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White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:54 pm

Well I recently purchased a set of TRD/Bilsteins from GregTRD and drove over 400 miles from San Jose, CA to Fontana, CA one a full tank of gas :D to get them and installed as well!!! After the install we took a test drive around and everything is good. Driving back to the SF bay tomorrow night. Thanks again Greg!

Items installed: TRD struts bought from Greg, Teins from ebay, new mounts, UR Sway Bar 19mm


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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby dinoxor » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:17 pm

niceeee take a side view picture of it! :]
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:25 pm

Yeah I need to do that after I get a nap in or maybe soon.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby ToyoSolV6 » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:22 pm

greg did you use the allen wrench piece from yesterday lol
(insider joke )

either way good install should feel a world of difference! Glad you went to Greg, good dude and does very good work!
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:44 pm

Haha I get that joke! He told me what happened with your coilovers.

Feels much different then stock, plus when we got the old struts out it basically went down without much pressure, while the trds i had to step on them to see them go down. Should make the drive on 5 a little bit fun maybe.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby yaddadaimsayin » Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:40 am

you should take the 101. lots of fun curves, great views, and to be honest, it won't add more than 20 min to your commute. it'd be a good way to test out that new suspension.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:20 pm

I should have taken 101... 5 had traffic in two spots for road repairs that I already knew about but still took it anyways. Added about 2 extra hours to the trip back up, but I was able to get back on a full tank of gas with a 1/4 of a tank leftover.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby SleeperSolara » Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:39 pm

Looks good man.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby k-0tik » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:31 pm

Nice, what's up with that other solara in the background?
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby albertrd » Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:06 pm

k-0tik wrote:Nice, what's up with that other solara in the background?

Thats that toyotafest 1st place winner.Haven't had time to post pics.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:02 pm

^^Nice to meet you all and looking at your Toyotas!

Took the car in for an alignment at Wheel Works since I got 12 months/ 12000 mile warranty on alignments and got a printout showing that it was on a gen2 setting (compared it to my old printout and the numbers for specified range from a gen 1 and gen 2 are different so not planning to go there again, but going to get another look somewhere else as well). They also told me I would have to pay for a more expensive alignment and possibly a camber kit since I got it lowered. Steering wheel isn't off center anymore and drives straight to me, since they did some work to the car.

Printout shows the following (Actual)
Front Left: Front Right:
-1.9 Camber -1.7
2.6 Caster 2.4
-0.04 Toe 0.02
14.2 SAI 14.2
12.3 Included Angle 12.5

Front
Cross Camber -0.2
Cross Caster 0.2
Cross SAI 0.0
Total Toe -0.01

Rear Left: Rear Right:
-0.8 Camber -1.0
0.13 Toe 0.21

Rear
Cross Camber 0.3
Total Toe 0.34
Thrust Angle -0.04

I will get a second look at it asap to be on the safe side.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby a94autocamry » Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:50 am

ToyoSolV6 wrote:greg did you use the allen wrench piece from yesterday lol
(insider joke )

either way good install should feel a world of difference! Glad you went to Greg, good dude and does very good work!


x2....Greg does great work :D

You should buy the TRD Supercharger off him....boost is fun 8)
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby 1gSE » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:13 pm

a94autocamry wrote:You should buy the TRD Supercharger off him....boost is fun 8)



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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby EkiMucH » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:15 pm

Yep Greg did great work! He said it was probably his fastest time to take out the rear seats. Also helped me out a lot on some things that I didn't know about.

For the supercharger, I am going to save for one in the future, just recently got out of debt and don't want to get back into it lol.
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Re: White Christmas in So Cal at Santa GregTRD

Postby 1gSE » Fri Aug 19, 2011 7:19 pm

you're always gonna be in some sort of debt....might as well be something you can enjoy :D
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