn't going to post this part, but it is part of the story.
While I was at work the day before I was flying out my girl called me super early & told me someone had crashed into my car while it was parked up in the apartment building carpark! Some drunk chick coming home crashed into it... a parked car & turned out a few months earlier she crashed into 3 motorbikes parked up from coming home pissed. All the security guards love my Corolla & look after me pretty well with saving me spots under cover & when ever I am working on it share a beer with them, while they are working! So they sorted it out real quick with my girl.
So this is what I came home to.
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So I was straight onto my friend with a shop & he was quick to help & said they could repair everything as long as I can find the parts. I ended up finding a pair of near brand new genuine tail lights & had a chrome bumper lined up if I needed it but was going to wait because my friends shop said they would have a crack at fixing it.
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might as well get the diff oil changed while I was there.
They had my car for a total of 10 days & then she was ready. Would have been shorter but the weather was bad so they had to hold off painting it.
This is how I got it back. Very good job, couldn't even tell & the chrome bumper was fixed as well.
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Tail lights fitted.
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It was shit not having her to drive around in, but at the end of the day didn't cost me anything just my time & ended up getting some new tail lights out of it,my old ones where pretty cloudy. Can't even tell ! The bumper has a few little ripples on the underside but you cant even see them.
Sorry for the shit photo's once again, all off my phone. This happened a while ago & now I can start to post some of the recent stuff I have done !!
Looks soo mint. Photos arnt that bad.
MOPAR or no car!
Thanks ! Some times the iphone photo's look good & sometimes real shitty. But yeah most of those ones are not bad !
Cool car! Been living over there long?
Little devil sticker! Yes!
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